San Francisco’s annual Carnaval festival and parade took place Memorial Day Weekend and celebrated Latino culture and diversity.
Huge crowds flocked to San Francisco’s Mission District to celebrate the culture and diversity of the Latin American diaspora at the city’s annual Carnaval festival and parade.
The celebration, hosted this year on May 23 and 24, capped off with a Grand Parade that saw dozens of performers dancing and singing from 24th and Bryant streets to 15th and Harrison. The parade was lined on both sides by families, couples and others walking by to get a look.
Carnaval’s theme this year, La Copa Del Pueblo, or the People’s Cup, celebrates soccer in anticipation of the upcoming World Cup. That theme resonated with many in attendance, several of whom wore soccer jerseys and pointed out soccer-related parade participants to their kids…