Fossil-free Activities Club

Date: 21.05.2025
Time: 17:00
Host: Fossil-free Activities Club



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What: Come to Bergen Assembly for a delicious soup dinner! Everything is donation-based and vegan (In case of additional allergies, message us!)

Who: All who want to be rooted in a community working towards climate justice are welcome. Recharge, get to know one another, and get excited about organizing - all with a good bowl of soup!

How: Soup! is a mutual aid project, meaning it runs on voluntary, collaborative efforts. Right now, we're in need of people who want to help prep food, even if that's only once every-other-month. Message us if that could be you! Being a mutual aid project also means all profits are for sustaining Soup! and meeting the community's needs.

Optional: Join Scientist Rebellion's or Folk Mot Fossilmakta's open weekly meeting taking place before soup (kl.17-18.30), or stay for tea/cake and various community activities after soup (from kl.19.30)! 

ACCESSIBILITY
Bergen Assembly is accessible from street level by a small, 1 meter wide ramp, and has accessible toilet facilities. The door-opening of this accessible toilet is 90 cm wide. Bergen Assembly’s toilet facilities are open to all genders.The nearest bus stop ‘Nygaten’ is less than 100 meter away from Bergen Assembly. However, bus stops ‘Torget’ and ‘Festplassen’ as well as light rail stops ‘Byparken’ and ‘Kaigaten’ are all approximately 400 meters away. Bergen Assembly does not have designated parking available, but drop-offs are possible. Service dogs are welcome!

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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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FMV Book Club: 'Three Apples Fell from the Sky' by Narine Abgaryan 

Date: 26.05.2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Host: Female Minority Voices



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Welcome to May’s FMV Book Club meeting!

May's Book Pick: Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan.

About the book:
An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village.

In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate.

As they go about their daily lives – harvesting crops, making baklava, tidying houses – the villagers sustain one another through good times and bad. But sometimes all it takes is a spark of romance to turn life on its head, and a plot to bring two of Maran's most stubbornly single residents together soon gives the village something new to gossip about...

Three Apples Fell from the Sky is an enchanting fable that brilliantly captures the idiosyncrasy of a small community. Sparkling with sumptuous imagery and warm humour, this is a vibrant tale of resilience, bravery and the miracle of everyday friendship.


Special Offer:
Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti can help you order the book through Norli Strandgaten bookstore.

To use this offer, send an email until the 13th of April to femaleminorityvoices@gmail.com with your full name and contact information.

Rodolfo will share your details with the bookstore, and you’ll be notified when your copy is ready for pick-up (payment directly at the store).


Haven't read the book? Come anyway!
Our meetings are about meaningful conversations inspired by the book's themes. Feel free to read up on the topic and join us for great discussions—and bring a friend!

Join our book club here.

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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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FMV Book Club: 'Under the Udala Trees' by Chinelo Okparanta 

Date: 30.06.2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Host: Female Minority Voices



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Welcome to June’s FMV Book Club meeting, celebrating Pride Month!

June's Book Pick: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.

About the book:
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.

As Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age, Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are also wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. This story offers a glimmer of hope — a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.


Special Offer:
Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti can help you order the book through Norli Strandgaten bookstore.

To use this offer, send an email until the 18th of May to femaleminorityvoices@gmail.com with your full name and contact information.

Rodolfo will share your details with the bookstore, and you’ll be notified when your copy is ready for pick-up (payment directly at the store).


Haven't read the book? Come anyway!
Our meetings are about meaningful conversations inspired by the book's themes. Feel free to read up on the topic and join us for great discussions—and bring a friend!

Join our book club here.

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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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