AHMED ABU AWAD

date

Friday 17 October, 2025

location

Cinemaximiliaan

Manchesterstraat 36 1080 Sint Jans Molenbeek, Belgium

AHMED ABU AWAD

10 YEARS OF RESISTANCE

Visit the unique expo from photograper AHMED ABU AWAD

I was born on the International Women’s Day. I learned poetry, photography, and pain. I read poetry in buildings now only composed of rubble. They called it “Breaking News” on phones and big screens. I learned to photograph in incredibly narrow streets, but those streets fit the dreams of two million people. .غ ز ة I felt pain, oh Lord, in this city called Gaza. This name of three letters made me an artist: It made me transform life into a photograph.

10th anniversary PROGRAMME:

FRIDAY / VRIJDAG 17 oct. doors 17u30 – 22u30

18u : Vernissage 10 jaar Cinemaximiliaan

met Gwendolyn Lootens, Gawan Fagard & Annabelle Van Nieuwenhuyse met kunstenaars Ahmed Abu Awad, Ismail Abu Hatab, Iyad Sabbah, Ermias Kifleyesus en in samenwerking met Migratie Museum, Muntpunt, Passa Porta & Needcompany 21u Music: One song for Peace met Abid Bahri

SATURDAY / ZATERDAG 18 oct. doors 13u – 22u30

13u : Open House EXPO (+ bar)

15u & 17u : Bridge Stories performance by Omar, Mariana, Ibo, Marthe, Galass, Isaga, Khairullah, Majdi, Fatiullah, Kone,…

16u & 18u & 20u : Film Screenings met Angela Al Souliman, Hakimi Family, Fatma Osman, Jules Mathôt & Cinemaximiliaan.

17u : open mic testimonies

18u : Concert by Juliette Lacroix & Hussein Rassim

21u : Songs of karaoke

SUNDAY / ZONDAG 19 oct. doors 13u – 18u

13u : Open House EXPO (+ bar)

13u30 : Lunch by Ashour (free contribution)

15u30 : The Forgetting of Air by Franceska Grilli performance with Mariana, Yasmin, Viet, Halil (in collaboration with Needcompany)

16u30 : musical chill out by Hussein Rassim, Skandar & Shariar Sharifpour

17h : finissage + testimonies open mic

close-up party and chill