Melbourne Memorial Lecture : Over to you

Invitation with John Berger portrait to the Annual John Berger Lecture at the Greek Centre of Melbourne with Yves Berger and Isaac Klotz Wednesday 27th of September 2023

The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. Yves in Quincy and Isaac in Melbourne will read OVER TO YOU extracts. Multigenerational and worldwide dialogue, to make resonate John and Yves’ post card chat.
John and Yves Berger OVER TO YOU is already available in French, Korean, Turkish and Spanish, in English in 2024.

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2022 Video : Annual John Berger Memorial Lecture presented by Behrouz Boochani : https://www.greekcommunity.com.au/events/the-annual-john-berger-memorial-lecture-by-behrouz-boochani

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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.