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    Kite party brings splash of color to the sand and sky in Huntington Beach
    • March 10, 2025

    Whatever you do, don’t call it a festival.

    There’s no set schedule or events during the two-day gathering, warns Dave Shenkman, owner of Kite Connection on the Huntington Beach Pier and founder of the Kite Party event. Just some of the world’s best kite fliers, who come from around the world, hanging out for a party on the sand, kites in hand.

    “It’s just hang out, fly kites,” said Shenkman.

    Shenkman started the “gathering” 21 years ago when he asked on an online forum if people would show up if he could get a section of sand blocked off.

    Now, more than two decades later, it has become the go-to spot for the best kite flyers in the world to showcase their skills, some traveling from around the country and as far as the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and beyond.

    Shenkman caps the number of participants at 100, and each year the registration fills up, though casual kite flyers and spectators are welcome to partake in the fun outside of the sectioned areas.

    Beaches are some of the best places in the world, and most popular for kite festivals.

    “But there is only one kite party in the world, and this is it,” Shenkman said. “It has become world famous.”

     Orange County Register 

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