Boom Festival 2010

Boom became a huge playground for people to express themselves. During the day the majestic nature surpassed the visual domain and influenced the art works and at night a whole new world: the Boom Village. Light bulbs with artistic shapes, lasers, mutant installations, the moon pacing the rhythm, streets and restaurants in a Kasbah frenzy. The dialects between the day and night experiences were personified with the mutant art works that were spread all over the venue.
“If I can summarize it in one word I must say: wellbeing. That’s what those Boom editions were about, feeling good just because we were being”, recalls Jane Ashley, an American.

In both years Boom worked with a new theme: the environment. Together with the renowned Ecocentro IPEC from Brazil, the top Latin American Permaculture Institution, Boom made vast improvements in basic sanitation and water management, including dry toilets and biological water treatment. All rubbish was placed in recycle bins and every Boom participant was given a portable ashtray and rubbish bags at the gates.

Today Boom is a global phenomenon. In 2006, participants from 80 different countries made this an intercultural gathering where people met with no prejudice. It started as a music festival and became an intergenerational, interdisciplinary and intercultural gathering. The festival is more than entertainment; it’s an activist statement, linking new models of living based on a connection with nature, arts and culture. Celebrating the ideal of freedom, Boom is pioneering new paths for human beings to develop creatively. Human beings as one and all.


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