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The Boom Festival is an international transformational festival in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.
Starting in 1997 in Herdade do Zambujal, Águas de Moura, Portugal as a goa trance psychedelic party, it has since then evolved into a global celebration of alternative culture.
Boom Festival gathers people from all around the globe (in 2018, 147 countries were represented) and is a fully independent festival.
Boom's has gained a reputation for its environmentalist hand-on, fusionist, experimental approach for large-scale gatherings. It is based on the following dimensions: art and creativity; water; air; soil; waste as a resource; public health; food and nutrition; engagement and social change; energy, mobility and transport; packaging; procurement and materials. The festival has won several green festival international awards since 2008.
Over the course of two decades, the festival has had themes such as Water (2010); Alchemy (2012); The Feminine (2014); Shamanism (2016) and Sacred Geometry in 2018.
The 13th edition of Boom Festival took place on 22–29 July 2022 with The Anthropocene as its main theme, after being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boom's second edition took place in 1998, and from then on the festival started taking place every two years. Each edition helped steer the festival towards new concepts within psychedelic music and culture.
The last edition of the festival in the forest of Herdade do Zambujal was in 2000 with the introduction of new areas such a new conference area and new music areas. It also marked the arrival of a whole new generation to the global psychedelic scene that converged to Portugal to celebrate Boom.
In 2002 the festival moved to the shores of the Idanha-a-Nova lake. Between 2002 and 2008, the festival started to develop not only a multidisciplinary vision of the psychedelic trance culture and beyond, but it also pioneered multiple sustainability and regeneration projects.
In 2010 the festival moved to the other shore side of the Idanha-a-Nova lake, allowing the festival to further develop and to launch the Boomland project: a permanent space for regeneration, inspired in free and independent cultural spaces, and which hosts sustainable events that aim at human transformation.
The Boom Festival 20 Years documentary (1997–2017) film sums up its origins, 11 editions of the festival and all the projects which emerged from its evolution over time. Psychedelia.
Where the rich musical lineage of Psychedelic Trance is celebrated.
Deep, hypnotic sounds and electronic music. Not an alternative floor, but rather another place of psychedelic music expression.
The Gardens (formerly known as the Chill Out Gardens) Chill Out music in all its forms provides the slo-mo soundtrack, both synthesised and hand-made, to this area. The surrounding hubs enhance this experience through workshops and therapies.
World music and hands-on workshops embedded into organic architecture and landscaping.
This is a nexus for countless Boomers to enjoy 20 hours of practice each day, including yoga, meditation, sound healing, shamanic rituals, oriental practice, alternative medicine and more.
Cultural hub featuring talks, discussion panels, Q&A's, workshops, and night-time cinema program under the name "Paradigm Films".
NGOs, collectives and individuals: underdogs of social change take to the stage with empowering eco-tech tools and projects.
Nata (dance) and Raja (king) is the Sanskrit reference to Hindu god Shiva. Experience rhythmic workshops by day and a program of contemporary dance performances by night.
Interactive playgrounds, workshops, performance art, cinema and theatre for the younger generation of Boomers and their families. A space in nature dedicated to children and youngsters aged 3 to 12.
Boomland is an open-air art gallery. Open air art and Boom's sustainability ethos form a symbiosis to educate participants in the most aesthetic way.
Performances at Boom happen all across the venue. In 2021, the program features immersive interventions, circus, dance and artistic residencies.
A meeting place, repair and workshop hub for bikers and bicycle enthusiasts.
A brand new concept for displaying visual arts across Boomland in 2021. Visionary art itself has been one of the core components of the festival since 2002, and Boom has contributed to its dissemination in festival culture. Following this era, the festival now explores the connection between art and its relation to the sacred and the Anthropocene, entering a new phase showcasing fine arts at Boom.
Cozy social areas equipped with community kitchens, first aid points, helpful stewards and activities for children and adults alike.
Boom is a reflection of its own participants. As a highly collaborative experience, it resonates with the principle of co-creation, to allow for a maximum of artistic freedom and expression. For this reason, the festival encourages anyone who wishes to contribute to apply via the official website.
In 2011, it won, for the second year in a row, the YOUROPE prize/Green 'N' Clean Festival of the Year in the Festival Awards Europe. As a result, the United Nations invited the organizing team to use the popularity of music as a means for raising public environmental awareness in a program called United Nations Music & Environmental Initiative (M&E). BOOM FESTIVAL INVITED BY THE UN
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