Welcome to Weekend Warrior, where we offer you a few ideas to kick-start your weekend of mayhem. Warriors, go forth.
Friday
Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2013
The Bangkok Motorbike Festival is many things; it’s a chance to gape at some expensive specimens of the city’s least-safe means of conveyance, it’s an opportunity for employment for every pretty in a 200-square-mile radius and it’s a chance to rub elbows with people whose everyday speech is peppered liberally with references to “cc’s.” Head Central World, check it out.
10am – 10pm. Free. Central World. BTS Chit Lom or Siam stops. Runs through Feb. 3.
Cabaret Photo Exhibition at Chez Pepin
This show marks French photographer Simon Kolton’s first outing in Bangkok, a city from which he has drawn widespread inspiration for a series of shocking, revelatory portraits.
6:30pm. Free. Chez Pepin, 86/3 Suan Phlu Soi 1, 10120 Sathorn, Bangkok, Thailand. Runs through March 30.
Saturday
Ukulele Lover Party at K-Village Soi Sukhumvit 26
Ukulele fans take note: This is your weekend to shine. The Ukulele Lover Party offers workshops, concerts and contests, but the real attraction is the opportunity to spend the weekend amongst people who really get what you’re about. Which is ukulele’s, duh.
10:30am – 10pm. Free. K-Village Soi Sukhumvit 26. Soi Ari, Khlong Tan, Khlong Toei, Bangkok 10110, Thailand.
Sunday
What Will You Leave Behind at Ardel’s Third Place Gallery
“What Will You Leave Behind,” by the artist Nino Sarabutra, is one of my absolute favorite types of art installations: One in which the audience is invited to plow right through the fourth wall and touch some shit. Sarabutra’s installation consists of over 100,000 porcelain skulls, which viewers are invited to step on at their leisure. This action is supposed to reinforce to you the fleeting nature of your passage through this earth, but I worry that I might accidentally wind up leaving Third Place Gallery having learned a life-changing lesson about how much fun it is to stomp on porcelain.
10am – 8pm. Free. Ardel’s Third Place Gallery, Thonglor Soi 10, Bangkok, Thailand.
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