Every spring since 2020, people from all over LA have come to a windy downtown park to make and fly kites at The Community & Unity People's Kite Festival. 

Jackson Roach is a freelance radio producer, and co-editor-in-chief of Signal Hill. They live in Chicago.

This story was reported, produced, and sound designed by Jackson. It was edited by Omar Etman, with help from Annie Rosenthal, Lio Wong, Liza Yeager, and the Issue One cohort.

Music in this story is from the Signal Hill music library, which (so far) includes original work by Clara E. Brill, J. Mamana, Ethan Philbrick and Jackson Roach.

Special thanks to Sue Bell Yank and Caroline Kanner at Clockshop, and to Stevie Choi.

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