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

Thai Craft Market

Things to do
Khlong Toei
Until Aug 13, 2025

Photograph: Emsphere at EM District

Thai handicrafts have long been celebrated for their precision and the quiet stories woven into every thread and carved detail. It’s no surprise that travellers often seek them out, hoping to carry home a piece of this timeless artistry. Recently, these traditions have found new life – fashion houses weaving classic textiles into bold, contemporary statements, while hand-crafted objects slip effortlessly into modern interiors. At the heart of this revival is the royal ‘Siriraj Phattharaporn’ fabric, unveiled and available to buy for the first time, its patterns so intricate they feel almost sketched rather than woven. Surrounding it are mudmee silks that reimagine tradition with fresh eyes, wool textiles spun in Mae Hong Son, and ceramics and everlasting flowers that refuse to fade. Even the sweets echo heritage, shaped like palace gates and sacred tiles, while a khon performance quietly stitches past and present together. Until August 13. Free. Emsphere, 10am-10pm

Forest Scents Unveil Your Mystery

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Aug 24, 2025

Photograph: Antonio Spataf

It begins as a forest, though not quite the kind you step into with boots and insect repellent. This one is built indoors, thick with light and shadow, where the air smells faintly of rain and the perfumes of Phu Ta Wan. The exhibition imagines Thailand’s tropical rainforest as something more than a landscape – it becomes a stand-in for the human mind, layered and restless, full of places that rarely see daylight. Between glowing installations and slow-moving colours there are questions hidden in mirrors, small quizzes that promise to show you something you didn’t realise was there, seven bottled scents that behave like riddles. By the end you leave a message behind, a scrap of yourself offered up to the trees, as if they might answer back. Until August 24. Free. Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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Jersey League

Things to do
Siam
Aug 1Aug 3, 2025

Photograph: Tay Flea Market

Lido Connect will turn into the kind of market that feels a bit like a living mood board. Stalls spill across the space, over 80 of them, each crammed with things that seem to belong to someone’s past life – vintage shirts soft with age, cameras waiting for another pair of hands, furniture that looks like it has been smuggled in from an old film set. There are accessories, odd gadgets, objects that make you stop and wonder who owned them first. Somewhere among it all sits the jersey stand, a shrine to sport, with rare pieces that range from the iconic to the barely remembered. It is part treasure hunt, part social experiment, the kind of place where you arrive for one thing and leave with a bag full of stories instead. August 1-3. Free. Lido Connect, 11am-11.30pm

Urban Collectibles

Things to do
Rattanakosin
Aug 1Aug 3, 2025

Photograph: The Standard X

For a few days The StandardX on Phra Arthit Road will stop being a hotel and become something stranger, a building overtaken by images and objects. Its windows look out on the Chao Phraya, but inside there is a different kind of city taking shape. More than a hundred artists and collectors have been folded into the space, carrying with them everything from canvases and prints to toys too beautiful to ever be played with. It is urban art in its most maximalist form, sharp and loud and unafraid of excess, as if graffiti had crept indoors and multiplied. Wandering through the rooms feels like stumbling through someone else’s dream, one made of colour, plastic and paint, trying to keep up with a world that refuses to stand still. August 1-3. Free. The Standard X, midday-9pm and 5pm-9pm (August 1)

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Rave Zone

Things to do
Thonglor
Until Aug 1, 2025

Photograph: Blaq Lyte Rover

It takes place inside Rover, though ‘inside’ hardly does it justice. The building is split in two, like someone couldn’t decide which kind of chaos they preferred and so chose both. On one side, a room that pounds with hard techno – unapologetic, industrial, the kind of beat that makes conversation feel like an afterthought. Through another door the atmosphere changes, but only just; drum and bass ricochets off the walls, faster, sharper, as if daring you to keep up. Moving between the spaces is like stepping into parallel versions of the same fever dream. There is no pause, only bodies caught in the undertow, sweaty and exhilarated. By the time the lights flicker on, the night has left everyone hollowed out and grinning, ears still ringing. August 1. B250-350 via here and B500 at the door. Blaq Lyte Rover, 9pm onwards

