Category Archives: Events / Festivals

Issue 48: Midwest Area Kitemakers Retreat

I just returned from the 18th annual Midwest Area Kitemakers Retreat, (MAKR,) in Oregon, Illinois. [...]

Issue 48: WKM Sport Kite Workshop

All right, so we find ourselves loading the kite-van on Friday morning, May 11th – [...]

Issue 48: Wind Dancer Sky Dazzle

As we made our way to Seaside for the the second outdoor NWSKL event of [...]

Issue 48: Cloud Buster Kite Fest

Mitchell Resort and RV Park in the small village of Perrin, Texas hosted their first [...]

Issue 48: Snowkite World Championship

Welcome to the 2006 Snowkite World Championship in Vadsø. The riders are now competing for [...]

Issue 48: Midwest Area Kitemakers Retreat (gallery)

Photos by Grant Lovett, Ron Schwartz, Rick Agar, and the Larkey Family

Issue 48: Weifang Intl Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by Chris Shultz, Doug Mullins, & Kitelife

Issue 48: Berck Intl Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi & David Hathaway

Issue 48: Great Lakes Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by Grant & Mason Lovett

Issue 48: Lincoln City Indoor (gallery)

Photos by David Hathaway

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 5

With a little wariness we woke up this morning, hoping to not here the howling [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 4

High winds and land sailers on the beach last night, gave some preview of what [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 3

Somewhere in this sleepy little town, in a small shop along Rue Carnot, there is [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 2

When it comes down to the World Championships, it’s not an easy thing to win [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 1

A bit under the weather this morning, perhaps something in the previous night’s dinner… We’ve [...]

Issue 47: Dave’s World

We arrived in Bangkok at midnight – eight road-weary Americans and twenty huge bags of [...]

Issue 47: South Padre Island Festival

Friday morning found me catching a Continental flight from PDX to Houston where I transferred [...]

Issue 47: Up the River Indoor Festival

Tucked away in the dashboard of the MonkeyMobile (a blue 2005 Mustang lately!) I have [...]

Issue 47: Kites for Wishes Festival

This was the 2nd International Kite Festival held on the beautiful Island of Guam and [...]

Issue 47: Festival Layang Layang

In mid February I had the opportunity to attend the Pasir Gudang kite festival in [...]

Issue 47: Kite Party 4

I attended Kite Party for the first time last year, and enjoyed it so much [...]