Boom Festival 2008
Boom Festival is held in Portugal every two years, on the shores of a lake. It started in 1997 with a handful of enthusiasts in Portugal and grew into a unique gathering of people from all over the world. Boom is an independent culture and artistic expression event. It crosses different art forms like music, paint, graffiti, multimedia, installations, land art, theatre, cinema, or video art. Besides a huge line up based on arts, Boom has a cultural hub inside it, with conferences, workshops, fine arts gallery and presentations. Altogether there are about 400 artists in every edition of the Boom Festival. There's a full multidisciplinary atmosphere within the venue. But that's not all.Boom is also an intercultural event. Boom is represented worldwide in 47 countries with a network of 115 Boom Ambassadors. People come from all over the world to experience a unique gathering, in 2006 there were 20,000 people from 80 different countries (data taken from the ticket sales registration). An intergenerational crowd maximizes this unique blend of people, where you see elders and youths, families and youngsters. A main trait of Boom is independence. There are no-corporate logos in the venue – they are forbidden by the organization. There is no product placement and no marketing within the festival. The Boom Team strongly defends a new culture of entertainment, where people – not brand satisfaction – are in the first place. In this way the revenues come from the ticket sales.The new culture of entertainment that Boom advocates is also manifested in worldwide pioneer projects on ecological awareness. There is recycling; plastics are not allowed; there's a Eco-Team working all day long; most of the materials are reused from other events; there are compost toilets; and the water used in Boom is cleaned by cutting-edge biotechnologies based on aquatic plants.
Entertainment is not just about having fun, it's about giving solutions to the people.
Photo Gallery:
http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2008/multimedia/photo_gallery.php
