March is around the corner again, and that means: Black History Month Belgium. AB is proud to join forces once again with the multidisciplinary socio-cultural festival for a new edition of BHM. And we’re kicking things off together in AB with the official BHM launch party for all of Belgium. 

This year’s guiding theme is “The Sounds of Blackness”. An invitation to listen deeply – to the sounds of black words, black music, and black bodies. Sounds that carry memory, resistance, joy, and collective imagination across time and place. From rhythm and melody to voice and silence, sound shapes how Black stories are remembered, shared, and transformed. BHM x AB: The Sounds of Blackness Opening Night 

For Black communities in the Diaspora, music is more than art: it’s a vessel of survival, connection, and storytelling. It holds grief and celebration at once, and creates space to express emotions, identities, and futures beyond language. 

Sound, of course, goes beyond music. It’s also laughter and clamour, sighs and cries. The sound of release when we move our bodies. Alongside moments of collective celebration, BHM 2026 makes room for attentive listening, learning, rest, and healing, recognising these as essential practices within Black cultural life. And by amplifying Black sounds within the Belgian context, this edition also calls for continued awareness and solidarity with those whose voices are being silenced elsewhere, including in the Congo, Sudan, and beyond. 

With that spirit in mind, our Opening Night becomes a large-scale musical celebration in the heart of Brussels for the entire community! 

This event is FREE, no need to book. Just come and dance, vibrate and resonate to the energies of INNOCNT, RAPHA, FRED GATA, Adam La Nuit, Goldenynice and Iyanuoluwa this Sunday 1 March. In between, take a leisurely stroll through the beauty, food, and book market organized by AKANYAMA, Ici Sont Les Lions, Goldbutter, Nella's Salon, and others.