Kite Festival

Celebrate spring and kick off the season at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s beloved annual Kite Festival!

Watch your kite soar above the city skyline – this is the one day of the year you can fly a kite at Brooklyn Bridge Park! Decorate your own free kite to take home (while supplies last), borrow a kite to fly, or bring your own to show off!

Enjoy live music, crafts, games, and activities from local partners at this family-friendly event. Learn and celebrate global origins of kite flying and kite making from international community partners.

Activities include:

• Stop by Brooklyn Museum on Wheels on-site activation which will translate the movement, flight, and material innovation of their Iris van Herpen exhibition into a hands-on experience.
• Decorate your own kite to take home with Private Picassos and Magic Mesita (while supplies last)
• Park Slope Parents bring their giant magical bubbles!
• Free face painting by Melinda’s Face Painting (first come, first serve; one facepaint per child)
• Brooklyn Book Bodega will be giving away books at our reading nook on the turf. Take a book home, or sit down to take a break and read
• Learn about the science of flight with STEM activities by NORY
• Learn and make your own Indian art using rice powder and flower petals with The India Center
• Take part in a Guatemalan community kite-making workshop with Ixmucane Artisan
• Kite-building and kite-flying instruction from Women for Afghan Women
• Watch and learn from professional kite flyers on-site including Glenn Davidson
• Enjoy live group drumming performances from BKSteppers to open the festival and midday!
• Enjoy a variety of lawn games on the field
• Live music by Brooklyn funk, R&B, alt rock, indie-pop fusion band The Deep Pockets

Partners, activities, and times subject to change.