A 2 Day Indoor Kite Flying Competition and Performances
January 14 & 15, 2012

Jerry Cannon is Mr. Cool in his yellow suit and kite. He has won competitions indoor and outdoor.

Looking for a winter weather entertainment? The Windless Kite Festival is an indoor kite flying show. It’s individuals, duos and more choreographed air routines to music.

Dick Curran generally flies single line kites indoors. This winged box performs when he pulls it up and with graceful glides to the music.

Location

Long Beach School Gymnasium
Washington and 4th St South
Long Beach, WA 98631

Performance Times

Saturday January 14th
10 – 11:30 am Demonstration Show
2 – 3:30 pm Indoor Ballet Competition
3:30 – 5 pm Free Flying & Lessons for all ages

Sunday January 15th
11 – 12 am Indoor Hot Tricks
12 – 1:30 pm Demonstration Show
1:30 – 2:30 pm Grand Finale

The gym is open for participant practice, demonstrations, and indoor flying lessons Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 5pm except during Performance Times.

There’s always something to see.

Admission: Donation

Toby Ardnt in Wildwood 2011 Celebration of Flight

Lee Sedgwick flys a YFO, a single line kite of his creation. Lee is well known for skiing on frozen Lake Erie on kite power.	John Barresi, a kite pilot of 20 years, specializes in quad line kites. He is an instructor and innovator with the iQuad Team.
Scott Davis is the creator and director of this festival. He is also the instigator of the Hot Trick Shoot Out.	Penny Lingenfelter produces Dr. Suess's Cat in the Hat using multiple flyers and folks from the audience. She also is known for her showstopper patriotic solos.
Toby Ardnt in Wildwood 2011 Celebration of Flight
Lisa Willoughby

Other Kite Things to do that Weekend

• Take an indoor flying lesson
• Visit the Kite Museum and experience the thrill, art, science and world history of kiting plus make a kite.
• Take time to view indoor flying films.
• Join the jolly local and participant groups for the Italian Potluck, Raffle and Award Ceremony Evening. Admission is a dish to pass and something for the raffle.

Asian New Year Celebration

This February 4th & 5th opening has special events to introduce this Bali Kite Exhibit. The exhibit lasts until March 25.

Special Opening Events

At night during the festival the families are entertained by shadow puppet shows. These two opening days the Paper Eclipse Puppet Company will present a special show about bats. Fruit bats, bat kites, and bats as good luck are native to Bali. This show about the only mammal that flies will include amazing information and a healthy dose of humor for all ages.

Times: 11 am, 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm
Both Saturday & Sunday

Kite Making

Everyone can make a simple kite of everyday materials, which has delighted Southeast Asians for thousands of years. You can decorate them and if the winds are right, fly them in the Museum’s front yard.

The Bali International Kite Festival

Imagine 209 teams of a dozen or more members, most with their own gamelan orchestras, with no team allowed to compete with a kite less than 132 “ wide. Put them together in rice fields or beaches larger than football fields to be judged and you have the July Lomba Layang-Layang Internasional Bali.

To accompany the large kites there will be enlarged photos of them being transported to the flying fields, kite launching and flying. Signage will explain things in detail.

Videos of using kites both to catch bats and fish will be showing regularly.

Your admission includes seeing the whole museum.

The Peninsula Postal Stamp Club of Long Beach, WA is in the process of creating an exhibit of kite stamps from countries around the world. In 2009 the group artistically prepared three 34” X 26” frames of Chinese kite stamps to accompany a new Chinese Kite Celebration at that time.

This time, besides using the Museum’s stamps, the group has researched and obtained more varied stamps to extend the total collection.

This exhibit will be one of a kind. Keep your eyes open for this unique event and tell your friends.

The World Kite Museum & Hall of Fame is the only American Museum dedicated exclusively to the thrill, joy, art, science and world history of kites.

Besides its outstanding kite collections, the Museum has extensive archival materials. The American Kite Association [AKA] has combined their archives with the World Kite Museum in Long Beach, Washington. An active oral history program exists on cassettes and videos.  Textbook companies and freelance writers are the biggest users.  Long Beach’s World Kite Museum is the definitive information source on kites internationally.

A Washington State vacation is incomplete without a visit to the Long Beach Peninsula, home of the Washington State International Kite Festival, and the World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame.  Located at 303 Sid Snyder Drive SW, Long Beach, Washington, WKM is the only Kite Museum in North and South America.

We look forward to seeing you in person. In the meanwhile, we hope you’ll enjoy perusing our site!