Various kites fly in the sky during the Third Aspire International Kite Festival at Aspire Park, yesterday. More than 80 professional kite flyers are participating in the four-day event. All pictures: Salim Matramkot/The Peninsula
Doha: The third edition of Aspire International Kite Festival opened yesterday at Aspire Park with the participation of professional kite flyers from 18 countries.
Meanwhile, Ooredoo announced yesterday that it is the Official Sponsor of Aspire International Kite Festival.
Thousands of people including women and children gathered at the venue afternoon to enjoy the festival. Over 40,000 visitors and 500 students are expected to visit the four-day festival.
To attract the visitors various sites were set at the venue, including a weather dome for the workshops and student activities, wind garden with custom-made decorations, areas for the parade and entertainment, food trucks and kite shop.
“First time lit kites portraying contemporary designs from the East and the West are participating the festival,” Tahani Al Suwaidi a member of Aspire third International Kite Festival Organising Committee told The Peninsula. She said that the festival is being organised in two shifts in morning for school students and evening for general public.
The Aspire Zone Foundation received yesterday 200 students from government and private schools to the third edition of festival where they attended workshops on kite making.
The schools that participated during the first day of the festival, which ran from 9am to 12pm, were: Al Huda, Nusseibeh, and Al Israa Primary Independent Schools for Girls, Vision and GEMS international schools.
For the third consecutive year, the Secretary of the International ASEAN Kite Council, Gadis Widiyati, delivered the workshops and the training sessions. These aim to enhance the interest of kite making and kite flying amongst the citizens of Qatar by leveraging the expertise and inspirational stories of kiting experts from the region and abroad.
The organising committee of the festival organised a wide array of competitions with four award categories for students.
