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What the Hand Is Holding:
Writing Now
11 April 7.30, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, SE1.
0870 401 8181/ 020 7960 4242; www.rfh.org.uk.
£9/ £6.50 concessions.
Readings by and discussion with John Berger, Geoff Dyer, Anne Michaels,
Timothy O’Grady and Michael Ondaatje. Moderated by Patrick Wright.
A Seventh Man: Migration
and Photography
12 April 6.30, Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7.
020 7584 8653; www.austria.org.uk/culture.
Free.
Panel with photographers Jean Mohr and Mehmet Emir and writer Timothy
O’Grady. Moderated by Asu Aksoy. See 17 May and exhibitions.
John Berger: a Telling Eye
13 April 6.00, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank,
SE1. 020 7452 3000; www.nationaltheatre.org.uk.
Free.
Panel with Jean Mohr, John Christie and Maggi Hambling on writer / artist
collaborations. Moderated by Geoff Dyer. See exhibitions.
John Berger: a Film and
Television Retrospective
14-30 April National Film Theatre. See films
for full listings.
A major presentation of John Berger’s work with the moving image.
Vanishing
Points
14-16 April 8.30, The Gymnasium, Kings Cross (beside entrance
to new St Pancras Station). Phone 020 8510 9786 for information and
booking or check back here later. £15 & £10. Email
here to notify us of your interest.
STOP PRESS
All performances of Vanishing Points are now SOLD OUT.
Commissioned especially for this season, an encounter with railways,
migration and memory. Written by John Berger and Anne Michaels. Directed
by Simon McBurney. In association with Complicite.
New commission supported by the Moose Foundation. See below and
leaflet for details.
Vanishing Points is a unique site-specific collaboration between
the writer and commentator John Berger, poet and novelist Anne Michaels
and theatre-maker Simon McBurney. Vanishing
Points takes its audience from the industrial to the metaphysical,
from the huge movements of globalisation to the interior pulses
of memory, and from the present to a past that still exists in
vibrant, essential traces.
Vanishing Points speaks of memories and hidden
histories, of arrivals and departures, of love and disappointments,
seeking with reflective urgency to bear witness to changes that
affect us all.
Vanishing Points takes place in the evocative
setting of the historic German Gymnasium, located in the capital
city’s largest transport nexus, Kings Cross and providing
a compelling backdrop to explore the event’s themes of immigration,
deportation and conflict. |
Yes
17 April 6.00, Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane,
SW2. 08707 550 062; www.picturehouses.co.uk.
Special preview of Sally Potter’s new feature, plus Q/A with the
director.
John Berger and Geoff Dyer
in Conversation
19 April 6.20, National Film Theatre. See films.
Titian: a Portrait
22 April 7.00, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s
Place,WC2. 020 7306 0055; www.npg.org.uk.
£5/£3 concessions.
STOP PRESS: THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
In this reading and slide presentation, John Berger and his daughter
Katya explore the meaning of Titian in art and their own relationship.
Caught Between Culture and
Commerce? Independent Film
& Television in the UK: a Discussion
26 April 6.20, National Film Theatre. See
films.
A Fortunate Man
26 April 7.30, Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building,
Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Rd, E1. Free but call 020
8510 9786 to reserve.
STOP PRESS: THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
An exploration of the book by John Berger and Jean Mohr about general
practice and social medicine. With writers Michael Rosen and Sukhdev
Sandhu and doctors Iona Heath, Patrick Hutt, Jane Simpson and Tony Calland.
Moderated by Gene Feder. See below and
leaflet for details.
“He never separates an illness from the total personality
of the patient—in this sense, he is the opposite of a specialist.
He does not believe in maintaining his imaginative distance; he
must come close enough to recognize the patient fully.”
An exploration, with invited speakers, of John
Berger and Jean Mohr’s unique text/image collaboration about
general practice and social medicine, a book full of empathy and
insight into doctoring and illness, which remains as timely and
relevant as when it was written, nearly 40 years ago.
