The best things to do in Bangkok this weekend (October 2-4)

Doc Club & Friends has settled into the second floor of Cloud 11 with a 34-seat cinema and plenty of reasons to linger afterwards. Run by Documentary Club, it screens documentaries, independent films and alternative cinema, with a multipurpose space for talks and filmmaker gatherings. Outside the screening room, there’s a lounge and a shop selling film books, posters and merchandise. At the entrance, Drink Club & Friends serves coffee and cocktails – you can drop in for a drink even if you’re skipping the film. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi Exit 6 and check the programme before picking your seat.

Daily. Screening times and tickets. Cloud 11, second floor. 11am-midnight

Your unread pile is about to get taller. Big Bad Wolf returns to Platinum Pop, formerly The Market Bangkok, for its tenth anniversary in Thailand, with more than 1 million books and discounts of up to 95 percent across two floors. Browse children’s books, cookbooks, photobooks, design tomes and translated fiction, with doors open until midnight for anyone who takes their browsing seriously. The advance preview also lists Game of Thrones board games, special-edition box sets and audiobook CDs, with Harry Potter wizard’s chess sets reportedly in this year’s haul. Check what’s available on the day if you’re hunting a particular collectable.

October 2-13. Free entry. Platinum Pop, opposite centralwOrld. 10am-midnight

Give yourself time to rummage at NIC Factory Vintage Flea Market. Mid-century tables, classic chairs, home décor and harder-to-find collectables sit alongside one-off pieces from different eras and cultures. The setting is part of the draw: NIC Factory Charoenkrung 74 occupies a former tobacco warehouse by the Chao Phraya River, with weathered industrial details that suit a day of vintage hunting. Arrive early if you want first pick.

New York DJ and producer Eric Duncan, aka Dr Dunks, takes over the decks for the ninth edition of Siwilai Soundsystem at Discotheque, Siwilai Radical Club. Expect disco, house, funk and Balearic grooves from a selector with three decades in the underground scene. Duncan is one half of Rub-N-Tug with Thomas Bullock and also records as Still Going with Liv Spencer, with releases on DFA Records. The speaker stacks sit just a few steps from the booth. His remix credits include Grace Jones, LCD Soundsystem,  Roxy Music, Coldplay and Todd Terje.

October 2. B400-500 online; check current tiers and door price when booking. Siwilai Radical Club, Thong Lor. From 9pm

Bangkok Climate Action Week returns for its second year with more than 320 events under the theme ‘Economy We Shape, Climate We Share’. Lumphini Park is the main hub, hosting climate talks, local perspectives, art and live music each evening from 4.30pm-8pm. Across the city, look for workshops, exhibitions and discussions on green jobs, finance and fairer economic systems. The Asia’s Next Economies Forum brings policymakers, businesses and civil society together to consider Southeast Asia’s economic future.

October 3-11. Free entry. Various Bangkok venues. See the full programme here

The Shed City Farmer Market brings local food, home bakers, organic produce, art and independent goods to Sukhumvit 26 for two days. On October 3, artist Makarat ‘Tap’ Taveechon of ToSmile gives a talk and paints live. On October 4, makers from Ubon Ratchathani and Mae Hong Son lead a community talk and tasting of sato, a Thai rice wine. There are vase-painting and aroma roller oil workshops too, plus live music and DJ sets throughout the weekend.

October 3-4. Free entry. The Shed Bangkok, Sukhumvit 26. 1pm-9pm

Most Saturdays come with a phone buzzing through brunch, a market or an exhibition. Under the Tree Club asks for a book and a patch of grass instead. Created by Phnom Penh-based YEP Academy, its first session is scheduled for October 3 in Lumphini Park. Arrive at 3.30pm, switch off your phone and settle beneath a rain tree. Afterwards, readers gather to share a favourite line, plot twist or passing thought in Thai or English, with no obligation to speak. Bring your own snacks and an umbrella; water refills are provided. The group plans monthly meetings with a different activity each time. Places are capped at 30, so register ahead.

October 3, then the first Saturday of each month. Free entry; registration required. Lumphini Park. 3.30pm-5.30pm

MILLI brings her first solo Asia concert tour to Samyan Mitrtown Hall. The YUPP! rapper, who famously took mango sticky rice to Coachella, tours across eight countries and regions: Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand. Jaa Ehh! Asia Tour 2026 draws on her albums BABB BUM BUM and HEAVYWEIGHT, taking its name from ‘JAA EHH’, a track on the latter. MILLI describes the tour as the start of a wider international journey; for Bangkok fans, it’s a chance to hear her rap, big beats and playful delivery in a full solo show.

