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segunda-feira, junho 29, 2009
segunda-feira, maio 18, 2009
quinta-feira, janeiro 22, 2009
Boom Festival launches DVD
Boom Festival launches DVD
“We Are All” is a DVD edition featuring some of the highlights that make Boom a unique worldwide event.
At the beginning of 2008 Boom Festival released a book. Now, after its August 2008 edition, Boom launches another independent culture piece, this time in the form of a DVD. This unique worldwide event received The Greener Festival Award 2008 and the additional merit prize “Outstanding”, awarded to only eight events worldwide.
The “We Are All” DVD is about Boom Festival 2008. It consists of two documentaries, one short film and more than ten Boom Web TV journalistic pieces. The “We Are All” DVD is a numbered and limited edition. It will however be distributed all over the world through a network of specialist shops, either through the Web or at traditional and cultural retail shops.
One of the documentaries (also called “We Are All”) is a 55 minute long portrait of Boom´s public, artistic areas, multidisciplinary aspects and multiculturalism, as well as the sustainability projects of Boom´s 2008 edition.
“Boom Doing It” is a documental perspective on facts and episodes that took place during Boom 2008´s construction phase. It is a humane and sincere view about what goes on during the production of Boom Festival.
The DVD also contains Boom Web TV press pieces exploring contemporary activist content or specific Boom related issues such as the project “Your Oil is Music” or Boom´s reutilization of Rock in Rio materials.
Lastly, the French film producers Marc Roberts and Hervé Jakubowlcz created the short film “A Quiet Place” as a kind of satiric take on the dance experience at Boom Festival. This duo has been part of the production team of unique films such as “Munique”, “Babel” or “Asterix at the Olympics”.
This DVD is Boom´s most recent contribution to independent, intercultural and multidisciplinary culture, with a focus on cutting edge environmentally sustainable practices.
A truly unique edition.
For more information please visit the Boom 2008 DVD web page.
http://www.boomfestival.org/
quinta-feira, novembro 13, 2008
Boom Festival: Winner Of The Greener Festival Award 2008
Boom Wins The Greener Festival Award 2008
Boom Festival won The Greener Festival Award 2008. Boom’s environmentally sustainable projects were recognized by an international jury that rewards festivals for their efforts to promote environmentally friendly events.
The award is based on a questionnaire which covers event management, travel and transport plans, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, fair trade, waste management and recycling, water management and noise pollution. Points are awarded for festivals which can show an active plan to promote public transport, reduce on-site waste, recycle and compost wherever possible, re-use water and use sustainable power.
Festivals are expected to have a coherent environmental policy and the organisers have environmental auditors who visit as many festival sites as possible to assess how festivals implement their plans. In total, thirty one festivals have won the award.
Just six festivals - including Boom Festival – further received the ultimate distinction of ‘outstanding’ from the organisers.
We thank all those who contributed to this award by demonstrating environmental citizenship while at Boom Festival. This prize belongs to all of us!
Here are some of the facts that contributed to Boom’s distinction:
- 20,000 portable ashtrays were given at the gates;
- 45.000 litres of used vegetable oil were used, avoiding the emission of 117.000 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere;
- 200.000 litres of water were intentionally evaporated – meaning that not even a liter of water used in Boom showers went to waste;
- 1 million 200 thousand litres of water are being stored in a man made lake for treatment with aquatic plants such as Typha sp, Eichornia sp or Azolla sp;
- 106.5 cubic metres of excrements did not need to be transferred to the local water treatment station for chemical based processing;
- 42.000 kg of organic waste were collected from the 17 restaurants at Boom and are currently undergoing a composting process;
- In six months time, about 20.000 kg of compost should become available for use as an organic agricultural fertilizer;
- 59.000 kg of human excrements were taken from the compost toilets and will also be treated through a worm based composting process resulting in about 30.000 kg of organic compost;
- Materials from other events (Rock in Rio Lisbon and the Amadora International Comic Strip Festival) were collected and re-used by Boom: in total 6 456 kg of plastic, 8 950 kg of metals, 77 kg of paper and 36 822 kg of wood were re-used, resulting in the non-emission of 167.04 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere;
- Around 3.000 people used the Boom Bus (Boom's public transport service).
