*ONLINE* Bloomsbury Festival: Awakening to Crisis Futures – Are You ‘Prepping’ for Apocalypse?

** At the time of announcement this is an ONLINE only event — however, subject to future government guidance, Conway Hall and Bloomsbury Festival may make physical tickets available. If this becomes possible we will announce it here, and existing ticket holders will be contacted directly. Please register for an online ticket using the “Book Now” link **

** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. **

Preppers aim to survive a range of possible crises by reducing their dependency on perceived vulnerable systems. They have been subject to societal and media ridicule for holding dark visions of apocalyptic futures and for seeing crisis as immanent in the everyday. But then came 2020, bringing fire, locust plagues, a pandemic and social unrest. Have we been ‘awakened’ to the future as catastrophe, had our ‘eyes opened’ to our proximity to crisis, been offered a ‘glimpse’ of an apocalypse to come? And, as our survival is made to be an individual responsibility, achievable by making choices according to our ‘common sense’ or ‘instinct’, are we all preppers now?

A talk with Dr Kezia Barker from Birkbeck, University of London

FREE – but pre-booking is essential