EU Cultural Calendar
July 2011
07/07/11 - Exhibition of art objects from the Távora Sequeira Pinto Collection
National Museum, Bangkok
07/07/11 - 08/07/11 - Shadow theatre "A King's Journey"
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 7 PM
07/07/11 - 17/07/11 - European Union Film Festival 2011 in Bangkok
Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre (BACC)
16/07/11 - Duo Concert by Dirk Amrein (Trombone) & Jürg Henneberger (Piano)
Mahidol University (Salaya Campus), 7 PM
19/07/11 - 20/07/11 - Ayutthaya Symposium & Issue of Commemorative Stamp 500Y
Organized by the Fine Arts Department in Bangkok and Ayutthaya
21/07/11 - 21/08/11 - Exhibition "The Ramakien in photo" by Jean-Marie Sauveplane
Media Library at the Alliance française
27/07/11 - Concert "Lecture Recital" by Chanyapong Thongsawang
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 7 PM
29/07/11 - Academic Seminar "Archaeology: Ayutthaya–Portugal"
National Museum, Bangkok, 1:30 - 4:30 PM
30/07/11 - Poetry recital "Bis repetita placent" by Olivier Bentajou and Pimpanit Karoonyavanich
Media Library at the Alliance française, 5 PM
August 2011
01/08/11 - 21/08/11 - Exhibition 'The Ramakien in photo' by Jean-Marie Sauveplane
Media Library at the Alliance française
23/08/11 - 28/08/11 - B-SIDES, History of Video Art in Spain
An a/v project screened during the Thai Short Film & Video Art Festival
Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre (BACC)
31/08/11 - Chamber Concert Series 2011: "Young Musicians - Old Masters" by Silpakorn University Students
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 7 PM
31/08/11 - Academic Seminar "Siamese-Portuguese Descendants"
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, 1:30 - 4:30 PM
September 2011
13/09/11 - 30/10/11 - French-Thai photo exhibition "Panorama of Paris" by Prachaya Achatewan
Alliance française Bangkok
15/09/11 - Polish film 'All That I Love' directed by Jacek Borcuch
Foreign Correspondents Club Thailand, 8 PM
15/09/11 - Closing Date for Applications - Fifth Beethoven Competition for Young Pianists
Goethe-Institute
15/09/11 - Concert 'max.bab - Jazz Quartet from Munich, Germany'
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 7 PM
26/09/11 - 30/09/11 - Fifth Beethoven Competition for Young Pianists - First Round (26/9-27/9) and Final Round (29/9-30/9)
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok
28/09/11 - Chamber Concert Series 2011: "Young Musicians - Old Masters" by Rangsit University Students
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 7 PM
29/09/11 - Concerts by jury members of the "5th Beethoven Competition in Thailand 2011" – Piano Recital by Prof. Wolfgang Glemser (Germany)
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 8 PM
30/09/11 - Concerts by jury members of the "5th Beethoven Competition in Thailand 2011" – Piano Recital by Prof. Dr. Woohyung Yang (South Korea) and Prof. Rolf Dieter-Arens (Germany)
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok, 8 PM
October 2011
13/09/11 - 30/10/11 - Panoramas of Paris - Photo exhibition by Prachaya Achatewan
Alliance Francaise of Bangkok is proud to present the stunning panoramic view photo exhibition, “Panoramas of Paris” by Thai photographer Prachaya Achatewan Prachaya who went to Paris in 2010 to shoot a series of panoramic views of the capital’s various tourist sights and locations such as the Eiffel Tower and the Parvis de la Défense esplanade. Admission is free.
Venue: Alliance Francaise Bangkok
Time: n/a
Organiser: Alliance Francaise Bangkok
01/10/11 - Fifth Beethoven Competition for Young Pianists Winners’ Concert and Prize Presentation Ceremony
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok
02/10/11 - Fifth Beethoven Competition for Young Pianists Concert by International Jury
Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok
13/10/11 - Fado concert by Katia Guerreiro at Bangkok’s 13th International Festival of Dance and Music
On this special occasion of the celebration of the 500 years of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Thailand, The Embassy of Portugal to Thailand proudly presents the concert by Fado singer Katia Guerriero.
Venue: Thailand Cultural Center
Time: n/a
Organiser: Bangkok’s 13th International Festival of Dance and Music
15/10/11 - 16/10/11 - Flamenco! – Ballet Nacional de España
The undisputed grand dame of flamenco and Spain’s ambassador for flamenco to the world, the whole ensemble of Ballet Nacional de España and guest artists - over 50 performers – will be on stage for two stunning nights, as the grand finale of Bangkok’s 13th International Festival of Dance & Music!
Venue: Thailand Cultural Center
Time: 19.30 hrs.
Organiser: Bangkok's 13th International Festival of Dance & Music, supported by the Embassy of Spain
18/10/11 - 18/11/11 - Italian exhibition "The Siamese Pavilion at the Turin Expo 1911"
Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre (BACC), Fl. 4
18/10/11 - 25/10/11 - Polish heritage exhibition “Picturesque Poland"
To celebrate the Polish Presidency of the European Union Council, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in collaboration with Siam Paragon Shopping Center is presenting a special Polish heritage exhibition “Picturesque Poland.”
Hall of Mirrors, M Floor, Siam Paragon, Bangkok
27/10/11 - French film "The Woman next door" (La Femme D'a Cote) directed by Francois Truffaut
Venue: Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand
Time: 20:00 hrs
27/10/11 - 02/11/11 - Art Exhibition “Thailand/Portugal: Close Glances”
As part of the celebrating events marking the strong diplomatic relations between Thailand and Portugal which has existed for 500 years in 2011, the art exhibition entitled “Thailand/Portugal: Close Glances” will be organized with two participating artists.
Ms.Jinayon will transmit her impressions obtained during the time of her stay in
Portugal, in forms of about 29 water-colored and oil paintings, whereas Mr.Fragoso
will highlight the exhibition with approximate 33 photographs of his impressions
during his trip made throughout Thailand.
27/10/11 - Dutch universities placement day
Interested in studying in Holland? Visit Dutch universities placement day for the opportunity to make enquiries or submit your application directly with leading universities from Holland!
Participating institutions;
Rotterdam Business School, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, University of Groningen, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Wageningen University and Van Hall Larenstein, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg University, and Fontys University of Applied Sciences.
28/10/11 - 29/10/11 - Bangkok International Typographic Symposium
Bangkok International Typographic Symposium is officially the first ever international typographic conference organized in Southeast Asia and had brought with it a considerable amount of attention to the design community in Thailand. As a result, the event was strongly supported by ThaiGa (Thai Graphic Designers Association) and has already been marked as a yearly activity.
Venue: Alliance Francaise Bangkok
Time: n/a
Organiser: Cadson Demak in association with ThaiGa.
November 2011
27/10/11 - 02/11/11 - Art Exhibition “Thailand/Portugal: Close Glances”
As part of the celebrating events marking the strong diplomatic relations between Thailand and Portugal which has existed for 500 years in 2011, the art exhibition entitled “Thailand/Portugal: Close Glances” will be organized with two participating artists.
Ms.Jinayon will transmit her impressions obtained during the time of her stay in
Portugal, in forms of about 29 water-colored and oil paintings, whereas Mr.Fragoso
will highlight the exhibition with approximate 33 photographs of his impressions
during his trip made throughout Thailand.
02/11/11 - 04/11/11 - International Seminar on "500 years of Thai-Portuguese Relations"
On the occasion of the 500th Anniversary of Thailand- Portugal relations in 2011, the Centre for European Studies at Chulalongkorn University, representing Chulalongkorn
University, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, the Instituto do Oriente / Universidade Técnica in Lisbon and the Embassy of Portugal in Thailand will organize an international seminar "500 years of Thai-Portuguese Relations"
Contributions made at the seminar, namely presentations and interventions on
panel discussions in various topics will be published by Chulalongkorn University
in seminar proceedings both in English and Thai.
04/11/11 - 30/11/11 - Exhibition - Somewhat different: Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention
The great diversity of designs diverging from the conventional is illustrated by 106 different items and a total of one hundred and forty-eight objects by sixty-seven individual designers and studios, forty-seven of them based in Germany and twenty in other European countries. The exhibition discusses the objects in terms of function, materials, construction and content references.
Venue: Bangkok University Gallery (BUG)
Time: n/a
Organiser: Bangkok University Gallery (BUG), in co-operation with Goethe-Institut Bangkok
07/11/11 - 09/11/11 - Workshop on Restoration by Maria Teresa Castellano: methods and techniques of the Italian excellence
Damrong Rajanuparp (Meeting Room) - National Museum (TBC)
15/11/11 - 30/11/11 - Science Film Festival 2011
The Science Film Festival in Thailand presents 26 films from 7 countries in the following categories: Family Edutainment, Ecology and Environment, Natural Science, Life Science and Technology, and Culture and History to serve all age groups, but with a particular focus on content for young audiences.
All films have Thai subtitles to provide easy access for the generally young audience.
Venue: Locations in Bangkok include National Science Museum, Thai Film Archive, Science Centre for Education, TK Park, NSTDA Thailand Science Park, Major Cineplex Kid’s Cinema, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre, and chosen universities.
Time: n/a
Organiser: Goethe-Institut
16/11/11 - Ma’aalot Quintet – Chamber Music Ensemble
Founded in 1986, the Ma'alot Quintett can be numbered among leading international chamber music ensembles of today. The repertoire of the ensemble embraces compositions for wind quintet from the Viennese Classics to the present day, as well as arrangements specially prepared by Ulf-Guido Schäfer.
Following their founding, the Ma’alot Quintett soon achieved wide international recognition, winning four First prizes in major international chamber-music competitions, foremost among them First Prize in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
Venue: Auditorium, Goethe-Institut Bangkok
Time: 19:00 hrs.
Organiser: Goethe-Institut Bangkok
18/10/11 - 18/11/11 - Italian exhibition "The Siamese Pavilion at the Turin Expo 1911"
Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre (BACC), Fl. 4
24/11/11 - 25/11/11 - International Conference on "500 Anniversary of Siam-Thailand Relations with Portugal and the West: 1511-2011”
Venue: Main Auditorium, 100 Years Building
Rajabhat Phranakhorn Sri Ayudhaya University, Bangkok
Time: n/a
Organiser: n/a
25/11/11 - 27/11/11 - Performance of Italian dancer Chiara Rosenthal as part of the International Dance Festival 2011
Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre (BACC), Fl. 1
25/11/12 - 22/01/12 - Foodjects: Design & the New Cuisine in Spain
Venue: Gallery 2, TCDC
Time: 10.30-18.00 hrs.
Come experience the new design and explore a cross-cultural phenomenon of the new Spanish cuisine, from its dynamic culinary tradition to today's gastronomic innovations.
30/11/11 - Chamber Concert Series 2011 "Young Musicians - Old Masters" with Mahidol University musicians
Classical music still has a relatively young tradition in Thailand. Therefore, it is all the more important to support young musicians. Within the framework of this chamber concert series the Goethe-Institut would like to offer a platform to student ensembles of different music schools and universities to present their skills. The auditorium used by the Thai-German Cultural Foundation and the Goethe-Institut provides the perfect location for chamber concerts because of its amplitude and acoustics as well as its two excellent grand pianos.
Venue: Auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangkok
Time: 19:00 hrs.
Organiser: Goethe-Institut Bangkok
December 2011
17/12/11 - The 4th French Open Air Cinema Festival
Venue: Lumpini Park, Bangkok
Time: December 16 at 19:00 hrs and December 17 at 18:30 hrs
Alliance française de Bangkok presents the 4th French Open Air Cinema Festival screening 2 excellent French films: a classic movie "La Belle et la Bête" and the adventure drama "Cyrano de Bergerac".
The event is free and open to the public. All movies will be in French with English subtitles. People are encouraged to bring low chairs or mat as no seating will be provided.
06/12/11 - 28/02/12 - German Open Air Cinema
Venue: Goethe-Institut Thailand
Time: Wednesdays at 19:30 Hrs.
When it is possible to enjoy the cool evenings in Bangkok, it is time for the annual German Open Air Cinema season, which brings you the best movies from German speaking countries. The festival has become quite a highlight for cinema lovers, not only due to the unique setting in the peaceful garden of the Goethe-Institute, but also because of the high quality programme of renowned contemporary German films. Among the must-see films of this season are the acclaimed “Die Fremde”, „Elefantenherz“ and „Sehnsucht“.
Details about the screening schedule will be online on the Goethe-Institut Thailand website. All films are in German with English subtitles.
25/11/11 - 22/01/12 - Foodjects: Design & the New Cuisine in Spain
Venue: Gallery 2, TCDC
Time: 10.30-18.00 hrs.
Come experience the new design and explore a cross-cultural phenomenon of the new Spanish cuisine, from its dynamic culinary tradition to today's gastronomic innovations.
January 2012
25/11/11 - 22/01/12 - Foodjects: Design & the New Cuisine in Spain
Venue: Gallery 2, TCDC
Time: 10.30-18.00 hrs.
