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Weifang Kite Festival

Weifang City administration carries out multiple strategies for promoting kite activities, from the cultural, industrial and tourist point of view.

This city holds an old tradition in building and designing kites, having generated its own style that differentiates it from the models developed in Beijin, Tianjin or Nantong. Perhaps, the most emblematic model is the dragon. But the drive given to the kite activity was thanks to the local government initiative; it promotes sustaining a kite manufacturing industry massively, with trade exchange as suppliers at local and global level.

The Southern Cross In Education

This initiative consists of collecting books donated by people and carrying them to create libraries at frontier schools located in the four cardinal points of the country.

With the purpose of meeting this goal, Rubén Sosa, began to develop a series of solidarity actions to help the frontier schools create their own libraries.

Claris At The World Kite Museum

Very Special Exhibit 2009 AKA Miniature Kite Master Claris Skoczdopote June 27, 2009. This is the title of the announcement published by the World Kite Museum, the unique museum in the U.S.A. devoted to kites.

There will be exhibited the miniature kites built by Claris and that were donated to the museum by Nelson Borelli and Dave Shattuck.

Congratulations to this BaToCo member and friend! And we invite you to visit Claris’ profile!

Kong Xiang Ze & Kong Ling Min

Thanks to Andreas Agren and Li Ruo Xin, we had the fantastic opportunity of meeting two members of the Kong family, well-known kitefliers from Beijin. Li Ruo Xin holds a special and affectionate friendship with them: Kong Xiang Ze (father), Kong Ling Min (son) and Kong Bing Zhang (grandson), three generations of fine builders and artists.