Our picks for the best things to do in Bangkok this weekend

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

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

75 years after Charles Schulz first drew a small dog with improbable dreams, Snoopy is still everywhere – dancing on T-shirts, perched on mugs, drifting across the cultural imagination with the ease of someone who never grew up. This anniversary exhibition, arriving in Bangkok for the first time, asks what it means for a cartoon beagle to outlast presidents, wars and changing fashions. More than 100 works are on display, gathered across four zones that slip between art, couture, pop culture and nostalgia. Contributions from Thai and international artists sit beside collaborations with major fashion houses, while archival strips remind us that friendship and humour are never dated.  September 6-December 7. B350-890 via here. RCB Galleria 1-2, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Some artists belong to late nights and dim rooms, but Lost Frequencies has always written for wide skies. His return to Bangkok this time is not a club slot but a full concert, a set designed less for dancefloors than for collective release. The Belgian producer has built a career out of songs that seem to soundtrack memory itself – ‘Are You With Me’, ‘Where Are You Now’ – tracks stitched into the fabric of sunsets, long drives, holidays that blurred into one another. With billions of plays behind him, he occupies a curious place: a DJ whose work feels both intimate and universal, a reminder that electronic music can still move with tenderness. To hear him live is to watch nostalgia fold into euphoria. September 19. B1,800-3,000 via here. UOB Live, 8pm

Colour isn’t just decoration, it’s shorthand for everything we can’t quite say out loud. A blush of pink, the thud of red, the quiet ache of blue – it’s a vocabulary that sidesteps grammar and dives straight into the gut. This exhibition, born from a collaboration between a Thai space and Seoul’s L Gallery, leans into that idea with six Korean artists who treat colour like a confession booth. 2Myoung twists play into sculpture, Im Solji sketches storybook daydreams, Kim Ok-Jin finds solitude in the city’s shadows, Lee Jaeyual paints landscapes that slip between folklore and neon. Suzy Q sends her alter-ego Moo wandering through questions of selfhood, while Qwaya steadies the room with soft green and blue oils. Together, they remind us colour is never passive – it’s always speaking. September 5-October 12. Free. Maison JE Bangkok, 11am-7pm

Bangkok rarely takes a breath, yet the 43-metre passage at Samyan MRT insists we slow down. Tent Katchakul has drenched the tunnel in his sprawling linework, a mural where skyscrapers collide with daydreams and the city’s daily grind feels suddenly negotiable.Though the point is less about talent and more about togetherness. Anyone can pick up a brush, trace a thought or scribble a memory and watch it join the chorus of colour already spilling across the walls. The result is neither gallery nor graffiti but something stranger, softer, communal. From morning until evening the tunnel opens, a reminder that sometimes the act of making is itself the masterpiece. Until September 20. Free. Samyan MRT Tunnel, 10am-10pm

The Magicians arrive in Bangkok as if the city itself had conjured them. The theatre becomes a labyrinth of neon streets and impossible corners, inhabited by five illusionists from Spain, South Korea, China and Japan – young magicians whose tricks feel less like sleight of hand and more like bending reality. For the first time in Thailand, their worlds collide, guided by VK.Vich, whose BMC World Performing Arts Award hints at the precision and theatricality he brings to the stage. Produced by Get Live Management in collaboration with VICH Production. Each illusion spins not only wonder but a fleeting sense that the impossible might be waiting just around the corner. September 20-21. B1,200-3,000 via here. M Theatre, 2pm and 6pm

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

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

There’s a certain kind of visual maximalism that doesn’t beg for attention so much as demand it – Hugo Brun’s work is exactly that. Loud in the best way, his pieces flirt with chaos: clashing colours, cartoonish proportions and the bold swagger of pop art unbothered by subtlety. His furniture sits somewhere between sculpture and set piece – chairs that feel like they might wink at you, tables that seem halfway to melting. It’s no surprise they’ve become backdrops for a thousand selfies, but there’s more to them than surface spectacle. Beneath the gloss and playful disorder lies a wink to nostalgia, a rebellion against beige interiors, and the refusal to be tasteful in a world that insists you should be. Burn isn’t decorating – he’s declaring. Until October 18. Free. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm