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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

    008 Bar lines up festive cocktails and lucky draws this week

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    • Thonglor
    008 Bar lines up festive cocktails and lucky draws this week
    008 Bar lines up festive cocktails and lucky draws this week
    Photograph: 008 Bar
    008 Bar marks the Christmas period with a week-long programme of drinks, creative activities and holiday-only perks running through the end of December. Highlights include exclusive lucky draws on December 25 and 31, giving guests the chance to win special offers available only on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. A limited-edition festive cocktail menu runs from December 20 to 31, alongside selected wines available by the bottle. Guests can also personalise their own wine glasses at the bar’s painting station, adding a playful touch to the celebrations. Christmas Day brings live entertainment, with DJ Woody rounding out a lively end-of-year line-up. Festive cocktails ‘til December 31, lucky draws December 25 and 31. 008 Bar, Thonglor. 6pm-1am.

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

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    • Yaowarat
    Measure yourself against narrow walls at this first Asian showing of Absalon's iconic structures
    Measure yourself against narrow walls at this first Asian showing of Absalon's iconic structures
    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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    Share cold beers with running mates at Sabai Run Club's low-key year-end gathering

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    • Rattanakosin
    Share cold beers with running mates at Sabai Run Club's low-key year-end gathering
    Share cold beers with running mates at Sabai Run Club's low-key year-end gathering
    Photograph: Sabai Run Club
    Ending a year does not always need fireworks or finish lines. Sabai keeps things simple, closing out 2025 with the same easy spirit that carried it through morning runs, post jog coffees and long conversations that wandered far from pace or distance. Just cold beer and a night that stretches as long as the company feels good. It is designed as a come and go gathering, the sort where arrivals drift in after work and others stay long past the point they meant to leave. The focus stays on shared time rather than schedules, familiar faces rather than big gestures. A low key send off that marks the year not by what was achieved, but by who showed up along the way.   December 28. B349 via here. Two Palms Taproom, 5pm-midnight

    Rummage vintage finds and catch film screenings at this '90s-flavored year-end flea market

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    • Yaowarat
    Rummage vintage finds and catch film screenings at this '90s-flavored year-end flea market
    Rummage vintage finds and catch film screenings at this '90s-flavored year-end flea market
    Photograph: The Corner House Bangkok
    The ’90s return not as a costume party but as a shared memory, slightly blurred at the edges and full of colour. Framed as a throwback trip to a bolder, more playful decade, this year-end gathering brings together people who care about art, fashion, music, film and the everyday rituals that sit between them. The mood stays easy, more hangout than hype. A flea market anchors the space, stacked with vintage finds and curious objects worth rummaging through slowly. Evenings make room for film screenings curated by Documentary Club, soundtracked by DJs from Century Disk Jockey between December 26-28. Daytime leans hands-on with workshops ranging from flower arranging and jewellery making to zines, crafts and swing dance. A Riso photobooth rounds things off, printing keepsakes that feel pleasingly imperfect, just like the decade it nods to.   Until December 28. Free. The Corner House Bangkok, midday-9pm
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    Watch championship horses then dance to disco at this lifestyle gathering near Sanam Pao

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    • Ari
    Watch championship horses then dance to disco at this lifestyle gathering near Sanam Pao
    Watch championship horses then dance to disco at this lifestyle gathering near Sanam Pao
    Photograph: Weekend and Lifestyle at Princess's Cup
    Weekends rarely look like this in Bangkok. For a few days, the grounds of the second Cavalry Division near Sanam Pao open up for a lifestyle-led gathering. Championship horse racing remains at its centre, but the mood widens outwards. Made by Legacy curates an open-air market filled with home pieces, handmade finds, clothes and objects that reward slow browsing rather than impulse buying. Food runs the gamut from street classics to chef-led dishes, best enjoyed on the grass with a view of the city easing back a notch. As daylight fades, hooves give way to turntables and live sets, drifting through jazz, soul, disco, hip-hop and electronic sounds. Dogs tug at leads, cats peek from carriers. It is relaxed, sociable and quietly different from the usual weekend routine.   December 26-28. Free.  King's Guard, second Cavalry Division, 1pm-10pm

    Explore Bangkok's serious new art museum, Dib Bangkok, inside a reworked 1980s warehouse

