In 2010 the festival moved to another homestead, located on the other shore side of the Idanha-a-Nova lake, allowing the festival to further develop conceptually 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. Between 20, 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 2002 the festival moved to the shores of the Idanha-a-Nova lake. It also marked the arrival of a whole new generation to the global psychedelic scene that converged to Portugal to celebrate Boom. It was a life-changing moment not only for the festival with the introduction of new areas such a brand new conference area, new music areas, to name just a few. The last edition of the festival in the now-mythical forest of Herdade do Zambujal was in 2000. Each edition helped steer the festival towards new concepts within psychedelic music and culture. Thus giving birth to Boom’s first edition in August 1997.īoom’s second edition took place in 1998, and from then on the festival started taking place every two years. They introduced the psychedelic movement in Portugal in the early 1990s, with regular parties in a forest and in 1997 decided to organise a festival which would bring together the Goa trancers from across the world. The festival was born out of a group of friends who wanted to bring the vibe of the Goa parties to Portugal. The beach on the banks of Marechal Carmona Dam reservoir.
The 13th edition of Boom Festival took place on 22 July - 29 July 2022 with The Anthropocene as its main theme, after being rescheduled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the course of two decades, the festival has honoured themes such as Water (2010) Alchemy (2012) The Feminine (2014) Shamanism (2016) and Sacred Geometry in 2018. The festival has won several green festival international awards since 2008. 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. It is renowned as a leading example of sustainability oriented festival.īoom’s Environmental Paradigm has gained a reputation for its hand-on, fusionist, experimental approach for large scale gatherings. Today, Boom is a festival that gathers people from all around the globe (in 2018, 147 countries were represented) that resonate with the mantra words of the festival such as Oneness, Music, Peace, Arts, Environment, Culture and Love. The only exception being Boom 2023 which is also the first ever consecutive edition, taking place during waxing crescent moon and with the theme "Radical Love".īorn 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. The Boom Festival is a biennial transformational, multidisciplinary, psychedelic and sustainable festival that happens every two years in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. Transformational festival, Psychedelic, Psytrance, Arts, Culture, Visionary art, Psytechno, World Music, Downtempo, Electronica, Chill-Outįull Moon (July or August) and New Moon of July 2022 Our Hyro-Fire Boom and American Fireboom proved to be the most successful.People dancing at the Dance Temple, Boom Festival 2012 Over 400 burns were conducted using several different models of fire boom.
During the DeepWater Horizon response, 219,000 to 309,000 barrels of oil were estimated to have been removed from the marine environment in these controlled burns. Elastec was mentioned across the country on news casts both on local and national levels.Ĭontrolled burning is a valuable response tool that can eliminate large volumes of oil. On June 18th, 2010, an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 barrels of oil were removed from the marine environment. By the time the well was capped, over 400 burns were conducted, with some lasting up to 12 hours in duration. Many of our patented water-cooled fire-resistant oil booms operated with great success, reducing the shoreline impact. The Elastec Hydro-Fire® Boom system was proven “in anger” in multiple controlled burns during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Elastec fire-resistant booms have undergone rigorous testing by organizations such as OHMSETT, SUPSALV and U.S. It is a complete system, comprising of 500 ft / 150 m of boom on a powered reel with an integrated air blower, hoses, towing equipment, power pack, and two high-capacity water pumps. Hydro-Fire® Boom is a proven inflatable fire boom.
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