What is a kite arch?
What is a kite arch?
Colour The Wind!
Join us for an afternoon of learning and art making with our Community Kite Arch! The activity will kick off with a talk about the talented professional kite artists we have attend the SaskPower Windscape Kite festival every year plus info about different types of kites and how they work. Participants will then get to add their own art to a kite skin provided by Windscape which will be added to our community arch and flown every year at the festival. Each $50 gets you one kite skin to decorate yourself or with friends and family and is a donation to help keep the kite festival flying. Each attendee does not need to purchase a ticket if they are sharing a kite.
Join us at The Swift Current Museum on Saturday, Feb 28 from 1-4pm.
What is a kite arch? Read on to find out!
In this photo is one of the festival's 100-kite arches. That means 100 kites are sewn together on a braided dacron kite line, tip to tip, with both ends of the line anchored to the ground. This forms an arch shape when the kite skins catch the wind! SaskPower Windscape Kite Festival previously had 2 arches, both sewn and flown by Keely Williams of Pennant, Sask. This one is safety orange for our sponsor, SaskPower! The kites are 2 feet across and have 2 feet of empty line between them, making each arch 400 feet long! (Not including the extra anchor lines of 50 feet each of course). Keely thanks our fabulous support team and summer students who help deploy and pack up the arches each year. 200 kites is a lot to wrangle!
Our two arches are visible as the backdrop to Quad Squad North West, seen flying here at the 2022 festival. The blue, white, yellow, and green arch was made to commemorate the City of Swift Current's centennial in 2014 and the orange arch was made for our title sponsor SaskPower in 2015. They have been flown at every festival since. You can see another arch across the bottom right of this photo and you may have seen other arches flying at the festival. These have been made by Windscape regulars Dorothy Guch, Andrei Chichak, Debbie David, Brian David, and more fabulous kite artists like in the below shots from Windscape 2018 and 2019. 
Now we're making another one, and you're invited to be part of it! 
Deploying our first kite additions at the 2025 festival!
Our 2025 festival kicked off with many excellent designs from our community. We have more white kite skin blanks and we want YOU to come and decorate one! The new finished community art project will be flown every year at the festival, including the 2026 festival.All supplies will be included, just bring yourself and some inspiration.Yes, your ticket to Colour The Wind includes your own kite to colour and add to the Legacy Kite Arch — but let’s talk about what else you’re really getting:🌟 A chance to be part of something bigger than yourself🎨 Space to play, create, and reconnect with wonder💨 A full afternoon of sky-filled beauty and community vibes👨👩👧👦 Memories with your kids, friends, or family that you’ll talk about for years💛 And the joy of seeing your kite flying proudly at our SaskPower Windscape Kite Festival - now and in years to comeThis isn’t just a ticket. It’s an invitation to create legacy. Whether you're young or young-at-heart, experienced or not, this day is for you. Let’s make art that flies!
