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

Cruise with your chosen ones on the Chao Phraya

Things to do
Bang Phlat
Until Oct 1, 2025

Photograph: Navika

While many cruises ply the Chao Phraya River, sometimes it’s nicer to have a private boat where you can enjoy the magic without sharing it with strangers. Navika Cruise offers just that. It is a yacht exclusively for your private event. With space for up to 20 guests, you can customise your experience with a variety of food and drinks, from canapes and cocktails to Thai and Western cuisine, served either as a multi-course meal or buffet. The yacht comes fully equipped with everything you need, including two bathrooms, karaoke and life jackets. Whatever your schedule or style, you can design the cruise to fit your perfect moment, creating a personalised experience on the river. Starts at B65,900 (up to 20 guests). Reserve via 084-499-9122. Within 2 hours.

Do Sundays right with Beyond Brunch

Things to do
Surawong
Until Oct 1, 2025

Photograph: Le Méridien Bangkok

Sundays are made for slowing down, but Le Méridien Bangkok gives you a reason to get out of bed. The hotel’s Beyond Brunch at Latest Recipe blends Thai culinary traditions with European heritage for a feast worth waking up for. Expect interactive chef stations using locally sourced ingredients from across Thailand, with highlights including foie gras spring rolls, northern khao soi and wagyu beef. And as if that’s not enough, reserving your table through Sevenrooms unlocks weekly surprises. Each Sunday brings a new perk and if you swing by on the third week of the month with three friends, your brunch will be topped off with a complimentary bottle of Marinette Raclot Champagne. Starts at B1,799. Reserve via here. Latest Recipe, Le Méridien Bangkok, 12pm-3pm.

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Mitta del Santi

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Nov 30, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok Kunsthalle

Ploenchan ‘Mook’ Vinyaratn has turned Bangkok Kunsthalle into a space where weaving isn’t just craft, it’s conversation. Her most ambitious institutional installation to date reimagines fragments of past textile works, letting textures, colours and forms collide in ways that feel both deliberate and accidental. The building itself – once the Thai Wattana Panich printing house – anchors the work, with 399 circular fabric pieces echoing its original logo, each stamped with words from children’s books once produced on-site. Collaborating with other Thai women, Vinyaratn deconstructs looms and rebuilds them into monumental forms, creating works that pulse with collective memory, resilience and quiet audacity. By the time you leave, the fragments have stitched themselves into a living narrative, a reminder that history, imagination and community can fold seamlessly into one. September 26-November 30. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

Only I Am You, Then I Became You

Things to do
Phrom Phong
Until Nov 8, 2025

Photograph: sacbangkok

Jiajia Qi arrives in Bangkok with her first solo exhibition in Thailand, but this isn’t a simple retrospective or a neat display of greatest hits. Supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Thailand, the show stretches across her past works and new experiments, each piece circling back to her obsession with place and the slippery ways it shapes us. The framework leans into Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s idea of ‘nomadic thought’ where history isn’t pinned down and geography refuses to play by institutional rules. It’s less about tidy narratives and more about movement, flux and the sensation of being caught in between. Expect to leave with the feeling you’ve wandered somewhere unfamiliar, yet strangely close. September 25-November 8. Free. SAC Gallery, 10am-6pm

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The River of Kings Koriyama Experience at Siam Yacht Club

Things to do
Charoenkrung
Until Nov 30, 2025

Photograph: Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Bangkok

Dining while watching the sun set over the Chao Phraya River is already a draw at Siam Yacht Club at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Bangkok. But now, the experience goes even further with the River of Kings Koriyama Experience, a limited-time culinary celebration. From now until November, the menu spotlights premium Wagyu beef from Koriyama, Japan, prepared with refined French-Japanese fusion techniques. Renowned for its delicate marbling, rich flavour and sustainable sourcing, the beef takes centre-stage in four creations. Highlights include Koriyama cold roasted beef (starting at B998), served with sake, mirin, soy sauce, dashi, ginger, Szechuan chili, white onion and daikon, and Koriyama spice-grilled Wagyu beef (starting at B2,298), paired with macerated Japanese cucumber, vanilla-beef jus, charcoal oil and butternut puree. Savour the sunset, indulge in Wagyu and let the river set the scene for a night of culinary delight. Until November 30. Stats at B998. Reserve via LINE ID:@siamyachtclub or 02-266-0123. Siam Yacht Club, Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Bangkok, 5pm-10.30pm.

