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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

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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The Taste of Sovereign Australia

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Khlong Toei
Sep 19Sep 28, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park

There are steaks and then there are steaks that carry a story. Sovereign Australian lamb is one of them, raised in Victoria’s pastures, lauded with a Gold Award at this year’s Royal Queensland Awards and now making its way to Bangkok. For 10 days only, Goji Kitchen + Bar at Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park will serve it across the buffet line, with guest chef Alexander Major from Sydney’s Palazzo Salato on hand. On the Parilla Grill, lamb cutlets, T-bones and rump steaks are charred to smoky perfection, while Thai-style shoulders, livers and kidneys lean into bolder flavours. At a dedicated live station, Chef Alexander turns to Italy for inspiration. Goji being Goji, the lamb sits alongside its usual excess: mountains of seafood on ice, sushi and sashimi, cheeses, cold cuts and desserts worth lingering over. September 19-28. Starts at B1,899. Reserve via 02-059-5999 or restaurant-reservations.bkkqp@marriotthotels.com. Goji Kitchen + Bar.

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Adventure in Eighty-Two x Forty Planet

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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

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

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Krung Thep Creative Streets

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Sep 21, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok Art City

Bangkok doesn’t exactly need more colour, but this September it’s getting a fresh coat anyway. As part of European Heritage Days 2025, the French Embassy and Sawasdee France are pulling off something unusual: pairing the city’s centuries-old corners with the boldness of contemporary street art. The plan is straightforward but ambitious. Over in Charoen Krung, Talat Noi, South Sathon, Surawong and Lumpini, Thai and European artists will transform blank walls into sprawling murals, the kind that quietly shift how a neighbourhood feels. You can wander by each day and watch as the images unfold, spray by spray. There’s also a seminar on September 18 at the Grand Post Office, where curator Alisa Phommahaxay unravels how artists like JR and Christo turn concrete into conversation. Until September 21. Free. Talad Noi and surrounding areas.

Irish Dance and Social Party

Things to do
Phrom Phong
Sep 18, 2025

Photograph: O’Shea’s Irish Sports Bar and Restaurant

Fancy a night of foot-stomping tunes and laughter? Pull on your dancing shoes or simply come along to soak up the atmosphere – everyone’s welcome. Come September they’re hosting a Social Ceili Night, an evening where Irish tradition bursts into life with energetic fiddle and bodhran music, circle and line dances that even first-timers can enjoy and a real sense of community warmth. No previous skills required –they’ll teach every step from scratch, moving together to jigs and reels as the room fills with smiles and good vibes. It’s an opportunity to try something new, chat over local drinks, discover the joy of stepping in time with strangers turned friends and lose yourself in music so alive it pulses through the floorboards. September 18. B250. Register via here. O’Shea’s Rooftop, 8.30pm onwards

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Better Look Market

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Phloen Chit
Until Sep 30, 2025

Photograph: Open House at Central Embassy

The second round of Better Look Market isn’t your usual shopping detour. Born from a team-up between Open House at Central Embassy and Loopers, it feels less like a pop-up and more like a nudge toward doing things differently. The idea is simple: tiny changes stack up, and suddenly you’re living with less waste, more care and a bit of flair. All September, you’ll find a line-up of conversations, workshops and stalls that make sustainability feel less like homework and more like discovery. The highlight zone hosts over 30 small brands – local names with big ideas about quality and conscious living. You might come for the tote bags or refillable bits, but the real takeaway is the sense that greener living doesn’t have to be grim. Until September 30. Free. Open House, Central Embassy, 10am-10pm

Making Matters

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Sep 21, 2025

Photograph: Baan Trok Tua Ngork

In an age where a picture can be generated faster than you can boil a kettle, the idea of slowing down to actually ‘make’ something feels almost radical. That’s the question at the heart of Baan Trok Tua Ngork’s 2025 In-Residence programme, aptly titled Making Matters. This time, it’s the turn of Thyme Neelaphanakul – also known as Blue in Green – a multidisciplinary artist with a habit of coaxing meaning out of rocks, flowers, even the dust beneath our shoes. For this residency, Thyme turns to fire, both as metaphor and material, reshaping nature’s raw edges into something else entirely. Expect two weeks of live studio work, where the process is laid bare, followed by an exhibition stitched together from a month’s worth of experimentation. Until September 21. Free. Baan Trok Tua Ngork, 10am-10pm

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1 Day 1,000 Pictures

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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

Starfy Universe

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Oct 5, 2025

Photograph: Trendy Gallery

Meet Starfy, a starfish with amnesia and a restless urge to look skyward. For Korean artist Lee Yeonwoo, this lost little creature isn’t just a toy – it’s a mirror. Starfy Universe, his first solo show, transforms the character into paintings and hand-painted sculptures that double as fragments of autobiography. The story goes like this: Starfy wakes beneath the night sky, unsure of who they are, but convinced those distant lights might hold the answer. From there begins a cosmic wander, shape-shifting to survive whatever world comes next. It’s whimsical, yes, but also quietly profound. Every piece folds back onto Lee himself, tracing resilience, longing and the strange comfort of reinvention. Think less cartoon mascot, more alter ego navigating the chaos of memory and identity. Until October 5. Free. Trendy Gallery, River City Bangkok, 10am-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.