Category Archives: Events / Festivals

News on past, present, and future kiting events around the world

Issue 35: Kite Party 2 (gallery)

Photos by John Chilese

Issue 34: Dave’s World

Late Saturday night, Susie and I returned to the snow and rain. Our week in [...]

Issue 34: Uttarayan Kite Festival in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Upon receiving an invitation to attend this event, we went back and forth on the [...]

Issue 34: BCKA Indoor Fly

Aiyana Markling and I met for the first time last summer at an Ocean Shores [...]

Issue 34: 2nd Annual Windless Kite Festival

Your family is taking a weekend trip to Long Beach Washington for the three day [...]

Issue 34: 7th Frejus International Kite Festival of the Air

This was an awesome way to finish off my 2003 kite season and was also [...]

Issue 33: Dave’s World

For we kitefliers, the name Dieppe brings to mind a huge international festival sparkling with [...]

Issue 33: Ray’s Adventures

Wow!! What a great way to end my kite season but with two awesome world [...]

Issue 33: Carolina Kitefest

Friday, October 24, 2003 It’s Friday night, and I’m excited. Tomorrow is the 16th Annual [...]

Issue 33: Crissy Field 2003 (gallery)

Photos by John Chilese

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 6)

The final evening of our annual convention… I’m bringing a close to our daily updates [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 5)

Friday morning there were teams practicing all over the place… 9 masters teams came from [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 4)

It was a relief not to have any outdoor sport kite competitions scheduled today, as [...]

Issue 32: Dave’s World: WSIKF

Long Beach Washington this year bosted a really big American Flag that was flown at [...]

Issue 32: Dave’s World: Wind Celebration

Sounds pretty exotic, doesn’t it?? Jump on a plane and jet down to the South [...]

Issue 32: AKA Grand Nationals

As Kiting editor Mike Gillard and I arrived at the host Hope Hotel on Sunday [...]