Come experience the new design and explore a cross-cultural phenomenon of the new Spanish cuisine, from its dynamic culinary tradition to today's gastronomic innovations.
12/01/12 - Jazz Concert: Paul Lay
Regarded by critics as one of the best pianists of his generation, Paul Lay will give a concert at the Alliance française de Bangkok, an event not to be missed.
Venue: Auditorium of the Alliance française de Bangkok
Time: 19.30 hrs
13/01/12 - Academy Awarded movie LA VITA E' BELLA
The screening of the Academy Awarded movie LA VITA E' BELLA (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - directed and starred by Roberto Benigni) On this occasion, the New Video Library will be introduced, with the list of movies available for the public.
Venue: The Multipurpose Room of the Italian Embassy, CRC Tower, 40th Floor, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road - Wittayu - Lumpini, Bangkok
Time: 18.30 Hrs
18/01/12 - The Charity Gala Dinner
The Charity Gala Dinner, organized by the Italian Embassy in cooperation with Bangkok’s Italian Chefs & Food and Beverages importers and The St. Regis Bangkok. This appointment is organised to raise funds for the recent flood victims in Thailand.
Venue: The Astor Ballroom, the Hotel St. Regis
Time: 19.30 Hrs
19/01/12 - 28/01/12 - Theatre: "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" on adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella
In January, in a garden setting reminiscent of an era long past, the Troupe des deux Mondes theatre company will present "24 heures de la vie d'une femme", a French adaptation of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's novella "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman". Staged as a monologue by director David Drai, this performance will kick off the celebrations marking the Alliance française de Bangkok’s 100th anniversary.
Venue: Gardens of the Alliance française de Bangkok
Time:
Jan 19, 21, 26, and 28 at 19:30 hrs.
Jan 22 at 16:00 hrs.
*Tickets must be purchased or reserved prior to the show as the audience is limited to 50 persons per performance.
Tickets on sale at the Alliance française’s Media Library every day except Monday
February 2012
02/02/12 - 29/03/12 - French-Thai cultural Festival "La Fête"
The French Embassy in Thailand is organizing La Fête 2012 for the 8th time in the past 9 years. This year, La Fête will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Alliance Française de Bangkok, founded in 1912, the co-organizer of the festival.
About 20 different cultural and artistic events will be presented over a period of 9 weeks. Some of these events are Thai, but they are mostly French; they cover many fields of creativity: modern circus, classical music, rock, DJ, contemporary dance, hip-hop, visual theatre, photography, cinema, fashion, etc.
The events will also be hosted by 6 other Thai cities: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Hua Hin, Koh Samui, Khon Kaen and Phuket.
Details about the event schedule and venue will be online on the La Fête's website: http://www.lafete-bangkok.com/
02/02/12 - The Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and a Choir of 100- FRANCE
This year, the annual French-Thai cultural festival "La Fête" will open with music. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alliance française de Bangkok, a choir of 100 students singers will join the prestigious Bangkok Symphony Orchestra's musicians in a concert under the direction of famous French conductor Jean-Paul Penin. The programme will focus on France's 20th century musical repertoire. This promises to be an exceptional event!
Venue: National Theatre
Time: 20:00 hrs.
Ticket: On sale at www.thaiticketmajor.com or at the door
03/02/12 - 29/02/12 - Pakitsilp Varamissara Retrospective-FRANCE
Pakissilp's solitary pictorial quest is unclassiflable and illustrates his journey through life. Come and discover the astonishing dream-likeworld of Pakitsilp Varamissara.
Venue: National Gallery
Time: 09.00-16.00 hrs
Admission: Free
04/02/12 - Francophonie Day 2012
Francophonie day is one of the regular events of the annual French-Thai cultural festival "La Fête". This event will be an opportunity for all those fond of the French language to take part in many games and contests, in a festive and friendly atmosphere: pétanque, dictation, quiz, karaoke, scrabble, theater, and even a television style game-show—something for everyone. And to top it off, prizes to win! Embassies from Francophone nations will have booths featuring their countries, and will hold games, activities as well as food tastings.
Advertising, this year’s theme, will be the theme of the competitions, ad screening and an exhibition, which will present the funniest, most bizarre and exuberant ads of the Francophone world.
Venue: Alliance française
Time: 8:00 to 18:00 hrs.
Admission: Free
03/02/12 - 30/03/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
Opening ceremony & press conference of the Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012. The film "Good Bye, Lenin" is selected for the opening
The first rooftop film festival in South East Asia is in honour of the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Thailand and Germany. The 9-week long festival will showcase 9 of Germany’s most celebrated films at the hotel's rooftop lounge of DusitD2 baraquda Pattaya every Friday at 9 pm. from 3 Februray until 30 March 2012.
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
04/02/12 - 2nd Bangkok Guitar Fiesta 2012 -GERMANY
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany proudly presents "Frank Bungarten, most foremost BACH guitarist from Germany to entertain your pleasure during this Guitar Fiesta 2012
Venue: Thailand Cultural Centre, Small Hall
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: 900 & 1500 Bht at www.thaiticketmajor.com
Workshop for public on Sunday 5 February during 12.00-13.30 at Conference Room 1, Thailand Cultural Centre.
05/02/12 - 2nd Bangkok Guitar Fiesta 2012– SPAIN
Today it's the turn of a pleasure from The Embassy of Spain to proudly presents "12 Cuedas: Dani de Morón & Alfredo Lagos" Contemporay Flamenco Duo to all kind of music lovers, especially Guitar
Venue: Thailand Cultural Centre, Small Hall
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: 900& 1500 bht at www.thaiticketmajor.com
As well workshop for public, same venue same day but different time during 10.00-11.30 hrs.
09/02/12 - 10/02/12 - Nouveau Cirque: Ieto
This year, the annual French-Thai cultural festival "La Fête" will bring you the show of contemporary "nouveau cirque". The "Ieto" show was created in 2008 and involved two circus artists, Jonathan Guichard and Fnico Feldmann, making use of boards, ropes, sticks and some blocks. Flying jumps and tumbles, scaffolding balanced by counterweights as if by magic, Ieto's playful and enchanting universe will fascinate both young and old who will hold their breath while the two artists walk on barely visible ropes at great heights.
Venue: Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Time: 20:00 hrs.
Ticket: On sale at www.thaiticketmajor.com or at the door
For more information: http://www.lafete-bangkok.com/
10/02/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
The film "Elefantenherz (Elephant Heart) from German is scheduled for screening tonight at Pattaya Rooftop film Fest 2012-01-27
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
11/02/12 - Gala of Alliance française: 100 years anniversary
A mouth-watering menu, models on the catwalk, acrobats in the trees, magician performances, singers, dancers and portrait drawing are specially prepared for your entertainment in one of Bangkok's most beautiful gardens.
Venue: French Ambassador's residence
Time: 18.30 hrs
Ticket: 12,000/8,000 (wine and champagne included)
Booking: Tel: 02 670 4203
12/02/12 - Hip Hop Battle - FRANCE
In "Battles", individual dancers orgroups compete in different hip-hop categories: by. Boying, popping, locking experimental… . Whether they are held indoors or out, these meetings can draw several thousand people.
LA FETE Battle takes place in a real theatre, and why it is unique!
Venue: Patravadi Theatre
Time: 14.00 hrs onwards
Admission: Free
13/02/12 - Somewhat Different - GERMANY
Contemporary design and the power of convention
The Goethe-Institut Thailand and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA) present an exhibition by Prof. Volker Albus in cooperation with Crystal Design Center (CDC) and Bangkok University Gallery (BUG).
IFA and Curator Prof Volker Albus have prepared the exhibition "Somewhat different. Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention" which shows selected examples of this design phenomenon. The designs do not only provoke astonishment, but challenge one to reflect on general expectation, codes of behaviour as well as the referential context of firmly established notions, and to review traditional fixations.
Venue: Crystal Design Center
Time: Daily during 27 Feb to 13 March
Admission: Free
14/02/12 - Cinema Picnic by Moonlight - FRANCE
To launch the Evening in style and celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Alliance française in Bangkok. Come and join us again this year for a celebration of cinema in one of Bangkok's most beautiful gardens to view an internationally acclaimed masterpiece that's just recently been restored!
Venue: Museum Siam (near Wat Pho)
Time: 19.30
Admission: Free
16/02/12 - An Early Music Recital by Patrick Van Goethem - BELGIUM
Patirck Van Goethem, the Belgian countertenor works as a soloist with most distinguished conductors in the early music field such as Ton Koopman, rans Brüggen Masaaki Suzuki etc. He is guest at all the important early music festivals throughout European countries. In addition to his career as a concert singer, Patrick Van Goethem performs with his baroque ensemble the Flanders Baroque Consort of which he is founder, member and artistic advisor.
He will be joined by Thai vocalists Duangdao Chayasirisobhon and Mongkol Chayasirisobhon as well as harpsichord and piano collaborator, Dr Alberto Firrincieli of ABAC university.
Venue: Goethe Institut, South Sathorn Road Soi 1
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: 500 Bht (250 for students)
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Photography: The Upside Down World of Philippe Ramette - FRANCE
Ramette's works focus on the loss of reference points. In his creations, he put himself in the scenes in which the laws of gravity no longer apply and in which he seems to naturally find his own spot. None of his photos were photoshopped, which makes them all the more fascinating.
The event is free and open to the public.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 10.00-21.00 hrs, daily
Admission: Free
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Exhibition “Olá Siam”- PORTUGAL
Interactive exhibition about Travel, Trade and Religion in 17th century.
Venue: Goethe Institut, South Sathorn Road Soi 1
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: 500 Bht (250 for students)
17/02/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
The film "Im Juli (In July) from German to be screened tonight at Pattaya Rooftop film Fest 2012-01-27
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
17/02/12 - 19/02/12 - Night at the Museum II (The Portuguese: At World's End) - PORTUGAL
Traditional sweets as Tong Yib, Tong Yod Foi Tong as well as in the Sino-ortuguese style of architecture on the west coast of southern Thailand
Venue: Museum Siam
Times: 16.00-22.00 hrs
Admission: Free
18/02/12 - DJ Clément in ZE Garden – Apero Party - FRANCE
Clément has performed and distilled his fine musical selection in great clubs all over the World. And here he is now in Bangkok. Don't miss enjoying yourself with his acclaimed DJ skill.
Venue Issaya Siamese Club
Time: 18.00 Hrs
Admission: Tickets purchase on site
20/02/12 - 21/02/12 - Pichet Klunchun and myself" (Modern Dance) - FRANCE
Created in 2004 by France's major figure in contemporary dance Jerome Bel and Thai leading contemporary dancer Pichet Klunchun, Afterseven years of touring the world with the show, the two dancers have decided to stage this performance for the last time where it all started: during La Fête festival.
Venue: Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Time: 20:00 hrs.
Ticket: 400 bht (100 bht for students) at the door or www.thaiticketmajor.com
20/02/12 - 26/02/12 - GERMAN FILM WEEK 2012
As a part of the celebration "150 Years of Thai-German Diplomatic Relations" and to encourage cultural exchange through the screening of Films that reflect also the cultural diversity of the World and diversity of the cinema programme in Bangkok. All 7 films have been well selected by Goethe-Institut Thailand for this very special event.
All films will be shown in German with English subtitles. "Almanya-Welcome to Germany (2011)" is the film for the opening today. There are 6 more renowned German films scheduled respectively until 26 February :
21/02 Krabat (2008),
22/02 Poll (2010),
23/02 A Year Ago in Winter (2008),
24/02 I've Never Been Happier (2009),
25/02 Lila Lila (2010) and
26/02 When We Leave (2010)
Venue: Paragon Cineplex
Time: During 20/02 to 26/02 at 7 PM except for the opening at 6 PM
Admission: Free
22/02/12 - 23/02/12 - Visual Theatre "Stéréoptik" - FRANCE
The Stéréoptik company's two characters fuzz the borders between drawing, music, video and object manipulation, creating cartoon film under our very eyes.
Venue: Sofitel SO Bangkok
Time: 20:00 hrs.
Ticket: 400 Bht (100 for students) at www.thaiticketmajor.com
24/02/12 - Movie: - PORTUGAL “Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto” (Our Belove Month of August)
Documentary-style footage portrays summer pursuits in the region, including boar hunting, religious parades and fetes featuring amateur dance bands; residents interviewed include Paulo, a heavy-drinking local legend. Despite Gomes’ lack of organisation, a fiction emerges, acted by locally recruited talent.
Venue: 9th Floor, Maha Sirindorn Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Time: 24th February 2012, at 17:00 hrs
Admission: Free
24/02/12 - Concert - Fête de la Musique
One of La Fête festival's regular events which is held annually. This year the tradition continues with one of French hip-hop's most famous band, who has sold millions of albums, "IAM". Thaitanium, a Thailand's headlining rap group, will join the stage with the IAM in an outburst of rhythms and music the gardens of Museum Siam.
Venue: Museum Siam
Time: 14:00 to 24:00 hrs
Admission: Free
24/02/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
Don't miss the film "Soul Kitchen" at Pattaya Rooftop film Fest 2012 at
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
March 2012
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Exhibition “Olá Siam”- PORTUGAL
Interactive exhibition about Travel, Trade and Religion in 17th century.
