Things to do in Bangkok today

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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

Experience spine-tingling thrills, shadowed corners and immersive scares in The Scream Lab

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Until Oct 31, 2025

Photograph: Mega Bangna

The story starts with a door you shouldn’t open. Megabangna’s main entrance has turned into a mystery laboratory, long abandoned and thick with rumour. Two decades ago, something went wrong inside – now, the lab has reopened for those bold enough to step through. Participants play as members of a rescue team sent to shut down a corrupted system and uncover the four-digit code that might lead them out. Each of the four rooms peels back another layer of the tragedy, where revenge feels almost alive. The air hums, shadows shift, and nothing sits still for long. A Halloween experiment that asks how far curiosity can go before it starts looking like courage. Until October 31. Free. Mega Bangna, 5pm-9pm

Celebrate Vegetarian Week with Seoul-style and Thai spice at Bangkok’78 & ANJU

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Nong Khaem
Until Oct 29, 2025

Photograph: Sindhorn Midtown Hotel Bangkok

Vegetarian Week gets a flavour-packed spin at Bangkok’78 and ANJU Korean Rooftop Restaurant & Bar, where ‘meat-free’ doesn’t mean ‘taste-free.’ From October 21-29, the two kitchens turn up the heat with authentic Thai and Korean dishes that prove going veggie can be fun, flavourful and indulgent. At Bangkok '78, Thai spice reigns supreme with tofu larb, spicy fruit salad, deep-fried mushrooms with sesame, straw mushroom chilli dip, served with fresh vegetables, and panang curry with tofu. There’s also a bonus perk: IHG one rewards members enjoy 20 percent off. Over at ANJU, the kitchen transforms into a K-style veggie feast, serving tteokbokki, K-fried cauliflower with mala sauce and Gwangjang-style gimbap and perilla oil buckwheat noodle, all made for sharing with your Seoulmates. Whichever side you pick, Thai or Korean, you’re in for a week of fresh flavours and meat-free indulgence that tastes as good as it feels. October 21-29. Sindhorn Midtown Hotel Bangkok, 68 Soi Langsuan, Lumphini, Pathum Wan.

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Bar 335 marks six years with an all-month celebration

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Phrom Phong
Until Oct 31, 2025

Photograph: Bar 335

Six years might not sound like much, but in Bangkok’s bar scene, that’s practically veteran status. Founded by Anuman ‘Nik’ Rajadhon of the YOLO Group, Bar 335 has spent the past six years building a community around music and late nights that turn into early mornings. This October, the crew celebrate their sixth anniversary with a month-long lineup of events. It all kicks off on October 16 with an opening night featuring Nik Anuman, Attapon De Silva and Pratch Thongcharoen. Then on October 22, the Long Nuam Boyz Edition take over with H3F, Pae Arak and TimeThai. Expect more familiar faces throughout the celebration, including Oat Pramote, Art Marut and Name Getsunova. Six years down and Bar 335’s still just getting started. Until October 31. Bar 335, Soi Sukhumvit 39, Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana. Open daily 8pm-midnight

Explore secret corridors and hidden chambers beneath the castle where shadows twist with Under the Castle

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Khlong Toei
Until Nov 2, 2025

Photograph: Emsphere at EM District

For the first time in Thailand, Pumpkie & Spookie invite you to roam a world where theatre and terror collide. EmSphere becomes a stage for the darkly playful, a place to lose yourself among flickering shadows and whispered scares. The ground floor hums with the Night Market and merchandise stalls, offering trinkets and treats that feel just a little mischievous. Upstairs, the fifth floor unravels into a labyrinth: the Haunted House, a mini bar and an experience zone that twists expectations at every turn. Every corner teases, every corridor surprises, and the night lingers longer than you expect. By the end, Halloween doesn’t feel like a date on the calendar – it feels like something you wander through, a little unnerving, entirely thrilling, and utterly unforgettable. Until November 2. B790 via here. EmSphere, 1pm-midnight

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Walk through rooms that mirror your own inner spaces, asking what home truly means at Home Within Home

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Ari
Until Nov 2, 2025

Photograph: People of Ari

Home within Home turns a familiar neighbourhood house in Ari into a labyrinth of memory and feeling. Patcharaporn Kwansangwan, an independent Thai artist, expands her illustrated book Where’s a Home? into a full-bodied experience of light, sound and installation, each room unfolding like a question. Walking through the two floors, you navigate hallways and corners that mirror your own inner spaces, asking what home really means, where it lives, and who – or what – makes it feel whole. The exhibition spills beyond visual art, with music, theatre and workshops layering movement and voice over the installations, creating a quiet dialogue between visitor, body and space. Each step feels intimate yet expansive, a reminder that home is rarely one place; it exists in the fragments, echoes and gestures that we carry with us, often without realising. Until November 2. Free. People of Ari, Yellow Lane, 10am-7pm

