The 14th Dieppe International Kite Festival will take place from the 9 th to the 17 th of September on the lawns of Dieppe 's seafront.
The Site
Spread over eight hectares of lawns between the town and the sea, the kites' village is a wonderful setting and forms a kind of natural amphitheatre. On these greens spaces, one could find the creations and cultural specificities of each country.
Five demonstration areas (two of which are sounded and commented) are divided on the beach's lawns.
Two of them are devoted to the flights of the official delegations. The other ones are devoted to sport kite, giant kites and to the participant kite flyers for free flights.
The last one is devoted to activities for children.
The Village - Meetings with the Official Delegations
One of the main characteristics of Dieppe International Kite Festival is its international character with the participation of 30 to 35 countries on each edition. The kites' village is a place of meetings and direct exchanges between the public and the delegations. During 9 days, each delegation appropriates a reserved area and presents its kites, its cultural and culinary specificities and many others interests.
Theme 2006: “Our Planet: Stroll Between Flora and Fauna.”
Kite flying is a sound, environment friendly activity. Guest kite flyers from all over the world will explain how they make kites. How can we make our own kite out of natural materials: paper, bamboo, vegetable.
Most of them feel concerned with the respect for environment and use kite festivals as educational workshops.
With this theme, the official delegations will present the richness and diversity of their country's flora and fauna. Before the festival, each country works to propose demonstrations and innovative projects on the D-day. Thanks to this method, the Dieppe Festival gives benefit to its public of a show unlike anything else in the world, and on each edition.
The Delegations – 37 countries
During the whole time of the festival, the sky of Dieppe is coloured. The delegations offer a standing show to the public with commentaries by professionals.
The invited kite flyers will present brand new kites, specially made on the theme of the Dieppe festival 2006.
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Belgium
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Denmark
France
Germany
Great Britain
Guatemala
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Martinique (Overseas territory)
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Tasmania
USA
Vietnam
with the participation of :
French Federation of hang-gliding
The American Kite fliers Association
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From the 9 th to the 17 th of September 2006
Flights of the official delegations with commentary: 37 countries.
Demonstrations of the guest of Honour, New Zealand.
Taking flights of giant kites. Taking flight of Maoris traditional kites, Kapa Haka and Waiata shows.
The creators' workshop: demonstration and creation of artistic kites
Stunt kites ballets: demonstrations by the international teams.
Demonstrations of Buggy and Kite Jumping
Kite Fights with international champions
The official kite schools: stunt kite, fighting kite, photography and aerial video
Wind corridors: Aeolian music and structures
Childhood and Youth Area
Discovery of the kite world for the disabled people
The Challenge for the Earth, supported by the Hulot Foundation for Nature and Mankind, and ADEME.
Exhibitions: Kites of the world; the “Kite Wind Generator”; Kite in India , Philately of Kite.
Screenings: Dieppe Scène Nationale
ntertainments: stilts, jugglers, theatre, parade, concerts.
9 th /10 th of September
Stunt kite French Championship
Fighting kite Junior French Championship
16 th /17 th of September
Fighting kite World Cup
Creative Kite Contest "Fauna and Flora" - (Rules)
"Coup de coeur" of the French Kite Club
Night flight: sound and light show
In the Village: Press office, reception desks, meetings with the delegations, demonstrations of kite making, kite shops, bar-restaurant.
For the first time in the world, a Maori team will present the ancestral traditions of kite.
Program: creation and taking flights of traditional kites; performance of “Kapa Haka” and “Waiata”(songs and dances); traditional Maori games (Manu Kopua, poi).
The visitors will have the opportunity to learn traditional songs and dances. Thanks to various activities, the public will discover the greater part of the musical inheritance bounded to the manu tukutuku (kite making) traditions and to the Maori culture in general.
The Maori team will carry out the Karakia (traditional prayers). Carrying “spiritual Maoris wishes”, these prayers consider Atua, the ancestors, and those present as the “guardian and protector of our environment.”
They strongly advise people to respect and to take care of each other.
Some of these traditional prayers are in keeping with the kite traditions, as a favour to the vegetative resources' divinities. Spiritual songs are sung as well during the kites' ascent. They celebrate the combination of human elements with natural resources used for kite making. They long to see people and nature co-existing harmoniously.
The New Zealand exhibition stand will present the cultural specificities of the country.
