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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

Photograph five-metre Gear 5 Luffy at ICONSIAM

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Charoennakhon
Until Oct 31, 2026

Photograph: ICONSIAM

Call it a citywide fixation: One Piece takes over Bangkok with surprising ease. Fans who once followed Luffy on small screens now find those stories stretched across real space. Netflix brings a slice of the Grand Line to Lumpini Park, yet ICONSIAM answers with something more immersive: a 600-square-metre pop-up café that plays like a living archive. Scenes from past arcs reappear as walkable sets, while newly issued wanted posters chart the crew’s long evolution. A stamp trail links ten zones, gently guiding visitors across the space. At the centre, a five-metre Gear 5 Luffy looms with cartoonish confidence, slightly surreal, unmistakably designed for photographs and quiet disbelief. Until 31 October. Free. ICONSIAM, 10am-8.30pm

Measure yourself against narrow walls at this first Asian showing of Absalon's iconic structures

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Yaowarat
Until May 31, 2026

Photograph: Bangkok Kunsthalle

Questions about how we live often sit quietly until art nudges them forward. Bangkok Kunsthalle’s latest exhibition, Description Without Place, brings the uncompromising work of Absalon into focus, offering a rare chance to engage with an artist who treated space as a kind of personal test. Known for pushing against ideas of comfort, control and the limits of the body, Absalon’s practice feels as confrontational now as it did decades ago. For the first time in Asia, all six of his iconic Cells appear as full-scale replicas, carefully presented by curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera. Each structure asks visitors to step closer, measure themselves against narrow walls and unfamiliar proportions. The experience is stark but strangely intimate, encouraging reflection on how much room we really need, and what happens when that space is taken away. Until May 31 2026. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

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Experience 81 works exploring invisible memories across three floors at Dib Bangkok's debut show

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Khlong Toei
Until Aug 3, 2026

Photograph: Dib Bangkok

(In)visible Presence opens Dib Bangkok with a quiet confidence. Think a painted gust of wind, music shaped by half-remembered summers and the soft trace of herbal medicine lingering longer than expected. The show asks how we hold on to what matters when it cannot be seen, while also nodding to the many people, some now gone, who helped turn this museum from idea to place. Drawn from a collection built across three decades and widened through fresh collaborations, the exhibition gathers 81 works by 40 contemporary artists, several new to Thailand. Sound, scent and light do much of the talking. Across three floors, everyday materials shift, memories blur and imagination fills the gaps. A special focus on Montien Boonma closes the journey, offering space for reflection, healing and a slower way of looking. December 21-August 3 2026. B150-700 via here. Dib Bangkok, 10am-6pm

Discover a quietly potent symbol of Thai identity in everyday streets and signs

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Thonglor
Until Dec 14, 2026

Photograph: Barry Macdonald

Bangkok’s streets move at their own rhythm, a blend of chaos, charm and ritual that caught the eye of London-based photographer Barry Macdonald. Fascinated by the wai, he began to see it not merely as a greeting but as a cultural language, layered with subtlety and history. His project Sawadee captures this gesture across the city, exploring what it communicates and how it adapts to modern life. In the exhibition, the wai appears in surprising contexts: marking social hierarchy between friends, elders and monks, performing in muay Thai or khon, offering comfort in massage parlours, or appearing in mascots, public signs and LINE stickers. Even as younger generations use it less, the wai remains a quietly potent emblem, a gesture instantly recognisable and deeply entwined with Thai identity. Until December 14 2026. Free. Palette Art Space, 4pm-9pm

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Memoirs of Lanna

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Phrom Phong
Until Jun 16, 2026

Photograph: 137 Pillars Suites and Residences Bangkok

Afternoon tea, reimagined through the lens of Chiang Mai’s rich heritage, arrives in Bangkok with a quiet flourish. This collaboration captures the essence of Northern Thailand – not in grand gestures, but in the subtle details. Each bite draws from the region’s fresh farm produce, transforming traditional flavours into delicate savoury and sweet morsels that feel both familiar and surprising. Alongside freshly baked scones and house-made jam, Monsoon Tea pours warmth into the ritual. Meanwhile, SARRAN’s new jewellery collection takes its cues from Chiang Mai’s delicate flowers, offering wearable art that echoes the tea’s quiet elegance. Led by Executive Chef Korawit Rungchat, the team crafts more than a meal – it’s an invitation to slow down, savour, and soak in a little of the north’s gentle magic, all without leaving the city. Jun 16-Jun 16 2026. Starts at B2,400. Baan Borneo Club, 137 Pillars Suites and Residences Bangkok, 1pm-5pm

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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.

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Things to do in Bangkok today

Events in Bangkok today

Photograph five-metre Gear 5 Luffy at ICONSIAM

Measure yourself against narrow walls at this first Asian showing of Absalon's iconic structures

Experience 81 works exploring invisible memories across three floors at Dib Bangkok's debut show

Discover a quietly potent symbol of Thai identity in everyday streets and signs

Memoirs of Lanna

Movies now showing

Black Widow

Malignant

A Quiet Place Part II

Supernova

No Time to Die

The Suicide Squad

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Fast & Furious 9

Free Guy

Suicide Forest Village