GERMANY: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LINE THE STREETS OF BERLIN DURING THE ANNUAL CARNIVAL OF THE CULTURES

Record ID: 860439

  • Title: GERMANY: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LINE THE STREETS OF BERLIN DURING THE ANNUAL CARNIVAL OF THE CULTURES
  • Date: 19th May 2002
  • Summary: (L!1)BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 19, 2002) (REUTERS) (RAINING) WIDE OF CHURCH WITH DANCERS IN FOREGROUND; TMV WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL COSTUMES DANCING (2 SHOTS) (0.13) CLOSE-UP OF DRUMMERS (0.17) SV LITTLE GIRL WATCHING FROM ATOP FATHERS SHOULDERS MV DERVISH DANCING PAST (0.33) CHINESE DRAGON DANCING PAST (0.45) SMV WOMEN CHEERING FROM SIDE OF STREET (0.50) DANCE GROUP PLAYING AFRICAN MUSIC GOING PAST (2 SHOTS) (1.05) MAN IN TRADITIONAL SOUTHERN GERMAN CARNIVAL MV COSTUME THROWING PAPER CHIPS ONTO ONLOOKERS (3 SHOTS) (1.18) MV WOMAN IN AUDIENCE DANCING (1.20) BAND IN ORANGE COSTUMES GOING PAST (2 SHOTS) (1.37) MV SPECTATORS WATCHING (1.41) MV WOMAN FIRE-EATER PUTTING ON SHOW IN MIDDLE OF STREET (1.55) MV SMALL BOYS HOLDING BALLOON WATCHING (1.59) WIDE OF MINI FLOAT (2.04) DRUMMERS GOING PAST (3 SHOTS) (2.26) MV BANGLADESHI DANCERS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS DANCING PAST (2.29) CLOSE-UP OF BANGLADESHI WOMAN DANCING IN STREET (2.37) LITTLE CHILD IN AUDIENCE WATCHING (2.41) LAS MEN ON STILTS WALKING PAST, FOLLOWED BY DRUMMERS (3.03)
  • Embargoed: 3rd June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
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  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Entertainment,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA4AEURCGY8L86K8OGW26QCEP3F
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  • Story Text: Thousands of people have lined the streets of Berlin during the annual Carnival of the Cultures, a colourful festival with dancers, fire-eaters and people in traditional costumes from many different countries.
    Despite pouring rain, close to 5,000 artists in colourful and sometimes scary costumes danced through the Kreuzberg district of western Berlin on Sunday (May 19).
    A dervish tried to scare spectators while a woman fire-eater demonstrated her skills and participants of Bangladeshi origin put on a dance in traditional dress.
    Kreuzberg (pronounced Kroytsburg) has Berlin's largest foreign population and Germanys largest Turkish community.
    It has traditionally been Berlin's most culturally diverse city district.
    "For many of the 440,000 migrants from 180 countries who live in Berlin the Carnival of the Cultures is a unique opportunity to express their cultural identity", the organisers said in a statement.
    The organisers, "Studio of the Cultures" founded in 1993, point out that Berlin with the highest rate of foreigners in Germany "has the role of an integration workshop".
    "Fears of foreign infiltration can only be reduced through integration of cultural diversity and mutual tolerance,"
    according to the organisers.
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