Venue: Goethe Institut, South Sathorn Road Soi 1
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: 500 Bht (250 for students)
02/02/12 - 29/03/12 - French-Thai cultural Festival "La Fête"
The French Embassy in Thailand is organizing La Fête 2012 for the 8th time in the past 9 years. This year, La Fête will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Alliance Française de Bangkok, founded in 1912, the co-organizer of the festival.
About 20 different cultural and artistic events will be presented over a period of 9 weeks. Some of these events are Thai, but they are mostly French; they cover many fields of creativity: modern circus, classical music, rock, DJ, contemporary dance, hip-hop, visual theatre, photography, cinema, fashion, etc.
The events will also be hosted by 6 other Thai cities: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Hua Hin, Koh Samui, Khon Kaen and Phuket.
Details about the event schedule and venue will be online on the La Fête's website: http://www.lafete-bangkok.com/
02/03/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
Tonight the film " Cherry Blossoms" will be shown at Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012-01-27
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
02/03/12 - 03/03/12 - Visual Theatre – Adrien M/Claire B Company - FRANCE
Adrien Mondot is a computer expert and a juggler. He's been organizing workshops, creating shows and installationsthat generates sensitive interaction between scenic art and computer art, in order to explore the many aspects of fantasy. Claire Bardainne, who is a visual artist, has joined in the creation of the company's productions.
Venue: Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre, Chulalongkorn University
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: 400 Bht (100 Bht for students) at Thaiticketmajor.com
08/03/12 - 18/04/12 - You Are Not Alone - SPAIN
16 contemporary artists from around the world will give their individual visions on the causes, consequences and current context of Aids, as well as ways of fighting it. The pieces presented offer a vision of Aids from the perspective of different countries on different continents that all experience the illness in one form or other.
TheArtAids Foundatoin will invite 10 internationally acclaimed artists who don't usually work on the subject of Aids to create specific pieces for the exhibition. A view of the illness by Pepe Espaliú, a Spanish artist who died from Aids in 1993, appears by way of an introduction.
Venue: Bangkok Art Culture Centre (BACC)
Time: During 08/03-18/04 daily except Monday between 10.00 – 21.00 hrs.
Admission: Free
09/03/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
"Knallhart (Tough enough) is another German Film selected for Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 tonight
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
09/03/12 - 18/03/12 - French Film Festival (11 films)
This year, more than ever, the French Film Festival will be one of the highlights of "La Fête" and will be devoted to comedy and humour.
Opening ceremony on March 8th at 6.30 pm on invitation only.
Venue: SF World Cinema, Central World 7th Floor
Time: daily during 09-18/03 (www.sfcinemacity.com)
Admission: 120 Bht(Students 100 Bht), 500 Bht for 5 tickets at www.sfcinemacity.com
09/03/12 - 10/03/12 - Beau Geste Company – Modern Dance - FRANCE
My Own history of dance. This funny story is now one of French modern dance's best sellers and has been shown over 300 times worldwide.
Venue: Patravadi Theatre
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: 600/400 (100 Bht for students) at www.thaiticketmaor.com
11/02/12 - Beau Geste Company – Transports exceptionnels – Street show - FRANCE
Discover he latest trends with "Sacrés Français" An inventive group of artists sets the trend with their daring creativity, their style and quirky comments
Venue: Lumpini Park
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: Free
15/03/12 - 29/04/12 - Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook – The Two Planets series - VDO Art - FRANCE
A humorous illustration of cultural differences between East and West, and the weight of education and social context when dealing with them.
Venue: Museum Siam (near Wat Pho)
Time: Daily from 10.00 – 18.00 hrs
Admission: Free
16/03/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
Make yourself available to view the film "Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) at Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 tonight
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
13/02/12 - Somewhat Different - GERMANY
Contemporary design and the power of convention
The Goethe-Institut Thailand and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA) present an exhibition by Prof. Volker Albus in cooperation with Crystal Design Center (CDC) and Bangkok University Gallery (BUG).
IFA and Curator Prof Volker Albus have prepared the exhibition "Somewhat different. Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention" which shows selected examples of this design phenomenon. The designs do not only provoke astonishment, but challenge one to reflect on general expectation, codes of behaviour as well as the referential context of firmly established notions, and to review traditional fixations.
Venue: Crystal Design Center
Time: Daily during 27 Feb to 13 March
Admission: Free
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Photography: The Upside Down World of Philippe Ramette - FRANCE
Ramette's works focus on the loss of reference points. In his creations, he put himself in the scenes in which the laws of gravity no longer apply and in which he seems to naturally find his own spot. None of his photos were photoshopped, which makes them all the more fascinating.
The event is free and open to the public.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 10.00-21.00 hrs, daily
Admission: Free
23/03/12 - 24/03/12 - Concert – POLAND
To commemorate the first year anniversary of the passing of Mikolaj GóreckiConductor: Dariusz Mikulski
Soloist: Dariusz Mikulski, French Horn
Soloist: Iwona Handzlik, Soprano
Venue: Music Auditorium College of Music, Mahidol University (Salaaya Campus)
Time: 23 March at 19.00 hrs
24 March at 16.00 hrs
Admission: 500 BHT (special zone), 300 BHT (normal zone), 100 BHT (students)
26/03/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
Ein Freund von mir (A friend of mine) is shown at Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 tonight
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
29/03/12 - 30/06/12 - Portraits de Mode – Closing ceremony - FRANCE
Portraits de Mode will take you to the world of Haute Couture through the eyes of one of the most famous and unique photographers on the French fashion scene, Jean-Marie Périer's photos shows the hidden face of many great fashion stars.
Venue: Zen (Outdoor Arena)
Time: Daily from 10.00-22.00 hrs
Admission: Free
30/03/12 - Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012 - GERMANY
Tonight is the last day for you to enjoy Pattaya Rooftop Film Fest 2012, the film " Das Leben der Anderen (The Life of Others) is the closing film of the Festival of this year, better don't miss.
Venue: DusitD2 baraquda pattaya
Time: 21.00 hrs
Admission: Free
26/03/12 - 30/04/12 - 55 Years of Thai-German Technical Cooperation Exhibition
The exhibition presents the works of the Thai–German technical cooperation, which began on 9 October 1956 with the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation. The cooperation has covered so far over 200 development projects in almost all areas.
Major milestones of the cooperation in the global development context of the last six decades are highlighted in the time-line exhibition, including real-life stories of the people and institutes. In addition, a short-documentary film presents lesson learned from the view point of former stakeholders and major impacts.
Venue: Goethe Institut Thailand
Time: 26/3-30/4,
Monday – Saturday 8:00-18:00 hrs.
Sunday 8:00-12:00 hrs.
Admission: Free
April 2012
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Photography: The Upside Down World of Philippe Ramette - FRANCE
Ramette's works focus on the loss of reference points. In his creations, he put himself in the scenes in which the laws of gravity no longer apply and in which he seems to naturally find his own spot. None of his photos were photoshopped, which makes them all the more fascinating.
The event is free and open to the public.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 10.00-21.00 hrs, daily
Admission: Free
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Exhibition “Olá Siam”- PORTUGAL
Interactive exhibition about Travel, Trade and Religion in 17th century.
Venue: Goethe Institut, South Sathorn Road Soi 1
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: 500 Bht (250 for students)
10/04/12 - 13/05/12 - "Energy, what are the choices for tomorrow"
Alliance Francaise de Bangkok is proud to present the wonderful education photo exhibition by French photographer and film director "Yanne Arthus-Bertrand"
Venue: Alliance francaise’s media library
Time: 10 April – 13 May (Monday closed)
Admission: Free for public
16/02/12 - 29/04/12 - Exhibition-Show "Olá Sião"
"Live Exhibition" Listen-Talk-smell-SeeTaste. The audience is guided by 8 actors acting as Afonso de Albuquerque, MariaGuiomar de Pina, Fancis Chit, Fernao Mendes Pinto, CristianoRonaldo, among others, wearing real costumes and telling the history of Portuguese-Thai relations.
Venue: Museum Siam
Time: 16 Feb to 29th April (Tuesday-Sunday) 10.00 hrs-18.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
25/04/12 - 29/11/12 - "Young Musicians – Old Masters" Chamber concert Series 2012
In cooperation with the Thai-German Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut continues its chamber concert series with young musicians from several universities in Bangkok. Classical music still has a relatively young tradition in Thailand. Therefore, it is all the more important to support young musicians. Within the framework of this chamber concert series we would like to offer a platform to student ensembles of different music schools and universities to present their skills. Do not miss to come and enjoy their talent.
Venue: Auditorium of the Goethe Institut Thailand
Time: Every last Wednesday of the month At 19.00 hrs
Admission: 100 Thb (50 Thb for students)
27/04/12 - Film screening: Pa negre (Black bread) (New Spanish Film Week)
1 h 48 min – Drama (2010)
In the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the early 1940′s, a local man is accused of murder and his son sets out to find the truth. Eleven-year-old Andreu stumbles upon a crushed wagon in the underbrush at the foot of a high cliff and witnesses the dying moments of the man and boy inside. When police suspect Andreu’s father of foul play, he goes into hiding and Andreu is sent away to live with relatives. There, the frightened boy creates a fantasy life but is forced to confront a world of adult deception, festering hatreds and the war’s monstrous consequences.
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Fl Siam Paragon
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
28/04/12 - Film screening: Primos (Cousinhood) (New Spanish Film Week)
1 h 37 min – Comedy (2011)
Diego's fiancée dumped him five days before their planned wedding. What does a guy have to do to overcome the shock?
a) Show up at the church anyway, hoping she would change her mind in the last minute.
b) Get wasted and bitch about how life sucks.
c) Try to win back his first love.
d) All the above.
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Fl Siam Paragon
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
29/04/12 - Film screening: Balada triste de trompeta (The last circus) (New Spanish Film Week)
1h 47 min – Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Action (2010)
The circus monkeys scream wildly inside their cage while, outside, men kill and die in another circus: the ongoing Spanish Civil War. The Stupid Clown, recruited against his will by the Militia, ends up carrying out a bloodbath with a machete among the National soldiers while still wearing his costume. Many years later, during Franco’s dictatorship, Javier, son of the Militian funnyman, finds work as the sad clown in a circus where he meets an outlandish cast of weird characters like the human cannonball, the elephant tamer or a quarrelsome couple of dog trainers.
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Fl Siam Paragon
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
30/04/12 - Film screening: Mientras duermes (Sleep tight) (New Spanish Film Week)
1h 47 min – Thriller (2011)
César is the doorkeeper of an apartment building and would trade this job for no other, because it allows him an insight into the movements, the most intimate habits, the weaknesses and the secrets of all tenants. If he so wished, he could even control their lives, influencing them as God would do, opening wounds and delving into them. All without even raising the slightest suspicion, as César keeps a very peculiar secret: he likes to harm, to pull the levers needed to cause pain. And the new neighbor of Apartment 5º B keeps smiling. In and out every day, she is bright and happy, full of light. So she soon becomes the new target of Cesar´s game. This becomes a personal challenge, an obsession
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Fl Siam Paragon
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
May 2012
01/05/12 - Film screening: No habrá paz para los malvados (No rest for the wicked) (New Spanish Film Week)
1h 44 min – Thriller (2011)
Madrid, early twenty-first century, one day, police inspector Santos Trinidad, coming home very drunk, finds himself involved in a triple murder. A witness manages to escape and who may incriminate him. Judge Chacón will be responsible for investigating the triple murder and Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and remove the witness. Santos and Chacón will soon discover that what seemed at first a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Fl Siam Paragon
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
02/05/12 - Film screening: Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn) (New Spanish Film Week)
1h 38 min – Western (2011)
Having fled the US, the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy supposedly died in Bolivia along with his friend the Sundance Kid in a shootout in 1908. So goes the official version. However, the truth is that he’s been lying low in Bolivia for 20 years and now he wants to come home. But he soon runs into a young Spanish engineer who has just robbed the mine he was working in, the property of the most powerful businessman in Bolivia.
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Fl Siam Paragon
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
03/05/12 - 06/12/12 - German Cinema Today: Cue-In, Cross-Over A Special Programmeof German Films in Thailand
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Thailand, a series of contemporary movies of different genres, as well as award-winning movies from the last years will be presented until December to general public at no cost
For more information:
Please contact: 02 287 0942 - 4 ext. 8
E-mail: pr@bangkok.goethe.org
Venue: Thai Film Archive at Salaya
Admission: FREE
04/05/12 - 18/05/12 - Exhibition-German Photo Books Award
Besides other places likeGermany, Singapore and the Philippines, Bangkok has been listed as one of the stations where the touring exhibition "Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2012" (German Photo Bok Award 2012) will be presented this year. The awards are given in 3 categories. The best photo books with outstanding photographic elements will be awarded with "gold" and "silver".
Venue: Goethe-Institut Thailand
Time: Opening 4 May at 18.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
21/05/12 - 21/05/12 - Notos Quartet – classical Concert
Notos, the personification of the South Wind, sometimes a gentle breeze, sometimes the bringer of storms, is also the name of a piano quartet funded in 2007, which will prove its outstanding musical skills in a concert.