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    • Khlong Toei
    Explore Bangkok's serious new art museum, Dib Bangkok, inside a reworked 1980s warehouse
    Explore Bangkok's serious new art museum, Dib Bangkok, inside a reworked 1980s warehouse
    Photograph: Aman Chang
    Bangkok gains a serious new art address this month with the arrival of Dib Bangkok, a contemporary museum housed inside a reimagined warehouse. The building itself sets the tone, all considered angles, softened light and shadows that shift from morning to night, rewarding anyone who lingers. It feels confident without showing off. Inside, rotating exhibitions bring Thai and international artists together across several zones. The courtyard centres on a star-shaped sculpture that changes character as daylight moves, flanked by a cafe and restaurant worth a slow pause. The main hall currently presents (In)visible Presence, featuring 80 works by 40 artists, open from December 21. Tucked away is James Turrell’s Straight Up, an installation shaped entirely by sky and time. Entry costs B550 for locals and B700 for visitors.   Thursday-Monday. B550-700 at the door. Dib Bangkok, 10am-7pm
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    Wander among oversized inflatables at Chulalongkorn Park's playful Overland afternoon takeover

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    • Chula-Samyan
    Wander among oversized inflatables at Chulalongkorn Park's playful Overland afternoon takeover
    Wander among oversized inflatables at Chulalongkorn Park's playful Overland afternoon takeover
    Photograph: PMCU
    An afternoon wander turns playful at Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park as oversized inflatable figures quietly take over the green. The scale alone makes you smile, cartoonish forms scattered across the grounds like they have escaped from a sketchbook. It is an easy place to drift through, stopping for photos as daylight softens and the city hums at a distance. As evening arrives, the Lighting Playground shifts the atmosphere. Sunlit brightness gives way to glowing colours, and suddenly the park feels almost theatrical. Beyond posing for pictures, visitors can catch small live sets, join hands-on sessions or help build a shared installation using more than 300 balloons. Nothing feels rushed or overproduced. Just a gentle reminder that public spaces can still surprise, especially when imagination is allowed to take up a little more room than usual.   Until December 29. Free. Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, 2pm-11pm

    Swing dance by the river at Christmas Swing Fest's jazz-filled Thonburi market

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    • Khlong San
    Swing dance by the river at Christmas Swing Fest's jazz-filled Thonburi market
    Swing dance by the river at Christmas Swing Fest's jazz-filled Thonburi market
    Photograph: The Hop
    Christmas in Bangkok does not always need carols or tinsel. Sometimes it asks for a river breeze, a good pair of shoes and a reason to move. Vintage Swing Fair returns this December with Christmas Swing Fest, settling by the water after lively outings in Yaowarat and around the Golden Mount. Anunta Cafe and Bistro on the Thonburi side becomes a relaxed meeting point for dancers, listeners and curious passers-by. The Hop Bangkok brings familiar favourites The Swing Bouncer and The Stumblers out for a live jazz-led Christmas market that mixes social dancing with gift hunting and unhurried drinks by the river. Beginners are welcome, workshops run daily and the mood stays generous rather than showy.    December 25-28. Free. Anunta Cafe and Bistro, 4pm-11pm on December 25-26 and midday-1pm on December 27-28
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    Meet oversized plush figures asking big questions at NORArtscape's first solo show Kid Wisdom

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    • Yaowarat
    Meet oversized plush figures asking big questions at NORArtscape's first solo show Kid Wisdom
    Meet oversized plush figures asking big questions at NORArtscape's first solo show Kid Wisdom
    Photograph: m Galleria
    Growing up rarely happens in a straight line. One minute you’re fearless, the next you’re carefully unlearning it. Kid Wisdom plays with that uneasy distance between who we were and who we pretend to be now. Presented as NORArtscape’s first solo show, the exhibition brings oversized plush figures and textile works together in a space that feels comforting without tipping into sentimentality. The soft sculptures come from the artist’s ongoing Kid Wisdom universe, each character shaped like a memory you cannot quite place but instantly recognise. They ask for touch, not analysis. Around them sit textile pieces rooted in ideas of home, safety and selfhood, drawing from NORArtscape’s Armenian American background and visual echoes of Thai culture. It reads as a quiet conversation about belonging, stitched together with humour, care and the kind of honesty most of us left behind with our toys.   Until January 4 2026. Free. m Galleria, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm 

    Chase the Blues (every night)

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    Chase the Blues (every night)
    Chase the Blues (every night)
    Photograph: Woodstock Hua Hin
    If you should find yourself feeling all jazzed out, head over to Soi 88 for a cold beer instead. Woodstock Bar is a watering hole where you can experience another pillar of Americana roots music, the blues. Nightly jam sessions riffing on the classic 12-bar template are led by bar-owner and local guitar hero Ped Bluesman, with his band, The Blues Cats.     Everynight. Free. Woodstock Bar, 4pm-midnight 
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    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. 

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    Release date: October 7

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    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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