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Thursday January 30 2025

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Find the best things to do from the daytime to the nighttime in Bangkok with our events calendar of 2025’s coolest events, including parties, concerts, films and art exhibits.

Events in Bangkok today

Across the Universe

Things to do
Watthana
Until Sep 27, 2025

Photograph: Xspace

Arjinjonathan Arjinkit unveils a solo exhibition in which mural works from sacred temples and prehistoric caves are reinvented through the prism of abstraction. These new paintings draw inspiration from centuries-old wall images, worn by centuries of devotion and erosion, yet resonant with timeless narratives. Through fluid strokes and subtle texture, Arjinkit conjures echoes of ritual-infused symbols, fracturing familiar forms into enigmatic compositions that invite introspection and discovery. Each canvas becomes a bridge between ancestral expression and contemporary vision, as ancient pigment meets modern sensibility. There is no grand spectacle here but a meditative conversation: between stone-hewn myths and painterly gestures, between collective memory and private reflection – rendered in quiet colours, layered surfaces and a profound respect for what has come before.Until September 27. Free. Mini Xspace Gallery, 10am-5pm

Just Let Me Be

Things to do
Chatuchak
Until Aug 31, 2025

Photograph: Mai Meteekul

It begins quietly, without fanfare – 50 canvases, each one a pulse of unfiltered feeling. The artists are all people with down syndrome, and for once, no one has told them what art should look like. They paint as they wish, unbothered by rules or the myth of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. The colours are often jubilant, sometimes contemplative, always honest. Wander long enough and you’ll notice there’s no coded message to decode, no clever irony to catch. The works simply exist, as their makers do, with an ease that most of us have forgotten. It’s a rare thing – to be invited into a world where the point isn’t perfection but sincerity. Standing before these pieces, you realise it’s less about art as an object and more about the courage of being entirely oneself. August 14-31. Free. MOCA Bangkok, 10am-6pm

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Free tango dance lessons

Things to do
Until Aug 28, 2025

Photograph: Tango Chiang Mai

Whether you’ve never danced a step or you’re ready to perfect your ochos, Thursday nights this month are for you to strut your stuff. These free beginner-friendly classes kick off at 8pm, then stay for a lively práctica (social dance) until 11pm, complete with fun cortinas (music in between tango sets) where you can socialise, hydrate and practice moves. No partner needed – just bring socks and a mood for dance. No flip flops allowed. Aug 14 (and every Thurs in Aug). Free. One Nimman. 8pm-11pm.

Two timeless classics by Billy Wilder

Things to do
Chula-Samyan
Until Aug 22, 2025

Photograph: Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder never played it safe. His scripts snapped with cynicism, his characters lingered like smoke, and his films – equal parts bitter and brilliant – still leave their mark long after the credits roll. Sunset Boulevard gave us faded fame and fatal ambition. The Apartment turned loneliness into a punchline, then a quiet heartbreak. Somehow, they still feel unnervingly modern. Even now, Wilder’s fingerprints are everywhere – in the symmetrical worlds of Wes Anderson, the meta spirals of Christopher Nolan, the sharp sincerity of Greta Gerwig. He wrote people as they were, not as they wished to be. This August, House Samyan invites you back into Wilder’s world – flickering, flawed, impossible to forget. Sunset Boulevard screens from August 8 and The Apartment follows from August 22. From August 8 and August 22 onwards. B160 via here. House Samyan.

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Until We Meet Again

Things to do
Siam
Until Nov 26, 2025

Photograph: BACC

Helen Grace and Phaptawan Suwannakudt weave a conversation across five decades – a dialogue charting the shifting tides of gender roles in Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Their exhibition unfolds through a collage of personal memories and historical moments, layered with sound, image and objects that trace the displacements of time and place. Together, they build an expansive installation: sculpture, video projections and fragments of memory entwined like the lives they’ve lived. Wars endured, motherhood embraced – destruction and creation mirrored in their collaboration, felt as a kind of destiny. Their stories span worlds: Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia – regions opening to each other, reshaping a global map. Amid this, a dream of borderless connection emerges, fragile and luminous, just before shadows creep in. The work breathes in folding screens and flickering video – mediums that hold space for their shared histories and hopes. August 14-November 26. Free. 9/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

Local Myths: The Intrinsic Aesthetic

Things to do
Siam
Until Oct 10, 2025

Photograph: BACC

In a world unsettled by pandemic aftershocks and tangled geopolitical currents, the old maps of power no longer hold. The centre has fragmented – replaced by a chorus of voices, each rooted in local soil, language and memory. What was once dismissed as peripheral now pulses with its own knowledge, its own beauty and fierce creative force. This project turns to those places – not for spectacle, but for something more intimate. It seeks out the forms of beauty that rise naturally from the everyday: myths whispered through generations, folktales carried on the wind, histories folded into daily rituals. These are aesthetics born not to dazzle global markets but to honour deep connections – to land, sky and the collective stories that bind us all. Until October 10. Free. 7/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

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Toxic Remains: Parasites of a Betrayed Dream

Things to do
Yan Nawa
Until Sep 20, 2025

Photograph: Gallery VER

Beneath the polished veneer of history lies a terrain scarred by violence and silence. This exhibition excavates the emotional, political and spiritual debris left by authoritarian rule and broken ideologies – where dreams have rotted, power clings like rust and collective memory becomes a host for parasites. A striking collage stitches together pixelated portraits of Thailand’s military prime ministers, their blurred faces overlaid on a fragmented female form – a haunting symbol of sexuality erased and controlled under Cold War patriarchy. This decay seeps from past to present, a toxic residue of militarism embedded in the nation’s very flesh. There are no tidy resolutions here. Instead, the work unsettles, challenges and disrupts – a disillusioned landscape where history exhales through its own poisonous remains, inviting us to confront an unstable past and a future already lost. Until September 20. Free. Gallery VER, midday-6pm