The Practice of Maori Kite
Maori kite traditions are thoroughly linked to “Matariki” (small beam of stars, also called the Pleiades). They are historically indissociable . In the Maori culture, kites are considered as the link between earth and sky.
From the thousands kites decorated with shells, feathers, leafs, handmade objects and sculptures, which were flying at the beginning of the colonialist area, there is nothing left nowadays.
Almost all the ancient practices and Maori games have been abandoned a few times after the arrival of the first missionaries. At this time, the Maoris and the Europeans accused the missionaries of “suppressing the indigenous' harmless leisure”.
Collective leisure was prohibited and trespassers were prosecuted, although the people was obviously fond of it.
When this tradition ended, the wonderful collections of kites from the tribes disappeared and – with them – the most important time of the year, dedicated to kite making and kite technology.
Despite the prohibitions and the typical missionary dislike of the sport educators for indigenous games, the renewal of the Maori culture since the 80s, shows the return of traditional kite.
he expertise of kite making was found in different tribes, among written and oral recollections, and in traditional writings.
The return of traditional Maori kites had an additional impulse when the Maori New Years' Day and the Matariki celebrations also recovered a place of honour. The sky of New Zealand welcomes again the colour and splendour of traditional Maori kite flying.
Peter LYNN
“He makes big beaches smaller.” That is what the kite world observers say of Peter Lynn, New Zealand's roving ambassador for kites.
The Peter Lynn aerial circus features big--often huge--kites, unusual kite-associated creations, and traction devices using the pulling power of kites. His kites range form the hundred-foot Octopus to the realistic Manta Ray, from the Tri-D Box with Maori designs from New Zealand's original Polynesian inhabitants to the new “Myrtle the Turtle”. In addition to being large, they are brightly coloured, often whimsical and fly well.
Peter is always pushing boundaries, he makes the show.
His reputation on the international level is already made. Peter Lynn is considered as an emblematic figure in the kite world.
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MANGALORE – India in all its Splendour
Mangalore, town situated on the west coast of India , is a living mosaic of the Indian culture's pluralism. It intertwines multicultural levels, modern and traditional elements, in a harmonious mixture of humanity.
Created in 1998, the team Mangalore participated in several festivals of various areas of India . As the time went by, the team used the kite world to present its cultural specificities in the world.
Team Mangalore's kites are inspired by the traditional folklore and theatre of the south-west coast of Karnataka and Kerala. Each kite is handmade and designed by the members of the team who follow Mr Sri Ganesh Somayaji's (a famous modern artist) advice.
“Spreading happiness with kites” is the team Mangalore's device.
They organize kite workshops for the children and kite festivals on Panambur beach's shore (next to Mangalore) every summer since 1998.
The team Mangalore will present its wonderful kites in Dieppe next September.
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The Creator's Workshop
This workshop contributes to the development of art kite. It is a space in the festival where the last developments in this kind of kites take shape and are presented to the public.
At the time of the workshop's creation, there were 4 creators participating: Netherlands , Germany , Canada , Austria .
In 2004, the project was developed with the active participation of ten artists: Netherlands , Germany , Canada , Austria , France , Hungary .
Visual artists, painters or sculptors, they all use the kite as a medium of creation. Henceforth, during each edition of the festival, new artists join the workshop and create genuine art work on the theme of the festival.
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Stunt Kite French Championship
The regional leagues of the French Federation of hang-gliding organize, every year, a series of qualifying competitions for the French Championship.
In 2006, Dieppe will welcome the pilots stemmed from the regional championships and the 2005 French Champion. The heats contain precision and ballet trials. Challenging the laws of weightlessness and aerodynamics, competitors make aerial ballet with music, combination of perfectly connected figures.
Their technical and choreographic abilities, their control of space and wind will make of them, The 2006 French Champion!
Stunt Kites Ballets
The public is very fond of stunt kite ballets. We will welcome teams known throughout the world.
A meticulous preparation upstream the festival will enable them to present demonstrations of very high quality.
During the whole week, the public will have the opportunity to observe the best pilots who will reunite to present their aerial ballets
The Flight in Mega Team
Imagine the communion of the best stunt kites experts, reunited in one and the same show. It is downright magic on the enclosure of Dieppe 's beach.
An incredible aerial show will be given to the public during the Dieppe festival.
The Stunt Kite School
This school will be run, managed and animated by the French Federation of hang-gliding. Free introductions will look after by professional instructors.
or the public and amateur kite flyers it will be now or never to take advantage of the presence of the greatest names of kite to start learning kite flying.
