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

It’s Nice to Wonder

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CharoenkrungJul 1Jul 13, 2025

Photograph: Neighbourmart

Bangkok is a city of questions. Why is there a lamppost planted squarely in the middle of the footpath? Who designs those corner-shop signs that somehow read like poetry? If this city had a hero, what would they wear – spandex or flip-flops? Some wonder and move on. Others lose sleep, haunted by crooked laundry racks and perfectly improvised awnings. Neighbourmart is made for the latter – the quietly obsessed, the delightfully curious. With Neighbour Next Door, now in its third edition, the shop floor becomes a thinking space. Not lofty or abstract, but rooted in what’s just outside the door. Talks, walks, workshops – each one an invitation to zoom in, dig deeper, and maybe even find answers. Or at least better questions. Until Jul 13. Free. Neighbourmart, TCDC Bangkok, 10.30am-7pm

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YaowaratJul 1Aug 17, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok Kunsthalle

Once a printing house, now a memory pressed between tiled floors and wooden stools – this exhibition remembers Thai Wattana Panich not just as a building, but as a beating heart of knowledge production. Tucked in the centre of Bangkok, it served as a quiet engine of authority, where language wasn’t simply used but standardised. Today, the show asks what happens when the direction shifts – when words don’t trickle down from textbooks, but bubble up from tweets, slang and subtitled memes. It’s not just about nostalgia; it’s about power, who holds it, and who gets to redefine it. In one room, a narrow reading space mirrors cramped living quarters. Visitors must squat to read. It’s a subtle nod to who language once excluded, and who now rewrites the rules from the bottom up. There are games, too. Of course. Until Aug 17. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

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MINICANA x Chanintr Pre-Owned

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Nong KhaemUntil Jul 3, 2025

Photograph: mocana.exhibits

This isn’t interested in shiny newness. It’s more about resonance. About pieces that carry memory, not just style. From June 27-July 3, this pop-up market in Bangkok becomes less showroom, more living archive. MINICANA, making its city debut, teams up with Chanintr’s expertly chosen pre-owned collections to host a week of curated disorder: spatial experiments, quiet revelations, and the soft chaos of creative exchange. It all kicks off with an almost-party on Industry Night – NotAFashionShow unfolds alongside Charmkok’s strange and beautiful bites, with workshops drifting somewhere nearby. RomRom Takeover follows, all rhythm and disorder, then Slow Shop Sunday dials the volume back down. Between June 30 and July 2, the space becomes a quiet showroom again until July 3, when everything is priced to leave and nothing stays put. Jun 27-Jul 3. B999 (industry night) and B555 (RomRom takeover) via here. Chanintr Pop-Up Market, 7pm onwards

Bangkok LGBTQ+ Film Festival

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YenarkatUntil Jul 6, 2025

Photograph: Enfant Terrible (2020)

This festival doesn’t try to define queer cinema. It simply lets it speak. Curated by Baturu, a collective that believes art doesn’t need permission to be political, the programme spans fifteen films from across continents – Nepal to New Zealand, France to the Philippines. The stories aren’t stitched together by genre or tone, but by their refusal to shrink. They don’t beg for tolerance. They breathe, ache, kiss, leave. Screenings unfold across Bangkok – from the Goethe-Institut to Buffalo Bridge Gallery – while Chiang Mai sees parallel gatherings hosted by Sapphic Riot and Some Space. Expect talks, workshops, unlikely connections. Expect joy that doesn’t need to explain itself. Jun 27-Jul 6. Check the schedule here. Free. Goethe-Institut Thailand

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Santi Library

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RattanakosinUntil Jul 13, 2025

Photograph: Blacklist Gallery

Between 1991 and 1996, Tawatchai Somkong was quietly crafting a visual language all his own. His 16 chosen art books, culled from a wider archive of 23, capture a world of symbolic abstraction born during his studies at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, India. The exhibition unfolds like a whispered dialogue between faiths, where religious icons collide and merge in unexpected ways. Over 2,000 images map a journey of beauty and belief, revealing the artist’s deep spiritual reckoning. It’s less a straightforward show and more an immersive meditation on identity, faith and the power of symbols to shape our inner landscapes – a haunting visual hymn to complexity and devotion. Until Jul 13. Free. Blacklist Gallery, 10am-4pm

