Kitelife Calendar Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:34:14 +0000 86400 Kitelife Calendar MOTS INTERNATIONAL KITE FEST ~ Milwaukee WI LIVE ON THE INTERNET at www.giftofwings.com

The 32nd Annual Frank Mots International Kite Festival will be held on Saturday, September 11th, & Sunday September 12th, 2010, in Veterans Park on Milwaukee's Lakefront from 10:00 am until 5:00Pm Saturday and 10:00 am until 5:00pm on Sunday. THIS EVENT IS FREE WITH PLENTY OF FREE PARKING!! 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 Zack 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 2010 Frank Mots Scholarship. Junior and Seniors have a chance to win a $1000.00 scholarship...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....32 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 Nathans Hotdogs, along with plenty of other great food items will also be sold at Mots. Breakfast will be served to all KSWI members and a free dinner for all KSWI members will be held at 5:30pm on Saturday night in the park, along with one of the best kite raffle/auctions in the country. Don’t miss it! The Kite Society of Wisconsin and Illinois, it doesn’t get any better than this! Join today!! The KSWI is one of the largest and most active kite clubs in the country.



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]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 113 One Sky, One World worldwide kite day. One Sky, One World is an international kite day. Locations throughout the U.S. and worldwide hold festivals simultaneously on the 2nd. Sunday in October.A Skype or similar networking system is in the works to link live telecasts between the locations conducting this festival. One Sky,One World is like "Earth Day" for kiting, as the theme is world peace and ecological causes. In Denver, Colorado we are having the OSOW festival at Stapleton's Central Park, on Martin Luther King Blvd, east of Quebec st. An historical site for flight, Stapleton is the former location of Denver's Airport, which has been redeveloped into homes, shopping, industry, and this park.Please contact Jane Parker Ambrose jpa@earthnet.net for more info. we may be looking for kiters to travel here to fly in our festival. Contact Jane for more info.



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