Kite Event Calendar

[Evansville] This museum is displaying kites on loan from the Drachen Foundation in Washington to show the connection of kites that led to our modern-day modes of transportation. The display will end June 22, 2008.
Museum hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Sun: Noon-4:30pm
Mon: closed
Museum phone number: 812-425-2406

[smithville] We have reserved camping for everyone- also we have reserved Shelter #1 at the Little Platte Park on the east side all weekend for three days of fun flying for all- complete with shelter and electricity.
No stress- just fun in the sun over the holiday weekend and come and go as you like.

May 23rd-26th 2008 Join the KC and area kite enthusiasts for 3 fun filled days of the fastest growing water sport kite boarding. Also there are large areas and open fields for KCKC flyers of all types of kites. Shelter # 1 at the Little Platte Park have been reserved for three days for the daytime flying and for the “non- campers” this is where we will be during the day. This area is the normal kite launching spot for Kite boarders so you will be able to see them in action and still have plenty of room to fly. This event is held over Memorial Day weekend and is geared to anyone who kite boards or is interested in learning more about this incredible sport. The event is an all weekend no format event. Just three days of kite flying, camping, friends, and fun. This year we will have a few special guests (Chris Buzten from Kitty Hawk Kites!) that will be camping with us sharing the experience. The entire cove will be reserved, and tent campsites are located at Camp Branch Park on Smithville lakes east side. Please RSVP if you will be camping so we can have an accurate headcount. Sites are near the water! www.nwk.usace.army.mil/smithville/smithville_home.htm
Beginners welcome talk w/ experts Group Kite Camping at the lake, Meet new friends w/ kites for all ages. Saturday afternoon will be a Fun Fly for all kites, followed by a pot luck cookout, and songs and stories around the campfires.

[Exmouth] A kite festival organised by Exmouth Rotary Club but welcoming kite flyers from all over.

[Lincoln City] The inaugural Nelscott Kiteboard Rodeo Pro-Am attracts some of the top freestyle, waveriders and racers in the US.
The Rodeo is a combination of three disciplines to determine the overall winners. Trophies will be awarded to the top three in each discipline in the respective pro and amateur divisions plus the $5000 for the Pro Division. The Downwind 5 mile race will start at Roads End and end at Nelscott Beach. The Wave contest will be held at Roads End. The Freestyle contest will be held in Siletz Bay. All the venues are extremely spectator friendly and we invite all families and fans to join us for this unique event.

[Fort Mahon]

[Cayeux-sur-Mer]

[Stewartstown] 2nd Annual Stewartstown Kite Festival (Fun Fly) at the new Hopewell Area Recreation Complex in Stewartstown, PA. May 4th, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Sponsored by Cub Scout Pack 156.

*Note this is at a different field than the event held last November in Stewartstown.

Stewartstown is in York County, just a stone’s throw from the Maryland border off Route 83 - approximately 40 miles north of Baltimore; approximately 40 miles south of Harrisburg.

Light food available -- (TBD) -- likely a sandwich presale and/or hotdogs, chips, soda, and water. Proceeds will benefit the Cub Scouts.

[Vicente Lopez]

[Junction] The Junction Kite Makers' Retreat is an annual gathering of kite makers, fliers, and enthusiasts during Memorial Day weekend. The campus is beautiful, in a rural setting in Texas Hill Country, plentiful classrooms, excellent instructors and informal classes with a focus on artistic elements that are kite flight related. It is informal and a great deal of fun.

[Garrison] Skydance Sakakawea is a family fun fly event. Kid’s kitemaking, free prizes, art kites, big kites, and a view worth flying for all make the three day event a great party on the prairie.

[Evansville] This museum is displaying kites on loan from the Drachen Foundation in Washington to show the connection of kites that led to our modern-day modes of transportation. The display will end June 22, 2008.
Museum hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Sun: Noon-4:30pm
Mon: closed
Museum phone number: 812-425-2406

[Overland Park] Blue Valley Recreation North Ball Fields Grand Opening
June 6, 2008 5:30-9:30
Clowns, Face painting, Refreshments, Live Entertainment, KC Kite Club, Inflatables
Located between 135th and 137th Streets. Antioch and Switzer, Overland park.
Ground display and kite demonstrations. Set up starts at 5 or earlier.

