Calendar
7/10 Master kite maker Nobuhiko Yoshizumi and Scott Skinner present a kite making workshop, in the felicitous setting of Kyoto, Japan for Washington State K-12 teachers on a study tour.
7/17-10-17 DF Touring Exhibit Kites to Kitty Hawk at Tri-Cities Historical Museum, Grand Haven, MI
7/28 DF tests Brasington Bird Kite workshop with 4th-6th-graders at Audubon Nature Camp, Seattle, WA.
7/28-10/28 DF Touring Exhibits About Kites and Kites of Kyushu at Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK
7/31-8/4 DF supports Cambodian kite making, with kite maker Greg Kono, for children ages 7-11 at Rainier Valley Youth Theatre Summer Camp, Seattle, WA.
8/1 The kite collections of Stormy Weathers, Betty Street & bill lockhart, and Ed & Bonnie Wright can be viewed online through DF Archive
8/2-10/22 DF Touring Exhibit Japanese Kites: A Tradition for All Ages at Manitoba Children's Museum, Winnipeg, Alberta, Canada
Featured Archive Item: 1890s Korean Kites
The DF archive holds what may be the world's oldest Korean kites. But Korean-style kites for "Reality Speed Dating"? Read more about what's been going on with Korean kites at The Drachen Foundation.
Kite Sailing Symposium
Register now (only $20 for three days) to join Peter Lynn, Dave Culp, Anne Quéméré (kite sailing solo across the Atlantic), Peter Lynn, Jr., and Wubbo Ockels (Kite Technology, Delft University of Technology), among others, in Seattle, September 28-30, 2006. Photo courtesy of Naish International
News for Educators
Mary Yoshimi's Japanese paper Sode joins other simple paper kite designs available through the DF Online Store. It comes in a ten-pack kit, complete with bamboo spars, line, and winders, for $10. Photo by Kiyomi Okawa.
Visitors
Who reserves time at the DF Study Center? Meet Walter Diem of Germany and learn how his visit to DF contributed to his kite research. Photo by Kiyomi Okawa.
Two in Tether
You can't say that DF doesn't start 'em young! Two photogenic visitors to the DF exhibit about kite aerial photography at the recent USGS Open House in Menlo Park, California. Photo by Ali Fujino.