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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 Beautiful Mess of Being Awake

Things to do
PrawetUntil Aug 31, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Srinakarin

Grief doesn’t arrive with answers. It lingers, shapeless and slow, stretching hours into something unfamiliar. In this quiet, deliberate space, sorrow isn’t a wound to conceal but a landscape to walk through – cautiously, without urgency. Here, pain isn’t romanticised. It’s examined. The artist maps the terrain between collapse and repair, using canvas, steel, wood – materials that refuse to flinch. Human forms are bent, fragmented, almost blurred out. Objects warp. Landscapes ache. Oil paintings sit beside finely carved panels and cold metal surfaces, as if to remind us that emotion, too, can take form. It’s not about healing in the usual sense. More like learning to live beside the weight. To let loss reshape how we see, without demanding we move on. Some beauty asks nothing. It simply stays. Until August 31. Free. MMAD at MunMun Srinakarin Alexgust Gallery, 10.30am-9.30pm

Odette x Chai Jia Chai

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Phrom PhongUntil Jul 13, 2025

Photograph: Chai Jia Chai

Some dinners aren’t meals so much as murmurs – memories half-remembered, translated into texture and temperature. Chai Jia Chai plays host to Chef Naka Xiong and Head Sommelier Lesley Liu of Odette, that precise, three-starred cathedral of French technique nestled in Singapore’s National Gallery. But here, in the hush of Bangkok, the pair conjure something else entirely. Think Manchu-Han banquet by way of Burgundy, with ingredients that feel smuggled from another century. The menu reads like a dream folded into lacquered pages: brittle, delicate, slightly untranslatable. Over two nights, cuisine becomes conversation. July 12-13. Starts at B16,800. Reserve via 093-117-1909. Chai Jia Chai, 6.30pm onwards

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Bangkok by the Canal

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RattanakosinUntil Jul 13, 2025

Photograph: Cultural District Bangkok

For one weekend, the backstreets breathe again. There are ghost walkshops that feel like memory dressed up in shadow, art talks that blur into therapy, and work walkshops that ask what it means to create beside water that remembers more than we do. This isn’t just urban renewal. It’s a slow reclaiming – of space, of self, of stories that never made it onto plaques. The canal isn’t a backdrop. It’s the collaborator. And maybe, just maybe, it’s listening. July 11-13. Free. Register via here. Ong Ang Canal, 4pm-8pm

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Unconditional Love

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PrawetUntil Jul 31, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Srinakarin

In this series of paintings, the artist doesn’t just sketch fur or bone. They map something else entirely: the unspoken bond between species, the ache of being unseen, the warmth that follows being held. Inspired by animals left behind, these works don’t shout. They murmur. They ask gentle, devastating things – ‘Have I ever been loved?’ – and still, they refuse to accuse. What emerges is not pity, but reverence. A soft insistence that even in ruin, affection remains. 20 percent of the proceeds support The Hope Thailand Foundation. Until July 31. Free. Alexgust Gallery, MMAD at MunMun Srinakarin, 10.30am-9.30pm

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(another) SIDE BY (another) SIDE

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Phaya ThaiUntil Jul 27, 2025

Photograph: GalileOasis Gallery

This exhibition unfolds around the simple phrase ‘side by side’ – a meditation on the selves we are and the ones we might have been. At its heart is Mr. Halfman, a storyteller from a parallel universe, weaving tales where opposites don’t clash but converse, where different choices exist in harmony. It’s less about regret and more about curiosity – an invitation to wander these twin worlds, to embrace moments of joy, calm and connection. In this space between what is and what could have been, we find room to breathe, to love and to live entirely on our own terms. July 5-27. Free. GalileOasis Gallery, 10am-7pm

