Venice Carnival, Carnevale di Venezia 2011 with live San Marco Square web cam

A fantastic opportunity to experience the delights and jaw dropping events that the Venice Carnival brings to this beautiful Italian city. With live web cam covering the events on Piazza San Marco.

Already a beautiful location teaming with visitors, the Venice Carnival brings a distinctly decadent environment with historical costumes, masquerade balls, themed dinners and the Silent Regatta.

There is something for everyone, even the kids with the Children's Carnival.

This is most definitely an amazing event that should be on everyone's list of 'things to do'!

For full details of event and live webcam please see: http://myworldevents.com/italy/venice_carnival.html

About the carnival - The Carnival of Venice or Carnevale di Venezia is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival started as a time for celebration and expression throughout the classes, as wearing masks hid any form of identity between social classes. During the 1970s, the Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice, and sought to use the traditional Carnival as the centerpiece of their efforts. Today, approximately 30,000 visitors come to Venice each day for Carnivals.

Labor Day Carnival Brooklyn Live Web Cam

The Labor Day Carnival, also known as the West Indian Carnival, is an all singing, all dancing annual celebration held in Brooklyn, New York. The carnival is one of North America’s largest parades and brings around 2 million spectators to Brooklyn.

Its main event is the West Indian-American Day Parade which brings in more foot traffic in one day than the entirety of Toronto's Caribana festival. The spectators watch the parade on its route along Eastern Parkway. The large parade is held on American Labor Day, the first Monday in September.

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Local Info:

Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area. It is also the western most County (Borough) on Long Island.

Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County (Manhattan).

Brooklyn was an independent city until its consolidation with New York City in 1898, and continues to maintain a distinct culture, independent art scene, and unique architectural heritage. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves where particular ethnic groups and cultures predominate.

Helsinki Midnight Run Webcam

Thousands of runners will take to the streets of Helsinki on Saturday 4 September for the 2010 annual Midnight run. With a huge turnout from the people of Helsinki, lining the streets to support those taking part in the race.

This live webcam is from Helsinki during the race.

Live Helsinki Webcam

History:

With the first race taking place in 1982, not many thought that twenty-eight years later it would be loved far outside Stockholm and Södermalms borders. The idea for the Midnight run was created by a group of people from Hammarby, Stockholm who had the idea based on combining sport and culture and to allow different generations to meet.

Twenty-eight years later, Midnight Run is now also in Gothenburg and Copenhagen.

What makes Midnight races exciting and unique is the late start time, the arrangements for the participants and the audience around the course and especially the mood and atmosphere that raises at a Midnight Race Evening.

Manchester Pride 2010 Live City Webcam

Spend your bank holiday wisely and get in on some festival action with Manchester Pride 2010, with street parades, music with Beverley Knight and Belinda Carlisle, plus extensive entertainment over the weekend. Make the most of that British Summer time.

This webcam is live in the centre of Manchester throughout the weekend:

Live Manchester webcam

Location Information:

Wilmslow Road is a major thoroughfare in Manchester, England, running from Parrs Wood north into Manchester City Centre. Its name changes to Oxford Road at Whitworth Park, north of Rusholme, and changes again to Oxford Street, when it reaches the city centre.

The road runs through the centres of Didsbury, Withington, Fallowfield and Rusholme. It is a popular bus corridor which crosses the University of Manchester campus and the All Saints campus of the Manchester Metropolitan University. A number of hospitals are also to be found near the route. Oxford Road and Oxford Street are a continuation of Wilmslow Road into the centre of Manchester. Oxford Street begins at St. Peter's Square. The name changes from Oxford Street to Oxford Road as the road crosses the River Medlock, placing Oxford Road railway station closer to Oxford Street. Oxford Road changes to Wilmslow Road at the junction with Hathersage Road. At the Parrs Wood end, Wilmslow Road crosses Cheadle Bridge over the River Mersey to become Manchester Road, Cheadle.

Oxford Street and a section of Oxford Road together form part of the A34. The B5117 comprises the rest of Oxford Road and part of Wilmslow Road. Wilmslow Road also contains part of the A6010, the whole of the B5093, part of the A5145 and the whole of the B5095. Despite these various names, the road can be considered as a continuous thoroughfare. A different Wilmslow Road exists in Cheadle, which is also part of the Manchester to Oxford route.

