The LBI FLY International Kite Festival features kites in many amazing and unusual shapes and designs that will amaze spectators. The festival – which takes place Friday through Monday of Columbus Day weekend – will include sport kite flying demonstrations and competitions (in which team and individual sport kite fliers fly kites to choreographed musical routines), as well as an indoor kite festival (featuring celebrity kite fliers who are highly skilled at flying kites in zero wind) and the Sunday night kite fly at Barnegat Light in which sport kite teams will fly in lighted formations as the single line kites shine and blink like brilliant stars in the sky. This year’s night fly will be choreographed to music.

Kids’ kite making activities are an important part of the LBI FLY Kite Festival. Thanks to expert kite makers from the South Jersey Kite Flyers Club, children can gather at Bayview Park in Brant Beach to learn how to make a sled kite which can be flown at the park or brought to the festival area to fly for the spectators.

The kite festival will also include a craft show, as well as music, entertainment and local food vendors.  Free LBI shuttle bus service will be available throughout the weekend.

Most activities at the LBI FLY International Kite Festival are free!
(There is a small fee of $2 per person for those over the age of 12 at the Friday Night Indoor Fly and the Sunday Night Fly.)

Learn more about the LBI FLY Kite Festival here!