This unique mixture of musical talent and creativity in the Notos Quartet is praised by the audience and critics likewise.
For more information: www.goethe.de/Thailand
Venue: Auditorium Goethe-instut Thailand
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/05/12 - Film screening: They will come to town (EU ECO Film Festival)
Germany, 2009, Thilo Ewers, 2 min
This short animation is a dramatic illustration of the consequences climate change could affect on our cities.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/05/12 - Film screening: Above Water (EU ECO Film Festival)
Austria/Luxembourg, Udo Maurer, 82 min
*Presented by Goethe Institute
In Bangladesh people turn their boats into houses to escape flooding; in Kazakhstan a fishing village has seen its lake turn into a desert; and in Kenyan slums pollution has made drinking water into expensive merchandise. Three stories illustrate how water has become both a necessity for life and a threat to it.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 19.32 hrs
Admission: FREE
25/05/12 - Film screening: The Bill (EU ECO Film Festival)
Germany, 2009, Peter Wedel, 5 min
Three friends meet in a pub to chat about their lives. Cars, holidays, houses – climate change is irrelevant. But when it comes to paying, it soon becomes clear who will have to foot the bill.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 18.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
25/05/12 - Film screening: The Age of Stupid (EU ECO Film Festival)
United Kingdom, 2009, Franny Armstrong, 89 min
Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 18.05 hrs
Admission: FREE
25/05/12 - Film screening: Cities on speed - Cairo Garbage (EU ECO Film Festival)
Denmark, 2009, Mikala Krogh, 55 min
Once upon a time there was a city that was neat and tidy, home to only 12 million people. Today, however, Cairo has a population estimated at 20 million. Garbage is piling up in the streets and the piles are growing. Everyone in Cairo has their views on garbage but nobody knows what to do about it. Cairo Garbage is a portrait of the city community seen through its garbage.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
26/05/12 - Film screening: The Saga of the Primeval Forest: the Tale of A Lynx (EU ECO Film Festival)
Poland, 2008, Bozena and Jan Walencik, 53 min
After its mother gets killed, a small lynx is left to fend for itself in the beautiful but wild environment of Białowieża forest, a natural UNESCO World Heritage site. This is one episode from a twelve part documentary series narrated from the perspective of wild animals living in one of Europe's last remaining primeval forests.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 18.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
26/05/12 - Film screening: Home (EU ECO Film Festival)
France, 2009, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 120 min
Approaching the debate about climate change from a whole new angle, this film lets viewers see for themselves how our earth is changing. The film captures the Earth’s most amazing landscapes, showcasing its incomparable beauty and acknowledging its vulnerability. Home is a compelling emotional reminder of what is at stake: the Earth, in all its beauty, and the people who live on it.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
27/05/12 - Film screening: Submission - In Defence of the Unborn (EU ECO Film Festival)
Sweden, 2010, Stefan Jarl, 87 min
Humans are constantly exposed to chemicals – through the air we breathe, the food we eat, what we drink and through our skin. Even the unborn now have higher levels of concentration of chemicals than ever before. This documentary is about the 100,000 chemicals we use every day, what they're for and what they do to our health.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
27/05/12 - Film screening: Think Global, Act Rural (EU ECO Film Festival)
France, 2010, Colline Serreau, 113 min
Established modern methods of agriculture can have a devastating effect on the environment. In this documentary, we travel the world to discover new ways of farming: successful production techniques which not only produce better yield, but also offer better life and health to the communities and the environment they live in.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
27/05/12 - Film screening: Recipes for Disaster (EU ECO Film Festival)
Finland, 2008, John Webster, 85 min
Filmmaker John Webster and his give up any consumption of oil-based products for a year. They go on with their suburban lives, but without using fossil fuels, driving cars or flying airplanes. They won't buy anything packaged in plastic like food, shampoo, toothpaste or kids' toys. This last item proves a particular challenge to Webster's young sons.
Venue: SF cinema, Terminal 21
Time: 20.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
31/05/12 - Film screening: Pure (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2010, Lisa Langseth, 101 min - Drama/Romance
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be set in stone. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s Requiem that opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she follows proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
31/05/12 - Film screening: Soul Kitchen (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Fatih Akin, 99 min – Comedy
Zinos, the owner of a restaurant, is half-heartedly trying to keep his run-down business alive. When his girlfriend Nadine is moving to Shanghai for a new job, he no longer sees any perspectives in his present life. A new cook is hired who, along with Lucia and Lutz, is to give the bar a new look.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
31/05/12 - Film screening: Princess (EU Film Festival)
Finland, 2010, Arto Halonen, 100 min – Drama
This film is based on the true story of Ms Anna Lappalainen. Claiming to be "Princess", a member of the English royal family, she spent 50 years of her life as patient at a psychiatric hospital, where she healed and brought joy to those around her through her lovable personality.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
31/05/12 - Film screening: Sonny Boy (EU Film Festival)
Netherlands, 2011, Maria Peters, 130 min - Drama/ Romance
Based on true events, this film relates a controversial love-story between a Dutch divorced mother of four and the 17 years' younger Afro-Caribbean student Waldemar. Their love conquers all prejudice and opposition, but is alas destroyed by the devastating powers of the Second World War.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 18.50 hrs
Admission: FREE
June 2012
01/06/12 - Film screening: Made in Hungaria (EU Film Festival)
Hungary, 2009, Gergery Fonyó, 108 min - Comedy
In the spring of 1963, at a time when everybody else would like to escape to the West, an adolescent boy named Miki and his parents leave behind the American dream and return to Budapest. Back in Hungary revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike regard Miki's jobless father with suspicion. Miki applies to a talent show and proves to everybody that he has a place in this old-new world.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
01/06/12 - Film screening: Welcome (EU Film Festival)
France, 2009, Philippe Lioret, 110 min – Drama
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe, wanting to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover the 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
01/06/12 - Film screening: Joanna (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Feliks Falk, 105 min - Romance/ Drama
Joanna has to cope alone while waiting for her husband to return from the front. When she meets a Jewish orphan girl named Rose she decides to take care of her. She fails to find a hiding spot for Rose and a German officer forces Joanna to become his lover in return for protection. In response, her family and the armed resistance decide to punish her for fraternizing with the enemy.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
01/06/12 - Film screening: Trishna (EU Film Festival)
United Kingdom, 2010, Michael Winterbottom, 117 min – Romance/ Drama
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
02/06/12 - Film screening: The Substitute (EU Film Festival)
Denmark, 2007, Ole Bornedal, 93 min – Comedy
Sixth Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able to read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
02/06/12 - Film screening: 18 meals (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jorge Coira, 107 min - Comedy Drama
18 Meals follows an eclectic group of characters as their stories unfold over the different meals of a day. There is Sol who invites her old flame Edu to lunch while her husband and son are out. There's Vladimir, an actor who attempts to woo his co-star with elaborately prepared meals. And there is Victor who tries to hide the fact that Sergio is more than a roommate. Shot in the stunning Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the film is an appetizing spread audiences will love.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
02/06/12 - Film screening: Empties (EU Film Festival)
Czech Republic, 2007, Jan Sverák, 100 min – Comedy/ Drama
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
02/06/12 - Film screening: Loose Cannons (EU Film Festival)
Italy, 2010, Ferzan Ozpetek, 110 min - Drama/ Romance
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 16.50 hrs
Admission: FREE
02/06/12 - Film screening: North Face (EU Film Festival)
Austria, 2008, Philipp Stölzl, 126 min - Drama/ Romance
The film, based on a true story, recalls the attempt of two German climbers to scale the Eiger’s 5,900-foot near-vertical north wall, then unconquered, in the run-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. “North Face” imagines the attempted conquest as a battle between the German climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser and Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer from Austria. In reality, the four actually belonged to the same team and did not join together midway in the climb, as the movie has it
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 18.50 hrs
Admission: FREE
03/06/12 - Film screening: Krabat (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Marco Kreuzpaintner, 120 min - Adventure/Fantasy
The effects of the 17th-century Thirty Years' War have spread disease over a desolate landscape. A voice in a dream lures the homeless boy Krabat to an old mill, where he becomes an apprentice and soon discovers that the miller also practices dark sorcery. Krabat develops a sense of belonging, but when harm comes to his best friend, he has to choose between power and loyalty.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
03/06/12 - Film screening: The strange Case of Angelica (EU Film Festival)
Portugal, 2010, Manoel de Oliveira, 94 min – Drama
In the middle of the night, the young photographer Isaac receives an urgent call from a wealthy family asking him to come and take the last photograph of their daughter Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedding. When Isaac looks at her through the lens of his camera, the young woman appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment on, Angélica will haunt him night and day, until exhaustion.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
03/06/12 - Film screening: Charlotte: A Royal at War (EU Film Festival)
Luxembourg, 2008, Ray Tostevin, 96 – Documentary
Charlotte: A Royal at War” tells the untold story of the Royal “propagandist in pearls” who inspired a nation through the power of radio, reaching people in their darkest hour. This is the true account of one woman and her government’s pursuit of freedom for their country, against the brutal occupation by Hitler’s Third Reich. The feature length documentary combines vivid eyewitness testimony with dramatic reconstruction and unique colour archive.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
03/06/12 - Film screening: In a Better World (EU Film Festival)
Denmark, 2010, Susanne Bier, 119 min - Drama/Romance
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
03/06/12 - Film screening: Morgen (EU Film Festival)
Romania, 2010, Marian Crișan, 100 min - Comedy/ Drama
One morning while fishing, Nelu meets a Turkish man on the run from border guards. He takes in the stranger and, against the wishes of his wife, puts him to work on his dilapidated farm without reporting to the authorities. The man keeps insisting Nelu take all his money and help him reach Germany. Nelu takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border the next day, reassuring him with the one word he knows in German: "morgen" ("tomorrow").
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
05/06/12 - Film screening: The Flying Pigs (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Anna Kazejak, 99 min - Romance/Drama
This is a story of four characters who centre their lives around supporting the local football club. When the team ceases to exists, their world is turned upside down. Oskar, a former hooligan, is forced to get a job with the owner of another club. His new post tests his loyalties, forces him to develop another outlook on life and grow up. Meanwhile he finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his brother and his girlfriend.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
05/06/12 - Film screening: Everlasting Moments (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2008, Jan Troell, 131 min – Drama/ Romance
Based on a true story in Sweden in the early 1900s – in a time of social change and poverty – the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Pedersen into her life.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
05/06/12 - Film screening: A Perfect Day (EU Film Festival)
Italy, 2008, Ferzan Ozpetek, 95 min - Drama/Romance
A fierce love story that separates and unites Emma and Antonio, a Roman couple scarred by torment and obsession. Their children are innocent bystanders, then victims to a crime about to unfold. A story of human suffering and the attempt to give shape to the chaotic reality of corrupt politics and painful love.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
05/06/12 - Film screening: For 80 Days (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jon Garaño/ José María Goenaga, 104 min – Drama
Axun and Maite first met at secondary school in a different, more difficult time when their love for each other could not be expressed beyond a platonic friendship. Fifty years later, the women meet again. Axun is a mousey housewife in a seemingly loveless marriage and Maite is an academic and an out and proud lesbian. Axun sets off on a journey of self-discovery as old passions resurface with a new intensity. Now that she is 70, will she dare to cross the line between friendship and desire?
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
06/06/12 - Film screening: Turquaze (EU Film Festival)
Belgium, 2009, Kadir Balci, 100 min - Family Drama
Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfill his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
06/06/12 - Film screening: Morgen (EU Film Festival)
Romania, 2010, Marian Crișan, 100 min - Comedy/ Drama
One morning while fishing, Nelu meets a Turkish man on the run from border guards. He takes in the stranger and, against the wishes of his wife, puts him to work on his dilapidated farm without reporting to the authorities. The man keeps insisting Nelu take all his money and help him reach Germany. Nelu takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border the next day, reassuring him with the one word he knows in German: "morgen" ("tomorrow").
