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Blue Touch Paper Carnival is about making Carnival accessible. We are working hard to make Carnival for Everyone including you!

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What's Blue Touch Paper Carnival all about?

For many disabled people and their family and carers, even something as open as carnival doesn't really work for them.

Map of West Sussex and the Isle of Wight

We have events in West Sussex and the Isle of Wight

Blue Touch Paper Carnival is a new carnival project run by West Sussex and linked to the Carnival Learning Centre on the Isle of Wight.

Blue Touch Paper Carnival is about making carnival accessible so that everyone can take part.

Taking it Slow, Getting it Right - we can't make Carnival overnight. (Sarah Pickthall)

Photo of a large group of people sitting on chairs in a circle

A circle of carnival people

Carnival has always been about speaking your mind, expressing yourself and your life and about people coming together.

Sharing our lives and the barriers we face is what Blue Touch Paper Carnival is all about. We are all different and for some of us carnival can be an uphill struggle!

The more we understand about each other and what stops us taking part, the easier it is to remove the barriers!

Carnival is about expressing yourself through drumming, dancing, making costumes, storytelling, dj-ing and watching the fun!

Come learn about carnival the Blue Touch Paper way.

BTP hub bubble graphic

Our Blue Hub Bubble Group pictured here run the project and we mean business!

By 2012 when the Olympic and the Paralympic Games come to our shores, we we will be able to show everybody how welcoming Carnival can be.

Follow us on the web and see what we're up to in our local spaces and ou there in the parades!

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