Bristol International Kite Festival

Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th September 2004

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Beautiful Kites

Many kite flyers from all over the world came to Bristol to show off their amazing artistic kite designs. Robert Brasington, Janneke Groen, Bill Farber, Collectif Zoone, Marco Casadio, Steffi Rauchwarter, Otto Vossen, Settimo Cielo Aquilonisti and many more put on a great show throughout the weekend, joined by the best of the UK's kite makers and flyers, such as Martin Lester, Nick James, Paul Chapman, Andrew Beattie, the AKF (Avon Kite Flyers), and the BKF (Brighton Kite Flyers).

One particular highlight was seeing all 18 of Janneke's Sode kites in the sky at once - all the same size and shape, but different designs. Another was seeing Bill Farber's "Three Ages of Women" - a beautifully appliqued Rokkaku kite, and absolutely stunning.

Beautiful appliqued Edo kites		Alice in Wonderland	Kite of Hope

Inflatable Creations This year as well as kites the festival also concentrated on air creations. An inflatable church and an inflatable pub (pictured right) were on show. Anne Harris also brought along a number of her inflatables (pictured below).

More pics!

George with Steffi Rauchwarter	Tony Cartwright	Sky & Summer Ferraro

Eddie Hillegers	Paul Reynolds	Janneke Groen	You're being watched !
AKF Flyer & Club Rok	The Flying Squad	Ramlal Tien from Collectif Zoone	L'Atelier Kite banners

George	Raymond

Gary Matthews Fan Club	Martin Devonshire & Gary Matthews	Sport kites
4 wheel Libre buggy	Unusual quad line kite	AKF delta

Links to Other Photos & Reports:

http://www.flexifoil.com/community/forums/showthread.php?t=49702

http://www.fvent.plus.com/BIKF04/bristolkitefest.html

http://www.powerkites.dswilliams.co.uk/bristol%202004/Page.html

http://community.webshots.com/album/179428874PpUiSs

http://www.warham.plus.com/images/Bristol04/

http://pyj.atelierkites.com/galerie/bristol-2004/index.htm

http://www.peterbindon.com/Kites/KiteGallery/2004/Bristol_2004a.htm

http://kites.fotopic.net/c281561_1.html

http://virtualfreestyle.khite.org/cgi-bin/album.pl?album=Bristol

Paul Breddels

Previous event reports:

aeolian report from Bristol 2003 Page1 & Page 2

aeolian report from Bristol 2002 Page 1 & Page 2

aeolian report from Bristol 2000 Page 1 & Page 2

Andrew Beattie's report from Bristol 1995