St Pauls Carnival is an annual African Caribbean carnival held on the first Saturday of Jully in St Pauls. The celebration began in 1968 as the St Paul's Festival and has been renamed St Pauls Afrikan-Caribbean Carnival in 1991 and since recently the St Pauls Carnival. The celebration includes procession and floats from local schools and cultural associations, performances, sounds systems and stalls selling foods and goods.
The festival ran every year until 2002, when it was cancelled. In 2006 the carnival was not held as the organising committee took a year out to re-structure and develop plans for a festival in 2007 that would be part of the commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. The carnival was not held in 2015, 2016 or 2017. The carnival returned in 2018 celebrating the 50th anniversary.
Records of the St Paul's Afrikan-Caribbean Carnival and Arts Association, including administrative and financial records, marketing material, posters and photographs from the 1970s to 2007, are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 43739) (online catalogue).
