Los Alamos Reporter

30th Annual Kite Festival Is April 25 And 26 At Overlook Park In White Rock

Join the Los Alamos Arts Council Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26 at Overlook Park in White Rock for the 30th Annual Kite Festival! Here’s what to plan for:

Saturday, April 25

  • 9am to 2pm: Kite building workshops with volunteers
  • 10am to 5pm: Kite flying! 🪁
  • 11am to 1pm: Kite hospitals are open for business 🏥
  • 2pm to 3pm: Self-guided building workshops

Sunday, April 26

  • 10am to 1pm: Kite building workshops with volunteers
  • 10am to 4pm: Kite flying! 🪁
  • 11am to 1pm: Kite hospitals are open for business 🏥
  • 1pm to 3pm: Self-guided building workshops

Starting in 1996, the Los Alamos Arts Council Kite Festival is the largest of its kind in Northern New Mexico.

We are returning to the community once again with elementary school workshops, kite building and flying at Overlook Park, community events and lectures with partners like the Los Alamos Library and Los Alamos STEAM lab, and collaborations with artists to create beautiful kites to display in community buildings.

The Festival includes music, food, kite-building workshops, and lots of kite flying. Kite enthusiasts from all over the southwest fly their large, intricately shaped kites and hand-made flying works of art, demonstrate stunt-kite flying, and grace the fields with incredibly colorful banners. Free kite-building workshops for kids are held on Saturday and Sunday afternoon where children build and decorate simple kites with assistance from volunteers. Kids use both their craft and artistic skills to put literally hundreds of these kites up in the sky. For the six-and-under crowd, pre-built kites are available for decorating.

A kite hospital is staffed with kite medics to mend the inevitable broken and injured kites using sticks, duct tape, and ingenuity.

Everyone young at heart is invited. Bring a kite, build a kite, fly a kite, or just take in the artful scene. 

Volunteers make the Kite Festival successful. Whether you want to build kites with kiddos, repair kites in our “Kite Hospital”, or want to be a certified “Flight Supervisor” on the field, we have room for you!

Contact LAACKiteFest@gmail.com for more information.