"Dear friends, thank you very much for the good wishes. I couldn’t write you before because I’ve been nearly the whole day long at the fair, and didn’t have much rest after that.
Yesterday night we dismantled all, and I’m now at home returning to normality, though with plenty of cases and things to put in order!We did really well and are very happy with what happened during the exhibition…”.
Diario Río Negro newspaper published an article," Colors for the Sky ". I liked it, there’s a little mistake towards the end, you’ll quickly find out!
There’s another article on El Cordillerano newspaper, which makes a review on the exhibition.
And to conclude with the media subject, there were three TV channels, several radios, all this helping to broadcast the show and have many visitors, a quite difficult issue here, in Bariloche, where it is sometimes hard to get people informed and attend the events. Particularly if the weather is ugly, everybody stays at home!
With reference to the visitors, they were very varied. There were several kindergartens and pupils in 6th. and 7th. form, from Antu Ruca school, as well as families, tourists from everywhere (Brazil, U.S.A., Chile, France and many provinces), teachers from different institutions, forest keepers, people from the mapuche community, elder people evoking their childhood… We chatted a lot, and BaToCo’s brochure was delivered to everyone, so I hope to see Eddy kites flying here in November.
It’s clear enough that there’s a lot of interest in workshops, carrying kites to schools and the neighborhood, performing kite flight shows. The latter is something we have never done well organized and convoking the community in general (I’ve never dared considering the changing weather!), but in late November we have the Week for Children’s and Teenagers’ Rights, which is held every year, and it seems to be ideal to generate a larger kite flying. So, that would be the next step. In fact, there’re plenty of ideas to keep working.
Finally, thanks again for all the support. More things to tell coming next!
Affectionately,
Diana
Article Published in Diario El Cordillerano .
Letting Illusion Fly
Excellent Collective Kite Exhibition at Scum
You can see at the SCUM the collective kite exhibition until tomorrow, a toy that takes adults back to pleasing moments in their childhood, and the healthy happiness felt by parents as they accompany and help their children build handmade kites -an activity that has been left aside and that is intended to make families have pleasing moments again .
Diana Ross, who organizes the show, admits that “kites accompanies parents with their children, but has stopped being practiced for a long time”; yet, she affirms that they “are thinking in convoking the families to a one-day kite flying event”.
The expositors at this excellent exhibition are: Roberto Cassanello, Alberto Barrero, Pablo Macchiavello, Héctor Cesaretti and Pablo Akerman. Also, Lucas González and Gustavo Sonzogni, members of BaToCo group in Buenos Aires.
Diana Ross points out that “all expositors here, both youngsters and grown-ups, share fascination and enthusiasm for kites. I hope you enjoy our works. They won’t stay long indoors, for they are –above all- from the wind”.
Article published in Diario Río Negro .
Colors For The Sky
It was inaugurated the Third Collective Kite Exhibition. Variety and Colors at the SCUM in Bariloche.
SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE (AB).- During these days, whirling colors and ethereal forms took possession of the Municipal SCUM, in Moreno & Villegas, with the only absence –obvious, though lamented- of the wind .
The Third Collective Kite Exhibition, organized by Diana Ross with children from the Encuentro group, proposes a trip along the grand variety of design and materials inhabiting in the flying device world.
Flat star-shaped kites (of the type that fly “with tie”) have their assigned corner, while on the other wall are the “delta” type. There are also kites under the format of birds or butterflies, strange stretched out shapes, originated in China, and, of course, the sophisticated “cell-shaped”, can’t be missing Diana Ross explained that the latter are spread out in three dimensions, and can bear stronger gusts of wind.
In other corners, it is possible to explore their millenary history, some eastern legends, poems by Pablo Neruda, and, as a finding, there are old tango letters having the kite as subject matter.
Some of the showy works exhibited at the SCUM belong to fans who sent them from other places in the country, such as those from Roberto Cassanello, Alberto Barrero, Pablo Macchiavello, Héctor Cesaretti, Pablo Akerman, Lucas González and Gustavo Sonzogni.
The last three are members of the BaToCo group (Barriletes a Toda Costa), from Buenos Aires, who also provided some pictures of big collective flights. Also, there were kites from Diana Ross and the small pupils attending her workshop at Encuentro group.
As they go through the exposition, visitors ask questions, recall memories and confess to be delighted as they had never imagined such a variety. Meanwhile, the endless and silent creativity hang from the ceiling, resting, expecting to buzz again up in the air, their true territory.
