Annual Berkeley Kite Festival Canceled After 3-Decade Run

CBS San Francisco

August 1, 2022

For more than 30 years, the last weekend of July was reserved for the Berkeley Kite Festival -- a free, annual event that drew thousands of spectators. Now, the festival has been canceled for budgetary reasons and organizers and the public aren't happy about it.

As a young man in 1986, Tom McAlister loved kites so much, he opened a mobile kite store called Highline Kites in the parking lot of Cesar Chavez Park next to the Berkeley Marina.

"I thought, if I'm going to try to make a living sharing my passion for kites ... then I needed to do something to give back to the community," he said.

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