# Event Details

- **Event Name**: John Berger at 100 | Book launch: "John Berger: From Life" | Tom Overton
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 09:30 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Gareth Evans will be in conversation with Tom Overton, author of this new biography of John Berger.About this EventPart of Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to his birthplace, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France. Sometimes, while cataloguing this, Tom would email John about a piece of work. Then there’d come a call: ‘This is John. John Berger. Can I tell you a story?’ Tom realised he was bringing this archive back into John’s life, resurrecting his memories. And then, at the beginning of 2017, John died.In this extraordinary new book, Overton explores the life and work of one of the great cultural figures of the last century, who came of age in a world threatened by nuclear apocalypse, and grew old in a world dominated by the idea that human life should be ordered by profit. Berger’s work reimagined the relationship between art and technology; charted migrant labour and the disappearance of peasants from the world; explored the AIDS crisis; was trenchantly opposed to the War on Terror and passionately committed to the Palestinian cause.Cutting through reverence and drawing on both personal memory and a vast and previously unseen trove of material, Overton comes face to face with John Berger, showing the continued importance of a thinker whose work focused on communities past and present.Tom Overton: after cataloguing John Berger’s archive at the British Library, Tom Overton spent 15 years following its traces from Moscow to Texas, from the Alps to Istanbul. He worked with Berger on editing Portraits: John Berger on Artists and Landscapes: John Berger on Art, with Matthew Harle on The Underground Sea: John Berger on Miners and the Miners’ Strike, and with Katya Berger on a forthcoming edition of Berger’s letters. He’s written for The Guardian, New Statesman, Frieze and London Review of Books and Paris Review blogs, works as the Archive Curator of the Barbican Centre, and lives in Sheffield (https://overton.tw/).A bookstall will be available at this event, provided by Burley Fisher Books.The writer John Berger was born 100 years ago this 5th November at 1 Filey Avenue, Stoke Newington. The author of more than 60 books, a Booker Prize-winner, filmmaker and artist, he is one of the most influential and loved writers of our times.Gareth Evans is a Hackney-based writer, editor, film / event producer, creative consultant and host / presenter. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates / hosts their 'Screen at Home' series (garethevans.org.uk/).John Berger image credit: Wikimedia Commons, user Ji-Elle, shared under license 3.0.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/john-berger-at-100-book-launch-john-berger-from-life-tom-overton/100002000638619968
- **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Nonprofit, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
  - Location: Newington Green Meeting House
  - Languages: English

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 7.21, max: 9.38, currency: GBP

## Event venue details

- **city**: London
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Newington Green Meeting House
- **lat**: 51.5521931
- **long**: -0.0849287
- **full address**: Newington Green Meeting House, 39A Newington Green, London, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is John Berger at 100 | Book launch: "John Berger: From Life" | Tom Overton being held?
  - **A:** John Berger at 100 | Book launch: "John Berger: From Life" | Tom Overton takes place on Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 09:30 pm at Newington Green Meeting House, 39A Newington Green, London, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing John Berger at 100 | Book launch: "John Berger: From Life" | Tom Overton?
  - **A:** John Berger at 100 | Book launch: "John Berger: From Life" | Tom Overton is organized by Newington Green Meeting House.

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