The AKA flies at Royal Park, Melbourne, on the first Sunday of every month, commencing at 1pm.
Other regular kite days include One Sky One World, on the 2nd Sunday in October and our Good Friday Fly, both also at Royal Park. The Mia Mia Festival, near the site of the first aeroplane flight by an Australian, is another annual event we attend.
October really is festival month, with the Moonbird Festival at Port Fairy early in the month, and the Victorian Championships, held at Ballarat, generally at the end of the month.
A new festival to keep and eye out for is the Asian Kite Festival, organised jointly by the AKA and the Darebin City Council. This year's was fantstic, and plans are already being made for the next one. The date for 1998 has yet to be decided.
The Geelong and District Kite Club, an affiliate of the AKA, flies twice monthly in Geelong at Belmont Common - 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month.
Our Ballarat affiliates fly regularly, but concentrate their efforts on the October festival.
The AKA has been a regular participant at Airshows DownUnder - the airshow held every two years at Avalon, Victoria. We are all lookng forward to the next one in 2001.
Several AKA members attended the Roaring Forties festival in Tasmania. We have a collection of Roaring Forties Photos online here.
For more information about the activities of the Australian Kite Association
is available at their website (http://www.aka.org.au/)
When: Easter Saturday 30th March & Easter Sunday 31st March 2002
Where: Lake Jindabyne, Snowy Mountains, NSW
Ph: Chris Last (02) 6457 8244 or Angela Griffiths (02) 6456 1284
Description:
The kite spectacular will develop from an extensive series of school and community
workshops in kite, lantern and banner making, culminating in two days of public
kite workshops and flying on the shores of Lake Jindabyne. In addition to the
kites constructed during the lead up workshops, will be an extensive professional
display of exhibition and stunt kites from kite enthusiasts and professionals
from Sydney, Melbourne and regional NSW.
A highlight on the Easter Saturday evening will be a twilight kite-flying spectacular
featuring illuminated kites and floating lanterns. In excess of 600 kites are
expected to be in the air that night, with some 400 local school children making
their own kites, together with each class producing a kite train, the kites
made by visitors during the festival, all in addition to the spectacular performance
and stunt kites flown by the professionals.
