Zilker Park Kite Festival

Get Ready to Go Fly a Kite!

Hello all you anticipatory kite flyers! Only 4 more days till the 84th Kite Day in Austin! Time to start watching this space closely for news on how to make your first Sunday in March at Zilker the best ever. The Exchange Club of Austin wants to make sure all our wonderful sponsors are recognized first, though. We can’t fly Kites on Sunday, March 4th without them!

Big thanks go out to The Austin Diagnostic Clinic, who is sponsoring… Show more the Kite Clinic this year. If your your kite breaks, don’t panic, come on by the Kite Clinic next to the Kite Contest field and Dr. Don and his volunteers from Austin Diagnostic Clinic will help you fix that kite right up and get flying again.

Thank you to our friends at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld for sponsoring the free Water Stations this year. If you need to wet your whistle, just drop on by the Event Solutions water stations at Rock Island or down by the volleyball courts to fill your water bottle up for free. Didn’t bring your own bottle?…no worries, we’ll sell you a souvenir water bottle and you can quench your thirst and donate to local children’s charities all at the same time.

Don’t have a kite? Come over to the H-E-B Kite Making Tent on the southeast side of the Kite Contest field and make one for free. Our good friends at H-E-B have graciously donated their time, money, tent, and volunteers to make this important part of the Festival happen year after year. Thank’s H-E-B!

Want to try to win a kite? Come over to the Whole Earth Provisions Co. display on the west side of the field to enter the raffle for a kite and more. Whole Earth has graciously donated these items to help the Exchange Club raise money for the Pebble Project. Thanks Whole Earth!

The list just keeps going – all those businesses who love Austin, love Austin families, and want to keep one of the oldest free family events in the country going. Thanks to Silicon Labs, Austin Subaru, Culture Map of Austin, Culver’s, ParentWise Magazine, KLBJ News Radio, Bob FM, 107.1 La Z, YNN Your News Now. Thank you!

And going – Amy’s Ice Cream, Stratus Properties, Xerox, Clif Bar, Luke’s Locker, the Winkler Family Foundation, and the Zilker Neighborhood Foundation. Thank you, thank you!

Stay tuned : More posts coming soon about practical stuff like where to park, who are those folks in uniform, what can I eat, and all the other details that make an outing so much fun. Keep ‘em flying!

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