[Hirel]

[San Andreas] Come fly with us! The San Andreas Merchants Association would like to invite everyone (young, old, and in-between) to join us for the “5th Annual Kites Over Calaveras” kite festival. This years event will last TWO big days with a larger flying field for more food, fun, and flying. This is a Fun Fly, Kids Fly and don’t forget our Kite Demolition Derby!

[Jamestown] iteFest has become a premier kiting event, attracting kite enthusiasts from across the country and Canada. The event is free and open to everyone. Events include fun contests for kids, kite making, demonstrations, door prizes, and music. Over 13 acres of flying space! Find out more at: www.wingsonstrings.org.

[Independence] First Annual Independence EcoFest
Waterfall Park 9am-2pm
Help us celebrate the opening of Independence’s newest park
and the first annual Independence EcoFest. Families will participate in
a variety of fun, hands on activities that will entertain and educate.
There will be live music, “EcoStreet” characters, exhibits and
food. Call 816 325.7370. Session: Day: Location: Time: June 7 Sat
Waterfall Park 9:00 – 2:00
18001 Bass Pro Drive Independence, MO 64053
The park is
located next to the new Bass Pro Shop that opened at the NW corner of
291 & Highway 40 (this intersection is just south of 291 & I 70)
The ribbon cutting for the park will be between 9:30-10:00 am

[Vicente Lopez]

[Ville-Pommeraeul]

[Rockport] Down Syndrome Association of San Antonio
Audrey’s Beach Day and Kite Fun Fly

The Coastal Bend Sky Pirates cordially invite all kite fliers to join us in this endeavor.

This is the fourth year of this event; it has grown vastly each year, started with about 19 families and last year had over 50. The main purpose is for the families of Downs kids to get a day just to enjoy the beach, sky, winds, kites, kayaks, food and fun on the water. We are getting an area roped off on the beach just for kite demo fly’s and for our "kids" to experience the joys of kite flying for themselves. We made the “economy” plastic kites available to them and look forward to it again this year. Several "pro" kite team members are coming to do demo flights; just entertain, and interact with these challenged children and their parents / siblings. Dano Wright co-ordinates kite functions and acts as “air traffic controller” contact for more info as needed.

[Cleveland] Monthly Free Fly in Cleveland

[Evansville] This museum is displaying kites on loan from the Drachen Foundation in Washington to show the connection of kites that led to our modern-day modes of transportation. The display will end June 22, 2008.
Museum hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Sun: Noon-4:30pm
Mon: closed
Museum phone number: 812-425-2406

[Richmond, British Columbia] See demonstrations of indoor kiteflying by some of the best...iQuad, Lam Hoac & Egan Davis, plus others...
4:00-6:00pm Thursday and Friday (June 12 & 13)

Companion event to the Pacific Rim Kite Festival.

[Vancouver, British Columbia] Canada’s longest running kite festival...the 32nd!
Demonstrations, kids kitemaking, rokkaku battles, teddy bear & candy drops, plus others...10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday

[Yorktown] Daily, approx. 10am - 4pm; free admission upon presentation of current HKS membership card.
This year’s festival will be taking place at Morrow’s Meadow Park which is a point of land bordered on the north & south sides by branches of the White River. There will be music, food, entertainment & vendors.

[Westende]

[Vancouver] Sponsored by Elmer’s Flag & Banner, Kites Too! and the Ft. Vancouver National Historical Reserve Trust
Children’s Patriotic Fair and Kite Fly will begin 12:30 p.m. on Sat. June 14th and end at 3:30 p.m. The official flag day program will begin at 3:30 p.m. This will include color guard, presenting the colors, guest speaker, band, and flag essay awards to local school children. Followed by hot dogs and soda.
Kite flying emphasises RWB kites, running of the bolls, stunt kite demos, and mass ascension. Plan to stay for the Flag Day Ceremony.

