{"id":776134,"date":"2026-05-06T01:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:04:19","slug":"lets-fly-kites-at-a-free-festival-a-sweet-spring-party-with-a-dtla-backdrop-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776134\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s fly kites at a free festival, a sweet spring party with a DTLA backdrop \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<\/p>\n<ul class=\"what-to-know__list\">\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Clockshop&#8217;s Kite Festival<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">LA State Historic Park<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Saturday, May 9 from 2 to 6 p.m.<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Free<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clockshop.org\/project\/clockshops-kite-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP<\/a> at the festival site and register for the Handcrafted Kite Competition, too<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Kite-making workshops, kite contests, music, and dancing are on the schedule<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">&#8220;Take a Breath&#8221; is the 2026 theme; think of it as &#8220;a celebration of the wind that lifts our kites, the open sky above this park, and the air that connects us all.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Springtime could be considered, at least in the poetically fanciful sense, to be the time of year when nature breathes a little. That breath is the breeze, the soft sorts of sweet winds that flutter petals and gently pass through blossoming tree branches.<\/p>\n<p>It makes beautiful sense that a large springtime kite event would adopt this breathy spirit as a theme, focusing on the chance to pause, fly a kite, and &#8220;Take a Breath,&#8221; which is just the spring-fun opportunity many of us are searching for.<\/p>\n<p>Breezes, breath-taking, and beauty will combine at Los Angeles State Historic Park May 9 when <a href=\"https:\/\/clockshop.org\/project\/clockshops-kite-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clockshop&#8217;s Kite Festival<\/a>, an annual pay-nothing celebration, takes flight from 2 to 6 o&#8217;clock.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s free to join but <a href=\"https:\/\/clockshop.org\/project\/clockshops-kite-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be sure to RSVP<\/a> and let organizers know you&#8217;ll be there.<\/p>\n<p>While sending your kite up, up, and up even further at the scenic space, which boasts a wonderful and dramatic backdrop of Downtown Los Angeles, is a lovely draw, so are the workshops devoted to artmaking and kite-creation.<\/p>\n<p>There are kite-focused showdowns, too, with handmade kites competing for &#8220;Best in Show&#8221; (so make yours colorful, weird, and\/or eye-catching).<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;new inflatable sculpture&#8221; from artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader will be part of the uplifting whimsy of the afternoon \u2014 &#8220;communication and language&#8221; are the inspirations \u2014 artist Francisco Ramos will present a &#8220;Guatemalan barrilete-style commission reflecting on the meditative quality of our park spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Music, the chance to burnish your cumbia techniques, and a playful spirit will rule. <\/p>\n<p>Clockshop, an art and culture nonprofit, has presented this effervescent event for some time now, all to bring the community together in a pretty space, on a pretty spring day, for creativity, joy, and, yes, a little breath-taking beauty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take a Breath&#8221; now and sign up to join the Handcrafted Kite Competition <a href=\"https:\/\/clockshop.org\/project\/clockshops-kite-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at this site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to Know Clockshop&#8217;s Kite Festival LA State Historic Park Saturday, May 9 from 2 to 6 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1034,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-776134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-art-and-culture","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}