Festival for the month of June  2009

Sawadee.com Regatta 2009
(1 - 6 June 2009: Koh Samui)

Now in its eighth year, the Koh Samui Regatta is set to maintain its strong reputation as one of the highlights of the Asian sailing circuit. -- read more

Amazing Thailand Grand Sale 2009
(June 1 - August 31, 2009: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Phuket and Hat Yai)

The Amazing Thailand Grand Sale, Thailand's annual three-month shopping extravaganza offers world-class shopping, a diverse selection of quality products and services, special discounts of 10 - 70 per cent and promotional offers being extended by participating department stores, shopping complexes and retail outlets along designated 'Shopping Streets' in Bangkok and the popular tourist destinations of Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Phuket and Hat Yai. -- read more

Laguna Phuket International Marathon
(14 June 2009: Laguna Phuket Resort)

Asia's leading destination marathon, the Laguna Phuket International Marathon presented by Nike will be held on 14 June 2009. -- read more

Phi Ta Khon Festival 2009
(26 - 28 June 2009: Dan Sai District, Loei District and Province)

The Phi Ta Khon festival is unique to the Dan Sai district in Loei Province and reflects the local Isan belief in ghosts and spirits. -- read more

Philippe Genty Company
(3 - 4 June 2009, 8PM: Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok)

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Chinese Man Records
(5 June 2009: Bed Supper Club - BTS Nana, Bangkok)

Chinese Man Records (France): A new French sound to discover. -- read more

Battle
(7 June 2009, 2PM: Patravadi Theater, Bangkok)

Last year, "La Fete" organised its first Hip-Hop "Battle". -- read more

The Aie Aie Aie Company (Julien Mellano)
(10 - 11 June 2009, 6PM and 8 PM: Alliance Francaise de Bangkok - MRT Lumpini or BTS Saladaeng, Bangkok)

With "Sacres Francais!", you will discover the latest trends. -- read more

Accrorap Company
(12 - 13 June 2009, 8PM: Patravadi Theater - Express Boat Pier 10, Bangkok)

The companies Kafig, Etha Dam and A'corps. Last year, Thai, Laotian, French and multiethnic performances at the festival offered us an opportunity to appreciate Hip-Hop in all its diversity. -- read more

BP Zoom Company
(16 - 17 June 2009, 8PM: Aksra Theatre / King Power Duty Free >> BTS Victory Monument, Bangkok)

The public of "La Fete" now knows the new French circus quite well. -- read more

Fete De La Musique (Music Day)
(20 June 2009, from 2PM to midnight: CentralWorld Square TK Park - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok)

"La Fete de la Musique" is the Festival of all genres of music and the Festival of all music makers (children, adults, amateurs and professionals). -- read more

Derniere Minute Company (Pierre Rigal)
23 - 24 June 2009, 8PM: Aksra Theatre / King Power Duty Free (BTS Victory Monument) , Bangkok

With "Sacres Francais!", you will discover the latest trends. -- read more

The Bangkok Symphony Orchestra
26 June 2009, 8PM: Thailand Cultural Center (Grand Auditorium) - MRT Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok

The Franco-Thai symphonic concert is today a classic at "La Fete". -- read more

French Film Festival
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, CentralWorld - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

La Fete would not be complete without the "French film festival". -- read more

French Film Festival: Largo Winch
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

With neither family nor ties, Largo Winch - maverick ladykiller, adventurer, rebel and fighter - finds himself, aged 26, at the head of a global business empire. -- read more

French Film Festival: Public Enemy Part I & II
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Screened with English and Thai subtitles
Cesar 2009 Best Actor, Best Director, Best sound
Adaptation of Jacques Mesrine's life, real gangster known as "public enemy number one" for his repeated crimes. -- read more

French Film Festival: Fear(s) of the Dark
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Six major authors of graphic novels and creators of animation have animated their nightmares, scratching on paper with their pencils sharpened like scalpels, erasing all colors so as to only retain the harshness of light and the black ink of shadow. -- read more

French Film Festival: The First Day of The Rest of Your Life
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval have three children: Albert, Raphael and Fleur. -- read more

French Film Festival: Modern Love
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam ou Chidlom, Bangkok

It's the story of Eric, who loves Anne, but who gets together again with Marie, his ex, and who starts dreaming of a second chance. -- read more

French Film Festival: On the Ropes
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Joseph manages a French Boxing Club where he trains his daughter and niece. -- read more