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
06/06/12 - Film screening: The Substitute (EU Film Festival)
Demnark, 2007, Ole Bornedal, 93 min – Comedy
Sixth Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able to read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
06/06/12 - Film screening: Krabat (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Marco Kreuzpaintner, 120 min - Adventure/Fantasy
The effects of the 17th-century Thirty Years' War have spread disease over a desolate landscape. A voice in a dream lures the homeless boy Krabat to an old mill, where he becomes an apprentice and soon discovers that the miller also practices dark sorcery. Krabat develops a sense of belonging, but when harm comes to his best friend, he has to choose between power and loyalty.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
07/06/12 - Film screening: The strange Case of Angelica (EU Film Festival)
Portugal, 2010, Manoel de Oliveira, 94 min – Drama
In the middle of the night, the young photographer Isaac receives an urgent call from a wealthy family asking him to come and take the last photograph of their daughter Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedding. When Isaac looks at her through the lens of his camera, the young woman appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment on, Angélica will haunt him night and day, until exhaustion.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
07/06/12 - Film screening: Trishna (EU Film Festival)
United Kingdom, 2010, Michael Winterbottom, 117 min – Romance/ Drama
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
07/06/12 - Film screening: Charlotte: A Royal at War (EU Film Festival)
Luxembourg, 2008, Ray Tostevin, 96 – Documentary
Charlotte: A Royal at War” tells the untold story of the Royal “propagandist in pearls” who inspired a nation through the power of radio, reaching people in their darkest hour. This is the true account of one woman and her government’s pursuit of freedom for their country, against the brutal occupation by Hitler’s Third Reich. The feature length documentary combines vivid eyewitness testimony with dramatic reconstruction and unique colour archive.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
07/06/12 - Film screening: Joanna (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Feliks Falk, 105 min - Romance/ Drama
Joanna has to cope alone while waiting for her husband to return from the front. When she meets a Jewish orphan girl named Rose she decides to take care of her. She fails to find a hiding spot for Rose and a German officer forces Joanna to become his lover in return for protection. In response, her family and the armed resistance decide to punish her for fraternizing with the enemy.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
08/06/12 - Film screening: 18 meals (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jorge Coira, 107 min - Comedy Drama
18 Meals follows an eclectic group of characters as their stories unfold over the different meals of a day. There is Sol who invites her old flame Edu to lunch while her husband and son are out. There's Vladimir, an actor who attempts to woo his co-star with elaborately prepared meals. And there is Victor who tries to hide the fact that Sergio is more than a roommate. Shot in the stunning Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the film is an appetizing spread audiences will love.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
08/06/12 - Film screening: North Face (EU Film Festival)
Austria, 2008, Philipp Stölzl, 126 min - Drama/ Romance
The film, based on a true story, recalls the attempt of two German climbers to scale the Eiger’s 5,900-foot near-vertical north wall, then unconquered, in the run-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. “North Face” imagines the attempted conquest as a battle between the German climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser and Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer from Austria. In reality, the four actually belonged to the same team and did not join together midway in the climb, as the movie has it
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
08/06/12 - Film screening: Empties (EU Film Festival)
Czech Republic, 2007, Jan Sverák, 100 min – Comedy/ Drama
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.20 hrs
Admission: FREE
08/06/12 - Film screening: Soul Kitchen (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Fatih Akin, 99 min – Comedy
Zinos, the owner of a restaurant, is half-heartedly trying to keep his run-down business alive. When his girlfriend Nadine is moving to Shanghai for a new job, he no longer sees any perspectives in his present life. A new cook is hired who, along with Lucia and Lutz, is to give the bar a new look.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Welcome (EU Film Festival)
France, 2009, Philippe Lioret, 110 min – Drama
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe, wanting to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover the 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Pure (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2010, Lisa Langseth, 101 min - Drama/Romance
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be set in stone. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s Requiem that opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she follows proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Made in Hungaria (EU Film Festival)
Hungary, 2009, Gergery Fonyó, 108 min - Comedy
In the spring of 1963, at a time when everybody else would like to escape to the West, an adolescent boy named Miki and his parents leave behind the American dream and return to Budapest. Back in Hungary revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike regard Miki's jobless father with suspicion. Miki applies to a talent show and proves to everybody that he has a place in this old-new world.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Princess (EU Film Festival)
Finland, 2010, Arto Halonen, 100 min – Drama
This film is based on the true story of Ms Anna Lappalainen. Claiming to be "Princess", a member of the English royal family, she spent 50 years of her life as patient at a psychiatric hospital, where she healed and brought joy to those around her through her lovable personality.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Sonny Boy (EU Film Festival)
Netherlands, 2011, Maria Peters, 130 min - Drama/ Romance
Based on true events, this film relates a controversial love-story between a Dutch divorced mother of four and the 17 years' younger Afro-Caribbean student Waldemar. Their love conquers all prejudice and opposition, but is alas destroyed by the devastating powers of the Second World War.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 18.50 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Turquaze (EU Film Festival)
Belgium, 2009, Kadir Balci, 100 min - Family Drama
Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfill his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 13.10 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: For 80 Days (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jon Garaño/ José María Goenaga, 104 min – Drama
Axun and Maite first met at secondary school in a different, more difficult time when their love for each other could not be expressed beyond a platonic friendship. Fifty years later, the women meet again. Axun is a mousey housewife in a seemingly loveless marriage and Maite is an academic and an out and proud lesbian. Axun sets off on a journey of self-discovery as old passions resurface with a new intensity. Now that she is 70, will she dare to cross the line between friendship and desire?
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: The Flying Pigs (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Anna Kazejak, 99 min - Romance/Drama
This is a story of four characters who centre their lives around supporting the local football club. When the team ceases to exists, their world is turned upside down. Oskar, a former hooligan, is forced to get a job with the owner of another club. His new post tests his loyalties, forces him to develop another outlook on life and grow up. Meanwhile he finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his brother and his girlfriend.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
09/06/12 - Film screening: Everlasting Moments (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2008, Jan Troell, 131 min – Drama/ Romance
Based on a true story in Sweden in the early 1900s – in a time of social change and poverty – the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Pedersen into her life.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 18.50 hrs
Admission: FREE
15/06/12 - Film screening: Pure (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2010, Lisa Langseth, 101 min - Drama/Romance
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be set in stone. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s Requiem that opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she follows proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
15/06/12 - Film screening: Soul Kitchen (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Fatih Akin, 99 min – Comedy
Zinos, the owner of a restaurant, is half-heartedly trying to keep his run-down business alive. When his girlfriend Nadine is moving to Shanghai for a new job, he no longer sees any perspectives in his present life. A new cook is hired who, along with Lucia and Lutz, is to give the bar a new look.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
15/06/12 - Film screening: Princess (EU Film Festival)
Finland, 2010, Arto Halonen, 100 min – Drama
This film is based on the true story of Ms Anna Lappalainen. Claiming to be "Princess", a member of the English royal family, she spent 50 years of her life as patient at a psychiatric hospital, where she healed and brought joy to those around her through her lovable personality.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
15/06/12 - Film screening: Sonny Boy (EU Film Festival)
Netherlands, 2011, Maria Peters, 130 min - Drama/ Romance
Based on true events, this film relates a controversial love-story between a Dutch divorced mother of four and the 17 years' younger Afro-Caribbean student Waldemar. Their love conquers all prejudice and opposition, but is alas destroyed by the devastating powers of the Second World War.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
16/06/12 - Film screening: The Substitute (EU Film Festival)
Denmark, 2007, Ole Bornedal, 93 min – Comedy
Sixth Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able to read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
16/06/12 - Film screening: 18 meals (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jorge Coira, 107 min - Comedy Drama
18 Meals follows an eclectic group of characters as their stories unfold over the different meals of a day. There is Sol who invites her old flame Edu to lunch while her husband and son are out. There's Vladimir, an actor who attempts to woo his co-star with elaborately prepared meals. And there is Victor who tries to hide the fact that Sergio is more than a roommate. Shot in the stunning Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the film is an appetizing spread audiences will love.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
16/06/12 - Film screening: Empties (EU Film Festival)
Czech Republic, 2007, Jan Sverák, 100 min – Comedy/ Drama
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
16/06/12 - Film screening: Loose Cannons (EU Film Festival)
Italy, 2010, Ferzan Ozpetek, 110 min - Drama/ Romance
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
16/06/12 - Film screening: North Face (EU Film Festival)
Austria, 2008, Philipp Stölzl, 126 min - Drama/ Romance
The film, based on a true story, recalls the attempt of two German climbers to scale the Eiger’s 5,900-foot near-vertical north wall, then unconquered, in the run-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. “North Face” imagines the attempted conquest as a battle between the German climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser and Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer from Austria. In reality, the four actually belonged to the same team and did not join together midway in the climb, as the movie has it
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
17/06/12 - Film screening: Krabat (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Marco Kreuzpaintner, 120 min - Adventure/Fantasy
The effects of the 17th-century Thirty Years' War have spread disease over a desolate landscape. A voice in a dream lures the homeless boy Krabat to an old mill, where he becomes an apprentice and soon discovers that the miller also practices dark sorcery. Krabat develops a sense of belonging, but when harm comes to his best friend, he has to choose between power and loyalty.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
16/06/12 - Film screening: The strange Case of Angelica (EU Film Festival)
Portugal, 2010, Manoel de Oliveira, 94 min – Drama
In the middle of the night, the young photographer Isaac receives an urgent call from a wealthy family asking him to come and take the last photograph of their daughter Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedding. When Isaac looks at her through the lens of his camera, the young woman appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment on, Angélica will haunt him night and day, until exhaustion.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
17/06/12 - Film screening: Charlotte: A Royal at War (EU Film Festival)
Luxembourg, 2008, Ray Tostevin, 96 – Documentary
Charlotte: A Royal at War” tells the untold story of the Royal “propagandist in pearls” who inspired a nation through the power of radio, reaching people in their darkest hour. This is the true account of one woman and her government’s pursuit of freedom for their country, against the brutal occupation by Hitler’s Third Reich. The feature length documentary combines vivid eyewitness testimony with dramatic reconstruction and unique colour archive.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
17/06/12 - Film screening: In a Better World (EU Film Festival)
Denmark, 2010, Susanne Bier, 119 min - Drama/Romance
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
17/06/12 - Film screening: Morgen (EU Film Festival)
Romania, 2010, Marian Crișan, 100 min - Comedy/ Drama
One morning while fishing, Nelu meets a Turkish man on the run from border guards. He takes in the stranger and, against the wishes of his wife, puts him to work on his dilapidated farm without reporting to the authorities. The man keeps insisting Nelu take all his money and help him reach Germany. Nelu takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border the next day, reassuring him with the one word he knows in German: "morgen" ("tomorrow").
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
18/06/12 - Film screening: Made in Hungaria (EU Film Festival)
Hungary, 2009, Gergery Fonyó, 108 min - Comedy
In the spring of 1963, at a time when everybody else would like to escape to the West, an adolescent boy named Miki and his parents leave behind the American dream and return to Budapest. Back in Hungary revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike regard Miki's jobless father with suspicion. Miki applies to a talent show and proves to everybody that he has a place in this old-new world.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
18/06/12 - Film screening: Welcome (EU Film Festival)
France, 2009, Philippe Lioret, 110 min – Drama
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe, wanting to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover the 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
18/06/12 - Film screening: Joanna (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Feliks Falk, 105 min - Romance/ Drama
Joanna has to cope alone while waiting for her husband to return from the front. When she meets a Jewish orphan girl named Rose she decides to take care of her. She fails to find a hiding spot for Rose and a German officer forces Joanna to become his lover in return for protection. In response, her family and the armed resistance decide to punish her for fraternizing with the enemy.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
18/06/12 - Film screening: Trishna (EU Film Festival)
United Kingdom, 2010, Michael Winterbottom, 117 min – Romance/ Drama
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
19/06/12 - Film screening: The Flying Pigs (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Anna Kazejak, 99 min - Romance/Drama
This is a story of four characters who centre their lives around supporting the local football club. When the team ceases to exists, their world is turned upside down. Oskar, a former hooligan, is forced to get a job with the owner of another club. His new post tests his loyalties, forces him to develop another outlook on life and grow up. Meanwhile he finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his brother and his girlfriend.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
19/06/12 - Film screening: Everlasting Moments (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2008, Jan Troell, 131 min – Drama/ Romance
Based on a true story in Sweden in the early 1900s – in a time of social change and poverty – the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Pedersen into her life.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
19/06/12 - Film screening: A Perfect Day (EU Film Festival)
Italy, 2008, Ferzan Ozpetek, 95 min - Drama/Romance
A fierce love story that separates and unites Emma and Antonio, a Roman couple scarred by torment and obsession. Their children are innocent bystanders, then victims to a crime about to unfold. A story of human suffering and the attempt to give shape to the chaotic reality of corrupt politics and painful love.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
19/06/12 - Film screening: For 80 Days (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jon Garaño/ José María Goenaga, 104 min – Drama
Axun and Maite first met at secondary school in a different, more difficult time when their love for each other could not be expressed beyond a platonic friendship. Fifty years later, the women meet again. Axun is a mousey housewife in a seemingly loveless marriage and Maite is an academic and an out and proud lesbian. Axun sets off on a journey of self-discovery as old passions resurface with a new intensity. Now that she is 70, will she dare to cross the line between friendship and desire?
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
20/06/12 - Film screening: Turquaze (EU Film Festival)
Belgium, 2009, Kadir Balci, 100 min - Family Drama
Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfill his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
20/06/12 - Film screening: Morgen (EU Film Festival)
Romania, 2010, Marian Crișan, 100 min - Comedy/ Drama
One morning while fishing, Nelu meets a Turkish man on the run from border guards. He takes in the stranger and, against the wishes of his wife, puts him to work on his dilapidated farm without reporting to the authorities. The man keeps insisting Nelu take all his money and help him reach Germany. Nelu takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border the next day, reassuring him with the one word he knows in German: "morgen" ("tomorrow").
