Boom Festival
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Boom Festival logo | |
People dancing at the Dance Temple, Boom Festival 2012 | |
| Genre | Transformational festival, psychedelic, psytrance, arts, culture, visionary art, psytechno, world music, downtempo, electronica, chill-out |
| Date | July or August. |
| Frequency | Biennial |
| Locations | Boomland, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Previous event | 17–25 July 2025 |
| Website | www |
The Boom Festival is an international transformational festival in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.
Starting 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.
Boom Festival gathers people from all around the globe (in 2018, 147 countries were represented) and is a fully independent festival.
Boom's has gained a reputation for its environmentalist hand-on, fusionist, experimental approach for large-scale gatherings. 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. The festival has won several green festival international awards since 2008.
Over the course of two decades, the festival has had themes such as Water (2010); Alchemy (2012); The Feminine (2014); Shamanism (2016) and Sacred Geometry in 2018.
The 13th edition of Boom Festival took place on 22–29 July 2022 with The Anthropocene as its main theme, after being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.