Recent Project - Kite Festival

Kite Making Workshop

Traditionally, Indian kite competitions take place at large festivals when kites are flown from rooftops.  People make beautiful and colourful kites in a wide range of designs.  The kites are reinforced with fine bamboo sticks and some people coat their kite strings with fine ground flour and glass - this helps them to cut the strings of opponents kites, releasing them to fly away!  The last kite flying is the winner.

People learned how to make (minus the glass!) and fly kites with a specialist kite maker.  Sessions took place in Nottingham, Leicester and Derby, and some sessions were open for anyone to attend (free of cost).  The top three best designed kites in each City won a cash prize of £25, £15 or £10, as did the three kites winning in the kite flying competition.

Nottingham Forest Recreation Ground

Workshops Run:

Tuesday 10th and Friday 13th July at:

1 - 3pm, 3.30 - 5pm and 5.30 - 7pm

Booking essential

Telephone: 0115 9158608

Three Cities in funded by The European Union through the European Regional Development Fund, East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and Arts Council England