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
20/06/12 - Film screening: The Substitute (EU Film Festival)
Demnark, 2007, Ole Bornedal, 93 min – Comedy
Sixth Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able to read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
20/06/12 - Film screening: Krabat (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Marco Kreuzpaintner, 120 min - Adventure/Fantasy
The effects of the 17th-century Thirty Years' War have spread disease over a desolate landscape. A voice in a dream lures the homeless boy Krabat to an old mill, where he becomes an apprentice and soon discovers that the miller also practices dark sorcery. Krabat develops a sense of belonging, but when harm comes to his best friend, he has to choose between power and loyalty.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
21/06/12 - Film screening: The strange Case of Angelica (EU Film Festival)
Portugal, 2010, Manoel de Oliveira, 94 min – Drama
In the middle of the night, the young photographer Isaac receives an urgent call from a wealthy family asking him to come and take the last photograph of their daughter Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedding. When Isaac looks at her through the lens of his camera, the young woman appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment on, Angélica will haunt him night and day, until exhaustion.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
21/06/12 - Film screening: Trishna (EU Film Festival)
United Kingdom, 2010, Michael Winterbottom, 117 min – Romance/ Drama
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
21/06/12 - Film screening: Charlotte: A Royal at War (EU Film Festival)
Luxembourg, 2008, Ray Tostevin, 96 – Documentary
Charlotte: A Royal at War” tells the untold story of the Royal “propagandist in pearls” who inspired a nation through the power of radio, reaching people in their darkest hour. This is the true account of one woman and her government’s pursuit of freedom for their country, against the brutal occupation by Hitler’s Third Reich. The feature length documentary combines vivid eyewitness testimony with dramatic reconstruction and unique colour archive.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time:17.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
21/06/12 - Film screening: Joanna (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Feliks Falk, 105 min - Romance/ Drama
Joanna has to cope alone while waiting for her husband to return from the front. When she meets a Jewish orphan girl named Rose she decides to take care of her. She fails to find a hiding spot for Rose and a German officer forces Joanna to become his lover in return for protection. In response, her family and the armed resistance decide to punish her for fraternizing with the enemy.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
22/06/12 - Film screening: 18 meals (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jorge Coira, 107 min - Comedy Drama
18 Meals follows an eclectic group of characters as their stories unfold over the different meals of a day. There is Sol who invites her old flame Edu to lunch while her husband and son are out. There's Vladimir, an actor who attempts to woo his co-star with elaborately prepared meals. And there is Victor who tries to hide the fact that Sergio is more than a roommate. Shot in the stunning Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the film is an appetizing spread audiences will love.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
22/06/12 - Film screening: North Face (EU Film Festival)
Austria, 2008, Philipp Stölzl, 126 min - Drama/ Romance
The film, based on a true story, recalls the attempt of two German climbers to scale the Eiger’s 5,900-foot near-vertical north wall, then unconquered, in the run-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. “North Face” imagines the attempted conquest as a battle between the German climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser and Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer from Austria. In reality, the four actually belonged to the same team and did not join together midway in the climb, as the movie has it
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
22/06/12 - Film screening: Empties (EU Film Festival)
Czech Republic, 2007, Jan Sverák, 100 min – Comedy/ Drama
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.20 hrs
Admission: FREE
22/06/12 - Film screening: Soul Kitchen (EU Film Festival)
Germany, 2008, Fatih Akin, 99 min – Comedy
Zinos, the owner of a restaurant, is half-heartedly trying to keep his run-down business alive. When his girlfriend Nadine is moving to Shanghai for a new job, he no longer sees any perspectives in his present life. A new cook is hired who, along with Lucia and Lutz, is to give the bar a new look.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.15 hrs
Admission: FREE
23/06/12 - Film screening: Welcome (EU Film Festival)
France, 2009, Philippe Lioret, 110 min – Drama
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe, wanting to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover the 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
23/06/12 - Film screening: Pure (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2010, Lisa Langseth, 101 min - Drama/Romance
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be set in stone. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s Requiem that opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she follows proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
23/06/12 - Film screening: Made in Hungaria (EU Film Festival)
Hungary, 2009, Gergery Fonyó, 108 min - Comedy
In the spring of 1963, at a time when everybody else would like to escape to the West, an adolescent boy named Miki and his parents leave behind the American dream and return to Budapest. Back in Hungary revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike regard Miki's jobless father with suspicion. Miki applies to a talent show and proves to everybody that he has a place in this old-new world.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
23/06/12 - Film screening: Princess (EU Film Festival)
Finland, 2010, Arto Halonen, 100 min – Drama
This film is based on the true story of Ms Anna Lappalainen. Claiming to be "Princess", a member of the English royal family, she spent 50 years of her life as patient at a psychiatric hospital, where she healed and brought joy to those around her through her lovable personality.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
23/06/12 - Film screening: Sonny Boy (EU Film Festival)
Netherlands, 2011, Maria Peters, 130 min - Drama/ Romance
Based on true events, this film relates a controversial love-story between a Dutch divorced mother of four and the 17 years' younger Afro-Caribbean student Waldemar. Their love conquers all prejudice and opposition, but is alas destroyed by the devastating powers of the Second World War.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/06/12 - Film screening: In a Better World (EU Film Festival)
Denmark, 2010, Susanne Bier, 119 min - Drama/Romance
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 11.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/06/12 - Film screening: Turquaze (EU Film Festival)
Belgium, 2009, Kadir Balci, 100 min - Family Drama
Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfill his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 13.10 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/06/12 - Film screening: For 80 Days (EU Film Festival)
Spain, 2010, Jon Garaño/ José María Goenaga, 104 min – Drama
Axun and Maite first met at secondary school in a different, more difficult time when their love for each other could not be expressed beyond a platonic friendship. Fifty years later, the women meet again. Axun is a mousey housewife in a seemingly loveless marriage and Maite is an academic and an out and proud lesbian. Axun sets off on a journey of self-discovery as old passions resurface with a new intensity. Now that she is 70, will she dare to cross the line between friendship and desire?
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 15.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/06/12 - Film screening: The Flying Pigs (EU Film Festival)
Poland, 2010, Anna Kazejak, 99 min - Romance/Drama
This is a story of four characters who centre their lives around supporting the local football club. When the team ceases to exists, their world is turned upside down. Oskar, a former hooligan, is forced to get a job with the owner of another club. His new post tests his loyalties, forces him to develop another outlook on life and grow up. Meanwhile he finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his brother and his girlfriend.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time: 17.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
24/06/12 - Film screening: Everlasting Moments (EU Film Festival)
Sweden, 2008, Jan Troell, 131 min – Drama/ Romance
Based on a true story in Sweden in the early 1900s – in a time of social change and poverty – the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Pedersen into her life.
Venue: Vista Kadsuankaew, Chiang mai
Time:18.50 hrs
Admission: FREE
27/06/12 - Concert: Young Musicians - Old Masters (Ensemble Concert Series 2012)
In cooperation with the Thai-German Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut continues its chamber concert series with young musicians from several universities in Bangkok. As part of the concert series, students from different universities in Bangkok will perform Woodwind Chamber Music on 27th June. You can look forward to an interesting ensemble of the best artists from the universities, promising high-quality music and a unique experience.
Venue: Auditorium of Thai-German Cultural Foundation and the Goethe-Institut Thailand
Time: 19:00 Hrs.
Admission: Baht, 50 Baht for Students
28/06/12 - Piano Concert: Francesco Tristano
The Embassy of Luxemburg in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thailand presents Piano Concert by Francesco Tristano. Francesco Tristano discovered the piano at the age of five. At 13, he played his first concert, presenting his own compositions. He later toured both as a soloist and with renowned orchestras, such as the Russian National Orchestra, the French National Orchestra of Lille and the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 19:00 Hrs.
Admission: FREE
28/06/12 - Film Screening: Tough Enough
German, 2006, Detlev Buck, 98 min
Severe change for 15 year old Michael emerges: after splitting up with her wealthy lover, Miriam, the mother of Michael, is forced to move to the run-down neighborhood of Berlin-Neukölln. Moving alongside his mother, Michael has to adapt to the new surroundings and the tough circumstances of being the new guy.
Venue: Thai Film Archiv (Salaya)
Time: 17:30 Hrs.
Admission: FREE
August 2012
17/08/12 - Reception and Screening of the BAFTA 2012 – Nominated Short Films and Short Animations, A British Council Touring Programme
The reception and screening of the BAFTA 2012 Nominated Short Films and Short Animations features live action shorts and animated films from the 2012 nominees in both Best Short Film and Best Short Animation categories of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2012. British Council has toured the BAFTA nominees internationally as part of their Short Film Scheme. The reception and screening will be held as part of the 16th Thai Short Film and Video Festival.
Venue: Auditorium, 5th Floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 18:00 hrs
Admission: FREE
More info: thaishortfilmfestival@gmail.com; manuporn.luengaram@britishcouncil.or.th
24/08/12 - 29/08/12 - British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneurs (YCE) Fashion Award Programme 2012
British Council Thailand in partnership with the Department of International Trade Promotion jointly presents the YCE with a focus on fashion to find the best young creative entrepreneur in Thailand’s fashion sector. The publis showcase features the works by the 6 shortlisted applicants namely Ek Thongprasert (Ek Thongprasert and Curated by Ek Thongprasert), Pantila Promfang (Madame Flamingo), Pimnutchaya Liptawat (DusktillDawn), Saroenrong Wong-Savun (Rubber Killer), Sappasit Foongfuangchaveng (Timo Trunks) and Teekawat Pattamakome (URFACE).
The YCE reception and award announcement is scheduled for Wednesday 29 August, 14:00 – 16:30 hrs.
Venue: 6thFloor, Siam Discovery Center
Admission: FREE
More info: manuporn.luengaram@britishcouncil.or.th
26/08/12 - Screening of the BAFTA 2012 – Nominated Short Films and Short Animations, A British Council Touring Programme
The screening of the BAFTA 2012 Nominated Short Films and Short Animations features live action shorts and animated films from the 2012 nominees in both Best Short Film and Best Short Animation categories of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2012. British Council has toured the BAFTA nominees internationally as part of their Short Film Scheme.
Venue: Meeting Room 401, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Time: 15:00 hrs
Admission: FREE
More info: thaishortfilmfestival@gmail.com; manuporn.luengaram@britishcouncil.or.th
30/08/12 - Film screening: Krabat (German Film Series)
Germany, 2008, Marco Kreuzpaintner, 120 min - Adventure/Fantasy
The German Film Series goes into a new round. Supported by the Goethe-Institut Thailand, “Krabat” is based on the Otfried Preußler’s novel of the same name.The plot is about a boy, Krabat (played by David Kross), who learns black magic from a sorcerer (played by Christian Redl).
Venue: Thai Film Archive, Salaya
Time: 17.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
More info: German Trailer
English Trailer:
September 2012
14/09/12 - 15/09/12 - BLAZE, the Sensational Street Dance Show
BLAZE is a multimedia spectacle and nonstop dance show that showcases the awe-inspiring talents of 16 of the world’s best street-dancers and break dancers.
Venue: Thailand Cultural centre
Time: 19.30 hrs.
Admission: 2,500 / 2,000 / 1,600 / 1,200 / 700 THB
More info: www.thaiticketmajor.com/performance/icp-2012-details/03-blaze.php
14/09/12 - 15/09/12 - Concert: La Boîte à Musique
Accompanied by piano improvisations, “La Boîte à Musique” or the music box of French song memories, will take the audience on a journey through 15 centuries of French songs, with each song illustrating a page of France’s cultural heritage up to present times. Ranging from the melodies of Claude Debussy to those of Serge Gainsbourg, this musical journey will include unforgettable songs and some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written in French.
Venue: Auditorium, Alliance Française
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: 250 THB for students and Alliance members
400 THB for non-members
More info: chalanthorn.kidthang@alliance-francaise.or.th or www.alliance-francaise.or.th
26/09/12 - Young Musicians – Old Masters: Brass Chamber Music Concert
In cooperation with the Thai-German Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut continues its chamber concert series with young musicians from several universities in Bangkok. The concert series takes place every last Wednesday of the month.
Venue: Auditorium, Goethe-Institut Thailand
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: 100 THB, 50 THB for Students
More info: info@bangkok.goethe.org
26/09/12 - European Languages Café
To mark the European Day of Languages, 26 September, the European Union National Institutes for Culture Thailand (EUNIC Thailand) will organise a 'European Languages Café' activity where young Thai and European speakers of English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese can meet to practise the different European languages they master, share their cultural interests or simply socialise.
Venue: 2nd Floor, Too Fast To Sleep Café (754, Samyan Center, Rama 4 Rd., Bangkok, 086-5778989)
Time: 16.00 - 18.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
More info: www.facebook.com/EUinThailand#!/events/279846738784040/
27/09/12 - Conference: The Mae Kok River by Rebecca Weldon Sithiwong
The source of the Mae Kok river, an affluant of the Mekong, is located in Myanmar, in the mountains of the Daen Lao range, east of the Shan state. Basing herself on historical documents of the region, the writings of western archeologists and local archives, Rebecca Weldon Sithiwong tells the story of the river, with all of its symbolic wealth, its sacred rites and history of economic exchanges with neighbouring countries, in a region where the first traces of human occupation go back more than 700,000 years.
