"BOOM FESTIVAL"

The Boom Festival is a biennial event held in visionary culture of Portugal during the full moon in August. It started in 1997 as a musical event, but evolved throughout their editions to a celebration of alternative culture. The Boom is now a multidisciplinary festival, transgenerational and intercultural. It is a multidisciplinary event because it crosses several artistic currents, such as painting, sculpture, land art, interactive installations, music, video art, gallery art or graffiti. The artistic proposals are complemented by a large poster of conferences, workshops, presentations and Tertulia with themes such as alternative methods of science, Astrobiology, visionary culture, ancient cultures, spirituality, gnosticism, anthropology, psychology of consciousness, paganism or emotional intelligence. The Boom is establishing itself as a transgenerational to have a public that is not restricted to only a layer age. Participants at the Boom Not only are young - as is prerogative of any summer festival - before there is a wide age range of children, adults and even a faction of the public with more than 50 years. This diversity is achieved through artistic and cultural vanguard proposals that emphasize not only the hedonism but also knowledge. One of the noble aspects of this festival is being intercultural. The Boom has a wide global network of ambassadors and attracts audiences from all continents. This causes a contact between people of different cultural matrix, which interact well surrounded by arts and culture can narrow differences and lack of other ethnic groups - encouraging the overthrow of inter-ethnic stereotypes. One of the particularities of Boom is its independence from the trading system. Indeed, contrary to what happens in the world of entertainment, the festival does not accept any commercial sponsorship, in order to keep their space free of visual pollution arising from logos, the ethics of Boom is based on a climate of contact with nature where the public is protected from any marketing strategy. In 2004, the Boom began to develop projects to become fully self-sustaining, so as not to contaminate the nature and education for ecological awareness. In these practices include the development of bathrooms that do not use chemicals, the water treatment of the festival through biotechnology, the use of solar and wind energy, recycling, the space Organization of the Boom accordance with the principles of permaculture: and free supply of kits for cleaning the participants (of pocket ashtrays and bags of garbage).

For more information see the website of the Festival:
www.boomfestival.org