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June 2009 - Newsletter

Boom Dates Revealed

The dates of the 8th edition of Boom Festival due to occur in 2010 are revealed. August 18th to the 26th in sync with the full moon. The Boom Team is now in a brainstorming stage. We are evaluating all areas of the festival with a strong conviction for improvement. The main guidelines for 2010 are set and the whole concept and cultural approach are materializing. All updates will be revealed through the Boom website: www.boomfestival.org

We’ve been hearing crazy rumours for years but they are all wrong. Sorry dudes! That Boom was about to move to Brazil was the first rumour that cropped up – we estimate around 2002.

Then in 2004, a new gossip was going on: Boom would be held in Spain. More recently, we’ve been getting emails from people that want to book their flights to the beautiful and astonishing Azores archipelago as apparently the next Boom will be there. Noooop...
We make it clear from now on: Boom is geographically based in Portugal but is a collaborative project made by people from all around the world - Europeans, Northern and Southern Americans, Asians and Africans, or Aussies. Unless someone finds us a way of holding it on a psychedelic spaceship that would cross dimensions, we’ll stay here on the same latitude, in this laid-back country on the Western side of Europe, on the verge of Europe, Africa and the American continent.

No more than 26 000 people will attend Boom Festival 2010. No more tickets, as we don’t want to become an overcrowded and mainstream festival. We are already planning better infrastructures for the comfort of all the Boomers, where space and cosiness will be felt.

We’ll upgrade our music and art program, line ups will be released sooner than in previous years, and we’ll emphasize new facilities on the sanitary and ecological level. Ways of dealing with the entrance is another concern we are faced with and which we are now thinking about how to improve so that people don’t have to wait for so long to get in.
Similarly to some of you, we felt some of the magic lost due to overcrowding and we are working towards the revival of the spirit that was always felt at Boom… Keep updated through the Boom website.

Mindstream 04, Sally Doolally mixes the Boom Radio Podcast

What do the artists listen to when they are in the mood? This month UK native-Germany based DJ, producer and Plastik Park label manager Sally Doolally (played at Boom 2002 and 2006) lets it all hang out because of Mindstream 04, the Boom Radio Podcast…

From July 1st-5th Sinergia Summer Camp is a blend of music, nature and a sense of holiday feeling at a friendly riverside campsite. This is a limited capacity event welcomed by the Boom Festival Team.
Sinergia Summer Camp is inspired by the musical crossovers held in the late 1970s and mid 1980s in places such as Detroit, Chicago, New York and Goa, where DJs were mixing records and tapes from different music styles in order to create new music.

Some of the artists to perform include Dimitri Nakov, Exercise One, Kox Box, John Phantasm, Paco Osuna, Emok, Antaro, Maxime Dangles, Ajja, Penta, Behind Blue Eyes, Banel, Kanio, Dick Trevor, or Expander will perform together.
This is an open air event that aims to bring back the cross-pollination and the diversity on the dance floor: you can listen to techno, trance or progressive in the same place, live concerts and ambient music in another, all being played to the same crowd.
There is Sinergic Floor (dance floor with fusion of electronic music), Comfy Nest (stage for concerts and DJ sets of ambient, funk, dub, experimental, reggae, dubstep, DVJ sessions, to name just a few) and a Healing Area by the shores of the river.
There is a river beach, camping areas, showers, restaurants and a magical forest in Portugal. More importantly, this is a summer camp limited to 3000 people. Yes, we are tired of overcrowding as well. So, forget fundamentalisms and embrace other influences!
More info: http://www.sinergia-summercamp.org.

Ecuador passed a revolutionary constitution that granted rights to nature. Months have passed and there have been no repercussions on both the mainstream media and in western world societies on a breakthrough law as important as the human rights.

In 1948, the UN defined our rights as humans. Sixty years later, in September 2008, Ecuador was the first country to give rights to nature in the constitution.
The constitution included an article that granted nature the right to “exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution” and granted legal standing to any person to defend this in court.
There were five articles acknowledging rights said to be possessed by nature, or “Pachamama,” a goddess revered by indigenous Andean peoples, whose name roughly translates as “Mother Earth.”

Chapter: Rights for Nature

Art. 1. Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.
Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognition of rights for nature before public institutions. The application and interpretation of these rights will follow the related principles established in the Constitution.

Art. 2. Nature has the right to an integral restoration. This integral restoration is independent of the obligation of natural and juridical persons or the State to indemnify the people and the collectives that depend on the natural systems.
In case of severe or permanent environmental impact, including that caused by the exploitation of non renewable natural resources, the State will establish the most efficient mechanisms for restoration, and will adopt adequate measures to eliminate or mitigate the harmful environmental consequences.

Art. 3. The State will motivate natural and juridical persons as well as collectives to protect nature; it will promote respect towards all the elements that form an ecosystem.

Art. 4. The State will apply precaution and restriction measures in all the activities that can lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of the ecosystems or the permanent alteration of the natural cycles.
The introduction of organisms and organic and inorganic material that can alter the national genetic heritage in a definitive way is prohibited.

Art. 5. The persons, people, communities and nationalities will have the right to benefit from the environment and from natural wealth that will allow wellbeing.
The environmental services cannot be appropriated; their production, provision, use and exploitation, will be regulated by the State.
The concept that nature itself can possess rights runs counter to the classical liberal theories of government that hold sway throughout much of the West and view rights as something that only individual human beings possess.
Ecuador has reminded us of the fundamental truth that the earth came before us and will very likely outlast us.
This nation has showed us how to reorganize our political institutions in a way that may just come in time to give civilization a chance of maintaining nature and giving it its own right for preservation. Hopefully this constitution will find echoes all over the planet, where we all breathe the oxygen provided by Pachamama.

More Info:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/ecuador-constitution-grants-nature-rights/
http://www.pachamama.org
http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/ecuadors-constitution-gives-rights-to-nature/