lizkelly

Hi Guys! I hope you had a great year kiting! The Dean Kite Festival is back! Scheduled again for Father's Day September 4th. The sun will be out and the wind will be blowing from the north west. I hope you guys can come and support us again, I love your big kites and one day I want to have a go in a buggy. cheers Liz 0412674827 Oh, can you upload some photos to the dean recreation reserve Facebook page? Thanks

Dean is 15kms from Brown Hill. 10kms from Creswick. I reckon you can use the paddock to the north (no sheep?) for the buggies if the wind does pick up. Pretty still now. But I'm no expert on that. I just want sun and wind. And lots of people.

Yay! Great winds coming from the right direction. Add a couple of extra kms per hour because we are in Dean. Kite eating trees...

As long as it stays dry we should be happy!

Yay! Looks like it will be a sunny 14 degrees..with a nw breeze. Liz

Thanks guys! The wind will blow a fair southwesterly on Sunday the 6th September from 12noon until 4pm. The sun will also be out. Liz

Hi guys, we've scheduled the next Dean Kite festival for Sunday September 6th. I hope John and your local Ballarat extreme kiters can be there. Sorry about the short notice. Liz

Hi Guys! We've scheduled the kite festival again for next weekend. Sunday 14th. I hope the weather will be good and hope to see some of you there. Liz

Hi guys! I've just had confirmation the Dean Kite festival is going ahead in September this year. Love to see some more extreme kiting demonstrations. Thanks John for last year and hope to see you again. Liz

Thanks, John, we couldn't have done done it without you! A great day was had by all with over 200 people attending and 51 kids through the kite workshop. Also thanks to John Baker from kites for kids. Great video too. I reckon we'll have it again next year! Got my kites back this morning... Cheers. Liz

Wow! Thanks guys. Jo Baker from Kites for Kids is going to come and do a workshop and demonstration for us on the 15th of September! I'm also wondering if I should get access to a paddock for some of the more extreme kiters. I don't think at this point it will be a competitive day, just heaps of fun. I'll be contacting the Hepburn Shire for precise insurance requirements (though the space is shire owned and they already have insurance). Jo said I probably need to think about other sorts of activities, and the tennis courts are pretty close, but a tennis tournament seems a bit lame! I'll be talking to the committee next week and see what they think. I suppose publicity is next...although it seems that there is a fair bit of word of mouth among the kite flying enthusiasts! Liz

Hi, I am involved with the Dean Recreation Reserve and as part of reinvigorating the Dean Community I thought it would be a good idea to hold a kite festival. I'm not sure where to start, but I can tell you about Dean and my ideas. Dean is halfway between Ballarat and Daylesford, and is notoriously windy. They tried to put a wind farm on the hill up the road as it seemed to be a good spot according to the wind atlas. The Dean Recreation Reserve is a pretty exposed big oval (5 acres?) and I think it is a good spot to fly kites. I have scheduled the Kite festival for Sunday 15th of September. I have also got a $500 grant from the Hepburn Shire Council. I am thinking for this first festival, as it will become an annual event, to keep it pretty small, and not really sure about what else I want to do. I want kids 7-15? to make and assemble kites. I want everyone to learn about the history of kites. I want everyone to have a fun day flying kites. I've had a look at the Rosebud kite festival website and it all looks pretty full on, guest kiters from all over the world and stuff... Hoping you can help me figure out where to go with this plan. I would be happy to come down to Geelong and have a look at some point and talk with you or someone about it all. Cheers, Liz