The 20th Annual

Strawberry Fields Kite Festival

Sunday May 29th, 2011

South lawn - Regional Mental Health Care

St. Thomas, Ontario

Schedule of Events:

1:00 PM -

Opening Ceremonies & Mass Ascension of Kites.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A general fun fly for all, including many members of various kite clubs from southern Ontario

4:00 PM -

Presentation of Trophies & Closing Ceremonies.

Fun for Everyone:

  • Face Painting

  • Kite Making
  • Balloons
  • Craft Vendors
  • Refreshments of all kinds


Welcome

The Strawberry Fields Kite Festival is now in its twentieth year. This is an amazing anniversary for the little festival that could! We hope to have some special events to commemorate twenty years of kite festivals in St. Thomas.

If anyone has photos of any of the previous festivals (all the way back to the first one!) that they wish to share with us and everyone else, please let us know as soon as you can. We hope to have a display ready on festival day.

Kite fliers and kite watchers alike come to enjoy the activities on and above the largest (and best!) kite flying field in southwestern Ontario. The skies above St. Thomas will be filled with an amazing display of colourful kites and wind toys, as flyers from Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Niagara, Windsor and Detroit join local kite people in celebrating the joys of summer

Last year with the benefit of almost perfect weather our nineteenth festival enjoyed possibly our largest crowd of attenders ever with lots of great kites in the air! Thank you all for coming!

Plans are now being made to host the twentieth festival on the Sunday at Regional Mental Health Care - St. Thomas. We hope to have you all there with us!

How to find the Strawberry Fields Kite Festival

RMHC - St. Thomas is on the corner of Sunset Drive and John Wise Line.

To get there: take Hwy #401 to Wellington Road., then take Wellington Road south to St. Thomas (it ends at the Hwy #4 lights). Take Hwy #4 (Sunset Drive) south to the hospital site.

Contests & Awards

The Godzilla Award

This award will be presented to the Rokkaku Warrior who stomps the other kites as well as Godzilla stomped Mothra.

The Queen of Hearts Award

The kite flyer whose kite steals the hearts of the most people in the crowd (as measured by the ballots cast) will be awarded the Queen of Hearts.

The Strawberry Tart Award

The Strawberry Tart will go home with the sexiest object on the flying field, be it windsock, buggy, or kite flyer. Judge's choice and no explanations given.

The "Furthur" Award

The kite flyer who has travelled "further" than anyone else to be here will have this trophy to take home.

The Flying Circus Award

Creative kitemakers under the age of 12 are elegible. Most unique kite will take home this award.

Strawberry Patch Award

It takes a bunch of berries to make a patch, so this trophy goes to the biggest group effort in kitemaking.

Wind Garden Award

This award is for wind toys; socks, spinners, banners and inflatables. Plant your garden on the field and let it grow.