Coming of Aging

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YaowaratUntil Jul 16, 2025

Photograph: River City Bangkok

It’s a quiet panic that comes with growing older – not just the creaky knees or the birthday candles multiplying like bacteria, but the silence around it. Coming of Aging, an experiential exhibition by Eyedropper Fill, doesn’t try to soothe that discomfort. Instead, it invites you to sit with it. Think less anti-ageing cream, more existential unpacking. Through three immersive zones, visitors are nudged to consider ageing not as a decline, but as a shift – inevitable, complex and deeply human. In a world obsessed with FOMO (the fear of missing out), a subtler fear creeps in: FOGO, the fear of getting old, now bubbling up in Gen Z timelines and TikTok laments. This exhibition doesn’t offer neat resolutions. But it does ask the question we tend to avoid: what if ageing isn’t the enemy, but just another way of becoming? Until Jul 16. Free. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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Petals of Identity: Cities in Bloom

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CharoenkrungUntil Jul 6, 2025

Photograph: Petals of Identity

Somewhere between a botanical archive and a love letter to overlooked symbols, this exhibition asks: what if flowers weren’t just decorative but deeply political? Chiang Mai’s flame of the forest, Khon Kaen’s golden shower, Ratchaburi’s pink cassia and Pattani’s hibiscus are plucked from provincial emblems and thrust into the present, reframed through sculpture, installation and graphic forms. Each bloom becomes a portal – to place, memory, even protest – hinting at what it means to belong to a region, and how nature codes itself into the fabric of everyday life. Across four immersive zones, the show leans into nostalgia and community, challenging the way we see flora in urban contexts. This is not your auntie's flower show. It’s a quiet reconsideration of identity, told petal by petal. Until 6 Jul. Free. TCDC, 10.30am-7pm

Take the plunge at Dip Garden Onsen

Health and beauty
AriUntil Jul 31, 2025

Photograph: Dip Garden Onsen and Ice Bath

Ari’s Dip Garden Onsen is Bangkok’s wellness wildcard – part urban oasis, part social sauna club. Tucked behind a leafy façade, the space mixes Japanese-style onsen, cold plunges and heat therapy with yoga, breathwork and lo-fi sound sessions. Every weekend, locals and expats gather for a sesh followed by post-sauna drinks in a cozy garden vibe. Authentic and unpretentious, Dip Garden Onsen doubles as a community hub. No Guru, no grandiose claims – just a place to sweat, soak and reconnect. Whether you're curious about ice baths or just need a thermal reset, Dip Garden Onsen delivers something richer than a spa day – raw relaxation grounded in community and simplicity. Everyday. B500 for weekdays and B750 for weekends via here. Dip Garden Onsen and Ice Bath, 11am onwards

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Memoirs of Lanna

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Phrom PhongUntil Jun 16, 2026

Photograph: 137 Pillars Suites and Residences Bangkok

Afternoon tea, reimagined through the lens of Chiang Mai’s rich heritage, arrives in Bangkok with a quiet flourish. This collaboration captures the essence of Northern Thailand – not in grand gestures, but in the subtle details. Each bite draws from the region’s fresh farm produce, transforming traditional flavours into delicate savoury and sweet morsels that feel both familiar and surprising. Alongside freshly baked scones and house-made jam, Monsoon Tea pours warmth into the ritual. Meanwhile, SARRAN’s new jewellery collection takes its cues from Chiang Mai’s delicate flowers, offering wearable art that echoes the tea’s quiet elegance. Led by Executive Chef Korawit Rungchat, the team crafts more than a meal – it’s an invitation to slow down, savour, and soak in a little of the north’s gentle magic, all without leaving the city. Jun 16-Jun 16 2026. Starts at B2,400. Baan Borneo Club, 137 Pillars Suites and Residences Bangkok, 1pm-5pm

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Sense of SCRUBB

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PrawetUntil Aug 12, 2025

Photograph: scrubb

Scrubb has always been more feeling than formula – music that lingers in the in-between. Sense of SCRUBB is an exhibition that attempts to capture this atmosphere without relying on sound alone. It opens with delicate works on canvas and clay, fragments offered up by artists who’ve sat with the band’s music long enough to translate it visually. Then come the words – short stories and poems penned by fellow musicians, tucked with half-remembered nights and soft melancholies. There’s even a scent, faint and fleeting, crafted to recall melody without needing to name it. Visitors are invited to speak too, to voice what Scrubb stirs in them. But the real question sits quietly behind it all – how do others see this band, and what does that reflection reveal? Intimate, unfussy, the exhibition closes with a casual talk session featuring Ball and Muey, surrounded by the art they inspired without ever having to ask for it. Jun 13-Aug 12. Free. MMAD - MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-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.