The award is based on a questionnaire which covers event management, travel and transport plans, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, fair trade, waste management and recycling, water management and noise pollution. Points are awarded for festivals which can show an active plan to promote public transport, reduce on-site waste, recycle and compost wherever possible, re-use water and use sustainable power.
Festivals are expected to have a coherent environmental policy and the organisers have environmental auditors who visit as many festival sites as possible to assess how festivals implement their plans. In total, thirty one festivals have won the award.
Just six festivals - including Boom Festival – further received the ultimate distinction of ‘outstanding’ from the organisers.
We thank all those who contributed to this award by demonstrating environmental citizenship while at Boom Festival. This prize belongs to all of us!
Here are some of the facts that contributed to Boom’s distinction:
- 20,000 portable ashtrays were given at the gates;
- 45.000 litres of used vegetable oil were used, avoiding the emission of 117.000 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere;
- 200.000 litres of water were intentionally evaporated – meaning that not even a liter of water used in Boom showers went to waste;
- 1 million 200 thousand litres of water are being stored in a man made lake for treatment with aquatic plants such as Typha sp, Eichornia sp or Azolla sp;
- 106.5 cubic metres of excrements did not need to be transferred to the local water treatment station for chemical based processing;
- 42.000 kg of organic waste were collected from the 17 restaurants at Boom and are currently undergoing a composting process;
- In six months time, about 20.000 kg of compost should become available for use as an organic agricultural fertilizer;
- 59.000 kg of human excrements were taken from the compost toilets and will also be treated through a worm based composting process resulting in about 30.000 kg of organic compost;
- Materials from other events (Rock in Rio Lisbon and the Amadora International Comic Strip Festival) were collected and re-used by Boom: in total 6 456 kg of plastic, 8 950 kg of metals, 77 kg of paper and 36 822 kg of wood were re-used, resulting in the non-emission of 167.04 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere;
- Around 3.000 people used the Boom Bus (Boom's public transport service).
More info: www.agreenerfestival.com
Neither MySpace Nor Facebook: Boom Is Not Into It
By now many of you might have visited a Boom Festival page on MySpace and you may even have written a post. It may be that you have also found Boom's name on Facebook. None of it is true: the pages you visited were not created by Boom Festival.
We are not fans of MySpace. We understand, however, that it is a very useful tool for artists, be they musicians, DJs or producers, to promote themselves. But Booms place on the Internet is just one, its official website (www.boomfestival.org), which is completely independent from all media corporations - MySpace belongs to News Corp, owned by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
This website has become an easy target for grand advertising campaigns and invasion of privacy. The links below will give you a better idea of why our answer to MySpace is "Thanks, but No Thanks".
Facebook is another example of a website that began with the intention of bringing people together but quickly became an ego obsessed tool, suppressing our natural need for human contact and conforming to being just fertile ground for mass corporate campaigns. Facebook is nothing but an ode to Generation Me or Generation Look at Me (children of the 80s and 90s). And these are our reasons for saying "No to Facebook".
The (funny) saying goes "Never Trust a Hippy". We'd like to upgrade that to: "Never Trust a Boom MySpace" or "Never Trust Boom's Facebook"...
We are not fans of MySpace. We understand, however, that it is a very useful tool for artists, be they musicians, DJs or producers, to promote themselves. But Booms place on the Internet is just one, its official website (www.boomfestival.org), which is completely independent from all media corporations - MySpace belongs to News Corp, owned by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
This website has become an easy target for grand advertising campaigns and invasion of privacy. The links below will give you a better idea of why our answer to MySpace is "Thanks, but No Thanks".
Facebook is another example of a website that began with the intention of bringing people together but quickly became an ego obsessed tool, suppressing our natural need for human contact and conforming to being just fertile ground for mass corporate campaigns. Facebook is nothing but an ode to Generation Me or Generation Look at Me (children of the 80s and 90s). And these are our reasons for saying "No to Facebook".
