Boom Festival

The Boom Festival is a biennial festival that occurs every two years in Portugal. The festival features music, paint, sculpture, video art, installations cinema, theater and a concept of crosspollination of different art forms. The first Boom Festival happened in 1997 with a large influence on electronic music, but nowadays Boom is a multidisciplinary event [Trancer's Guide to the Galaxy [http://www.trancersguide.com/countries/portugal/portugal.html] ] [Maps - Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies [http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v13n1/13137kar.html] ] [Parties and Festivals [http://www.parties-n-festivals.com/rec/10-BOOM-06-Festival-2006/] ] .

Principles

Its main focus seems to be developing a sustainability ethos alongside a wide array of arts and culture line up. The Boom is known worldwide for its no corporative approach on entertainment.

One of the noble aspects of this festival is to be multi-cultural [Zuvuya [http://www.zuvuya.net/sites/raveon/boom2002/english/story.htm] ] . The Boom has a vast worldwide network of ambassadors and attracts audiences of all continents. This causes a contact between people of different cultural matrices, therefore encouraging the overthrow of inter-ethnic stereotypes.

As opposed to what is current on this kind of festivals, Boom festival does not rely on any commercial sponsor. The objective is not only to keep the precinct free of any visual pollution as well as defend the public against any marketing strategy,although this is generally considered a good strategy some think that this should be compromised in order to ease the ticket prices.

elf Sustainability

In 2004, Boom started to develop a series of projects in order to become environmentally self-sustainable [Trancer's Guide to the Galaxy [http://www.trancersguide.com/countries/portugal/portugal.html] ] . These include the development of toilets that don't use chemical products, treatment of residual waters by the usage of biotechnology, utilization of wind and solar energy, recycling and the free supply of cleaning kits to participants (including pocket ashtrays and rubbish bags).

Past Editions

* [http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2006/index.html 2006] - in Idanha-a-Nova
* [http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2004_flash.html 2004] - in Idanha-a-Nova
* [http://www.boomfestival.org/archiv/boom02/frameset.htm 2002] - in Idanha-a-Nova
* [http://www.boomfestival.org/archiv/boom00/content/frameset_home.htm 2000] - in Herdade do Zambujal
* [http://www.boomfestival.org/archiv/boom98/index.html 1998] - in Herdade do Zambujal
* [http://www.boomfestival.org/archiv/boom97/index.html 1997] - in Herdade do Zambujal, near Águas de Moura

References

External links

* [http://www.boomfestival.org Boom Festival official website]
* [http://www.symbolika.com/gallery/photos/festivals Boom festival photo gallery @ symbolika.com]