The wide-ranging panel will consider how one
judges ‘goodness’ in a physician, the complex physician-patient
relationship, the physician’s place in the community and
the nature of contemporary medical practice.
The panel includes writers Michael Rosen
and Sukhdev Sandhu alongside doctors Iona Heath, Patrick Hutt,
Jane Simpson, Tony Calland and Gene Feder, and will include a
showing of the documentary drawn from the book. |
A Little Bit of Freedom
27 April 7.00, Goethe Institute, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition
Rd, SW7. 020 7596 4000; www.Goethe.de/london.
£3.
Screening of Turkish/German feature, directed by Yuksel Yavuz, about
African and Kurdish teenagers in Hamburg. Plus a discussion with the
director and Sukhdev Sandhu. See exhibitions.
To the Wedding
27 April 7.00, The London Lighthouse, Lancaster Rd,W11. 020
7792 1200; www.tht.org.uk.
Free.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
A discussion, inspired by John Berger’s novel, about responses
to HIV/AIDS, with Nick Partridge, Chief Executive of The Terrence Higgins
Trust, Consultant Physician Dr Jane Anderson and others.
My Beautiful
6 May 6.30, Purdy Hicks Gallery, 65 Hopton St, Bankside, SE1.
020 7401 9229. Phone 020 8510 9786 for information
and booking. Very limited capacity. £5. Email
here to notify us of your interest.
STOP PRESS: THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
A reading around Giacometti by John Berger, photographer Marc Trivier
and artist Yves Berger. See exhibitions.
Love is the Devil + I Could
Read the Sky
8 May Curzon Soho Cinema (see 17 April)
John Maybury’s imaginative biography of Francis Bacon will be
introduced by photographer Marc Trivier, who knew and photographed the
artist. I Could Read the Sky is adapted from Timothy O’Grady’s
book on the life and memory of an Irish migrant in London. It will be
introduced by director Nichola Bruce.
Goya’s Last Portrait
9 May 6.30, National Gallery,Trafalgar Square, WC2. 0870 990
8453;
www.nationalgallery.org.uk. £7/ £5 concessions (booking
fee).
A reading by John Berger and Nella Bielski from their drama on the Spanish
artist. With actor Lilo Baur.
The Look Exchanged: Considering
Animal Perception
10 May 7.00, ICA,The Mall, SW1. 020 7930 3647; www.ica.org.uk.
£8/ £6 concessions.
John Berger and Despina Chronopoulos in conversation about the human
response to the non-human, and vice-versa.With photographer James Mollison
presenting images from his book of primate portraits James and Other
Apes.
King: a Street Story and
Response
11-12 May 8.00, St George's Theatre, Tufnell Park Road, N7.
Entry by donation. Email
to notify us of your interest.
Cardboard
Citizens, the acclaimed homeless people’s theatre company,
present a scratch performance in reaction to influential writer John
Berger’s King, an anonymously published novel about homelessness
and displacement, narrated by a dog. Staged in a squatted venue in East
London, elements may include a live soundtrack performed by Cardboard
Citizens New Music Ensemble and a film made by a dog. See leaflet
for details.
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“I am mad
to try... I am mad to try to lead you to where we live.” |
And Our Faces, My Heart,
Brief as Photos
12 May 7.00, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, Bloomsbury,
WC1. 020 7269 9030; www.lrb.co.uk/lrbshop.
£4 non-LRB subscribers/ £3 subscribers.
Reading by John Berger to mark republication of his innovative book.
Refusing to Accept the Absurdity
of the World Picture Offered Us
13 May 7.30, A venue between Bank and Liverpool St. See below
for further information. £10 / £7.50 concessions.
Inspired by John Berger’s writings, social artists’ collective
Platform will explore capitalism and the nature of transnational corporations
in the heart of London’s Square Mile.
| Refusing to Accept the Absurdity
of the World Picture Offered Us is PLATFORM's contribution
to the John Berger season. Using his texts, both published and
unpublished, as points of departure we will explore the nature
of contemporary capitalism - specifically the transnational corporation
- looking through the lens of current PLATFORM projects (specifically
The Desk Killer, Gog & Magog and the Museum of the Corporation).
