Live streaming of the Opening Ceremony

The opening of LitFestBergen 2025 will be live streamed to Zinken hopp (moved from Alver).

Welcome to the official opening of Bergen International Literary Festival for non-fiction and fiction 2025! The seventh festival in a row will be opened by culture minister Lubna Jaffery.

Truth is the theme this year, and at the opening the audience will get a taste of this year's programme of poetry, music and drama.

As a taste of what is to come this festival, there will be an excerpt from the play The Trigger System by Transiteatret-Bergen, poet Sumaya Jirde Ali will recite from her own work, Tishani Doshi will read an excerpt from her new essay on truth (video), and the band Sharqant will serenade us with their beautiful music. Speech by the city council leader in Bergen, Christine Meyer and festival director Teresa Grøtan. The master of ceremonies is the head of The House of Literature, Hjørdis Losnedahl.