Category Archives: Events / Festivals
News on past, present, and future kiting events around the world
Issue 41: Kite Party 3
With so many competitions and festivals around the country, Kite Party was created with the [...]
Apr
Issue 41: Festival Layang-Layang
When Troy Gunn asked, “Kelly, would you like to travel to Malaysia and fly kites [...]
Apr
Issue 41: Fort Worden Kitemakers Retreat
This year I had the pleasure of attending the 22nd annual Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference. [...]
Apr
Issue 41: Up The River Indoor Festival
So, John and your humble “geezer” are on the road again for the Up The [...]
Apr
Issue 41: 3Snowkite World Championships
February 10th (unofficial) From February 14th to 20th of 2005, sport fans and party people [...]
Apr
Issue 41: Zilker Park Kite Festival
Once again, Austin,TX has proven it’s drive to fly kites. The Zilker Kite Festival on [...]
Apr
Issue 41: South Padre Island Kite Festival
For those of us that live in south Texas the first in our lifetime snow [...]
Apr
Issue 40: 3rd International Goa Kite Carnival
We’d been gearing ourselves to hold the 3rd Goa Kite Carnival towards the third week [...]
Feb
Issue 40: Wind Party in Buenos Aires
Every now and then, some concept or idea comes along and just “smacks” you between [...]
Feb
Issue 40: Contours in Utah
In October 2004, the famed Australian kite maker Robert Brasington visited Utah for the first [...]
Feb
Issue 40: Newport’s First Night 2005
The event was held on Dec, 31st in a new venue for indoor kite flying [...]
Feb
2005 KTAI Trade Show – Day 4
Knowing full well that things would be slow with all of the late night socials [...]
Jan
2005 KTAI Trade Show – Day 3
Time to fly! Today we finally put the “fliers” in “kitefliers” with most of the [...]
Jan
2005 KTAI Trade Show – Day 2
Off to another day at the races… With this being the first official day of [...]
Jan
2005 KTAI Trade Show – Day 1
Welcome to the Kite Trade Association’s annual trade show! I know we’re a day early [...]
Jan
Issue 39: Dave’s World
Fifteen years ago, on my first trip to Japan, Susan and I were privileged to [...]
Dec