October 3. Registered student tickets B1,700; other tickets up to B2,900: VIP package B4,500. Tickets and eligibility. Samyan Mitrtown Hall. 6pm

Filmmakers, producers and critics from South and Southeast Asia gather at Alliance Française Bangkok for The Future in the Frame, an afternoon of queer cinema and regional film exchange. Organised by QueerFrames Screenwriting Lab with the Embassy of France in Thailand, Alliance Française Bangkok and Purin Film Fund, the programme starts with a 2pm screening of A Useful Ghost, followed by a panel on building a sustainable queer film scene. Emerging and established practitioners discuss developing new talent, connecting filmmakers with the industry and creating opportunities for collaboration across borders. Entry is free, but register ahead.

October 3. Free entry: register here. Alliance Française. From 2pm  

One Beer: Hole in One puts craft beer on the driving-range agenda at Topgolf Megacity Bangna, with more than 50 craft beer brands and over 100 pours alongside food, live music and golf games. Organised by the Beer People team, fresh from its sato festival, the weekend includes an Angry Birds Golf challenge, with free beer for the highest score each hour. There are prize giveaways throughout both days, while the headline Hole in One challenge rewards a successful shot from under 100 metres with an advertised prize of 30 fee beers. Check the competition rules and redemption terms before taking your swing.

October 3-4. Regular entry: B250, including one prize-game entry. Tickets and packages. Topgolf Megacity Bangna. 3pm-11pm

Dib Bangkok’s second exhibition, Giving Life, brings together 160 works by 33 Thai and international artists, with Alexander Calder among the headline names. His suspended mobiles respond to air currents, turning sculpture into shifting forms. Elsewhere, salvaged machines, living plants and repurposed materials explore change, vulnerability and renewal. Calder’s work sits alongside Thai and Asian art, with pieces tracing developments in Thailand’s art scene during the 1970s. The museum has already earned a place on TIME magazine’s World’s Greatest Places 2026 list; give yourself enough time to see why people are paying attention.

September 26 2026-May 3 2027. B150-700, depending on ticket category; check eligibility when booking. Tickets. Dib Bangkok. 10am-7pm on opening days

Belgian photographer Alain Callebaut brings two bodies of work to Old Town Gallery. Bangkok Raw moves beyond familiar temple-and-skyline views into rain-soaked streets, narrow alleys, markets and bridges, catching everyday moments between the crowds. His second collection, Make Women Happy All Over the World, uses light and shadow to explore the human form, with the upstairs display of fine art nudes restricted to visitors aged 18 and over. A share of merchandise sales will support emerging local artists. Head to the October 4 opening from 3pm-6pm for a chance to meet Callebaut, or visit during the gallery hours throughout the month.

October 4-31. Free entry. Old Town Gallery. 10am-6pm; opening October 4, 3pm-6pm

Remember doodling in the margins of your school notebooks? A new interactive installation at bit.studio gallery, Doooodles, gives that familiar habit a communal twist. Pick up a marker, add your own sketches and watch the canvas change as other visitors join in. Unexpected connections form between everyone’s scribbles, with no training or carefully planned masterpiece required. Just grab a pen, let your imagination wander and see what happens when your drawing meets someone else’s.

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. B200-450. bit.studio gallery. 2pm-8pm

MOLLY marks 20 years with a Bangkok exhibition following earlier stops in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. The show traces the character’s story through Kenny Wong’s sketches, original artworks, drawings and figures from different periods, revealing how her identity has developed. Artists and craftspeople from different cultures also offer their own interpretations through painting, embroidery, paper-cutting, ceramics and traditional handicrafts. It’s a close-up look at MOLLY’s history up close, with contemporary art and cultural heritage sharing the gallery.

September 24-October 25. B290-390 via here. Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park.

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s new solo exhibition Love After Death combines video, performance documentation and scenes from a film shot in a disused cinema in Lopburi. Described as autofiction, the show reworks material from the Bangkok and New York-based artist’s earlier moving-image projects alongside fictional narration inspired by the Lanna legend of the Sihuhata, a mythical creature that eats coal and excretes gold. Arunanondchai has shown at MoMA PS1 and Palais de Tokyo and co-founded Ghost Foundation in 2018 to support video and performance art in Thailand.

September 25-November 14. Free entry. Bangkok Citycity Gallery. 1pm-6pm