Calendar
2/27–3/2 Scott Skinner & Lesley Dill point “Divide Light” to ten feet
3/1 Kono Dihedral Diamond available for free download from DF website and for sale in 10-pack kit at DF Online Store
3/3 Falk Hilsenbek teaches Donzella’s Monobloc kite at Ft. Worden Kitemakers Conference
3/7 DF tests workshop for first-graders at Lockwood Elementary, Bothell, WA
3/10 First Kite History article by DF appears in Spring 2006 issue of Kiting, the quarterly AKA magazine
March Young Explorer Field Experience awardee Aron Curzon joins USGS scientist Mike Rymer and KAPer Scott Haefner for seismic fault research using KAP
3/17 Ali Fujino & Matthew Stubbs present to the chapter meeting of the Explorers Club in New York about the Young Explorer Field Experience program
3/21-5/2 DF Touring Exhibit The Writer Way at Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, Evansville, Indiana
3/24 DF tests workshop for first-graders at Glebe Elementary School, Arlington, VA
3/25 DF kite making at Paul Garber Smithsonian Kite Festival, the 40th annual celebration of this event
3/25–4/2 Paper in Flight artists in residence at Kochi, Japan
3/28 DF tests workshop for eighth-graders reading The Kite Runner at The Northwest School, Seattle, WA
3/28–4/16 DF Touring Exhibit Japanese Kite Prints at Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan, as part of Paper in Flight activities
3/30 DF tests workshop for third-graders at Lockwood Elementary, Bothell, WA
4/1 Second article featuring the Drachen archive appears in Kitelife, a bimonthly e-zine.
4/6–9 Fujino, Skinner, videographer Matthew Stubbs, and DF board member Jose Sainz join 2006 DF grantee Oscar Frey at San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja, Mexico
4/8-6/11 DF Touring Exhibit Japanese Kites at Teknikens Hus, Luleå, Sweden
4/28-6/30 DF Touring Exhibit Japanese Kite Prints, combined with Kites of Kyushu and contemporary paper kites, at Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center, Makawao, Maui, Hawaii, as part of Paper in Flight activities
Featured Archive Item: Panama Hotel Paper Kite Interviews
As DF’s Paper in Flight artists prepare for their residency in Japan, now seems an appropriate moment to showcase interviews with the eight artists who participated in DF’s similar paper kite project, a residency at Seattle’s Panama Hotel in 2003. Part of Drachen’s archive, the interviews are being posted for the first time on the DF website. They are accompanied by images of the artists at work and of kites each artist created during the week-long residency. Read more, and enter a contest.
First Young Explorer Field Experience Grant
Aron Curzon, a junior at West Salem High School in Oregon, has won the first Young Explorer Field Experience grant, awarded by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the prestigious Explorers Club, with support from the Drachen Foundation. Learn what Aron will be investigating with KAPer Scott Haefner and USGS scientist Mike Rymer. Read more.
News for Educators
What new, free DF kite template did Seattle kite maven Kathy Goodwind snap up at DF’s KAP event? The Kono Dihedral Diamond, by kite artist Greg Kono, a simple but elegant design for introducing students to the effect of dihedral on kite flight. Take a look.
DF Volunteer & Visitor Doings
Charlie Sotich and Ralf Maserski stopped by the DF Study Center in mid-January on their way to the Oregon Kitemakers Retreat. Charlie left all staff members with exquisite miniature origami kites. But what was Ralf up to? Read more.