Fighting Kite World Cup
In 2006, the festival will welcome the Fighting Kite World Cup organized by the Manjha Club International with the support of the French Federation of hang-gliding.
Coming from 13 countries, the reigning champions will come to Dieppe to confront each other.
The eliminating heat will take place on Saturday 16th in Pourville sur mer.
Belgium , Brazil , Chile , France , Germany , Great-Britain , India , Indonesia , Korea , Nepal , Netherlands , Pakistan , Switzerland
Fighting Kite Junior French Championship
Since a short while, fighting kite clubs start learning to young people between 12 and 18 years old. Then, they find a mean to direct their energy. This martial practice requires an effort of concentration and discipline, very appreciated by the young. The idea is to organize inter towns meetings in the coming years.
The young people are quickly autonomous and take themselves in the game. Quite cheap, fighting kite is very accessible to young people and managers in terms of budget.
For the first time, a Junior French Cup of fighting kite will take place in Dieppe . Reserved to teenagers, it will be open to young people from Dieppe and its area.
The Fighting Kite Junior French Championship is open to teenagers. (information and registrations: infos@dieppe-cerf-volant.org)
Fighting Kite School
Rokkakus, patang, layang layang, pang pae yon…
The school will be managed by members of the Manjha Club International and will be open to adults and teenagers.
Discovery or improving sessions are accessible during the whole week.
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in friendly challenges with famous champions.
Rokkakus Fights
During the whole week, the public will have the opportunity to attend great Rokkakus fights (Japanese fighting kites).
The most interested could even start learning with the best specialists, and make with them their own fighting kite.
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The Wind Corridors
New Aeolian structures and wind instruments are presented during each festival.
The public walks up and down these corridors, to explore these creations the ones more amazing than the others.
Among them, we can find percussions structures, musical bows, whistles, mechanical objects of Aeolian music.
As for the children, they could be in raptures about the wind toys, systems driven by the wind. In this field of action, the “wind gardeners” try to outdo each other in imagination. Everything is possible! From the weathercock to the scarecrow, from flags and banners to wind mills, from Aeolian sculptures to heterogeneous creations…
Each creation arouses the curiosity of grown-ups and children. Kite making workshops are managed by guest kite flyers.
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Childhood and Youth Pole
All through the festival, the youth and childhood pole will welcome children, school groups, leisure centres, institutes for disabled people, and families.
This pole will aim to inform, advise the public and lead various activities and workshops.
Program
Kite Making Workshop: An important place will be given to foreign delegations in these workshops.
Eole's Fields: A Fabrication and Exhibition Area of Sound and Aeolian structures: Realization of windmills, sprinklers, hissing bottles, harps, wind sail, banners. All these objects will give the children the opportunity to appropriate the wind “technology”. Most of the structures are made out of recuperation material allowing awareness of the environment and of eco citizenship.
Piloting initiation: A flight area will be provided for the kites that have been made during the workshops.
The Sound Labyrinth: This vast sound labyrinth will be run through until its centre by the children. An Ariane clue made of different colours of gift-wrap ribbon will help them to reach the “Aeolian gardens.”
Choose your wind: Pedagogical game encouraging a meeting with the delegations. Circuit in track game, the young and their family let themselves carry on by the circuits of the Mistral, the Tramontana, the Sirocco or Blizzard. Thanks to the help of a map and a road form which will be different according to the thematic (art kite, technical object, sportive…), they will search through and through of the festival, some indications hidden in the delegation stands.
with the collaboration of:
l'ADDLE (Dieppe), the Dieppe Kite Club, CEMEA and FRANCAS (Rouen).
The Origami Workshop
This construction workshop is specially aimed to the young.
Proposed by the delegation of the Netherlands it includes the realization of more than 100 different kinds of miniature kites.
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Program of Discovery of the Kite World for the Disabled
The Dieppe festival is open to EVERYONE. Since several editions, a particular attention is given to welcome the disabled people. The organizers of the festival wish that the event and the activities that are organized could be reached by everyone.
To do so, kite and Aeolian structures making workshops will be proposed to the disabled. Guided tours of the village will also be provided.
Thanks to our partner the "Caisse d'Epargne de Haute Normandie", the whole kite village will be equipped with access for the people with wheelchairs or of reduced mobility.
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Project supported by :
The Challenge for the Earth
“Coup de Coeur” of the Hulot Foundation for Nature and Mankind , the 2006 edition of Dieppe International Kite Festival, centred on the protection of the environment, will be a free gallery for the different local actors and the invited delegations.