Venue: Auditorium, Alliance Française
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: 150 THB for student and Alliance members
200 THB for non-members
More info: www.afthailande.org or anne-sophie.jumelle@alliance-francaise.or.th
30/09/12 - 05/10/12 - Cracking Bamboo 2012: European-Asian percussion festival
Percussionists from Asia and Western countries will present their first concert. "Cracking Bamboo" offers a platform for a playful dialogue between Percussionists with “modern” instruments from Europe and their “ancestors”, the traditional instruments from Southeast Asia.
Venue: College of Music, Mahidol University in Salaya
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
More info: www.music.mahidol.ac.th/en/index.php
October 2012
02/10/12 - 03/10/12 - "Swan Lake" Ballet by the Staatsballett Berlin
Swan Lake tells the story of prince Siegfried and the spellbound princess Odette, who is captured in the shape of a swan. The staging of the Staatsballett Berlin keeps up the famous swan images in their archetypical impact while modifying the dramaturgical function of the prince very cautiously.
Venue: Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: 4,500 / 3,500 / 2,800 / 2,000 / 1,000 Baht
05/10/12 - Cracking Bamboo 2012: European-Asian percussion festival
Percussionists from Asia and Western countries will present their first concert. "Cracking Bamboo" offers a platform for a playful dialogue between Percussionists with “modern” instruments from Europe and their “ancestors”, the traditional instruments from Southeast Asia.
The Goethe-Institut Thailand will be organising a bus transfer to Salaya for the concert on October 5th. The bus leaves from the institute in Bangkok at 5pm. Seats can be reserved via email before the 27th of September. Costs for the roundtrip transfer: 100 THB, to be paid at the evening of the concert. Contact: programm@bangkok.goethe.org
Venue: College of Music, Mahidol University in Salaya
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
More info: www.music.mahidol.ac.th/en/index.php
12/10/12 - International Jazz Night
Under auspices of the Dutch embassy in Thailand a unique celebration concert will take place with three international headliner jazz artist. The show will include performances from re-arranged composition of the King. The Beets Brothers and Koh Mr. Saxman worked over two years on the projects and made a CD specially for this unique event.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Center Auditorium, 5th Floor
Time: 19.30 hrs
Admission: 2,000 THB
More info: www.thaiticketmajor.com, www.bangkokcityjazz.com, info@bangkokcityjazz.com
13/10/12 - Southeast Asian Youth chamber Orchestra
The College of Music of Mahidol University and the Goethe-Institutes of Southeast Asia collaborate on the establishment of a Southeast Asian Youth Chamber Orchestra, which comes together in October 2012 in Salava near Bangkok to begin its first performance cycle. The project is also supported by MERCK. Under the direction of Nicolás Pasque from Weimar, the youth orchestra will mount its first concert on Saturday, October 13th at 7 PM in the auditorium of the College of Music.
Venue: Music Auditorium, College of Music, Mahidol University
Time: 19.00 hrs
Admission: FREE
15/10/12 - 28/10/12 - The 6th Beethoven Competition in Thailand 2012
From October 15 - 28, 2012 the Goethe-Institut arranges for the sixth time the Beethoven Competition with the aim to support young and talented pianists. They will have the opportunity to prove their skills in front of national and international jurors. In addition to the winners´concert, invited jurors will perform an evening concert for the audience in Thailand.
Application deadline: October 12, 2012
Pre-Selection: October 15, 2012
First and Final Round: October 24 - 27, 2012
International Jury´s Concert: October 26, 2012
Winners´ Concert and Awards: October 28, 2012
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: -
Admission: FREE
31/10/12 - German Film Series: Goodbye, Lenin
Berlin (East) in autumn 1989: Alex Kerner's mother is in a coma after a heart attack and misses the fall of the Berlin Wall. She awakes in summer 1990. Her doctor declares that excitement of any kind could be fatal. Alex must conceal the fall of the SED regime from her. He and his friends pretend to the sick woman that the GDR still exists; the illusion remains perfect until one day the truth can no longer be concealed. The clever comedy was the most successful film of the year in 2003. Producer: Wolfgang Becker, Color, 118 min., 2003, Language: German / Subtitles: English
Venue: Thai Film Archiv (Salaya)
Time: 17.30 hrs
Admission: FREE
November 2012
05/11/12 - Gosskören
The Swedish Embassy in Bangkok together with Office of Art and Culture, Chulalongkorn University present ‘Gosskören’. Gosskören (the young men’s choir) has on its goal to give pleasure through old and new classics in their repertoire. Gosskören sings pop and rock n' roll songs in acapella fashion mixed with small surprises. Through the years Gosskören has performed on stages mostly in Scandinavia but also in Switzerland, Spain and Hong Kong just to name a few. More information on www.gosskoren.com.
Venue: Music Hall, Art and Culture Building, Chulalongkorn University
Time: 18.00 hrs
Admission: free
16/11/12 - 25/11/12 - Film Screening: Le Havre (Finnish)
Aki Kaurismäki is Finland's most appreciated director and his Le Havre was the most award-winning film in 2011. Film received the Fipresci award from the film critics in Cannes last year. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. Film is screened during the World Film Festivals in Bangkok on 16-25 November at Esplanade Cineplex. Exact date will be informed later. Film is screened in original language, French, subtitles are in English.
Venue: Esplanade Cineplex
Time: tbc
Admission: tbc
More info: http://tinyurl.com/bwvqmkn
24/11/12 - 25/11/12 - Boston Promenade big band
Boston Promenade big band will stage their show on legendary Brown Sugar jazz club on 24-25 November. Their rhythm section, 13 horns and 5 vocalists will make you dance! Boston Promenade's repertoire is very broad and flexible. Besides jazz tunes, they play hits from the 70s and also pop and rock music of today.
Venue: Brown Sugar jazz club
Time: n/a
Admission: FREE
More info: http://tinyurl.com/bwvqmkn
December 2012
04/12/12 - German Open-Air Cinema 2012/13
A special insight into the current German film scene is offered by the annual open-air cinema at the Goethe-Institut. Over the period of two months a weekly German-language film will be shown. It offers people interested in German speaking countries the opportunity to learn more about German culture. It furthermore gives people with a German background the opportunity to gain an overview of recent works by various directors of their home country.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Thailand
Date: December 2012 - February 2013
Tuesdays at 19:30 Hrs.
Opening: Dezember 4, 2012 at 18:30 Hrs.
Language: German language / English subtitles
Free Admission
More info: info@bangkok.goethe.org
0 2287 0942-4
06/12/12 - 11/12/12 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”.
BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of twenty-one talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
07/12/12 - 08/12/12 - Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) presents King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Birthday
Come join TPO in a celebration of HM the King’s 85th Birthday. Italian guest conductor Alfonso Scarano returns to Salaya to lead a selection of HM the King’s favorite songs. The program also features Greek pianist Lambis Vassiliadis performing Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as selections of popular film music. This concert has something for everyone!
Conductor: Alfonso Scarano
Soloist: Lambis Vassiliadis, Piano
Venue: Music Auditorium, College of Music, Mahidol University
Time: December 7, 2012 at 19:00 Hrs.
December 8, 2012 at 16:00 Hrs.
Admission: 500/300 Baht and 100 Baht (students)
More info: Tel. 02 800 2525-34 ext.154 - 155
08/12/12 - Great Music from Popular Music's Age (Italian Festival Thailand 2012)
Saxophonist Federico Mondelci’s return following his 2007 extraordinary success. Accompanied by the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra he will be joined on stage by renowned soprano Christina Zavalloni in a program of great musical standards.
Venue: Thailand Cultural Centre, Main Hall
Time: 20:00 hrs
Ticket: 500.- 1,000.- 1,500.- 2,000.- 2,500.-
Tickets will be on sale at ThaiTicketmajor | Tel: 02 262 3456 or visit www.thaiticketmajor.com
11/12/12 - Film screening: Sophie Scholl (German Film Series)
Germany, 2005, Marc Rothemund, 120 min - Adventure/Fantasy The German Film Series goes into a new round. Sophie Scholl is a young student in Nazi Germany, who is everything but convinced of the ideology of the National Socialists. She is an activist in an underground student resistance group, the White Rose. The movie follows the last few days of Sophie School from arrest, interrogation, trial and sentence in Munich 1943. This is the true story of one of the most famous anti-Nazi rebels.
Venue: BACC, 2nd Floor, December 11, 2012 at 18:00 hrs Thai Film Archive, Salaya, December 27, 2012 at 17:30 hrs
Admission: FREE
Language: German / English subtitles
More info: pr@bangkok.goethe.org
January 2013
04/12/12 - 28/02/13 - German Open-Air Cinema 2012/13
A special insight into the current German film scene is offered by the annual open-air cinema at the Goethe-Institut. Over the period of two months a weekly German-language film will be shown. It offers people interested in German speaking countries the opportunity to learn more about German culture. It furthermore gives people with a German background the opportunity to gain an overview of recent works by various directors of their home country.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Thailand
Date: December 2012 - February 2013
Tuesdays at 19:30 Hrs.
Language: German language / English subtitles
Free Admission
More info: info@bangkok.goethe.org
0 2287 0942-4
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”.
BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of twenty-one talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
09/01/13 - 12/01/13 - spectrum concert berlin
Bangkok/Chiang Mai - Spectrum Concert (Berlin) presents Frank Dodge (Cello) and Naomi Niskala (Piano) in a new chamber concert with compositions by J. S. Bach, E. Toch, C. Debussys, R. Helps, F. Dodge and J. Brahms.
Venue: Goethe-Institut, January 9th, 19:00hrs
Mahidol University (Salaya), Room 847, January 10th, 19:00hrs
Payap University Chiang Mai (Kaew Nawarat Campus), 12th January, 19:00hrs
Admission: free
More info: Tel. 0 2287 0942 - 4
info@bangkok.goethe.org
11/01/13 - 12/01/13 - The Thailand Philharmonic New Year’s Concert 2013
Join TPO to celebrate the New Year 2013! Polish Guest conductor Dariusz Mikulski presents a program of opera favourites that feature talented Thai soprano Sasinee Aswajesdakul and tenor Nutthaporn Thammathi.
Venue: Mahidol University, College of Music, Music Auditorium
Time: 11th January 19:00hrs, 12th January 16:00hrs
Admission: 500/ 300 Baht, Students 100 Baht
More info and tickets: Tel. 02 800 2525-34 ext.154 - 155
15/01/13 - 03/02/13 - Contemporary Lithography from Finland
Artits Maija Albrecht, Kalle Berg, Matti Hintikka, Valpuri Kylmänen, Kuutti Lavonen, Tapani Mikkonen, Kaisu Sirviö and Miikka Vaskola showcase their latest works. All the artists use the same lithography workshop Helsinki Litho. They make their art independently, drawing on the traditions and potentials of the lithography technique. The exhibition also reflects the high, autonomous status of printmaking in contemporary art in Finland.
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), 3rd and 4th Floor
17/01/13 - Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre portrayed
Madeleine Gobeil, a long-time friend of Simone de Beauvoir and a literature professor and journalist, will talk about these legendary French writers at the screening of her documentary film featuring the iconic couple.
During her talk, Madeleine Gobeil will set both writers in their times, describe her friendship with them, and answer questions from the audience after the screening of the film.
Venue: Alliance française Bangkok’s Media Library
Date and Time: 17:30hrs
Free admission
For more information: Tel.: 02 670 42 41
mediatheque@alliance-francaise.or.th
17/01/13 - 19/01/13 - Die Fledermaus
The Music College of Mahidol University is launching the production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss.
The three-act light-hearted operetta tells a story of a revenge taken by a Dr. Falke on a his best friend, Gabriel von Eisenstein for playing a practical joke on him three years ago. This operetta full of the disguises, tricks, and lovely tunes is considered one of the most performed opera around the world. And for this production the story is taken place in Bangkok, 2012 instead of in Vienna, 1890 with a little twist added to all the characters.
Director: Pattarasuda Anuman Rajadon
Conductor: Pamornpan Komolpamorn
Venue: Mahidol University, College of Music, Music Auditorium
Time: 17th/18th/19th January 19:00 hrs, on 18th January also 14:00hrs
Ticket: 1000/ 750/ 500/ 250 Baht, Students 150 Baht
Reservations and information: 0 2800 2525-34 ext153-154
18/01/13 - Gwen Rakotovao: Contemporary Dance
The dancer, choreographer and teacher, Gwen Rakotovao, will stage a preview of her solo show in the auditorium of Alliance française. While planning her show for Bangkok, Rakotovao started working on a new dance inspired by the poem “A une passante,” or “To a Woman Passing By,” by French writer Charles Baudelaire. She will also perform “Budda Jam”, where her humorous and whimsical portrait of an automaton is set to American composer Dorian Wallace’s music.
