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KITE FESTIVAL PORTABLE

In addition to fees paid to the city, McAlister also paid out about $35,000 each year for festival costs like renting portable toilets, garbage and staffing.

“While it was a great event for the community, we just can’t afford to subsidize it,” said Berkeley parks director Scott Ferris. Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight Highline Kites, Tom McAlister’s mobile kite shop. While McAlister was able to use César Chávez Park for just a few thousand dollars in 2019 (including $1,000 for a special event permit), the new fees mean he would need to pay about $45,000 to offset what the city says is the cost of providing firefighters, parking attendants, custodial staff and other services for a two-day festival attended by tens of thousands. McAlister said new special event fees - approved by the city three years ago to help offset the debt crisis facing the Berkeley Marina - will more than double his total cost of hosting the festival. This year the festival won’t happen due to a different reason. In 20, the festival was put on pause due to the pandemic. Octopi in the sky at the 2014 Berkeley Kite Festival. During its prime, the festival drew in crowds of more than 30,000 with its expert sport kite demonstrations, spectacular floating creatures and performances by the Berkeley Kite Wranglers and Kite Team of Japan. It’s McAlister’s deeply held belief in the value of kiting that led him to found the beloved Berkeley Kite Festival, which ran from 1986 until 2019, always on the last weekend of July.

“Kites force us to look up, both physiologically and metaphorically.” “Most of us spend our days, our work lives and play lives, looking at the horizon or looking down at our work,” he said. Tom McAlister has sold kites out of his truck at the Berkeley Marina for more than three decades. If you plan to bring a pet, make sure you have the provisions necessary to keep them comfortable.Tom McAlister, owner of Highline Kites and founder of the Berkeley Kite Festival, sets a kite aloft in César Chávez Park at the Berkeley Marina on July 16, 2022. While this makes for perfect flying conditions, it is also important to remember to bring plenty of water and sunscreen.

PLEASE REMEMBER: Traditionally, this weekend is supposed to be extremely hot and sunny. Activities include kite sprint competition, stunt/power kite demos, kite clinic/lesson, BOL Races, and face painting by Susan Lennonġ2:00 pm: Rogallo info session with Rogallo Foundation Historian, Billy VaughnĦ:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Lighted night fly at Jockey’s Ridge State Park Saturday, June 18thġ2:00 pm: Rogallo info session with Rogallo Foundation Historian, Billy Vaughn Sunday, June 19thģ933 S Croatan Hwy., Nags Head, NC (US 158 MP 12.5)

KITE FESTIVAL FREE

Join us and fly a kite of your own, take part in FREE stunt kite lessons, kite coloring for kids of all ages, or just sit back, relax and enjoy the spectacular kites as they fly in the sky.ġ0:00 am – 4:00 pm: Kite Festival at Jockey’s Ridge State Park.

Kitty Hawk Kites and friends will be displaying amazing 30 – 100 ft kites on top of Jockey’s Ridge State Park. We invite you to join us and fly a kite at the 40th Annual Rogallo Kite Festival to celebrate Francis Rogallo and his many accomplishments. His inventions started the sport of hang gliding and his designs have carried over into the development of stunt kites, power kites, and hang gliders that are flown today.

Bear Tours – Alligator River Wildlife Refugeįrancis Rogallo was a NASA scientist and inventor of the flexible wing.

Inshore Excursions: Crabbing, Fishing & Island Exploration.

Vineyard Voyage & Sunset Boat Cruises – Duck, NC.

Nags Head Dolphin Watch – Dolphin Tours.

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