French Film Festival: Seraphine
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Based on the life of Seraphine de Senlis, an unknown turn of the century naive painter, Seraphine tells the story of a poor and mentally ill housekeeper inhabited by an incredible talent. -- read more

French Film Festival: Versailles
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Paris, today. A child and his young mother sleep in the streets. -- read more

French Film Festival: I've Loved You So Long
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

For fifteen years, Juliette has had no contact with her family, who rejected her. -- read more

French Film Festival: All About Actresses
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

A female filmmaker wishes to make a documentary about actresses of all kinds: popular stars, the unknown, intellectual, comic, and forgotten. -- read more

French Film Festival: Captain Achab
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

1840. Who could imagine this young boy reading the Bible in a hunting hut, lost in the middle of the wood, would become, one day, captain of a whaling ship? Nobody. -- read more

French Film Festival: Those Who Remain
19 June - 1 July 2009: SF World Cinema, Central World - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Bertrand and Lorraine are those who stay. They are those who pace the corridors and ask themselves forbidden questions, get picked up at the newspaper seller's kiosk, talk too much in the cafeteria, and smoke on the sly on the roof of this hospital where their partners are receiving care. -- read more

Visual Art: Laurent Ballesta
5 June - 12 August 2009: ZEN Department Store (Zone Rama I) - BTS Siam or Chidlom, Bangkok

Last year, the exhibition "Earth from Above" held in Bangkok under the framework of "La Fete" 2008 brought together nearly 500 000 visitors! The unbelievable success encouraged us to pursue the experiment of holding open-air, public and free exhibitions. -- read more

Visual Art: Georges Rousse
10 June - 5 July 2009: The River Promenade (opposite the Oriental Hotel) Boat from Saphan Taksin, Bangkok

Georges Rousse has developed a singular and forceful work since the eighties. -- read more

Visual Art: Moken Reflections (1894 - 2007)
26 June - 25 July 2009: Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center near Southern Bus Terminal, Bangkok

"Moken Reflections (1894-2007)" is a travelling exhibition (Burma-Thailand-France-Switzerland) of photos, objects and children's drawings recounting the history of Moken nomads, the marine nomads of the Mergui archipelago, from 1894 to today. -- read more

Hua Hin Jazz Festival 2009
12 - 14 June 2009, Hua Hin Beach

Musicians of the Select Group will participate in Bangkok Jazz Festival 2009. -- read more

Visual Art: Nathalie Darbellay
6 June - 26 July 2009: Kathmandu Photo Gallery - Thanon Pan, Opposite the Indian Temple, Silom, Bangkok

Nathalie Darbellay is a French photographer who has done several exhibitions and has published few books. -- read more

Visual Art: Ambroise Tezenas
17 June - 2 August 2009: Catherine Schubert Fine Art Gallery, Bangkok

Born in 1972, Ambroise Tezenas is a French photographer who graduated from the Vevey Institut des beaux-arts, in Switzerland. -- read more

Gastronomy: Aperitif A La Francaise
4 June 2009: Four Seasons hotel - Grand Ballroom >> BTS Ratchadamri, Bangkok

For the 6th successive year, Sopexa Thailand organizes an "Aperitif a la Francaise". -- read more

Gastronomy: Dinner in the Dark
23 - 27 June 2009: Pullman Bangkok King Power - BTS Victory Monument, Bangkok

Project initiated by the Embassy of France in Thailand and King Power Group, under the patronage of His Excellency M. -- read more

Phuket International Fashion Week
24-30 June 2009 Jungceylon Shopping Destination, Patong Beach, Phuket

Phuket International Fashion is going to be a spectacular new event. -- read more

The Weeks of Italian Cuisine
29 May - 14 June 2009: 8 well-known Italian Restaurants in Bangkok and Hua Hin

The Italian Trade Commission, together with the Italian Embassy, proudly presents you "Italian Culinary Weeks" in which you can enjoy the delightful Italian cuisine from great Italian chefs at well-known Italian restaurants around Bangkok and plus one in Hua Hin. -- read more

Italian Film Festival
6 - 10 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

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Italian Film Festival: 13 At a Table (Tredici a Tavola)
8 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Giulio a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with the entire family, in order to arrange for its sale together with his brothers and cousins. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: The Best Day (Il giorno piu bello)
7 and 9 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