[Vicente Lopez]

[Evansville] This museum is displaying kites on loan from the Drachen Foundation in Washington to show the connection of kites that led to our modern-day modes of transportation. The display will end June 22, 2008.
Museum hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Sun: Noon-4:30pm
Mon: closed
Museum phone number: 812-425-2406

[Fano]

[Swift Current, Saskatchewan] all types of kiting, non-competitive flying, kite workshop, vendors, food, live music at night in the tent, "Flyin Bob The One Man Three Ring Circus"

[Amiens]

[Vicente Lopez]

[Hollister] The Seventh Annual Kite Day at Pacheco State Park features free: kite making, face painting, bubble gum blowing and pie eating contests, and nature tables to check out, in a beautiful wilderness state park. Everyone who flies a kite recieves a souvenir Kite Day button.

[Shawano] This is the second annual event sponsored by Qualheim’s True Value. Kites for kids are free. Kites are for sale by Qualheims True Value and refreshments are availble on the field by the Lutheran School Boosters
Fly from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

[Vaux-le-Penil]

[Lincoln City] This year’s theme is “Oodles of Octopi”. A celebration of both professional and leisure kite fliers with some of the most colorful big “show kites” in the world. Come help us attempt to break the International record for giant Octopus kites. These huge inflatable kites, 90 feet long, look like the balloons flown in holiday parades. The original record was set in California, was increased in Thailand and then France, and was broken again in WA last Oct. when 20 of the giant kites were flown together. The kites are manufactured in New Zealand and owned by the individual "pilots". We are pleased to gather some of the best experienced and well known large kite fliers in America for this exciting flying extravaganza.

Mike & Judy Agner are from Wilmington North Carolina. They organize a huge kite festival there and perform annually at the local air show. Mike took part in the French Octopus record fly, and recently returned from a giant kite show in Kuwait. He has also performed in Columbia. Jeff Burka and Marc Bernstein are from Washington D.C. and appear regularly at larger festivals on the East Coast. Jeff recently returned from a kite performance in Thailand. He also took part in
the EPCOT/Walt Disney kite program. Phil and Barbara Burke are from Portland, Oregon. They are regulars in Lincoln City and also travel each spring to a kite festival on the Gulf Coast in Texas. Brian Champie is from San Ramon, California. He is a champion dual line kiteflier as well as a giant kite performer. His collection includes a 90 foot inflatable Gecko. David & Susan Gomberg are from Lincoln City and have organized giant kite shows around the world. Together they own Gomberg Kite Productions and have performed for Disney, major motion pictures, the Super Bowl and kite events in 25 countries. They were instrumental in creating the current 20 Octopus record in Washington State, and the previous 19 kite record in France. Dave and Karleen Hoggan and Mike North are part of the Berkeley Kite Wranglers. They a

[Vicente Lopez]

[Ville-Pommeraeul]

[Treasure Island] Come and enjoy a day of flying, fellowship and food. Bring a dish to share.

[Pocatello] Our volunteers, The Sky’s The Limit!, have helped kiters of all ages build more than 700 kites - let’s put as many in the air over the 4th of July celebration as we can! The red white and blue ones will look way cool! Bring blankets or chairs to land yourselves on, and come party with Pocatello - live bands, food and kids activities all day, great fireworks at dark. Add kites and we have a perfect day! This might be the new location for Idaho Kite Festival 2008 (www.myspace.com/iskf for updates) so come test the field.

[Warhem]

[Corolla] July 4th - 4th of July High Fly Kite Festival. Whalehead Club, Corolla - Come fly with us at the Whalehead Club’s 4th of July Celebration. Don't miss the the toy demos and Rock Climbing Wall. 877-FLY-THIS or 252-441-4124. www.kittyhawk.com.

[Tyne & Wear]

[Costaros]

[Davis] Fun for the whole family. Kite flying and stunt kite demos. Learn how to fly stunt kites. Kite building workshops to be conducted by Wings Over Washington Kite Club and Sky Jewels Kites - children & adults of all ages are encouraged to build your own kite and learn how to fly it afterwards (small fee charged for kite building).

[Vicente Lopez]