Upcoming events

September book swap

Welcome to another book swap at Prismatic Pages. Do you have some books that you won't be reading again and need a new home? Bring them us on September 24 and swap them for something new with the others at the swap.

Books in all languages are welcome!

You receive a voucher for each book you bring -- the more you bring the more you can take.

When: 24 September, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

The Learning (book) Club

A book club where the only requirement is that the book makes you learn something.

Our book for October is "This is Not Propaganda" by Peter Pomerantsev.

When: 9 October, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

Winter Markets

November 24: Mir Julemarked

Located at Toftes gate 69, this cozy market is right around the corner from the store. We'll be focusing on vintage and exceptional used books when we are at Mir, with a few new sprinkled in!

November 30-December 1: Oslos Supermarked at SALT

This market is one of the city's absolute best, and we'll be there for the first weekend to help kick it off! Expect whimsical picks and books you can judge by their covers.

December 1: Gamlebyen Julemarked

We LOVE the Gamlebyen markets, and are so glad to be back. It's also one of our favorites to do some sneaky shopping of our own 👀

December 14: Byens Tak Julemarked

For the first time we will be at Byens Tak, for a market with a view. This takes place on the 12th floor of Folketeaterbygningen on Youngstorget. Talk about glamorous!

October book swap

Welcome to another book swap at Prismatic Pages. Do you have some books that you won't be reading again and need a new home? Bring them us on October 29 and swap them for something new with the others at the swap.

Books in all languages are welcome!

You receive a voucher for each book you bring -- the more you bring the more you can take.

When: 29 October, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

Zine workshop

First things first, what's a Zine?

Fanzine: fan + magazine, independent publication created by enthusiasts of particular forms of art and culture. Often shortened to "zine".

Zines are a great way to experiment with art and express yourself with no previous skills needed!

We will guide you through making your first zine in a sea of magazine pages, glue, paper and scissors and you'll leave with your finished project. The course will last from 17:00 to 19:00, we don't want to rush creativity.

The workshop will cost 250 NOK, which covers the cost of materials and instruction. Buy your ticket at the link below!

The workshop will be led by Marta Crosta:

The ticket price of 100 NOK may be used on the day as credit toward any book purchase.

Tickets cannot be refunded but you may resell or give away your ticket if the original purchaser cannot attend.

If you are in a tight financial spot and still want to attend, please email hello@prismaticpages.com :)

Silent Reading Evening at Prismatic Pages with Angle Book Club

Prismatic Pages and Angle Book Club are excited to host another silent reading evening! Have you been wanting to read more but don't find the time? Join us for a cozy evening of reading with others, while surrounded by books.

When: 13 November, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

How does it work?

1. You arrive with your book of choice (or buy one at Prismatic Pages if you don't have anything currently)

2. Mingle for the first fifteen minutes and then settle in to your favorite spot

3. Read silently for 30 minutes

4. Break for fifteen minutes, stretch your legs and chat with fellow readers

5. Read silently for another 30 minutes

6. Have a great rest of the evening knowing you dove into a book!

Angle Book Club reads and promotes overlooked literature. It is a space for people to gather and read these lesser-known texts, to share experiences, and discuss, and are hosting this event. You do not have to be a member of Angle Book Club to join this reading evening however!

Instagram: @anglebookclub

Facebook: facebook.com/anglebookclub

Welcome to an evening of poetry and conversation with Elizabeth Clark Wessel and Alina Gregorian

Welcome to an evening of poetry with Elizabeth Clark Wessel, author of "None of It Belongs to Me", and Alina Gregorian.

When: 14 November, 18.00-19.00

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s debut full-length collection gathers poems that track the cadences of daily thought as they happen. In this book, Clark Wessel unspools layers of mythology—of places, people, historical and ahistorical time—and finds their entanglements with everyday life, revealing marvelous influences encoded in the ordinary.

This event is free, but please register to reserve a spot!

November book swap

Welcome to another book swap at Prismatic Pages. Do you have some books that you won't be reading again and need a new home? Bring them us on November 19 and swap them for something new with the others at the swap.

Books in all languages are welcome!

You receive a voucher for each book you bring -- the more you bring the more you can take. The vouchers you receive are only valid for the current swap and you cannot save unused vouchers for future book swap events.

When: 19 November, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

¡extra//ordinary pre-release acoustic mini-concert by Racing Heart at Prismatic Pages!


Please be welcomed to this intimate show on Thursday November 21, 18:00 at Prismatic Pages, where Racing Heart aka Mathias H. Tjønn and Adrian Myhr will play songs from the coming album extra//ordinary.

Note: capacity is limited so arrive in good time to secure your spot!

Racing Heart is the musical heartchild of Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn. After forming in Brooklyn in 2010, the band has released two albums: To Walk Beside that Ghost (2012) and What Comes After (2016). Previous creative collaborators have included Anthony LaMarca (The War on Drugs, St. Vincent), Justin Keller (Sufjan Stevens), Jenny Hval, and Hanne Hukkelberg, who produced the second album. And now, the third album extra//ordinary is on the way!

extra//ordinary portrays nine relatively unknown, real, and "ordinary" people from around the world who have each done extraordinary things. It is not necessarily about great tragedies or tales of heroism, although there are elements of both in their histories. The point is to highlight fates most of us are unaware of and let the wild, touching, and occasionally inspiring lives they lived be the basis for each song. Some examples include the world's first drag queen, who was also a freed slave; a baggage handler who takes the controls of a plane on what would be his first and last flight in the cockpit; and a Japanese bank employee turned aspiring explorer, who wanted to hug a rare red panda cub in the jungles of South China, bring home a lost soldier in the Philippines missing since World War II, and find the abominable snowman in the Himalayas.