In That Light…I See You

Art
Yaowarat
Until Aug 31, 2025

Photograph: Rivercity Bangkok

Two artists, two worlds – Tum Ulit and Luo XianBing come together in a quiet dialogue shaped by light and connection. Their duo exhibition draws inspiration from Your Name, that delicate dance of strangers bound by invisible threads. Here, light isn’t just illumination but a metaphor for presence – the kind that heals, supports and fills the spaces others leave behind. Like the film’s characters, separated by time yet intertwined through shared experience, their work explores understanding without words. Tum’s acrylic paintings spin stories around pairs of figures navigating this unspoken bond, while Luo’s coloured pencil drawings and felt sculptures give form to a silent girl – a reminder that emotion needs no language to resonate. Together, they offer a space where empathy glows softly, insistently, across cultures and silence alike. Until August 31. Free. ARCH Gallery, Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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La Forêt de l’Âme

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Lak Si
Until Sep 9, 2025

Photograph: MIYABI

MIYABI’s solo exhibition feels less like a statement and more like a quiet return – to instinct, to breath, to the parts of the self we forget until something wild reminds us. Her work drifts between the external and the internal, sketching out a forest that exists both in the world and within the body. Birds are everywhere – perched in brushstrokes, embedded in clay, hovering just out of reach. They aren’t decorative. They’re messengers, mirrors, sometimes ghosts. The show unfolds in paintings, ceramics and mixed media that speak softly but persist, like the sound of wings in the distance. This isn’t environmentalism as warning siren. It’s slower, more intimate – a memory, a sensation, a spiritual echo. The earth fades, and with it, something internal dims too. MIYABI asks us to notice, and maybe, to return. August 8-September 9. Free. Ground Bangkok, 7.30am-5pm

Letters I Never Sent

Art
Yaowarat
Until Aug 22, 2025

Photograph: Art Focus Bangkok

Hornse is 26, but her work feels more than that – not in the sense of age, but in the way it sits with feeling. Her solo exhibition arrives like a whisper: gentle, uncertain and deeply human. These are paintings, prints, installations and letters that don’t demand your attention so much as they wait for it – quietly, like someone standing in the rain, not expecting an umbrella. There’s something of a fairy tale here, but not the happy-ending kind. More the wistful pages in-between, where nothing is said aloud but everything is felt. Grief without drama. Longing without resolution. Her images hang in the space like unsent letters, heavy with the things people never quite manage to say. You don’t so much view the exhibition as overhear it – like a secret half-spoken, still echoing. Until August 22. Free. Art Focus Bangkok, Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Movies now showing

Black Widow

Film Frame©Marvel Studios 2020

Release date: October 1

It’s been a long time coming for this Marvel femme fatale to shine on her own. This month, we finally learn of the backstory of Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) as a Russian undercover agent before her glory days with the Avengers.

Malignant

Warner Bros

Release date: October 1

From the mind of Hollywood’s main horror conjuror James Wan comes a new horrifying story about Madison, a mother-to-be who suddenly loses her baby and then starts to see visions of gory murders committed by her imaginary childhood friend Gabriel.

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A Quiet Place Part II

imdb

Release date: October 1

In this sequel to the nail-biting 2018 hit, we are taken on a flashback to when sound-sensitive aliens first landed on Earth, causing chaos and carnage. In present day, newly widowed mother Evelyn (still brilliantly played by Emily Blunt) now knows the weakness of their extraterrestrial nemeses. She and her children venture out to band with other survivors while dealing with their own traumas.

Supernova

Studiocanal

Release date: October 7

In this emotion-driven tear-jerker, a mature gay couple embarks on a road trip across England to cherish a few happy moments together before one of them is completely overtaken by dementia.

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No Time to Die

MGM

Release date: October 7

Daniel Craig’s fifth and last outing as 007 sees the now-retired agent briefly going back into action to chase after yet another mysterious baddie who plans to cause chaos with destructive new technology.

The Suicide Squad

Warner Bros

Release date: October 1

Don’t confuse this with the critically-panned 2016 attempt at giving life to a troop of crazy DC supervillains back in 2016. The Suicide Squad (as opposed to just “Suicide Squad”) is the sequel-slash-reboot, as well as an ambitious undertaking to overshadow the reputation of the original incarnation. It’s directed by James Gunn (you know, of Marvel’s Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy fame), so it would be interesting to see how the movie pans out.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Release date: October 13

This latest superhero release follows the story of Shang-Chi, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Asian champion, a former martial arts master who has to confront his buried past when the mysterious Ten Rings organization comes after him.

Fast & Furious 9

Universal Pictures

Release date: October 21

Just when you thought it was all over, it keeps coming back for more. In this ninth installment of the petrol-burning franchise, the spotlight is trained on Dom Toretto’s life in retirement and domestic bliss, which is disrupted by the appearance of his brother Jakob who has an axe to grind.

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Free Guy

20th Century Studios

Release date: October 7

Realizing that he is a character in a video game, Guy decides to take control of his own fate in the virtual world and make himself the hero of his own adventure—to precarious but comical results.

Suicide Forest Village

All Horror

Release date: October 13

The spine-chilling myth surrounding the Aokigahara forest or Japan’s Suicide Forest is revisited in this spooky film by horror maestro Takashi Shimizu—he who terrified the world with the Ju-On, popularly known as The Grudge, series.