TORONTO CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL

TORONTO CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL
(CARIBANA) FESTIVAL 2006
Saturday, August 5, 2006:
PARADE OF BANDS
A 3.6 kilometre street party.
It begins at 10 a.m. at Exhibition Place
and moves west along Lakeshore Blvd.
to just east of the Boulevard Club.
Ends at 6 p.m.
Admission: TBA at Grassy Node area.
Free along Lakeshore..............
Sunday, August 6 & Monday, August 7, 2006:
Arts & Cultural Festival:
A two-day lakeside festival of Caribbean
music, arts, crafts, food, comedy, dance
and culture.
Olympic Island.
Admission: TBA (adult)
TBA (senior)
TBA (child).
Island ferry service:
Ferries leave from the Metro
Ferry Terminal at the foot of Bay Street.
Ferry tickets cost $6 (adult)
$3.50 (seniors/students)
$2.50 (children).
Free for children under 2.
Ferry schedule: 416-392-8193.
(Be prepared for lineups of 45 minutes
or longer.)
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Toronto Caribbean Carnival (Caribana),
celebrating its 39th anniversary in 2006, is
the largest Caribbean festival in North
America.
Presented by the Festival Management
Committee, the two-week Festival attracts
over a million participants annually,
including hundreds of thousands of
American tourists.
Caribana was created in 1967 as a
community heritage project for Canada's
Centennial year.
Based on Trinidad Carnival, the Festival
now also includes the music, dance, food
and costumes of Jamaica, Guyana,
the Bahamas, Haiti, Africa, Brazil and
other cultures represented in Toronto
- the world's most culturally diverse city.
Closed-circuit cameras will
keep watch
NEWS NOTE**********
Toronto, ON. - The Toronto Caribbean
Carnival
(Caribana) announced today that
Bryon Lee and the Dragonaires,
would close the 2006 Carnival with a
performance
on the Toronto Island.