Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
We often hear about the clinical and therapeutic applications of psychedelics at conferences and seminars. The recreational use is often left out of the conversation. This presentation delves into a fascinating history of countercultural festivals and gatherings and how these have impacted us culturally, politically and philosophically.
The Q&A to this presentation can be found on our channel by searching for "Psychedelic Communitas". This presentation took place at Breaking Convention; Here & Now on 20th April 2024 at Conway Hall, London, UK.
Speaker Bio:
Chiara Baldini is a raver, researcher and freelance curator from Florence (Italy). She has been the program curator of Boom Festival’s cultural area Liminal Village from 2014 to 2023. In 2015 and 2016 she set up and curated ConTent, the first cultural area in Fusion Festival, Germany. She has recently co-curated an anthology called “Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine”. She is currently a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, investigating the evolution of ecstatic rituals in ancient Greece and Rome. She has been living in Portugal for the past 13 years and she often plays as DJ Clandestina. @iamalwayschiara @dj__clandestina
Breaking Convention holds Europe's largest conference on psychedelic research. The inaugural conference took place in 2011. This particular edition occurred on 20th April 2024 at Conway Hall in London, UK.
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We often hear about the clinical and therapeutic applications of psychedelics at conferences and seminars. The recreational use is often left out of the conversation. This presentation delves into a fascinating history of countercultural festivals and gatherings and how these have impacted us culturally, politically and philosophically.
The Q&A to this presentation can be found on our channel by searching for "Psychedelic Communitas". This presentation took place at Breaking Convention; Here & Now on 20th April 2024 at Conway Hall, London, UK.
Speaker Bio:
Chiara Baldini is a raver, researcher and freelance curator from Florence (Italy). She has been the program curator of Boom Festival’s cultural area Liminal Village from 2014 to 2023. In 2015 and 2016 she set up and curated ConTent, the first cultural area in Fusion Festival, Germany. She has recently co-curated an anthology called “Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine”. She is currently a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, investigating the evolution of ecstatic rituals in ancient Greece and Rome. She has been living in Portugal for the past 13 years and she often plays as DJ Clandestina. @iamalwayschiara @dj__clandestina
Breaking Convention holds Europe's largest conference on psychedelic research. The inaugural conference took place in 2011. This particular edition occurred on 20th April 2024 at Conway Hall in London, UK.
As a registered charity and a small organisation, we try to keep our content as accessible as possible by providing our videos free of charge. If you can, please consider donating via our PayPal: paypal.me/breakingconventionuk
Our channel contains all of the videos of the talks from our past conferences, check out our channel and make sure to subscribe to keep updated when new videos are added.
To find out about future events, sign up to our newsletter: substack.com/profile/86674460-breaking-convention