The public will benefit from various exhibition spaces.
The Challenge for the Earth is indeed a great manifestation of national mobilization in favour of the protection of our planet. Started on the 24 May 2005 by the Hulot Foundation for Nature and Mankind and Ademe ( French Energy Conservation Agency ), this manifestation of national mobilization aims to assemble all the French around the protection of the planet: the Challenge encourages everyone to get involved, individually or collectively, to reduce its ecological impact by making simple and concrete daily acts.
Today, more than 500 000 French people already got involved. The Challenge enables to be easily relieved.
With this aim in view, representatives of the Foundation will be present in Dieppe , and kites at the colours of the challenge will fly away during the festival.
A video on the climate change entitled “Challenge for the Earth” will be screened in the village and small green “Challenge for the Earth” books will be distributed.
http://www.defipourlaterre.org/
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The Exhibition Space
Except for a presentation of historical kites on the village and the exhibitions already planned during the festival (see below), the foreign delegations appropriate this space.
The Planet is Angry: Exhibition on the manifestation “Kites – Solidarity Asia” led by “Dieppe Capital of Kite” and the town of Dieppe in 2005.
Kite in India: The town hall will welcome an exhibition of photographs about kite in India and a collection of Korean art kites made by a French kite flyer and creator.
The Philately of Kite: The Dieppe association of philately will be present in the kites' village. It will look after a standing post desk and will exhibit a philatelic collection on the theme of kite.
Amateurs could find philatelic souvenirs (postcards with kites) and benefit, during the first week-end of the festival, from a “first day” postmark.
Comic Strip and Kite: In collaboration with the Norman association of comic strip, two famous drawers will make illustrations for the festival. These drawings will be available in the village. Dedication sessions will be organized during the week-ends.
Screenings: Dieppe Scène Nationale will present, during the time of the festival, and in connection with the theme of the 2006 edition “Flora and Fauna”, the following films:
“Kite from the Ends of the Earth”
“The Red Ball”
“The Migrating People”
“Microsmos”
The Kite Wind Generator Project:
“The human imagination is the most powerful and inexhaustible resource of energy in the world.”
The project aims to create, execute and test a new concept of production of electrical power to a range close to that of the actual conventional power stations. For this project, the power supply is the troposphere's altitude winds.
In order to concentrate this resource, trains of very big kites are used, the moving of which is electronically controlled with sophisticated detectors and appropriate programs. Kites are attached to a revolving structure looking like a roundabout. This structure transmits mechanical power generated to the alternating-current generators and turbines of a classical power station incorporated with the structure itself.
At present, this project is the subject of researches and has been developed during six years. It has five European patents. Three stages are necessary in order to prove the validity of the hypothesis and to make the actual prototypes.
This project, out of the ordinary and completely innovative, will be presented in the 2006 edition of Dieppe International Kite Festival.
The Opening Parade
On the 10 th of September, first Sunday of the festival, the kite flyers will start from the beach to reach the town centre. A great parade in traditional costumes will move all along the pedestrian precinct, accompanied by stilts, jugglers, music and kites. Ambiance guaranteed!
The Carcahoux
A group of numerous talents, the Carcahoux intervenes in all the fields of creation and animation: theatre, street animation, popular arts and traditions, expression workshops…
Creator of a living museum called “At the crossroad of times” (cultural centre of Fontaine's manor), its activity is in keeping with the ecologic approach of Dieppe International Kite Festival 2006.
The group, composed of 80 members, will be present during the two week-ends of the festival.
Program: stilts, percussions, flash humorous theatre, parade in the town centre with the official delegations.
Concerts
In collaboration with the City of Dieppe , different concerts will be organized in the evening in the village.
A good opportunity to end a pleasant day in a good mood.
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The Night Flight
Dantesque ! This is how the public and kite flyers qualified the 2004 night flight.
A tradition in Dieppe , the collective and spectacular flight brings together all the kite flyers participating in the Dieppe Kite Festival. This flight is accompanied by a “son et lumière” show. This particular moment is long-awaited by the public.
Some of the kites exhibited during the night are luminous. The show is supported with light effects and adapted music.
The night flight will take place on Saturday 16 th of September.
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“Institutions'” Space
The institutional partners of the festival will be present during the whole time of the festival.
They will actively participate in the theme of the festival by presenting the actions they lead in favour of the protection of environment.
