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DIEPPE INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL

The programme and the village

From 13 to 21 September 2025: 9 days of shows, culture and creativity!
Every day, the Festival rocks the skies and the seafront of Dieppe with a rich and eclectic programme.

Click here to find out more about the highlights, concerts, shows, exhibitions and events taking place during the Festival. The daily programme of kite demonstrations will be communicated on a day-by-day basis, depending on the weather. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow our social networks to make sure you don’t miss a thing!

🗓️ Highlights by day
  • Saturday 13 September
    • 🎶 All afternoon: Wargasound – Participatory strolling concert
    • 🎷 2pm and 4pm: Jazz workshops(Main stage)
    • 🎤 3pm: Official opening(Central Floor)
    • 🌬️ 3pm: Guided tour “Breeze of history: Dieppe and the winds” RDV in front of the Tourist Office – €4.50 to €6.50 – Booking recommended on 02 35 06 62 79
    • 🎪 6pm: Circus show “L’Avis Bidon” – Dieppe Scène Nationale (Plancher central)
      In an atmosphere that is both burlesque and poetic, this duo of acrobatic clowns light-heartedly revisits serious discourse on ecology and sustainable development. Cans, dustbins and recycled props become partners in a joyful, visual and participatory production.
    • 🎧 7.30pm: DJ Apache – Festive and dance set(Stage)
  • Sunday 14 September
    • 🎷 2pm and 4pm: Jazz workshops(Stage)
    • 🎶 3pm: Wargasound – Strolling concert
    • 🎹 6pm: Concert by Stéphano Maghenzani – Vocal jazz and piano (Stage)
    • 🎧 19h : DJ Apache – Festive and dance set (Stage)
  • Monday 15th September
    • 🎸 6-8pm: Concert by Po’ Boy and the Haddock – Energetic blues-rock with a Cajun flavour (Stage)
  • Tuesday 16th September
    • 🎶 6-8pm: Concert Guitario – Trio dieppois mixing jazz, latino and swing (Stage)
    • 🎬 8.30pm: Open-air cinema: “Sirocco et le Royaume des Courants d’Air” (Beach volleyball court or Casino if it rains)
      An imaginative fable depicting the dreamlike adventures of two little girls. An animated film for all ages from 5 upwards, running time 1 hour 20 minutes.
  • Wednesday 17th September
    • 🌬️ 3pm: Guided tour “The four elements” RDV espace DVAH place Louis Vitet – €4.50 to €6.50 – Booking recommended on 02 35 06 62 79
    • 🎸 18h-20h: Concert Air West – Soaring, atmospheric pop (Stage)
  • Thursday 18 September

    🎤 6pm-8pm: Concert Tony – Text-based songs and festive rhythms (Stage)

  • Friday 19 September

    🎵 18h-20h: Concert OuiL – International pop and original compositions (Scène)

  • Saturday 20th September
    • 🪁 9am-12pm: Presentation of the “Asymmetrical Balance” creative competition and public vote (Pavillon Créatif)
    • 🎼 11am-12.30pm: Dieppe Concert Band(Pavillon Enfance)
    • 🎶 All afternoon: Wargasound – Musical promenade
    • 🪁 Afternoon: Creative Competition – technical flight tests(Creative Pavilion)
    • 🕺 2pm & 4pm: Hip-Hop Dance(Central Floor)
    • 🎷 3pm & 5pm: Jazz workshops(Stage)
    • 🌬️ 4.30pm: Guided tour “Georges Braque’s birds” Musée de Dieppe (Château) – Free – Booking recommended on 02 35 06 61 99
    • 🎸 7-9.30pm: Concert Hot Slap – Explosive vintage rockabilly (Stage)
    • ✨ 10pm: Night Flight – Light show in the sky
  • Sunday 21 September
    • 🏁 10am: Grand Parade of kite flyers accompanied by “The Northmen Brass” and “Le Temps de Chanter” (departure Quai Henri IV – Grande Rue – arrival beach)
    • 🏆 3pm: Proclamation of the results of the creative competition (Pavillon Créatif)
    • 🎇 18h: Closing of the festival with luminous kites

📍 The Festival Village: a lively space full of surprises

The Festival Village, located on the seafront lawns, is open every day from 9am to 7pm. It’s made up of several themed pavilions where young and old alike can discover, learn, contemplate and create.

🪁 Aerial demonstrations

Every day, the sky becomes a stage for a show! Flights of giant bowls, commented choreographies, precision figures, giant kites, dragons, puppets… Demonstrations punctuate the days of the festival, with highlights throughout the week.

🐉 Asia Pavilion

Chinese dragons, kinetic kites, mythological Indonesian puppets, Thai vibrators… Don’t miss the simultaneous flight of 10 dragons, a European record!

🖼️ Exhibition pavilion

Discover the works of two international artists:

  • Maurizio Cenci (Italy), a wind sculptor with asymmetrical and poetic creations
  • Kadek Dwi Armika (Bali), an architect of the air who blends Balinese traditions with contemporary reinvention.

A plunge into theaesthetics of imbalance and lightness.

📷 Aerophotography Pavilion

Les Yeux du Vent exhibition: 40 spectacular aerial photos captured by kite. Introduction to aerial photography workshop: take to the skies with your smartphone!

🪁 Historical Pavilion

A journey through the history of the kite, between traditions, scientific uses and ancient or contemporarymasterpieces. With the participation of collectors, craftsmen and enthusiasts.

🧒 Children’s pavilion

7 creative workshops open to schoolchildren during the week and to families at weekends. Make kites, windmills, flying objects, aerial photography… Every child goes home with their own creation!

🎨 Creative Pavilion – L’Atelier des Possibles

Meet the kite flyers at work, watch their creations in progress, chat with them. This is also where the Creative Competition on the theme Asymmetrical Balance takes place on the 2nd weekend.

✨ And much more to discover on site…

Between flights, let yourself be surprised by the poetic installations, strange creatures, strolling musicians, and even a clock dictated by the wind!

📚 Temporary library

Offered by the associations D’Lire and Lire et Faire Lire, with theexhibition “Un ciel, un monde” on the uses and symbolism of the kite in cultures around the world.

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