Venue: Alliance française Bangkok
Date and time: 19:30hrs
Tickets: Students and members: 250 baht - Non-members: 400 baht
For more information: Tel: 02 670 42 31
chalanthorn.kidthang@alliance-francaise.or.th
www.gwenrakotovao.com
25/01/13 - 26/01/13 - From Piazzolla to Sibelius
Italian Guest Conductor Alfonso Scarano joins TPO in a performance of Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1. The guest guitar duo “Katona Twins” will also join to present Piazzolla’s Double Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra.
Venue: Mahidol University, College of Music, Music Auditorium
Time: 25th January 19:00hrs, 26th January 16:00hrs
Admission: 500/ 300 Baht, Students 100 Baht
More info and tickets: Tel. 02 800 2525-34 ext.154 - 155
28/01/13 - Reading-Event: Hansjörg Schertenleib: Wald aus Glas
Pro Helvetia, the Embassy of Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Thailand are pleased to invite you to a lovely literary evening with the author Hansjörg Schertenleib.
Written in an interesting narrative style, the book “Wald aus Glas” tells the story of two women who randomly meet on their “getaway”. Both of them are different from each other and are following their own need. Yet, they’ve got one thing in common: immigrant background.
Venue: Library of the Goethe-Institut
Time: 18:00hrs
Admission: Free
Language: German
More info: 0 2287 0942 - 4 ext. 24 or 25
library@bangkok.goethe.org
28/01/13 - 28/02/13 - Exotika
The exhibition in Nakhon Pathom shows works by 15 international artists, installations, paintings, photos, videos and objects. The projects aim is to explore phenomena of New Exoticism in Greater-Bangkok and Berlin. Their residents represent global changes on local scale, people from all over the world live here. 7 participating artists come from Berlin, 4 from Greater-Bangkok, 5 from China, France, Congo, Fiji and Tahiti.
This exhibition will be extended by a a presentation of workshop results, and by art works of 5 young Thai artists, graduates of the Silpakorn University Bangkok, selected by Prof. Amrit Chusuwan.
Venue: Sanam Chandra Art Gallery - SAL, Nakon Pathom
Time: Monday to Friday, 09:00hrs – 16:00hrs
Opening: 28th January, 16:00hrs
29th January, 13:30hrs: Guided tour through the exhibition with participating artists
28/01/13 - Fire fire fire
Supported by the Goethe Institut’s Tanzconnexions project, this triple-bill presents new dance works by three of Southeast Asia’s most notable choreographers Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (Cambodia), Eko Supriyanto (Indonesia) and Pichet Klunchun (Thailand), based on the same episode of Ramayana. This festival closer is part of the world premiere Southeast Asian tour—Bangkok will witness this after Phnom Penh and before Jakarta.
Venue: Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Date: 19:30hrs
Admission: 500 Baht (adults), 300 Baht (under 27 or dance/theatre artists) and 200 Baht (students)
More info: info@bangkok.goethe.org
Tel: 0 2287 0942 - 4
February 2013
05/02/13 - 24/03/13 - In-Public
British Council Thailand is delighted to present the first ever UK street photography exhibition in Bangkok. The best of contemporary street photographers as represented by the In-Public collective, based in the UK. The core UK exhibition will take place at Thailand Creative & Design Centre (TCDC). A public Street Photography workshop led by two UK In-Public photographers will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, with the best workshop work presented in a second parallel exhibition.
Venue: UK exhibition at TCDC Lobby
Local workshop exhibition at 3rd floor, BACC, 15th Feb – 10th Mar
Date: 5th Feb 2013 – 24th Mar 2013, 10.30hrs – 21.00hrs
More info: www.tcdc.or.th
07/02/13 - 09/03/13 - Live at The Scala
British Council Thailand is delighted to present a unique, UK produced performance event receiving its Asian premiere in Bangkok – ‘Live at The Scala’, a Microfestival of live performance, video and installation. Featuring artists from the UK and Thailand, the festival will transform the Scala into a thrilling exploration of our relationship to cinema and cinema buildings.
Venue: The Scala Cinema, Siam Square
Date: 7 – 9 February, 19:00hrs – 21:30hrs
Admission: 100 THB, contact arts@britishcouncil.or.th for reservation, or directly at The Scala
Info: www.britishcouncil.or.th
08/02/13 - Reading and Author Talk
A reading with a guest author from Switzerland. Maja Peter will read from her latest novel “Nochmal tanzen” (Dance again), which is due to be launched in March 2013. Martin, an over 70-year-old man is one of the main characters in “Nochmal tanzen” (Dance again). He sends his former dance partner Alice many emails from Thailand, where he now lives with his Thai boyfriend. Maja Peter is pleased to invite you to join the reading, followed by a casual talk in German, English or a little bit in Thai!
Venue: Library of the Goethe-Institut
Date: February 9, 2013 at 12:00 Hrs.
Free Admission
Info: 0 2287 0942 - 4 ext. 24 or 25
bib@bangkok.goethe.org
16/02/13 - 17/03/13 - BUKRUK/THAI-EUROPE CONNECTION
The street art festival BUKRUK/THAI-EUROPE CONNECTION is the first large-scale collaboration of Thailand and Europe in street art and illustration: 15 European artists and 11 Thais, all among the most talented and cutting-edge in their fields, will come together to paint live and exhibit their work.
The launch event on February 16 will take the form of a big street festival with the artists painting public walls in the centre of Bangkok, performances by indie bands and DJs from Thailand and Europe, and extreme sports demos.
An indoor exhibition in the form of a pop up store in the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre will display creations by all participating artists.
Opening Event
Venue: Rama IV
Date: Feb 16, noon-dark
Admission: Free
Exhibition
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
Date: Feb 23 – Mar 17
Admission: Free
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18/02/13 - 24/02/13 - German Film Week 2013
The Goethe-Institut is glad to arrange the second German Film Week in cooperation with its project partner Paragon Cineplex. Within 7 days, 7 German-speaking movies are shown – 7 movies providing an insight into the diversity of the German film scene. You are welcome to the opening ceremony of the “German film week 2013” on Friday, February 18th, 2013 at Paragon Cineplex.
Venue: Paragon Cineplex, 5th Floor
Time: February 18 - 24, 2013 / 19:00 Hrs.
Opening: February 18, 2013 / 18:00 Hrs.
Language: German language / english subtitles
Free Admission
Info: 0 2287 0942 - 4
info@bangkok.goethe.org
18/02/13 - 24/02/13 - German Film Series 2013
The German Film series, already presented last year by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with the Thai Film Archive, is to be continued. Selected films from German-speaking countries will be running on screens at Srisalaya cinema and in the BACC.
Time in BACC: Every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 18:00 hrs
Time in Salaya: Every last Thursday of the month, 17:30 hrs
Thai Film Archive (Salaya)
Language: German with English subtitles
Free Admission
Info: 0 2287 0942 - 4
info@bangkok.goethe.org
08/02/13 - 09/02/13 - Greek Music
Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) has a Mediterranean flavour as Greek guest conductor Alkis Baltas leads the TPO in a performance of Nikos Skalkottas’ “The Sea” Ballet Suite for Orchestra. Also on the program, French oboe soloist Philippe Tondre will perform Strauss’ Oboe Concerto in D Major.
Venue: Music Auditorium, College of Music, Mahidol University
Time: February 8, 2013 at 19:00 Hrs.
February 9, 2013 at 16:00 Hrs
Admission: Ticket: 500/300 Baht and 100 Baht for students
Tel. 02 800 2525-34 ext.154 – 155
09/02/13 - A personal history of Sound Art (1970s – 2013)
German Sound Artist Christina Kubisch will hold a lecture as part of the BACC 'Hear Here Exhibition'. The Lecture of Kubisch will be about the development of what today is defined as sound art from an European view. It is to compare her works from the last 40 years to that of other colleagues in the domain of sound art until today.
Venue: 1st Floor, Multi-Function Room Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Date: February 9, 2013 at 14:00 - 16:00 Hrs.
Free Admission
Info: 02 287 0942-4
info@bangkok.goethe.org
04/12/12 - 28/02/13 - German Open-Air Cinema 2012/13
An insight into the current German film scene offers the annual open-air cinema at the Goethe-Institut. For two months a weekly German-language film will be screened. It offers people interested in German speaking countries the opportunity to learn more about German culture and gives people with a German background the opportunity to gain an overview of recent works by various directors of their home country.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Thailand
Date: December 2012 - February 2013
Tuesdays at 19:30 Hrs.
Language: German language / English subtitles
Free Admission
More info: info@bangkok.goethe.org
0 2287 0942-4
28/01/13 - 28/02/13 - Exotika
The exhibition in Nakhon Pathom shows installations, paintings, photos, videos and objects by 15 international artists. The projects aim is to explore phenomena of New Exoticism in Greater-Bangkok and Berlin. Their residents represent global changes on local scale, people from all over the world live here. 7 participating artists come from Berlin, 4 from Greater-Bangkok, 5 from China, France, Congo, Fiji and Tahiti.
Venue: Sanam Chandra Art Gallery - SAL, Nakon Pathom
Time: Monday to Friday, 09:00hrs – 16:00hrs
Opening: 28th January, 16:00hrs
29th January, 13:30hrs: Guided tour with participating artists
28/02/13 - Opening Concert of Ensemble Concert Series 2013/14: New Talents go Classic
In cooperation with the Thai-German Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut continues its chamber concert series with young musicians from several universities in Bangkok. Faculty members from different universities in Bangkok will perform "Friendship Concert - Love Song" on 28th February. You can look forward to an interesting ensemble of the best artists from the universities, promising high-quality music and a unique experience.
Opening Concert: February 28, 2013 at 19:00 Hrs.
Venue: Auditorium of the Thai-German Cultural Foundation and the Goethe-Institut
Time: Every last Thursday of the month,
starting in May 2013 at 19:00 Hrs
Admission: 100 Baht und 50 Baht (for students)
Info: 02 287 0942-4
info@bangkok.goethe.org
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
Mars 2013
07/02/13 - 09/03/13 - Live at The Scala
British Council Thailand is delighted to present a unique, UK produced performance event receiving its Asian premiere in Bangkok – ‘Live at The Scala’, a Microfestival of live performance, video and installation. Featuring artists from the UK and Thailand, the festival will transform the Scala into a thrilling exploration of our relationship to cinema and cinema buildings.
Venue: The Scala Cinema, Siam Square
Date: 7 – 9 February, 19:00hrs – 21:30hrs
Admission: 100 THB, contact arts@britishcouncil.or.th for reservation, or directly at The Scala
Info: www.britishcouncil.or.th
16/02/13 - 17/03/13 - BUKRUK/THAI-EUROPE CONNECTION
The street art festival BUKRUK/THAI-EUROPE CONNECTION is the first large-scale collaboration of Thailand and Europe in street art and illustration: 15 European artists and 11 Thais, all among the most talented and cutting-edge in their fields, will come together to paint live and exhibit their work.
The launch event on February 16 will take the form of a big street festival with the artists painting public walls in the centre of Bangkok, performances by indie bands and DJs from Thailand and Europe, and extreme sports demos.
An indoor exhibition in the form of a pop up store in the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre will display creations by all participating artists.
Opening Event
Venue: Rama IV
Date: Feb 16, noon-dark
Admission: Free
Exhibition
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
Date: Feb 23 – Mar 17
Admission: Free
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05/02/13 - 24/03/13 - In-Public
British Council Thailand is delighted to present the first ever UK street photography exhibition in Bangkok. The best of contemporary street photographers as represented by the In-Public collective, based in the UK. The core UK exhibition will take place at Thailand Creative & Design Centre (TCDC). A public Street Photography workshop led by two UK In-Public photographers will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, with the best workshop work presented in a second parallel exhibition.
Venue: UK exhibition at TCDC Lobby
Local workshop exhibition at 3 rd floor, BACC, 15 th Feb – 10 th Mar
Date: 5 th Feb 2013 – 24 th Mar 2013, 10.30hrs – 21.00hrs
More info: www.tcdc.or.th
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
April 2013
- BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
19/04/13 - 21/04/13 - The Colour Show @Siam Discovery
“The Colour Show", a famous street act from Amsterdam's first show in Southeast Asia is now here in Thailand for your joy!
Venue: Siam Discovery Thailand
Date &Time: April 19th- 21st, 2013, five shows daily from 12.00 Hrs. to 21.00 Hrs.
Free Admission
May 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
07/05/13 - Exhibition Gerrit Engel: Berlin
Photography exhibition featuring Berlin Architecture captured by a German photographer, Gerrit Engel. Guided tours, movies as well as a professional photo workshop are offered free of charge.
Venue: ASA Center, 5th floor, Siam Discovery Thailand
Date &Time: May 7th, 2013at 18.00 Hrs.
Free Admission
More info: 0 2287 0942-4 or 0 2658 0560
info@bangkok.goethe.org
June 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
July 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
August 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
September 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
October 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
November 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor
December 2013
06/12/12 - 11/12/13 - BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design
The Spanish Embassy and the Bangkok Art & Culture Center (BACC) are pleased to present the exhibition “BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish design”. BRAVOS is an innovative design exhibition that portrays the innovation and diversity of the new Spanish design scene. It includes the work of 21 talented and successful young Spanish designers, and represents the best industrial design creations of the Spanish Design Boom.
Venue: BACC, 4th Floor