The (funny) saying goes "Never Trust a Hippy". We'd like to upgrade that to: "Never Trust a Boom MySpace" or "Never Trust Boom's Facebook"...
Read More To Understand Our Reasons:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/80/quit_facebook.html
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/77/facebook_suicide.html
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/73/The_Resistible_Rise_of_Rupert_Murdoch.html
http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/24/murdoch-myspace-tribune-tech-media-cz_pk_0126murdoch.html
quarta-feira, outubro 15, 2008
Boom Festival 2008 - Sacred Fire
sexta-feira, outubro 03, 2008
Boom Festival Newsletter - October
Autumn is slowly making its way here. After 25 000 people from 85 different countries met at Boom Festival 2008, its now time for renewal – of nature. Boom dismantling is coming to an end and soon everything will be just one great and beautiful memory. But not all will disappear – Boom Radio and Boom Web TV will bring you Boom Festival’s next episodes
Boom 2008 disappears piece by piece
Approximately 20 people are still working everyday at the Idanha-a-Nova lake. Tons of rubbish is being cleaned, structures are being dismantled, decorations put away, and soon the land may be returned to its natural cycles without human presence.
Because most constructions at Boom 2008 were made from organic materials, we see beautiful images unfolding everyday: now the cows are literally eating Boom 2008! The straw bale constructions have become food for these wonderful creatures.
Because most constructions at Boom 2008 were made from organic materials, we see beautiful images unfolding everyday: now the cows are literally eating Boom 2008! The straw bale constructions have become food for these wonderful creatures.
Podcasts From Boom Radio Available Online
Those who didn’t get a chance to tune into FM or listen to Boom Radio emissions through the Internet while at Boom, can do it now. All shows, reports and DJ sets, delicious hours of Boom Radio emissions are available on podcasts linked to the Boom website. This radio station is a cooperative project between Boom Festival and dozens of enthusiasts from all over the world. For more info click here.
Water Treatment in Full Swing On Site
All water from the showers is being recycled. Through our water treatment systems we managed to evaporate 200,000 liters of water from the showers. Now we have 1,200,000 liters of water waiting in a lake for further treatment based on aquatic plants as you can see in the photo. The plants are azolla sp, eichordia sp, lemna sp, typha sp, phragmites sp, juncos sp and cyperus sp. The water will be monitored by a local laboratory and within some months when clean, will be return to the source. This is Booms contribution for a new awareness of water recycling.
New Webisodes From The Boom Web TV
Boom Web Tv started around one year ago. Our Web TV station is both a way to promote Boom novelties and a medium to show new paradigms. We’re preparing new webisodes based on Boom 2008 that will be online until the end of 2008. Keep in sync with the independent media centre of Boom Festival by clicking here. If you want to participate with your own videocasts please contact us: press@boomfestival.org. The Boom Web TV is a citizen-based station. Feel free to join this worldwide network.
Listen
Get some of Boom Radio podcasts by clicking below. All shows are available online.
Anneli DJ Set.mp3
Laughing Buddha DJ Set.mp3
Skillatone dubstep set.mp3
Far to Loud.mp3
Chicago.mp3
Stand up comedy featuring Richard Pryor.mp3
Laughing Buddha DJ Set.mp3
Skillatone dubstep set.mp3
Far to Loud.mp3
Chicago.mp3
Stand up comedy featuring Richard Pryor.mp3
Boom 2008 News
Daily Dragon Available on Digital Edition
It's likely that you got it at Boom. If you don't, the Boom newspaper "Daily Dragon" is now available as a PDf version
Since 2002 Boom has been developing its own newspaper. The "Daily Dragon" is a platform for citizen journalists and the Boom Team to cooperate. The newspaper relates some of the Boom facts, the program and it's an insight into some of the festival dimensions.
In 2008 the "Daily Dragon" had three editions. You can now keep it as a memory of the Boom 2008, by downloading the newspaper in PDF format.
