Monday

Mary Yoshimi, Day Coordinator

Kite Trains – Arches
Multi-Line Stacks
Kay Buesing, Event Director
10 am, South of Bolstad

Ribbons will be given for the Most Beautiful and the Most Unique in four categories: trains, Ohashi Arches, European Arches and Stunt Kite Stacks. The longest arrangement plus other awards will be given at the judges’ whim. For Stunt Stacks, ribbons will be given for the Most Colorful and the Best Routine. Music is not necessary. Remember you can register at 8:00a.m. so you can get your trains up early. Judging begins at 10:00a.m.

Fighter Kites
Fields D/E 10 am

Time to get reacquainted! Throughout the day there will be practice flying and kite tuning on the fighter kite fields.

Traditional Eastern Style
Kite Fighting Demonstration
Basir Beria and Johnny Hsiung, Event Directors
4 pm, just south of Sid Snyder Drive approach

A group of flyers will demonstrate kite fighting in the traditional Eastern Style. The weather much be favorable and relatively dry for this event to take place.

Special Friends Day
Mary Yoshimi, Event Director
10 am – noon & 1 – 3 pm

  • Participants will build, decorate & enjoy flying their kites
  • Kite making will be in the kite making tent just north of the beach approach
  • The kite flying field is located adjacent to the kite making tent

Kite Train Workshop
Sponsored by the World Kite Museum
1 pm, Kite making tent

So you too may become a kite train engineer, the World Kite Museum sponsors making a kite train of three Invader kites, one red, one blue, and one yellow. The cost is $6.00.