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During the Beggars Banquet, the
world was turned upside down when 25 vagabonds were invited to join
the King of Carnival in a sumptuous feast. For one day, the
vagabonds were
treated as earls and lords challeging the existing world order. But the purpose of this
tradition is and was not only to challenge
norms. The tradition relates to the part of carnival tradition that is
concerned with sympathy and tolerance.
For a number of years, Beggars
Banquet, was a regular event at the Carnival in Aalborg. But in
2006, the organisation behind the Carnival in Aalborg chose to
do without the Beggars Banquet due to the complexity surrounding
the event - the Beggars Banquet became to difficult to hold
within a framework in which human dignity and entertainment were
equal parts.
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