Download:
* Daily Dragon_Edition1.Pdf
* Daily Dragon_Edition2.Pdf
* Daily Dragon_Edition3.Pdf
TV - Boom Indie Media
Having independent media outlets is one of the singularities of Boom. We take a look at 'Daily Dragon', 'Pathways' and 'Boom Radio' on this webisode of the Boom Web TV.
quarta-feira, agosto 27, 2008
segunda-feira, agosto 18, 2008
Festival Boom volta em 2010
Uma semana depois de muita animação e de vários espectáculos multiculturais, milhares de pessoas de todo o Mundo, que participaram no Festival Boom, começaram ontem a abandonar a Barragem Marechal Carmona, em Idanha-a-Nova.De acordo com a GNR, muitos participantes começaram ontem de manhã a abandonar o recinto do espectáculo. "Estão a sair aos poucos, pelo que não provocaram grande congestionamento no trânsito", adiantou um elemento da GNR de Idanha-a-Nova.
A grande concentração de pessoas no recinto do Boom – onde estiveram 25 mil pessoas – e na zona envolvente da barragem – mais oito mil – levou a que o Centro de Saúde local tivesse grande movimento de utentes, vítimas de diarreia, vómitos e febre – patologias supostamente provocadas pelo calor e pelo uso de água não potável.
Eugénio Rodrigues, coordenador do Centro de Saúde de Idanha, refere que a unidade de saúde "deu boa resposta", salientando que o número de utentes foi idêntico ao de 2006. Os Blasted Mechanism encerraram a edição deste ano de um festival com características únicas e que regressa em 2010.
Correio da Manhã
terça-feira, agosto 12, 2008
Boom começa mal
Um afogamento e uma explosão de uma botija de gás, que causou três feridos ligeiros, marcaram as horas que antecederam o início da 7ª edição do Boom Festival, que ontem começou em Idanha-a-Nova.Pelas 09h00 de ontem, o corpo de um inglês, Dean Geral Lynch, de 32 anos, foi encontrado a boiar próximo de uma ilha, na Barragem Marechal Carmona. Dean Lynch viajou com um grupo de amigos para participar no Boom Festival, que decorre até segunda-feira, e terá morrido afogado.
No domingo, outro acidente manchara já o dia: três pessoas ficaram feridas pelo rebentamento de uma botija de gás de um fogão de campismo, num parque de estacionamento improvisado para receber as pessoas que iam chegando para o festival. As vítimas receberam assistência em Idanha-a-Nova e tiveram alta médica.
Nos últimos dias, as estradas para Idanha-a-Nova têm estado repletas de jovens, tendo-se adensado a multidão no dia de ontem. Quentin Lannon saiu de França, da Bretanha, com três amigos. 'Há imensa gente nas filas e nós demorámos duas horas para andar só 100 metros', referiu. No Boom Festival são esperadas entre 20 e 25 mil pessoas.
domingo, agosto 10, 2008
GNR e PJ fazem rusga no Boom Festival mas não encontram substâncias ilícitas
"O Boom Festival começou hoje com uma manhã diferente. Às 07h00 cerca de 60 elementos do departamento de investigação criminal da GNR e a PJ entraram no recinto do evento e, com viaturas e cães, fizera uma rusga ao local onde irá decorrer a sétima edição do festival, na Herdade do Torrão, em Idanha-a-Nova. O objectivo da mobilização foi encontrar alegadas substância ilícitas, o que acabou por não acontecer. (...)
“Esta operação vem desmistificar uma série de assunções que ligam directamente a organização do Boom Festival a situações associadas com substâncias ilegais. ..." "
Público
“Esta operação vem desmistificar uma série de assunções que ligam directamente a organização do Boom Festival a situações associadas com substâncias ilegais. ..." "
Público
sexta-feira, agosto 08, 2008
Boom 2008 Liminal Village - Confluence >> Panels@Welcome to Boom 2008!
Arts & Culture
Liminal Village
Confluence >> Panels
Panel discussion
What is Trance? The Past, Present and Future of Psytrance
This international panel draw on their varied backgrounds and interdisciplinary research projects to address the vexing question: “what is trance?” With insights from history, musicology, evolutionary biology and anthropology, speakers discuss the mythological background, evolutionary history, and socio-cultural dimensions of psytrance. The panel will be accompanied by stunning imagery and ambient soundscapes courtesy of Sergi Ad Dharma
Graham St. John (Australia)
Moderator
Chiara Baldini (Italy)
'Dancing With Gods: Historical and Mythological Roots of Trance Parties.'