The story of a successful 35 year-old whose fiancee (Nina) suggests they get married. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: The Family Friend (L'Amico di Famiglia)
9 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Geremia de'Geremei, age seventy, money-lender, ugly, filthy, rich and stingy, cynical and ironic, has a morbid, obsessive, sick relationship with everything. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Salty Air (L'Aria Salata)
7 and 10 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

A young prison officer has the task of deciding whether inmates are allowed temporary release from jail, due to particular personal circumstances. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Days and Clouds (Giorni e Nuvole)
6 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

This is the story of Elsa and Michele, a respectable well-off couple. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Mater Natura
6 and 9 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

The young transvestite Desiderio is deeply involved in a genuine love story with the owner of a carwash, named Andrea. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: A Journey Called Love (Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore)
8 and 10 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

1916-1918
Nora, is a cultured woman in her forties charming and independent. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: The Right Distance (La Giusta Distanza)
8 and 10 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

In a remote patch of Italy at the mouth of the Po river, there is a small town: a few isolated houses that a crane seems to have strangely set down in that flat, desolate countryside. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: The Early Bird Catches the Worm (Il Mattino Ha L'Oro in Bocca)
7 and 9 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Marco is a young up-and-coming, but basically unsatisfied, disc jockey. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: One Out of Two (Uno su Due)
8 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Everything Lorenzo owns he has earned with great determination and without looking back. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Bread and Tulips (Pane e Tulipani)
7 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

During a coach tour, Rosalba, a forty-year-old housewife, is "forgotten" and left behind in a motorway service area. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: The Feast (L'Abbuffata)
7 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Diamante, a small town in Calabria, southern Italy, hardly an exciting place. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Miss F (Signorina Effe)
8 and 10June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Every family has its hopeful winner. The l winner. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: IL Divo
6 and 10 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is asleep, there's one man who isn't sleeping. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Desert Roses (Le Rose del Deserto)
6 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Like a mere pinpoint in the infinite Libyan desert, a handful of young Italians set up camp in a remote outpost where they have been stationed. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Before You Know it (Basta un Niente)
7 and 10 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

For Ivo, Rosario and Peppe, days go by between work, family problems and daily life. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: A Whole Life Ahead (Tutta la Vita Davanti)
6 and 9 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Marta has just graduated from University. She is knowledgeable and has a quiet disposition. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: The Second Wedding Night (La Seconda Notte di Nozze)
8 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Italy, at the end of the second world war. Liliana, a widow, is forced to leave her hometown in Bologna, along with her son Nino, because of severe financial hardships. -- read more

Italian Film Festival: Caravaggio
6 and 9 June 2009: The Emporium Shopping Complex, SFX Cinema, Bangkok

Michelangelo "Michele" Merisi, born into a humble family in the town of Caravaggio (from which the future artist would derive his professional moniker). -- read more

Italian Espresso Culture by Lavazza
8 - 12 June 2009, 10.00 - 12.00 hrs: Lavazza Center, Alma Link Bldg., Chidlom, Bangkok

"Lavazza", one of the best Italian coffee's brands will bring you to the workshop that focus on Italian culture and coffee. -- read more

'Piazza Italia' (Italian Square) by Italian Fine Wines
11 - 21 June 2009: Fashion Hall 1st floor, The Emporium Shopping Complex, Bangkok

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The Weeks of Italian Food, Wine and Consumer Goods Promotion in collaboration with the Mall Group
11 - 21 June 2009: Siam Paragon, The Emporium Shopping Complex, the Mall Department store, Bangkok

The Mall Group, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Trade Commission jointly present 'Italian Festa,' for another year with a promotion of Italian products, lifestyle and culture. -- read more

Italian Dinner celebrating King Chulalongkorn and the Venice Biennale
16 June 2009 , 7 PM: Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel, Bangkok

The Dante Alighieri Association, a non-profit organization for the promotion of the Italian language and culture is hosting an Italian dinner with special guest, Prof. -- read more

International Symposium "140 Years of Thai-Italian Relations"
18 - 19 June 2009: Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, Bangkok

Italian Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in collaboration with International Institute for Advanced Asian Studies (CESMEO, Turin), is organising an International Symposium in the occassion of "140 Years of Thai-Italian Relations" Thailand and Italy have a long-period relationship for over 140 years. -- read more

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Shopping in Thailand
Cameron Cooper

All the Stuff That's Fit to Sell Among its countless other joys and wonders, Thailand is a great place to shop -- particularly in Bangkok where the variety of retail outlets and goods is staggering. -- more
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