Chiara Baldini
Curator of the Boom Festival | Aljezur [PT]
Chiara Baldini is an independent researcher from Florence (Italy). She investigates the evolution of the ecstatic cult in the West, particularly in ancient Greece and Rome, contributing to anthologies, psychedelic culture conferences and festivals. She has been part of the curatorial team of Boom Festival’s cultural area Liminal Village since 2010 while she has also helped to set up and run ConTent, the first cultural area in Fusion Festival, Germany, in 2015 and 2016. Now she is back to Liminal Village as the program coordinator and she just co-curated an anthology called “Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine”. She lives in the Costa Vicentina in Portugal where she often plays as DJ Clandestina.
Her work was shown at Museumsquartier, Vienna (2019). She has spoken at conferences, such as Italy’s Science and Non-Duality (2019), London’s Breaking Convention (2013, 2015, 2019), Prague’s Beyond Psychedelics (2016) and the Soirée des Voyageurs in Berlin (2019).