The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025

John Berger-London-5 Jun 14-Pic Amarjit Chandan

To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf proposes this second The Shape Of A Pocket event to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments.

«The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.»

John Berger

Sunday May 11th – 4pm – 6:30pm 
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Highgate London N64BD

A committed line up of speakers, film, artists, musicians and performers will address Ways of Seeing : War and Peace. They include  Amir Amirani with extracts of his 2003 film We Are Many, Anne Aylor reading from her novel on the Spanish Civil War. Sally Davies and Martina Schwarz vocals and accordion. Peter Kennard on Berger and art. Poetry from Gilles Madan and Kevin Omosele,  Extract from Richard Bradbury’s new play Regarding Shelley.

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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.