The Metro: The Detroit Kite Festival soars high above Belle Isle this summer
“Last year, I described it as a block party in the sky,” Kite Festival Director Lex Draper Garcia Bey told The Metro.
Detroit Kite Festival
The Detroit Kite Festival returns to Belle Isle for its eighth year. The event takes place near the James Scott Memorial Fountain, on Sunday, July 12.
Besides an entry fee to the island, the Detroit kite festival will be free. Some activities include book nooks, music, bubble therapy as well as tents for cooling off and making a kite.
The Mint Artists Guild will be celebrating a ten year anniversary by hosting a Joy and Faces booth for complimentary face painting and crafts. They spent the last decade training and paying young adults from Detroit in the arts.
Lex Draper Garcia Bey is a fourth generation Detroiter and director of the Kite Festival. She’s also a co-executive director of the Black Bottoms Archive.
She became director of the Kite Festival after the founder had to step back. “I couldn’t stand the thought of me going to my absolute favorite festival and it feeling boring to me,” Draper Garcia Bey said.
She joined The Metro to chat about her experience with whimsy as she supports the event alongside volunteers.
Hear the full conversation using the media player above.
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