Still Cute, Still Here

Things to do
Rattanakosin
Until Aug 3, 2025

Photograph: Joyman Gallery

Stepping into the space feels like stumbling across the remnants of a childhood dream: soft corners, a scattering of toys, walls alive with paintings of little girls whose faces are round and sweet, yet stubbornly unreadable. It takes a moment to notice the unease – the colours are bright, but the girls never smile, not with their mouths nor their eyes. That absence becomes the point. These works imagine children who inherit a world already damaged, a place where innocence exists but can’t quite shield them from the ruin beneath. Their painted stillness feels familiar because it mirrors the way we carry on, in a time where catastrophe has become background noise. The paintings offer a pause, a reminder that happiness may have to be excavated rather than found. Until August 3. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

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PYMK The Exhibition

Things to do
Charoenkrung
Until Aug 17, 2025

Photograph: Thailand Creative & Design Center

People You May Know, the podcast that drifts between humour and hard truth, has slipped off the airwaves and into something physical. In collaboration with AP Thailand, FAROSE Studio presents an exhibition that reimagines historical legacy as something both tactile and oddly intimate. You walk through rooms divided not by time or region, but by impact. The Visionaries. The Bridge Builders. The Hidden Figures. The Revolutionaries. It’s not a history lesson – it’s a curated encounter with those who nudged the world forward, whether the spotlight found them or not. At the entrance, you’re handed a copy of The Class of the Rich (Stories) and a green highlighter – an invitation to choose your own icons, quietly, without ceremony. Until August 17. Free. TCDC, 10.30am-7pm

Epiphytes

Things to do
Charoenkrung
Until Aug 7, 2025

Photograph: Julia Phetra Oborne

Julia Phetra Oborne’s latest series weaves together oil paintings that dwell in the quiet space between women and trees, memory and myth, landscape and identity. Epiphytes takes root in stories whispered through woodlands, where the female form slips through shadows and light, both seen and half-hidden. Drawing from her Thai-British heritage, Oborne treats the forest as a shifting terrain – familiar yet unknowable – a place where personal histories and ancient tales intertwine. The title nods to plants that grow on others, much like the layered canvases themselves, which accumulate marks that both reveal and conceal. Inspired by ritual and the Buddhist legend of the Nariphon – trees bearing fruit shaped like women – these works become more than images. They are living surfaces where past and present meet, unspooling their tangled stories with quiet intensity. July 26-August 7. Free. Supple Gallery, 11am-6pm

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In Another Space

Things to do
Rattanakosin
Until Aug 31, 2025

Photograph: MATDOT Art Centre

In Another Space feels like a whispered conversation between two minds entwined yet distinct, a dialogue painted across canvases that echo shared dreams and quietly entwined lives. Sadaf and R.M. Naeem trace motifs that ripple through their work – nature, memory and identity – each brushstroke conjuring connection and divergence. Rooted in their Pakistani heritage yet unbound by it, the pair embrace disruption as a kind of freedom. R.M. Naeem’s self-description as ‘international citizens of the world’ isn’t empty rhetoric but a call to rethink belonging beyond borders and history. Their paintings unfold like a ritual – Sadaf’s canvases pulse with foliage caught in rain, while R.M. opens the sky, sunlight piercing through. Together they map a landscape where heritage yields to selfhood and possibility dawns anew. Until August 31. Free. MATDOT Art Centre, 10am-6pm

Tree of Life

Things to do
Rattanakosin
Until Aug 31, 2025

Photograph: MATDOT Art Centre

Sculpted from wood and shaped by scientific observation, Peerapong biomorphic forms straddle the line between relic and warning, tangled in the quiet grief of ecological collapse. These aren’t merely artworks; they are elegies for forests cleared, rivers choked, soil stripped bare. Deforestation, monoculture, pollution – they seep through the grain like ghosts. Originally rooted in Northern Thailand, the sculptures have been lifted from earth to concrete, now standing uneasily within the sterile geometry of a gallery. They appear both sacred and displaced – like offerings misplaced on the wrong altar. The installation turns the white cube into a kind of greenhouse, less for growth than reflection. What does it mean, they seem to ask, when nature must be framed to be noticed at all? Until August 31. Free. MATDOT Art Centre, 10am-6pm

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.