Channel 5 Carnival · Denver, Colorado · 2026
The Carnival, all sixteen pieces.
Andrew Callaghan’s Carnival is part talent show, part town hall, part variety show.
Performers sign up from the crowd and the audience decides who moves on by decibel level. We filmed it
from the floor, from the balcony, on a drone, and in the line outside. Everything plays here; nothing
loads until you press it.
On stage.
2 pieces
Denver · On stage
Freestyle and the question of the week
Maceo asks Andrew Callaghan what made him smile this week, then freestyles on Nigeria’s electricity crisis and the bounty programme.
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Denver · On stage
The question of the week, put to the room
What is a question you would ask people around the world? Plus contortions, and three winners sent on to Pueblo.
The talent show.
7 pieces
Denver · Talent show
A comedy rap about socks
Little C Rap Therapist, from unincorporated Denver City, first time on any stage. Brought bars and brought props.
Denver · Talent show
Fruit Eyes play acoustic
A Denver indie rock band playing an original, before an intermission for the host’s tattoo.
Denver · Talent show
Art activism, and an edibles story
A comedian on curfew and a Christian mother, then Matter from Chiba Kills on eighteen years of art activism and communities building their own shade.
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Denver · Talent show
A contortionist nobody was ready for
Full flips and zombie poses. “He’s fully flipped. Wow.”
Denver · Talent show
Freestyle, spoken word and dance
An immigrant father’s restoration, Andrew’s hypotheticals, and George Raaton freestyling on gentrification and Vail Corporation.
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Denver · From the balcony
A Neutral Milk Hotel cover, from above
The same room from the balcony seats, shot on a drone.
Denver · From the balcony
The format, from the air
Drone footage of the show running. The winner is decided by crowd volume, measured in decibels.
In the line outside.
7 pieces
Denver · In the line
An Irish fan and an aspiring journalist
“Andrew listens. That’s why he gets the best conversations.” Irish language revival, Nigeria’s electricity, and tulips in bloom.
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Denver · In the line
Documenting war from all sides
Luchi and Brody on archiving a conflict from every perspective rather than one.
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Denver · In the line
Which Denver stories go uncovered
Paul on what is not being reported. “The goal is to ask a lot of people.”
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Denver · In the line
A hitchhiker on a spiritual mission
Alex, five weeks on the road from Massachusetts, on faith, homelessness and why the line wraps the block.
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Denver · In the line
Do we have free will?
Two fans on Sam Harris, grief, learned helplessness, and why you are not doing what makes you happy.
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Denver · In the line
Immigration, independent media, subcultures
A local filmmaker on Denver’s underground, and Maceo on tape on where entries to the weekly bounty had come from so far: Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and India.
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Denver · At the mall
Landscape or portrait
Two filmmakers arguing about how to shoot. “I’ll film you filming me.”
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The story behind these, with the quotes and what kept coming up across every conversation, is written
up in the release.
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