December 2008 Newsletter
Nepalese Kites
This autumn the Drachen Foundation helped me raise money for a medical mission to Nepal. We gave a kite for every $50 donation to the Sherpa House Calls Foundation, and the donors wrote messages on each; they were then given to children as I traveled. more >>Using Kites to Hit High Notes
In the 13 years that I have been executive director of the Drachen Foundation, I found it amusing and delightful to have a call about using kites from the Houston Opera.
Why would the opera want to fly kites? more >>
Making Kites Fly . . .
The front end of every exhibition is the vision.
It was Francisco Toledo’s vision to design and paint his images on handmade paper at a mill outside of Oaxaca, Mexico ten years ago. In ten years, this vision turned the economic corner and began to make a profit. In celebration of this accomplishment, Toledo celebrated the 10th anniversary of the paper company by inviting the Drachen Foundation to mount the largest number of kites in an exhibition, as well as deeding the ownership of the paper company to the community members who have worked it since the beginning. more >>