Black Rock Desert Burning Man Festival 2010

Commencing on the Sunday before and ending on American Labor Day holiday, this annual festival is not for the faint hearted. Said to teach participants self reliance and with the the ritual burning of a large wooden imitation of a man on the Saturday evening, create a new beginning.

This live web cam feed is in Gerlach, the site of the Burning Man:

Live Black Rock Webcam for the Burning Man festival

Background Information:

1997 was a pivotal year for the event. The car-friendly, open dry lake had become over-run with 10,000 attendees and was deemed too dangerous to continue in the same way with unrestricted driving. To implement a ban on driving and re-create the event as a pedestrian/bicycle/art car-only event, it was decided to move the event to private property. Fly Ranch with the adjoining Hualapai mini dry lake-bed was chosen. This brought Burning Man into the jurisdiction of Washoe County permitting. To comply with the new permit requirements and to manage the increased liability load, the organizers formed Black Rock City, LLC.

Since then, one of the challenges faced by the LLC has been trying to balance the freedom of participants - a defining element of the experience - with the requirements of BLM and various law-enforcement groups. Over the years, numerous restrictions have been put in place.

One notable restriction to attendees is the 7-mile long temporary plastic fence that surrounds the event and defines the pentagon of land used by the event on the southern edge of the Black Rock dry lake. This 4-foot (1.2 meter) high barrier is known as the "trash fence" because its initial use was to catch wind-blown debris that might escape from campsites during the event. Since 2002, the area beyond this fence has not been accessible to Burning Man participants during the week of the event.

Nottinghill Carnival 2010 Live Webcam

One of the biggest street parties of the year, Nottinghill Carnival never fails to impress. Don't miss it this weekend.

This webcam view will be covering the carnival live:

Live Nottinghill webcam

Carnival Background:

The roots of Carnival come from two separate but connected strands. Carnival began in January 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the depressing state of race relations at the time. This carnival organised by Claudia Jones (a "Trini") who is widely recognised as 'the Mother of Notting Hill Carnival', was a huge success, despite being held indoors. The London Free School inspired festival was the first organised outside event in August 1966. The prime mover was Rhaune Laslett, who was not aware of the indoor events when she first raised the idea. This was a more diverse Notting Hill event to promote cultural unity but overlapping with earlier events by the involvement of Russ Henderson's steel band who had played at the earlier Claudia Jones events.

By 1976, the event had become definitely Caribbean in flavour, with around 150,000 people attending. However, in that year and several subsequent years, Carnival was marred by riots, in which predominantly Caribbean youths fought with police a target due to the continuous harassment the population felt they were under. During this period, there was considerable coverage of the disorder in the press, which some felt took an unfairly negative and one-sided view of Carnival. For a while it looked as if the event would be banned. Prince Charles was one of the few establishment figures who supported the event.

The Ex 2010 Live Toronto Webcam

More affectionately known as The Ex, the Canadian National Exhibition is an annual event held in 192 acres of beautiful lake front property in Toronto at Exhibition Place and attracts around 1.3 million visitors!

This webcam will be live in Toronto throughout the festival:

Live Toronto webcam

Event information:

Having celebrated its 125th anniversary in the summer of 2003 (even though hampered by the 2003 blackout), "The Ex" - as it is also popularly known offers a wide variety of entertainment and events, midway rides, a working farm, parades, sports, international food and shopping, Kids' World and a three-day air show, Canadian International Air Show. The CNE is a provincially incorporated Agricultural Society and also fulfills a key program of Exhibition Place, a local board of management of the City of Toronto. The fair traditionally operates during the last 18 days of summer leading up to and including Labour Day Monday (the first Monday in September).

In the 1990s the annual fair suffered from deficits, but since 1999 it appears to have rebounded in popularity and has returned to financial stability. A 2003 Economic Impact Study conducted by Festivals and Events Ontario and the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership (OTMP) revealed that the CNE attracted more than $48 million to the City of Toronto and more than $66 million to the province of Ontario.

Current CNE programs include: Aerial Acrobatic & Ice Skating Show, Bandshell Stage concerts, President's Choice SuperDogs Show, Kids' World, Kiddie Midway, Rising Star Youth Talent Competition, Horse Show, The Garden Show, Ken Jen Petting Zoo, Doo Doo the Clown, costume characters, The Farm, rock sculptures, butter sculptures, sand sculptures, daily Mardi Gras parade, Ribfest, the Food Building and Canadian International Air Show.

Carnival Monday - Grenada Live webcam

Celebrate the SpiceMas Carnival in Grenada

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