Embroidery and knitting gathering for Palestine

Date: 18.06.2025
Time: 17:00-20:00
Host: Strikking for Palestina



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Welcome to an embroidery and knitting gathering at Bergen Assembly!

This evening, you have the opportunity to take part in assembling "Sharp Stitches for Jens", where we have embroidered the words from Rafaat al Areer's final poem "If I Must Die" along with borders of Palestinian embroidery, which will be put together into a kite to be presented to Jens Stoltenberg as a protest against the Oil Fund continuing to invest in companies that contribute to the occupation and the genocide taking place in Gaza. We will tell you more about this project, and some information is also provided below.

We will serve food from Palestine and cakes with coffee/tea.

This evening, you can also participate in knitting squares for a solidarity blanket with a heart for Palestine, newborn knits to be sent to Palestine and Lebanon, or other solidarity knitting. We have materials available, and the knitting and crocheting are simple. Feel free to bring knitting needles size 3 – 3.5 mm or crochet hooks size 2.5 – 3.5 mm. If you have baby yarn in various colors or wool yarn in red, white, green, and black that you would like to donate for solidarity knitting for the Handala – the Palestine shop, you are welcome to bring it. Extra equipment and yarn are available for everyone who wants to contribute to the solidarity blanket. If anyone has newborn knitwear that can be sent to Lebanon and Palestine, you are welcome to bring it to the gathering or deliver it to the Handala shop.

About Sharp Stitches for Jens:
As a collective action, we have embroidered the words of Rafaat al Areer's final poem "If I Must Die", and we have embroidered patterns with deep roots in Palestine. These will be assembled into a kite that will be presented to Jens Stoltenberg as a protest against the Oil Fund continuing to invest in companies that contribute to the occupation and the genocide taking place in Gaza.
We are more than sad – we are angry! Stoltenberg holds the key. He and the rest of the government are not doing what they can to prevent the genocide in Gaza.

Behind Sharp Stitches are: Solidarity Knitting in Bergen, Palestine Shop in Bergen, Handala, Friends of Handala, and Norwegian People's Aid Women's Network Bergen.

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This event is free and open to all. 

The Bergen Assembly office is universally accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral.

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