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More than just condiments
Life, Story: Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 14/10/2025
» Thais have several ways of adding flavour to dishes. Even simple dishes like kai jiao (omelette) and kai dow (fried egg) can be seasoned with condiments like ketchup, chilli sauce, soy or fish sauce.
Bangkok Street Performer fest returns
Life, Published on 28/11/2024
» Public areas in the heart of the capital will be transformed into centres of music and arts for the Bangkok Street Performer Festival 2024, which will run for one day only on Saturday, from 1pm to 9pm.
Sansiri's community garage sale open to all
Life, Published on 06/06/2024
» Everyone is invited to shop and hang out at "Sansiri Neighbour Swap N' Shop", which will take place at Sansiri Krungthep Kreetha Community, on Saturday from 4-8pm.
Charity, HK culture in focus at BACC over the coming week
Life, Published on 18/12/2023
» Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is holding two interesting events this week. The first is a discussion "On Building The West Kowloon Cultural District: A 20-Year Journey", which will take place at the Auditorium, 5th floor, tomorrow from 6-7.30pm and the "BACC Fundraising Gala 2023: Generations" at the Main Exhibition Gallery, 7th floor, on Thursday at 7pm.
Art exhibit stretches the sensory
Life, Published on 10/11/2022
» Art viewers will have their perceptions challenged during "Sentient's Dream", running at Inkhong Art Space, until Nov 27.
Not so pretty in pink
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 14/07/2021
» Pink Man appeared for the first time on Silom Road in 1997. The chubby poker-faced middle-aged man wearing a shocking pink suit was created by renowned artist and photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom.
An eye for the details
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 19/05/2021
» As students of photography, Somboon Unpracha and Thanaboom Pobumrung were pitted against a relatively unknown bunch of budding photographers from Timor-Leste. However, it proved to be a lesson in collaboration because the inaugural photography workshop they attended would conclude with an online exhibition of their work.
Contemporary mediocrities
Life, Apinan Poshyananda, Published on 03/05/2021
» At the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture's (OCAC) Art Collection in the spacious art hall on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, a group of ageing male artists covered in sanitary masks surrounded the director of OCAC, Vimolluck Chuchart, who gave a self-congratulatory speech. She proudly announced that the public will be able to view for the first time the national collection of the Ministry of Culture's contemporary Thai art. Beside these elderlies stood a white giant fibreglass sculpture by Sutee Kunavichyanont in Thai military uniform wearing a helmet with a rifle erect. Sutee's Equality; Thai Soldier (2016) is inspired by the cultural mandates between 1939 and 1942 during the premiere of Phibul Songkhram that aimed to uplift the national spirit and moral code of the nation and instil progressive tendencies and newness into Thai life.
Care in the community
Life, Published on 17/12/2020
» It's a normal day at the Thaioil Community Health and Learning Centre, where dozens of people are taking advantage of the cool weather to jog around the track, practice aerobics or strain against their bodyweight at various exercise stations.
Art as our escape
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/09/2020
» This year's theme is at once hopeful and ironic: "Escape Routes" suggests a flight from our unusual times of pathological disruption and political cataclysm -- here, there and everywhere -- and yet the theme is an acknowledgment of those in-our-face uncertainties from which we struggle to find an exit.