John Berger: Here Is Where We Meet

Here Is Where We Meet was the first event of its kind, a six-week season designed around the work of the internationally influential writer John Berger to explore and celebrate cultural collaboration and creative / political commitment. Coinciding with the publication of Berger's then latest work of fiction, also called Here Is Where We Meet, the season took in readings, performances, discussions, originally commissioned site-specific work and the first ever retrospective of Berger’s prolific body of work in film and television. Major venues taking part included the South Bank Centre, National Film Theatre, National Gallery, Clore Gallery at the National Theatre, Tate Britain and other sites across London.

Through John Berger's work and that of fellow artists and writers such as Geoff Dyer, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Michaels and Simon McBurney, Here Is Where We Meet explored what writing is for, what it can and cannot do, and whether it has a future as a tool of shared purpose, as an agent of the common good in societies increasingly fragmented and wary of collective causes and claims.