The piece will take place at 3 sites in the City of London between
Liverpool Street and Bank stations, and, by using the spoken word,
walks, video, poetry and still images, we will look at these questions
among others...
Why is there, in London, barely a trace of the most powerful corporation
the world has ever seen ?
What are the fables of Gog & Magog ?
How is it possible to kill from a desk, from a computer terminal
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How does consciousness begin to change ?
Date: Friday 13th May
Start time and place: 7.30pm at a location close
to Liverpool Street Station - you will receive a map and location
with your tickets.
Tickets: £10/£7.50 concs. Please
send cheques payable to "PLATFORM: London" to John Berger
Event, PLATFORM, 7 Horselydown Lane, Bermondsey, London SE1 2LN
(Please note these revised prices reflect the use of a new venue
on the event)
IMPORTANT NOTE: WE PLAN TO USE
AN E-TICKET SYSTEM AND WILL SEND TICKETS IN AN ELECTRONIC FORM
(PDF) VIA EMAIL FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD AND BRING TO THE EVENT. FOR
THOSE THAT PREFER A HARD COPY TICKET THROUGH THE POST, PLEASE
FORWARD YOUR ADDRESS DETAILS EITHER BY EMAIL TO info@platformlondon.org
or PHONE 020 7403 3738 AND INDICATE HOW MANY TICKETS YOU WOULD
LIKE. NUMBERS ARE LIMITED 65.
www.platformlondon.org
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new event
EMINE SEVGI ÖZDAMAR &
LATIFE TEKIN
AT BORDERS CHARING CROSS
READINGS BYJOHN BERGER
BORDERS CHARING CROSS ROAD
MONDAY 16 MAY AT 6:30PM
As part of the John Berger Season:
Here is Where We Meet (11 April – 18 May 2005),
we are delighted to welcome Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Latife
Tekin for a discussion of their books, extracts of which will
be read by John Berger.
Admission is FREE. To reserve a seat please call
Borders on 020 7836 9485.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar is a writer and an actress,
born in Turkey and living and working in Germany since 1976. She
is the author of Mother Tongue (Coach House Press, 1994) and Life
is a Caravanserai (Middlesex UP, 2000). Emine Sevgi Özdamar
received the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize in 1991 and the
Kleist Award in 2004.
Latife Tekin is one of Turkey's leading novelists.
Two of her novels are available in English, Berji Kristin: Tales
from the Garbage Hills (1996) and Dear Shameless Death (2000,
both published by Marion Boyars).
Praise for Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s
Life is a Caravanserai:
'Poet of the vanished, poet of the unsayable,
funny and terrible, Özdamar writes with a magnificent pride
such as the privileged have long since lost' – John Berger
‘A real social, moral and literary time-bomb.
NoTurkish writer – let alone a woman writer – has
ever written anything of the kind before. An extraordinary imagination’
– Juan Goytiloso
Praise for Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin:
'I have never read another book like this one.
And perhaps you haven't either... If you stay with it, you are
captured, you are forced to reside there, and the experience becomes
unforgettable' - John Berger.
If you have any other queries concerning this event
please contact Nick Panayiotou, Borders Charing Cross, Events
Co-ordinator, Tel 0207 836 9485 |
A Seventh Man:Then and Now
17 May 6.00, Institute of International Visual Arts 6-8 Standard
Place, Rivington St, Shoreditch, EC2. 020 7729 9616; www.iniva.org.
Free.
A discussion with writers Gary Younge, Letife Tekin, Moris Farhi, Emine
Sevgi Ozdamar (tbc) and Asu Aksoy. Moderated by Professor of Sociology,
Kevin Robins. See exhibitions.
John Berger and Simon McBurney
in Conversation
18 May 7.30, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, SE1. 08703 800
400; www.rfh.org.uk.
£8.50/ £6 concessions.
John Berger and theatre director McBurney of Complicite consider the
nature of creative collaborations.
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