Adventure Club is post-apocalyptic revolutionary logistics training.
I created Adventure Club with friends and had monthly adventures between 2003 and 2008.
Think of Adventure Club as radical skill-share. Anything from extreme hide and seek to urban squatting to billboard liberation to clandestine activism.
We are building new traditions and rituals. Adventure Club is fundamentally meaningful, giving people intellectual and emotional tools they need to survive in the world. AC actions always have a training element, are always physical, and are completed in a single night (or day). AC is not merely fun and pranks, but that’s often part of it.
During Adventure Club you may be asked to go beyond the limits of what you may consider safe and comfortable, and sometimes beyond the limits of what is strictly legal.Think of it like this: if the world were to go to hell tomorrow, if we were to further descend into a jackbooted fascist police state or post-soviet era chaos – or if we create our new world full of music and dancing and wilderness – what skills would you wish you had?
Here are just some of the ideas we’ve either done or considered for Adventure Club:
- Billboard Repurposing
- Extreme Hide-and-Seek
- Wheatpasting
- Surveillance
- Evading Security
- Living in the Woods
- Urban Camping
- Road Blockades
- Climbing barbwire & other barriers
- Trainhopping
- Tracking
- Storytelling
- Disguises
- Singing
- Climbing Buildings
- Guerilla Gardening
- Watching Clouds
- Stenciling
- Brazen Square-dancing
- Evasion
Adventure Club was a direct precursor to our Santa Cruz Free Skool project.
Adventure Club wheatpasted Starbucks stores all over San Francisco that claimed they had closed the stores as part of their Corporate Responsibility Initiative 
Adventure Club wheatpasted Starbucks stores all over San Francisco that claimed they had closed the stores as part of their Corporate Responsibility Initiative 
Adventure Club wheatpasted Starbucks stores all over San Francisco that claimed they had closed the stores as part of their Corporate Responsibility Initiative 
A Case for Corporate Downsizing, Starbucks. Adventure Club shut down 13 Starbucks in San Francisco, 2003 
Adventure Club training included billboard libration as part of support for San Francisco’s Reclaim the Streets 
Artist Eric Drooker created art that prefigured another world that was possible. 
Artist Eric Drooker provided some of the evocative inspiration for Adventure Club 
Adventure Club included stencil and graffiti workshops 
Artist Eric Drooker provided some of the evocative inspiration for Adventure Club 
Eric Drooker, artist of the resistance 
Adventure Club produced civic awareness posters are part of anti-war activities in the early 2000s 
Artist Eric Drooker throughout the early 2000s created work that inspired the project. 
Artist Eric Drooker throughout the early 2000s created work that inspired the project. 
Brazen Square Dance 
Artist Eric Drooker provided some of the evocative inspiration for Adventure Club
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