One Sky One World
Ommen
At this small-scale festival, various kite artists from home and sometimes abroad come to release their, mostly homemade, kites to promote world peace. This year we are going to attempt to drop 80 small white parachutes using the kite, children can also bring their stuffed animal for this purpose.
- 12 October
- Ommen
The kites have a personal message to promote world peace, equality and brotherhood regardless of race, status or religion. Using the multi-cultural symbol of the kite and the Ocean of the sky that we all share creates recognition and freedom.
Riks Siemons himself has been participating in World Peace Kite Days "One Sky One World" since 1985. He calls world peace a noble endeavor and finds it a beautiful expression to contribute a feather to it through the kites.
Space Art Foundation is initiator of the only Kite Museum in the Netherlands (since 2012) and organizer of One Sky One World in Ommen. Through this event, he hopes that people become more aware of the kite's contribution to culture, history, art and science. Siemons has been kiting since his early childhood and now has a whole Museum full of kites, mostly homemade and with kites from international (guest) exhibitors. Also on display is the largest kite stamp collection in Europe and of course real kites from around the world with the oldest specimens being bird kites made of cotton from 1910.
The Space Art Foundation celebrates this year its 25th anniversary of which 12.5 years Kite Museum.