Lectures




  • Melbourne Memorial Lecture : Over to you

    Sep 27 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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  • The Shape Of A Pocket events

    Apr 04 2024

    To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf and Tina Grace launch a series of bi-annual The Shape Of A Pocket events to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments. This name is inspired by John Berger’s book of essays The Shape of a Pocket, published in 2001, including the text “Against the Great Defeat of the World” mentioning a piece of the puzzle which « has the shape of a pocket, and consists of all …
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  • Lecture: Over To You

    Nov 15 2024

    Yves Berger and Ariane Gülich joined Point Reyes Books, Californian bookshop, via Zoom on 15th of November 2024 for a reading and conversation about Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son (2024, Pantheon), a book of correspondence between Yves Berger and his father John Berger.
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    2025, Ariane and Yves portraits by each other © John Berger Estate
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  • The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025

    Apr 28 2025

    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 …
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  • Portraits Italian lectures

    Nov 05 2021

    After Italian edition of Portraits (Ritratti, Il Saggiatore) and for John Berger’s 95th birthday, Maria Nadotti proposed an ambitious project : « Per John B. Ritratti d’artista ad alta voce » with Okta Film production. She gathered 30 actors to read aloud 30 portraits of artists written by John Berger. All these readings can be listened to online and each actor will also explain his/her artistic choice and his…
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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.