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Theresa O’Connor / Treasa Ní Chonchúir

Numerous drummers in elaborate, mostly green Latin American outfits walk down a city street.
Carnaval

EJ and caught some of San Francisco’s Carnaval . It’s a wonderful annual celebration of the vibrant Latin American, Carribean, and African communities in the Mission District, in San Francisco, and in the rest of the Bay Area.

Several people wearing extremely elaborate costumes walk down a city street. The costumes have complex headdresses, masks, and robes. The robes are brilliantly decorated.
A lady in a shiny gold leotard and an alaborate golden headdress waves from across the street.
A crowd of people, some in elaborate costume, march in a city parade.
A goofy-looking replica subway train is decorated for Carnaval, and drives down the middle of a city street.
BARTy the BARTmobile appears in pretty much every SF parade, decorated accordingly.