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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

Treat yourself to ocean treasures at Chatrium Grand Bangkok

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Phaya Thai
Until Nov 30, 2025

Photograph: Chatrium Grand Bangkok

Oysters have long been one of the ocean’s most prized treasures, celebrated for their delicate flavour and luxurious appeal. This November, Chatrium Grand Bangkok invites you to savour the very best of the sea. Oyster Month: A Symphony of the Sea is a month-long culinary event spotlighting international masters, from Michelin-starred chefs to oyster-shucking champions. Highlights include Abby Zhang (China), Oyster Shucking Champion; Daniel Notkin (Canada), the renowned ‘Oyster King’; and Alvin Leung (Hong Kong), the two-Michelin-star ‘Demon Chef’, alongside expert mixologists pairing champagnes with oysters. Activities not to miss include a bubble and oyster party by the pool, complete with DJ beats and hosted by Vranken; a special bar takeover by Andrew Whibley on November 1 and an evening of Michelin-star excellence with a curated dinner set by Chef Alvin on November 2. November 1-30. Chatrium Grand Bangkok, Open daily 6.30am-10pm

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Explore L’On Bangkok where traditional Thai instruments meet live jazz and experimental performances

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Rattanakosin
Until Nov 7, 2025

Photograph: L’On Bangkok

Every week the space reshuffles itself, hosting something unexpected: a khon dancer framed by candlelight one evening, a jazz quartet improvising beside a wall of canvases the next. It’s a small creative pocket where traditional Thai instruments meet electric guitars, and conversation hums somewhere between art talk and after-hours gossip. The adjoining flower shop spills colour and scent across the room, softening the edges of the gallery’s concrete walls. It’s the sort of spot that doesn’t shout about itself – you stumble in for a drink, stay for the performance, and leave feeling like you’ve witnessed Bangkok breathe in real time. Until November 7. Free. L’On Bangkok, 6pm onwards

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Capture colourful processions, from monks’ robes to fluttering lanterns, against golden temple walls at the Golden Mount Festival

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Rattanakosin
Until Nov 7, 2025

Photograph: Sereechai Puttes

A week before Loy Krathong, the Golden Mount in Bangkok glows brighter than usual. Wat Saket, perched high above the old town, hosts its annual temple fair – a tradition that feels part pilgrimage, part street carnival. At dawn on the first day, monks and locals begin their ascent, carrying a long red cloth up the winding staircase to wrap around the stupa, a ritual said to bring merit and good fortune. As night falls, the air thickens with incense, laughter and the sound of temple drums echoing over the city. Food stalls spill across the grounds, fortune tellers set up beside ferris wheels, and the view from the top turns Bangkok’s sprawl into a sea of lanterns. It’s old Bangkok at its most alive. October 29-November 7. Free. Wat Saket, 7am-midnight

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Take your taste buds on an omakase and sake ride at Yellow Tail Sushi Bar

Things to do
Phaya Thai
Until Dec 23, 2025

Photograph: Yellow Tail Sushi Bar

Whether it’s the city’s endless appetite for omakase or simply a desire to change the pace of dining, Bangkok offers plenty of experiences for adventurous eaters. One standout destination is Yellow Tail Sushi Bar at Vie Hotel Bangkok, where expert chefs craft 10 multi-course omakase-style creations each night. Diners savour curated dishes that showcase seasonal ingredients and culinary precision, including rare Kuromame Wagyu from Okayama, prized for its rich marbling and delicate taste. Each course is thoughtfully paired with sake to enhance the flavours and elevate the experience, highlighting the balance, texture and presentation that make omakase dining a true culinary journey. Until December 23. Starts at B2,999. Reserve via 020-983-888. Yellow Tail Sushi Bar, Vie Hotel Bangkok, 6pm-8pm

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Let the displays, textures, cuts and details of The Buckle collection by BOYY

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Phloen Chit
Until Nov 16, 2025

Photograph: BOYY

Buckle turns ten this year. The exhibition charts a decade of the Buckle collection, tracing the spark of its rebellious beginnings and its evolution into a streetwear staple. Each corner of the space tells a story, from early sketches that defied convention to bold pieces that carved their own rulebook. The archives invite a closer look at the textures, cuts and unexpected details that made Buckle a fixture in fashion capitals, while moments of the collection are frozen in display, like snapshots of style history. Walking through feels like wandering through someone else’s diary, only one filled with attitude, creativity and a knack for making the ordinary feel unapologetically iconic. Until November 16. G/F, Central Embassy, 10am-10pm

