One of Oakland’s most celebrated and well attended summer festivals is back: Oakland Carnival is on Saturday, June 6, at Mosswood Park.
For natives, residents and newcomers, Carnival is a time to celebrate our greater Pan African culture, as well as our individual national identities through elegantly made flamboyant colored costumes, delicious food, thumping bass, with elaborate dances, among many more attractions.
I got a chance to catch up with the legendary King Theo Aytchan Williams, the director of Carnival Operations, to spread the word about the event and also to teach a little bit of history about this unique holiday born in the Americas…