Origin story

The founding members of Apocalypse Pre-Drinks found each other in early 2025 through a collective frustration. The world was feeling particularly fucky, and while the common denominator always came down to capitalism, spaces to discuss genuine alternatives did not seem to exist.

Where were the discussions about the damages? The true costs of capitalism? To humanity, humanness, and biosphere - that place called Earth where we all live, and on which the entire economy is based? Where can we safely talk about how we feel about what we’ve lost, all the things we still stand to lose - perhaps the things we still stand to save? We know there are alternatives, but how could we ever implement them when this system is benefitting those who control the economy? How can we take action when we ourselves have been programmed on capitalism? Indeed:

→ It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

But then we thought: “what if we really tried?”. What if we filled rooms with good people: citizens and experts: researchers, artists, activists and solutionists, and crowd-sourced post-capitalist imaginaries, alternative economics, and community care? Not in an academic vacuum, but as something approachable, joyous but urgent and most of all: human.

“It’s not the end of the world, it’s just an end of an era.”

Objectives

Make a safe space for naming our fears, grief and even rage of witnessing inequality and injustice. A space for grounding ourselves in care, courage, joy and a collective imagination.

Foster a deeper understanding of the mechanics, limitations and impacts of the status quo (i.a. late capitalism), and illuminate the alternatives for a world rooted in equity, care, and climate justice.

Connect people with the others: tools, and shared visions to support long-term, system-shifting action. Create network and community: ripples that become waves.

Community is both the starting point and the outcome. It is the mycelial network that sustains us, links our efforts, and ensures that what begins in one room continues beyond it.

Space

Knowledge

Action

Community