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Informational meeting about the March 8th initiative in Bergen
Date: 11.08.2025
Time: 17:00-19:00
Host: 8.mars i Bergen & Kvinnefestivalen i Bergen
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Wishing everyone some wonderful summer days!
The March 8th Initiative in Bergen invites you to an information meeting.
Have you, like many others, thought that the March 8th events in Bergen just suddenly appear downtown, and then discovered that it's actually a group of volunteer women who work for months to make it happen, and thought it might be fun to get involved?
Do you have questions about how the initiative works?
We hope you'll join us for an informal and non-committal information meeting where all questions - and all people - are welcome! You're also welcome to attend even if you don’t have any questions 🙂
Are you a proud feminist who believes that the fight for women's rights is important? Maybe you have something to contribute?
We’re looking for more passionate people to join our team, and we hope you’ll want to be a part of it.
We look forward to seeing you, and your friends, at the meeting!
This event is free and open to all.
The Bergen Assembly office is universally accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral.
Place
Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4
5017 Bergen
If you or your group are interested in using our office, contact us at:
events@bergenassembly.no
Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4
5017 Bergen
If you or your group are interested in using our office, contact us at:
events@bergenassembly.no
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FMV Book Club: 'River Spirit' by Leila Aboulela
Date: 25.08.2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Host: Female Minority Voices
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Welcome to August’s FMV Book Club meeting!
This month, we begin our fall season with a powerful novel set in 19th-century Sudan.
August’s Book Pick: River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
Genre: Historical Fiction
From: Sudan
About the book:
Set against the backdrop of Sudan’s Mahdist revolt, River Spirit follows a young woman named Akuany who is orphaned and enslaved during a time of upheaval. Taken in by a kind-hearted merchant, she soon finds herself swept into the tide of resistance and revolution.
As empires clash and faith becomes politicized, the novel explores themes of liberation, identity, religious conviction, and womanhood in a time of war. With lyrical prose and unforgettable characters, Aboulela gives voice to Sudanese women too often left out of historical narratives.
This is not only a story about survival — it's about belief, rebellion, and reclaiming one's place in a world determined to erase you.
About the author:
Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese-Egyptian writer raised in Khartoum. Her fiction centers Muslim and African women’s inner lives, and River Spirit is one of the few English-language novels to explore Sudanese history from a local and gendered perspective.
Why we chose it:
Sudan is currently experiencing one of the world’s most devastating — and underreported — humanitarian crises. This novel offers crucial historical context and emotional insight through the lens of a girl-turned-woman living through revolution.
Haven’t read the book? Come anyway!
FMV Book Club is about thoughtful conversations sparked by the book’s themes — not perfection. Whether you’ve read it all, just started, or want to listen and learn, you are warmly welcome. Bring a friend!
Join our book club here.This event is free and open to all.
The Bergen Assembly office is universally accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral.
Place
Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4
5017 Bergen
If you or your group are interested in using our office, contact us at:
events@bergenassembly.no
Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4
5017 Bergen
If you or your group are interested in using our office, contact us at:
events@bergenassembly.no
