The Good Apocalypse Guide with Alex Evans

Tuesday April 29th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm

We have apocalypses all wrong. They can be much more hopeful, creative, empowering, energising and fruitful than the gloomy stories of collapse that we keep hearing about.

Hollywood tells us (incessantly) that apocalypses are catastrophes, plain and simple. Only rugged individuals survive. How to cope? Stock up on canned food and ammo.

Real apocalypses are much more interesting than that. Yes, they’re moments of extreme turbulence - but they can also be incubators for new futures, that bring out the best of us like nothing else. And while they can certainly lead to catastrophic breakdowns, they can also be times of extraordinary breakthrough.

So what tips the balance? In this talk, Alex Evans – author of the The Good Apocalypse Guide on Substack – will explore how our ancestors made sense of moments of cataclysm, why our mental and emotional states are so central to the kind of future we’ll inhabit, and why the ‘religion shaped hole’ in modern life matters most during apocalyptic times.

Alex is founder and executive director of Larger Us, a visiting professor at Newcastle University’s School of Arts and Cultures, a senior fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, and author of "The Myth Gap".

Alex's talk will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and discussion.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter. Food complimentary.

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