Fragile Dot invites you to explore delicate, intimate artworks that whisper rather than shout

Things to do
Prawet
Until Nov 9, 2025

Photograph: BACC pop・up

Pasutt Kanrattanasutra’s latest project builds one tile and one conversation at a time. The exhibition transforms ceramic painting into a communal act, inviting volunteers to leave their mark across 50 tiles, each representing a district of Bangkok. Lines twist and colours bloom, shaped by shared stories of change, memory and belonging. What emerges is less a map than a living archive, where everyday voices replace curators and the city itself becomes collaborator. It’s a gentle rebellion against forgetting, stitching fragments of neighbourhood life into something tactile and enduring. More than an artwork, it feels like a gathering – a reminder that cities aren’t only built from concrete, but from the hands and histories of those who call them home. Until November 9. Free. MunMun Srinakarin, 11am-7pm

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Explore workshops and encounters where art, community and memory intertwine in unexpected ways at Ghost 2025

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Yenarkat
Until Nov 16, 2025

Photograph: Ghost2568

A four-month experiment that asks what happens when those guiding us through exhibitions stop being mere explainers and start becoming storytellers, confidants, maybe even co-conspirators. Curated by Pongsakorn Yananissorn, the programme gathers twelve hosts – to rethink how knowledge moves through art spaces. Through workshops and shared encounters, they explore what lingers after the lights dim and the last viewer drifts out. The focus rests not on the artworks alone but on the people orbiting them: the artists, the visitors, the community that quietly sustains it all. GHost 2568 turns the act of guiding into something intimate and alive – a reminder that art, at its best, is a conversation still unfolding. Until November 16. Free. Bangkok Citycity Gallery, 11am-6pm

Experience the beauty of life’s fleeting moments, interpreted through sound, light and movement at Impermanence

Things to do
Bang Kho Laem
Until Dec 7, 2025

Photograph: The Charoen AArt

Bryce Watanasoponwong’s latest exhibition feels like walking through the afterimage of a dream – one you’re trying to recall before it slips away. Across 18 mixed-media works, he asks what lingers when memories lose their edges and scatter. Drawing on Buddhist philosophy and the writings of Daisaku Ikeda, the show wrestles with how to create meaning in a world that never stops shifting. Each piece starts with a photograph, then bends light through kaleidoscopic lenses and slide film until form and colour drift apart. Layers of soft hues blur, framed in white like the border between presence and recollection. Tiny 3D-printed figures populate these worlds – standing, reaching, fading – until only one remains. It’s hauntingly beautiful, a quiet meditation on the way memory thins but never fully disappears. Until December 7. Free. The Charoen AArt, 11am-7pm

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Two decades of spice and soul at Indus Bangkok

Sukhumvit 26
Until Dec 15, 2025

Photograph: Indus Bangkok

When cravings for authentic Indian cuisine strike, Indus Bangkok is often the first name that comes to mind. Founded by Sid Sehgal, this beloved restaurant has served authentic Indian flavours for 20 years, blending traditional flavours with contemporary presentation. To celebrate the big two-oh, Indus says thank you to all its guests with a 20 percent discount on a la carte lunch menus until December 15 (pre-booking required). Take this chance to enjoy your favourite tandoori dishes and curries in a setting where the aroma of spices makes every bite even more inviting. Until December 15. Reserve via 086-339-8582 or here. Indus Bangkok. 5.30pm-9.30pm. Open Mon-Fri 11am-3pm, 5pm-11pm and Sat-Sun 11am-11pm

Wander at We Will Pass Away Together, a hauntingly beautiful exhibition tracing love, loss and the strange comfort of shared endings

Art
Prawet
Until Nov 16, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Art Destination

This exhibition is a mirror held up to a country suspended in uncertainty. In Thailand, instability has stopped feeling like an interruption and begun to resemble a permanent state – politics without direction, policies that drift, and a population caught between fatigue and quiet despair. Anxiety Storage and Artsaveworld respond to this condition with work that wears irony as armour. At first glance their pieces seem playful, even comic, but beneath the surface is an unmistakable weight: frustration, grief, the stubborn refusal to collapse. What makes the show distinctly Thai is its humour, born out of contradiction and absurdity, a coping mechanism that lets people laugh in order to keep standing. In the cracks of satire, fragments of hope remain. Until November 16. Free. 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.