Fly a Kite for Endangered Species Event
© Domenico D’Alessandro 2013
I am renewing this event on this day of September 15, 2017, as a broader global one for the environmental education community to participate in. Flying kites is one of the most loved and creative hobbies shared around the world. The Fly a Kite for Endangered Species event proposes to create a one-day event to promote awareness fo
r all endangered species on this planet. The goals are to foster environmental education and speak on behalf of those that can not as well as raise money for various chosen organizations working to protect them. This idea came to me as a participating artist in the Project Passenger Pigeon to commemorate the centennial of the death of Martha, the last of her species who died on September 1, 1914. As I was working on my particular artwork for the occasion it dawned on me that a large participatory event would generate more interest than any personal art piece. The aim is to have a world-wide coordinated event with shared photos and videos collected on the Fly a Kite for Endangered Species website. All kite organizations and art institutes are welcome to participate by sharing their4 commitment on this page. A special request of participation goes to school districts around the world to have children involved in this event. Once we reach sufficient numbers of participants a web page can be created to share the research, images, and artworks created by participants. The content of kite graphics and form should have a reference to endangered species from the region of participation. For schools - children can investigate a particular species of choice and create posters for display during the kite flying event. Teachers can decide whether the project be an individual or group undertaking. Selected posters will be posted on the Fly a Kite for Endangered Species website. If successful, the visual effects will be stunning: skies full of creative kites, rows of educational posters, new educational curricula for teachers, and a cultural uplifting commitment to saving biodiversity and species. There may be elements appropriate to political agendas at the neighborhood, civic, state and national levels. Parks districts and other organizations may also find value. Participants give permission for their material to be edited into a composite video of all the events and other forms of publication.
