Kite Event Calendar

[Salt Lake City] Hot air balloons and fun kite fly

[Shoalhaven]

[Nahant] The 134th annual Stacked Kite Megafly, formerly Dynakite Megafly, will feature rainbow stacks of kites, single line kites, and traction kiters. All day long!

[Adelaide]

[Enid] An attempt to set a new Guinness World Record, flying the Frustrationless Flyer (Great Winds Kite Co., as supplied by kitesinthesky.net)

[Milwaukee] LIVE ON THE INTERNET at www.giftofwings.com ..MOTS 2009...31 UNBELIEVALBE YEARS! WOW...31 years. THE WORLD will be WATCHING US FLY! ....

WELCOME RON GIBIAN FOR HIS FIRST MOTS APPEARANCE......

''The 31ST Annual Frank Mots International Kite Festival will be held on Saturday, September 12th,& Sunday September 13th, 2009, in Veterans Park on Milwaukee's Lakefront from 10:00 am until 6:00Pm Saturday and 10:00 am until 5:00pm on Sunday. County Executive Scott Walker will kick off the festival at 12 noon with the Caribou Coffee grand launch of hopefully 500 kites. That's right...two great days of flying. The event is sponsored by the Kite Society of Wisconsin and Illinois, and Gift of Wings, and our newest sponsors, 102.1 WLUM, B93, and 1290am WMCS. Featured performers include Chicago Fire, feraturing Eric Wolfe, the new Revolution Kite Flying Team...IQUAD. Mots also will feature Josh and ZacH Gordon, Charlie Sotich, Team Pegasus, Dan Newman, Paul Koepke, Mike Delfar, Ann Vondriska, & Donna Schenk as Mrs Kite Lady, and the kites of Yves LaForest. Gift of Wings Welcomes the famed Kite Maker, Ron Gibian to his first Mots experience. Yves Laforest and his groups of flyers will feature 2 GIANT Octopi kites flying high over Milwaukee. The Caribou Coffee Grand Launch of around 500 kites will take place directly at noon. The professional kite teams will start performing at 12:30 pm followed by the Educators Credit Union Kids Mad Dash at around 2:00. See Roscoe from the Milwaukee Admirals, and Bango from the Bucks. Integrated College Planning is presenting the 2009 Frank Mots Scholarship. Junior and Seniors have a chance to win 2 $1000.00 scholarships...Don't miss this opportunity to sign up at the event... For more information, call Scott Fisher at 414/425-9993 or Jeff Kataoka at 414/277-9121.Be part of history....31 years of kites on Milwaukee's Lakefront!! Kites are available for sale from Gift of Wings located in Veterans Park, online and in Franklin, WI. Johnsonville Brats, Palermos Pizza, and Nathan

[Urbandale] Family Weekend: Tails and Trails 12-4 pm Saturday, September 12, 2009 Join Living History Farms on the front lawn for Kite Tails on Saturday as members of the American Kite Flyers Association demonstrate their skills with a wide variety of unique kites. Visit the family kite building tent then fly your own creation. Enjoy a fall concert at 12:30 pm Saturday by the Walnut Hill Choral Society. Walk the trails to the 1850 Farm and experience the challenges of homesteading in Iowa through hands-on activities. Explore the ways Iowa’s founders set up housekeeping and prepared for their first winter, including oxen demonstrations on Saturday.

[Ogunquit] The 11th Annual Capriccio Festival of Kites will be held on September 12, 2009, on the Ogunquit Beach from 10am to 2pm. The Festival is part of a two-week Festival of the Arts. Over 300 kites will be given away to kids to decorate and fly. All volunteers that help with set-up, kite decorating, or demonstrate any kite flying will receive a free Capriccio Kite Festival t-shirt and free parking. Come early, stay late, and help us flood the skies with kites.

[Jackson] This one day, family-focused event, has two flying fields - one for professional flying enthusiasts and one for families to fly. Music, concessions, Bol racing, glider contests, scavenger hunt, kite history displays, kite making and more will entertain participants throughout the afternoon. Donovan’s Hobby will be on hand with kites for sale. This free event will be held 1:00-6:00 p.m.

[Dorchester] This festival lasts for two days. Sept 19 will be the day for major activities. If rain on Sept 19, all programs will be moved to Sept 20.

This annual event will feature the best kites from the East and West. Adults and children, novices and professionals will fly kites to their hearts’ content. Ornate kites with magnificent color, including an over 300 foot long dragon kite, will punctuate a day filled with excitement, harmony and peace. We have a 50 feet wide rainbow kite that required 20 people to pull. If there is enough wind (in the right direction), you are welcome to join us to fly it.

Snacks and water will be served. A number of free kites will be awarded to couples with proven wedding anniversary of over 15 years. Activities include live music performed by by Rakalam Bob Moses & Alexei Tsiganov, kung fu, laughing exercise, kite demonstration and more.

[Waynesboro] Event runs from 10 til 4 on the KNOLL.

[Newcastle]

[Canberra]

[Newcastle]

[Melbourne]

[St. Helens, Tasmania]

[Merimbula]

[Palanga, LT-00169] Info from 1st International Kite Festival in our forum - http://108.lt/forumas/viewforum.php?f=41

[Pocatello] The VFW hosts their annual Come Fly a Kite With a Veteran, starting with their family kitebuilding workshop at the Memorial Building on Sept 25th and followed by flies for prizes during the Idaho Kite Festival 2009, Oct 1-3, noon to 5 pm wind permitting. Flies will be at the church park (Hawthorne Road at James) beside Portneuf District Library, location of several other kitemaking workshops.

[Orange]

[St. Louis] Everyone is welcome. We start flying at 1 p.m. on central field, near the Jewel Box. If there are games on the field, you can find us further down, behind the bathrooms on Wells Drive

[Nederland] WindFest is a youth and family-friendly event celebrating community, sustainable energy, and that mountain element that plagues us in the winter: Wind. WindFest will include wind art, kite flying, kite making workshops, kiteflying competitions, and other wind and sustainable energy booths and activities.