Bel Belleza (Israel)
'A Theory of Trance-Cultural Evolution'
Charles de Ledesma (UK)
'Sonic Transcendence: Conversations Between Science and Trance States.'
Alex aka Soyouth (France)
'Psychedelic Trance Festivals as Modern Rituals?'
Luis Vasconcelos (Portugal)
'Mobilities at the Interstices of the Trance Festival'
Tickets Are Still Available
Despite the rumor: the Boom 2008 tickets are not sold out.
Boom 2008 News
03.August.2008
In the last two weeks we've been getting a lot of claims and doubts about Boom tickets. Most of the people were concerned about the lack of tickets to be sold at the gates. This rumor has been achieving a worldwide impact as there are e-mails and phone calls from Japan, USA and all Europe.
Boom Festival officially announces that there will be tickets at the gates. You can travel safely to Portugal as there will still be entrance tickets to get in to the 7th edition of the Boom Festival.
The phases for the pre-sale tickets are effectively finished, however there are tickets at the gates. Everyone can participate in this festival of independent culture and artistic expression.
The phases for the pre-sale tickets are effectively finished, however there are tickets at the gates. Everyone can participate in this festival of independent culture and artistic expression.
Boom 2008 News
07.August.2008
Urgent Warning: How to Get In Boom
If you’re a Boom eticket customer pay attention, important, how to get into Boom.
From January 1st until July 18th we provided the service of electronic Boom tickets.
Thousands of Boom participants purchased tickets online through our Boom Festival website, using the PayPal system.
Now we give you guidelines how to present your ticket at the gates in order for you to get in:
1. Look at your first email you got from us, Boom Festival, confirming your ticket. Please look at the image above so that you get the idea out.
2. Be sure that you have the text (confirming your Boom e-ticket and barcode) in the email. There is also an image from the ticket (but we don’t need this image).
3. Print out only the email. You don’t need to bring the image of the ticket. Yes, we know that is quite funny, but it’s an aesthetic thing.
For you to get into Boom, just present the email of your confirmation.
Be sure that you have the email only. Please bring it with you and present it at the gates.
http://www.boomfestival.org/
quinta-feira, agosto 07, 2008
Boom 2008 Liminal Village - Vision Gallery
Arts & Culture
Liminal Village - Vision Gallery
Vision Gallery: In:sights Exhibition
The Liminal Village presents the Vision Gallery. Reflecting the spirit of an art movement that transcends languages, cultures and borders, the In:sights Exhibition is a global collection of visionary art works celebrating the inspired imagination and reflecting the beauty of our world and of many worlds beyond.
Artists from around the planet include;
Europe
Laurence Caruana - www.lcaruana.com
Leo Plaw - www.leoplaw.com
Dennis Konstantin - www.denniskonstantin.com
Luminokaya - www.luminokaya.com
Brigid Marlin - www.brigidmarlin.com
South America
Pablo Amaringo
Isabela Hartz - www.stlawu.edu/gallery/ihartz.htm
Asia
Satoshi Sakamoto - www.myspace.com/maxoputer
Luke Brown - www.spectraleyes.com
Symbolika - www.symbolika.com
Oceania
Andy Thomas - www.android.net.au
Jarah Tree - www.jarahtree.com
North America
Roberto Venosa - www.venosa.com
Martina Hoffmann - www.martinahoffmann.com
Carey Thompson - www.galactivation.com
Simon Haiduk - www.symbiosonic.com
Victor Olenev - www.arthealing.com
Kathryne June - www.serpentfeathers.com
David Heskin - www.newskinstudio.com
Andrew Jones - www.androidjones.com
Xavi - www.myspace.com/artbyxavi
Nemo - www.r6xx.com
In addition the Vision Gallery will feature Europe's first ever visionary hologram exhibit courtesy of Laser Guided Visions - www.laserguidedvisions.com
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