Kite Festival Returns To Overlook Park May 19-21

Courtesy/LACA

COUNTY News:

Kite Festival returns to Los Alamos County the weekend of May 19-21.

Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) and Enterprise Bank and Trust are proud to bring Kite Festival back to the community after a multi-year hiatus due to Covid restrictions and last year’s fire emergency. This is the largest Kite Festival in New Mexico, bringing in hundreds of local families to build and decorate kites, learn about kite history and artistic design, watch demos and just have fun in the spring sun!

Festivities kick off Friday night with a private event at Fuller Lodge Art Center for Members, Sponsors and volunteers.

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Kite building, demos, vendors, food! If your kiddo built a kite in one of the workshops or partner workshops, make sure to bring it! LAAC has 300 FREE tee shirts for the first kiddos to bring them their kite or check-in and build a kite on site.

Demonstrations from beloved Kite Artists from around the state will take place throughout the day and LAAC has a lot of cool arts and crafts vendors as well. Don’t forget to stop by PEECs Kite Workshop; they will be demonstrating how to build compostable kites!

To volunteer at Kite Festival please email: Info@laac-flac.org

To Donate to keep Kite Festival Free, click HERE

A huge thank you to the donors and sponsors: Enterprise Bank & Trust, Los Alamos Children’s Dentistry, Los Alamos MainStreet, Century Bank, WHEED!, Del Norte LOV Foundation, McCune Charitable Trust Foundation, Janet Lovato and Becca Jones of Exit Realty, and multiple private donors.

The Los Alamos Arts Council is a 501c3 Non-Profit Uniting the Community Through the Arts since 1967.

Students flying handbuilt kites on Fuller Lodge Lawn with Paseo Project Artist Jemila McEwan during a recent Wednesday After School Art Camp. Courtesy/Brandi Engeman

A student flying a handbuilt kite on Fuller Lodge Lawn with Paseo Project Artist Jemila McEwan during a recent  Wednesday After School Art Camp. Courtesy/Brandi Engeman

Students flying handbuilt kites on Fuller Lodge Lawn with Paseo Project Artist Jemila McEwan during a recent Wednesday After School Art Camp. Courtesy/Brandi Engeman

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