Contributing to the album are Adrian Myhr on bass, Andreas Winther (Selma French) and Audun Hjort (Fagernes Yacht Klubb, Utlandet) on drums, Sankung Jobarteh on kora, Espen Reinertsen on woodwinds, Nina Mortvedt (Band of Gold, Susanne Sundfør), Laura Loriga and Halvor Falck Johansen (Louien, Silver Lining) on vocals. In terms of genre, instrumentation, and sound, the album is as wide-reaching as the cast of characters, but is grounded in a kind of eccentric pop-rock with world music aspirations.

We ask that you please vipps 150,- NOK to 906 13 918 after the show. Come for the music, stay for the books!

Silent Reading Evening at Prismatic Pages with Angle Book Club

Prismatic Pages and Angle Book Club are excited to host another silent reading evening! Have you been wanting to read more but don't find the time? Join us for a cozy evening of reading with others, while surrounded by books.

When: 4 December, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

How does it work?

1. You arrive with your book of choice (or buy one at Prismatic Pages if you don't have anything currently)

2. Mingle for the first fifteen minutes and then settle in to your favorite spot

3. Read silently for 30 minutes

4. Break for fifteen minutes, stretch your legs and chat with fellow readers

5. Read silently for another 30 minutes

6. Have a great rest of the evening knowing you dove into a book!

Angle Book Club reads and promotes overlooked literature. It is a space for people to gather and read these lesser-known texts, to share experiences, and discuss, and are hosting this event. You do not have to be a member of Angle Book Club to join this reading evening however!

Instagram: @anglebookclub

Facebook: facebook.com/anglebookclub

The Learning (book) Club

A book club where the only requirement is that the book makes you learn something.

Our book for December is "The Living Mountain" by Nan Shepherd.

When: 11 December, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

December book swap

Welcome to another book swap at Prismatic Pages. Do you have some books that you won't be reading again and need a new home? Bring them us on December 17 and swap them for something new with the others at the swap.

Books in all languages are welcome!

You receive a voucher for each book you bring -- the more you bring the more you can take. The vouchers you receive are only valid for the current swap and you cannot save unused vouchers for future book swap events.

When: 17 December, 17.00-18.30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

Book launch: The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron

When: 22 January, 17.00-19.00

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

SPINNING SILVER meets HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE in THE HOUSE OF FROST AND FEATHERS, a romantic Slavic fantasy, where a young woman tries to outrun a sleeping plague by working for a witch in her skiing, chicken-legged house.

Prismatic Pages is thrilled to launch Lauren Wiesebron's debut novel, a fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore. This event is free but please register at the link. Books will be available for sale on the day, or preorder at hello@prismaticpages.com!

Marisha’s time is running out. She’s already lost her family to the sleeping plague, and she fears she’ll be next. Penniless and desperate for protection, Marisha is forced to accept a job as an assistant to the notorious koldunya, Baba Zima.

Despite Baba Zima’s reputation for cruelty, Marisha finds herself drawn into the magical world of koldunry, and is thrust into looking for a cure to the plague – if Marisha finds it, she will finally be free.

As the search grows increasingly dangerous and seemingly impossible, Marisha uncovers hidden connections between the sleeping plague, her own family’s history, and her haunting dreams: of a masked ball where sleepers are trapped endlessly dancing – and a monstrous beaked man who shadows her every step.

Advance praise:

"Rich with folk magic" and "The perfect book to curl up with on a chilly night" - Jules Arbeaux

"A dark enchantment" - M.A. Kuzniar

"Women! Who become friends! Woohoo!" -Megan Whalen Turner.

Lauren Wiesebron is a fantasy author, writing adventures for characters who do not yet know they need them. She grew up in France and is now an itinerant academic studying sea creatures. When not writing, you can find her acquiring yarn and naming houseplants. She has also been known to pick up cats even when they don’t want to be picked up. THE HOUSE OF FROST AND FEATHERS is her debut novel.


Where are women in the arts in 2025?

When: February 5, 17.15-18.30

Where: Rathkes gate 7b

2025: a time of great technological advancement, and a time when gender equality is "nearly" there - or is it? In the art world we are far from reaching equality.

Let's review some recent statistics:

Women are paid 10 pence to £1 pound for artwork at auctions. Prices of paintings are lower if made by a woman and drop further if the painting is signed by said painter.

National gallery in London holds 2300 artworks. 20 paintings are by female artists and only four are on display. (From: Las invisibles, Porque el Museo del Prado ignora a las mujeres? By Peio H. Riano.)

Yet art schools in the UK and North America a dominated by women.

England: 65% of art students are women.

USA: 70% of fine art undergraduate degrees are attained by women.

(From: An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters by Lucy Davies.)

Why does it matter? Because art is everywhere and how we relate to art shapes women's real life experiences.

In this talk, artist and educator Paulina Ree will discuss the importance of women artists, through history and up to today. Ree will also incorporate books to start understanding more about women in art and the power of looking at women in art as depicted by men.

Paulina Ree is an Oslo-based painter, educator, curator, and researcher.

Ree is a member of BKA and NBK, both Norwegian organizations for Professional Visual Artists.

Ree’s interest in female artists from history, as well as on understanding the role of gender inequality and imbalance in the art world is something that she is passionate about. Ree is an activist for equality and inclusion of women artists.