Notting Hill Carnival Strategic Review - Intelligent Space

stakeholder organisations, Carnival participants and the media 43 . Although this recommendation
related specifically to a pre-carnival publicity campaign, which emphasised the public safety
profile of the event, the strategy proved to be successful in securing positive media coverage of
the pre-carnival events such as the Costume Gala and Panorama. In August 2001, arrangements
were also made for members of the British Association of Steel-pan to perform on Trafalgar
Square as part of their 50 th Anniversary celebration of the introduction of the first steel-pan
instrument in the UK. The event proved to be so successful that it was repeated in 2002 and
2003.
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Recommendation 2 in Notting Hill Carnival: Interim report and public safety profile recommendations, Greater London Authority
(2001)
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