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Unveiling Leather: The Language of Modularity

Things to do
Charoenkrung
Until Dec 7, 2025

Photograph: MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art

Leather has always been more than surface – it carries memory, texture, even contradiction. Unveiling Leather: The Language of Modularity gathers seven artists to test just how far that thought can stretch. Here, leather isn’t draped neatly over chairs but stitched, folded, bent and layered until it becomes structure, not skin. Some works recall architectural precision, sharp and geometric, while others surrender to the material’s natural instincts, twisting and flexing into forms that feel almost alive. The exhibition lingers on modularity, on how shapes adapt as easily as lives do, shifting to meet new spaces and new demands. There’s tradition woven through each piece – craftsmanship and heritage intact – but the focus tilts firmly toward the present, where innovation and imagination tug leather into uncharted terrain. September 20-December 7. Free. Four Seasons ART Space by MOCA Bangkok, 10.30am-7.30pm

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Cosmic Corals

Things to do
Rattanakosin
Until Nov 15, 2025

Photograph: Shereif Eldesouky

Shereif Eldesouky’s new exhibition is a meditation on how we break apart and find our way back. The Egyptian mixed-media artist, now based in Bangkok, draws on memory and sibling love, framing both as fragile yet astonishingly resilient. His chosen metaphor is the reef: sometimes bleached, sometimes reborn, always in flux. The pieces trace cycles of sorrow and repair, suggesting that the same emotional currents that pull us away can, in time, return us to one another. Eldesouky mirrors this in his process, painting, dismantling, then reassembling fragments into forms that speak of survival and renewal. It’s at once personal and planetary, asking us to see our own bonds in the same light as coral – vulnerable, but never beyond revival. September 20-November 15. Free. Bangkok 1899, 11am-6pm

Adventure in Eighty-Two x Forty Planet

Things to do
Silom
Until Oct 5, 2025

Photograph: KYLA Gallery

Kajonsak Rungsuriyan’s latest exhibition doesn’t so much tell a story as stage a parable. It begins on a nameless planet, a place both strange and eerily ordinary, where life once moved in lockstep with the natural world. Over centuries, though, harmony curdled into quiet destruction. The inhabitants learned to take until taking felt normal, a pattern passed down like heirlooms, too familiar to question. Kajonsak calls this imagined world Eighty-Two x Forty. Its people see not depletion but the smallness of their own desires, as if narrow vision were a form of survival. Spend long enough there, the artist suggests, and even you might accept it, even like it. The exhibition asks a disquieting question: at what point does complicity stop feeling like choice? Until October 5. Free. KYLA Gallery and Wine Bar, 3pm-midnight

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Banana Ghost

Things to do
Phrom Phong
Until Nov 8, 2025

Photograph: SAC Gallery

Tintin Cooper has a way of holding up a mirror that doesn’t flatter but fascinates. Her latest exhibition peers at Thailand and Southeast Asia through the eyes of outsiders, before flipping the lens back onto locals negotiating endless waves of tourism, migration and the cliches both sides quietly cling to. Here, the works are stitched together from the messy fabric of online life: animal memes, TikTok clips of holidaymakers misbehaving, ‘passport bro’ forums and Thai news headlines. Cooper treats this digital chaos as autobiography, shaped by a childhood spent adapting to languages and gestures that were never quite her own. Even the titles read like cultural fragments. One canvas lifts from Matichon’s bleak June headline I’m Ok, Not Ok, while another lovingly immortalises Moo Deng, Thailand’s internet-famous pygmy hippo, as if memes were scripture. Until November 8. Free. SAC Gallery, 11am-6pm

1 Day 1,000 Pictures

Things to do
Prawet
Until Nov 19, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Art Destination

Imagine walking into a room flooded with red, green and blue – pure light, stripped to its essentials, yet somehow unfamiliar. That’s the entry point for this exhibition, which brings together 1,000 photographs chosen from an open call, each one a tiny spark in a bigger conversation. Here, though, it’s treated like raw material for storytelling. The result feels less like a gallery and more like stepping into a prism, where photographs don’t hang politely but spill out in waves of colour. It’s part archive, part experiment, and entirely immersive – a reminder that photography is still finding new ways to reinvent how we look. Until October 19. Free. Mun Mun 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.