Total Croatia News to the rescue
Split mayor Ivo Baldasar handed over the keys of the city to the organisers of Split Carnival on January 30, 2016, marking the beginning of the most colourful time of the year when you are finally allowed to put your mask on and be someone else. There’s a whole string of events happening in Split this year during the carnival season (16 different programmes to be exact), and as the organiser said on my radio show yesterday, the aim is to bring as many tourists to Split in the preseason. Great idea, but there’s one slight problem.
If you want foreign tourists to come to the city and experience our carnival festivities, it may not be a bad idea to actually provide some information about it in English. After all, you’re getting a rather large sum of money from the City and the Split Tourist Board to organise the event, it’s hard to imagine it would be THAT expensive to pay someone to translate the programme so you can post it on your official carnival page www.krnjeval.com.
After many comments and complaints from the vibrant expat community in Split, it’s Total Croatia News to the rescue. here is the complete programme of this year’s Split Carnival in…you guessed it….English!
Sunday, January 31, 2016
HNK – Croatian National Theatre Split – 7-8 PM – Lecture “History of Split Carnival”
HNK – Croatian National Theatre Split 9 PM – Tango under the masks
Monday to Friday (February 1 – 5)
5-6PM Various dance workshops for children and adults Dance Centre Gripe
3-4PM Various workshops for persons with disability and special needs, centres Slava Raškaj, Juraj Bonači, Srce, Lastavice, Anđeli, Koračići
Friday, February 5, 2016
10 PM – 2 AM Night Club Kameleon (near Ex Mercator in Solin), Kazetofon Love Party
11 PM Party train leaving from Zagreb central train station for Split (Carnival Love Train)
Saturday, February 6, 2016
11 AM Kids carnival parade
11:30 AM Skakavac (Grasshopper), both programmes are on RIVA
1 – 2 PM RIVA, Paškare – Carnival parade for pets
2 PM until midnight – Peristil, Đardin, Gripe – Love Carnival Rave (Techno marathon with 30 DJs)
Midnight – 07 AM Gripe central sports hall, After Carnival Party
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Noon – LoveBoat Party – Boat departing from Riva
5 PM – 8 PM Dances with angels – Masquerade Ball for disabled, Vanilla Bar (near Poljud stadium)
9 PM – 01 AM Avalon Bar – Salsa Masquerade Ball
Monday, February 8, 2016
Central programme will be organised on Riva, Carnival for Split kindergartens
10 AM All kindergartens will gather in front of the Croatian National Theatre
10:15 AM Parade from the Croatian National Theatre to Riva
11 AM – 1 PM – Kids programme
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 (Fat Tuesday)
8:30 PM Riva – Concert Jukebox Band
10 PM – 11:30 PM Riva – Concert Vatra followed Reading of the sentence against King Carnival
8 PM – 11:30 PM Voćni trg (Fruit square) Various local and international DJs
11:30 PM Gat SV. Nikole (St. Nicholas’ Pier) burning of King Carnival (or as we call him here KRNJE, try and pronounce that)
To help out even more, here is the map of all the events (with a translation, of course)
1. Riva, central stage (programmes after each parade): animation team, kids’ plays, balloon animal workshops, stilt artists, mimes, face painting, drummers
2. Fruit square (Voćni trg): Drummers from Senegal and Reggae artists
3. Riva (end of Marmontova street): Giant soap bubbles
4. Marmontova: India artists, belly dancer
5. Pjaca: Capoeira Amazonas and Brazilian dancer
6. Peristil: Love Carnival Rave (only on February 6)
7. Đardin: Parkour, Skatepark, Love Carnival Rave Techno (only on February 6).
There you have it. Now decide which character you want to be this year and have fun!
