Kites Over The Mersey - Wirral Kite Festival

6th – 7th June 2009

The 'Dips' at New Brighton are again to be the venue for Wirral’s seventh annual Kite Festival, featuring award winning guest fliers from all over the country.

The event taking place from 11 am to 4.00pm is a two day event for all the family with a variety of spectacular show kites on display, including artistic kites, giant inflatable kites, sports kites and power kites. There will also be a kite-making workshop for all those have-a-go fliers! The cost for the Kite Making workshop will be £1.00.

in 2008 World Famous Kite Flyers attended including:

Bas Vreeswijk
Meg Albers
Robert Brassington
Peter Lynne
Ludovico Bertozzi
Wolfgang Shimmelpfennig
Godfrey Gamble
Malcolm Goodman
Dave Holt
Carl and James Robertshaw
Andrew Beattie
Karl Longbottom
Kite Collective
Sky Artists
John Dobson