Thainosaur

Things to do
RattanakosinUntil Nov 2, 2025

Photograph: Museum Pier

There’s a curious magic in stepping back millions of years – a chance to wander a world before ours, where giant creatures roamed freely. This event offers just that: an immersive trek alongside Thai dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts, as if the clock has unwound to a forgotten era. Each step pulls you deeper into a landscape shaped by colossal terrestrial rulers, their shadows still lingering in the imagination. It’s less a simple exhibition and more a portal to ancient earth, where awe and curiosity collide. For anyone who’s ever been fascinated by the primeval, this is an invitation to experience wonder unfiltered – a rare glimpse of a world lost but never forgotten. July 1-November 2. B150-350 at the door. Museum Pier, 10am-6pm

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Calligraphic Abstraction

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YaowaratUntil Jul 13, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok Kunsthalle

There are artists who write, and then there’s Tang Chang – Bangkok-born, Sino-Thai, who dissolved the boundary altogether. For Chang, language wasn’t a tool so much as a presence, flickering somewhere between gesture and breath. At Calligraphic Abstraction, now at Bangkok Kunsthalle, his paintings refuse to be pinned down. Made between 1971 and 1972 – two blisteringly productive years – the works occupy a space where script becomes spirit, and symbols resist being named. Characters hover on the brink of recognition, echoing Chinese forms but never settling into clarity. Others mimic the cadence of poetry, stripped of words but still pulsing with rhythm. There’s a sort of devotion in it – though not to meaning. The line itself becomes the prayer, trembling between what can be read and what can only be felt. Until July 13. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 6pm-8pm

Living Lines

Art
YaowaratUntil Jul 18, 2025

Photograph: Art Focus Bangkok

Tomoaki Murayama doesn’t draw animals, he conjures them. In his first solo exhibition in Thailand, the Japanese artist offers a quiet kind of magic – dense, monochrome worlds where owls share space with octopuses, where roots tangle with antlers, and where the line between things blurs into something softer. Born in Kyoto, Murayama takes the forest not just as subject but as philosophy: an ecosystem without borders, where everything touches everything else, eventually. His drawings – intricate to the point of near obsession – reward slowness. What first appears decorative reveals layers, like moss on bark or veins in a leaf. The sculptures feel like those same lines, suddenly upright and breathing. Even the gallery space resists separation. Creatures perch near eye level, tucked into corners, watching. It’s not just an exhibition. It’s a quiet argument against division. Until July 18. Free. Art Focus Bangkok, Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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Hidden in Plein Sight

Art
CharoenkrungUntil Aug 2, 2025

Photograph: WarinLab

We like to think we’re in charge. That materials yield, that objects sit still until we say otherwise. But in this quietly unsettling series, plastic plays the lead. Heat-pressed and layered without brush or pigment, the works imitate landscape – clouds, coastlines, meadows – but it’s the plastic itself doing the talking. Its texture, tint and surface are left intact, unpredictable. The artist doesn’t command so much as collaborate, allowing the material to behave on its own terms. There’s something eerie about it. Familiar forms lure you in – pretty, even pastoral – until you notice the imprint of packaging, the echo of something disposable that refuses to vanish. The illusion fractures. Plastic, once obedient, now lingers, insists, performs. And we, the audience, are left to reckon with a world where the artificial no longer takes instruction. It simply stays. Until August 2. Free. Warin Lab Contemporary, 10.30-7.30pm

Re > Birth

Art
YaowaratUntil Jul 20, 2025

Photograph: Burgbarnburi

Rebirth rarely arrives with fanfare. More often, it smoulders quietly – like ash cooling after fire, or something green pushing up through scorched soil. At TAY Songwat, spread across the second and third floors, an interactive 4D exhibition leans into this quiet insistence on beginning again. Rooted in the aftermath of destruction, the work draws from wildfires – unruly, raw – and the complex part humans play in both their ignition and their healing. But this isn’t a lecture in disguise. It’s intimate, unsettling, occasionally tender. Two major installations invite the body in, while video guides offer something closer to a conversation than instruction. Hope is there, just not in pastel. It’s in the invitation to reflect, to return to something elemental, and maybe – just maybe – to begin again, even if it’s only with a thought. Until July 20. Free. TAY Songwat, 9.30am-5.30pm

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.