Experience Works of Art, a collection that invites reflection, sparks ideas and stays with you

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Phaya Thai
Until Oct 26, 2025

Photograph: GalileOasis

KAMUILIM paintings start with the traditions of Thai Buddhist art but unfold in ways that are unmistakably contemporary, each brushstroke carrying a rhythm that is at once meditative and mischievous. Colours flare and fade like fleeting thoughts, shapes suggest stories that never fully reveal themselves, and yet linger in the mind long after you look away. Each canvas holds subtle cues designed to spark reflection, guiding the viewer from seeing to feeling, turning simple form into quiet virtue. Through Vicaraṇacit – the wandering contemplative mind – KAMUILIM translates introspection into pigment, creating works that feel alive, capable of nudging thought, shaping perception and reminding us that art, like insight, is often found between the lines. Until October 26. Free. GalileOasis, 10am-7pm

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Fragile Dot invites you to explore delicate, intimate artworks that whisper rather than shout

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Prawet
Until Nov 9, 2025

Photograph: BACC pop・up

Pasutt Kanrattanasutra’s latest project builds one tile and one conversation at a time. The exhibition transforms ceramic painting into a communal act, inviting volunteers to leave their mark across 50 tiles, each representing a district of Bangkok. Lines twist and colours bloom, shaped by shared stories of change, memory and belonging. What emerges is less a map than a living archive, where everyday voices replace curators and the city itself becomes collaborator. It’s a gentle rebellion against forgetting, stitching fragments of neighbourhood life into something tactile and enduring. More than an artwork, it feels like a gathering – a reminder that cities aren’t only built from concrete, but from the hands and histories of those who call them home. Until November 9. Free. MunMun Srinakarin, 11am-7pm

Step inside Vanishing Bangkok and witness concrete giants frozen just before they disappear

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Yaowarat
Until Nov 2, 2025

Photograph: Foto_momo

Bangkok has a habit of erasing its own stories. In a city that never stops rebuilding, the buildings that once defined its skyline are quietly slipping away, taking people’s memories with them. Vanishing Bangkok catches those final moments before they’re gone for good. Through photographs of three icons – Scala, Sri Fuangfung and the Robot Building – the exhibition mourns the city’s fading modernist past while preserving its fragments. The works hang inside Vanich House, a creaking wooden structure once used as a garage, now reborn as a vessel for remembrance. Concrete prints lean against weathered beams, creating a strange tenderness between decay and revival. The show doesn’t simply document what’s lost – it reminds us how forgetting happens, brick by brick, until nostalgia becomes the only architecture left. Until November 2. Free. Vanich House, 10.30am-5.30pm

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Explore workshops and encounters where art, community and memory intertwine in unexpected ways at Ghost 2025

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Yenarkat
Until Nov 16, 2025

Photograph: Ghost2568

A four-month experiment that asks what happens when those guiding us through exhibitions stop being mere explainers and start becoming storytellers, confidants, maybe even co-conspirators. Curated by Pongsakorn Yananissorn, the programme gathers twelve hosts – to rethink how knowledge moves through art spaces. Through workshops and shared encounters, they explore what lingers after the lights dim and the last viewer drifts out. The focus rests not on the artworks alone but on the people orbiting them: the artists, the visitors, the community that quietly sustains it all. GHost 2568 turns the act of guiding into something intimate and alive – a reminder that art, at its best, is a conversation still unfolding. Until November 16. Free. Bangkok Citycity Gallery, 11am-6pm

Experience the beauty of life’s fleeting moments, interpreted through sound, light and movement at Impermanence

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Bang Kho Laem
Until Dec 7, 2025

Photograph: The Charoen AArt

Bryce Watanasoponwong’s latest exhibition feels like walking through the afterimage of a dream – one you’re trying to recall before it slips away. Across 18 mixed-media works, he asks what lingers when memories lose their edges and scatter. Drawing on Buddhist philosophy and the writings of Daisaku Ikeda, the show wrestles with how to create meaning in a world that never stops shifting. Each piece starts with a photograph, then bends light through kaleidoscopic lenses and slide film until form and colour drift apart. Layers of soft hues blur, framed in white like the border between presence and recollection. Tiny 3D-printed figures populate these worlds – standing, reaching, fading – until only one remains. It’s hauntingly beautiful, a quiet meditation on the way memory thins but never fully disappears. Until December 7. Free. The Charoen AArt, 11am-7pm

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.