Cosmic Corals Exhibition
About the Exhibition
It all started on a night when immense cosmic emotion was expressed in love.
When the possibility of acceptance was birthed, and everything looked and felt different
- it was all to the better.
On a night when glittering stars shed their light on the corals beneath them - when
limestone cliffs were engulfing them all around
Before, unacceptance was assumed but at that very moment it was in the past. The
cards had changed, and reality shifted.
A bond between two people, two brothers, expanded and ever since continues to grow.
This exhibit is an effort to keep that memory alive and a way of honoring what was felt
by reliving that night.
It’s also an effort to transmit the beauty of that night - the surroundings, the lagoon,
human promises, and the artist’s metamorphosis with the intention to remind ourselves
to be mindful of environmental as well as emotional preservation.
The otherworldly creatures depicted in the artworks reflect how amplified the artist felt
and how that moment shook him to his core and took him to a reality he only dreamt of.
About the Artist
Shereif Eldesouky is an Egyptian mixed media artist and painter currently based in Bangkok. Born in Saudi Arabia, Eldesouky grew up between Saudi and the UK. He moved to Egypt during his high school and university years where he earned his B.A. in integrated marketing communications & a minor in fine arts from the American University in Cairo. His professional background started in creative advertising, branding, and events management in Cairo, moving to Jordan where he worked in tourism destination marketing. He later shifted his career to becoming a freelance artist when he relocated to the Philippines and then Washington D.C. where he worked at the National Gallery of Art. Eldesouky creates immersive surreal worlds vivid in color and imagery. His painting technique reflects a broad range of emotion through its fluidity as it draws inspiration from the natural world.
Climate Playground: Connect Creatives for Climate Action
Welcome to “Climate Playground: Connect Creatives for Climate Action”
An open and collaborative environment designed to bring together creatives, change-makers, funders, journalists and anyone searching for fresh inspiration.
This event is a part of Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) 2025. This event hopes to create a space where youth can take part in shaping climate policy and action together, spark new energy between creatives and advocates, and amplify voices that are too often left unheard.
October 4, 2025 | 16:30 onwards | Bangkok 1899
FREE TO JOIN !
Hosted by neo-baannok, GYBN Thailand, LCOY Thailand, Jigsaw Thailand
This event is presented as part of the Creatives for Climate Action - Thailand (CCAT) Global Hub at Bangkok 1899 during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025.
Register here!
Precious Plastic Bangkok Accessories Workshop
Accessories Workshop – Bracelet & Keychain
Turn recycled plastic beads into beautiful accessories. Participants can design and make their own bracelet or keychain, transforming plastic waste into something creative, unique, and personal.
Schedule:
Morning round: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Afternoon round: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Please head to Precious Plastic Bangkok’s Instagram for more information.
This event is presented as part of the Creatives for Climate Action - Thailand (CCAT) Global Hub at Bangkok 1899 during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025.
LCOY Thailand "Gen Climate: Voices for Justice, Actions for Change"
Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) Thailand 2025 On-site Event: Gen Climate
This event is presented as part of the Creatives for Climate Action - Thailand (CCAT) Global Hub at Bangkok 1899 during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025.
Learn more at LCOY Thailand’s Instagram.
Ancestral Currents: Bottlesmoker x Tontrakul LIVE by Wonderfruit
Ancestral Currents: Bottlesmoker x Tontrakul LIVE by Wonderfruit
Ancestral Currents takes over Bangkok 1899! The night unfolds in three chapters—meditation, performance and connection—each celebrating collaboration and unexpected experiences by clashing cultures, genres and disciplines. This event is free to attend with advance application.
Plant Meditation * Limited to 30 participants
A guided meditation by Indonesian electronic duo Bottlesmoker, who use living plants as instruments to create a calming soundscape that explores our connection to nature, sound and each other.
Live Performance
Bottlesmoker x Tontrakul debut their forthcoming collaborative EP, reimagining ritual sounds once used in harvests and sacred ceremonies into immersive electronic landscapes. This cross-cultural project bridges Indonesian and Thai instruments like the phin, khaen, dogdog lojor and karinding for the modern world.
Afterparty with Na Projects
Linger a little longer and gather at Na Café inside Bangkok 1899 and hear world music from across regions, decades, genres and moods. Anyone can play, anything goes.
The Regenerative Strategy Lab
Redesigning Leadership for a Living WorldDuration: 3 hours | Format: Interactive workshop with peer learning tables
A 3-hour intensive workshop designed for individuals looking to transform challenges into solutions that are in right-relation with living systems; regenerating both your teams, your organizations and the systems they rely on. Learn how regenerative strategies can mimic nature's intelligence - creating conditions where teams flourish and innovation thrives.
In an era where disruption is the new constant, the most resilient organizations are those that learn from nature's 3.8 billion years of R&D. The Regenerative Strategy Lab invites you to step out of the box, leave it behind, and step into strategies of living systems. It looks beyond traditional sustainability frameworks into actions that drive innovation, strengthen stakeholder ecosystems, and create cultures that nurture ecologies of care to future-proof your organisation.
Why Bangkok Climate Action Week? BKKCAW represents the convergence of climate urgency and business opportunity. This workshop provides senior leaders with immediately applicable strategies to turn environmental challenges into organizational strengths—moving from compliance and risk mitigation to regenerative value creation.
The Workshop Experience
This intensive session combines our Train-the-Trainer methodology, equipping leaders with both regenerative mindsets and tactical tools they can immediately deploy within their teams and create regenerative cultures.
The Path Beyond Sustainability: While ESG frameworks provide important foundations, the future belongs to organizations that shed a siloed approach to "do less harm", and instead actively regenerate the systems they depend on. By understanding the principles and strategies of living systems and the practices of custodian communities, this workshop bridges that gap with practical ways of seeing, of being and doing. It equips leaders with regenerative mindsets that understand the quality of being determines the quality of doing, it seeds regenerative cultures of shared values and futures, and builds regenerative strategies as steps to get them there.
Core Framework: Five Regenerative Principles for Business Through interactive simulations and peer collaboration, participants will operationalize:
Root in Place: Building foundational resilience through deep ecosystem integration
Symbiotic Partnerships: Creating relationships where all parties evolve and thrive
Orchestrating Diversity: Leading through collaboration rather than hierarchy
Abundance Thinking: Transforming constraints and "waste streams" into innovation opportunities
Edge Effect Innovation: Identifying high-value opportunities at system intersections
Unique Value Proposition: Unlike traditional workshops, participants leave with both personal transformation and organizational implementation tools. Your sustainability and culture champions gain facilitation frameworks to immediately engage their teams through collaborative strategy sessions, ensuring learning translates into measurable impact.
What Leaders Take Away
Strategic Framework: Five regenerative principles adapted for corporate application
Implementation Toolkit: Facilitation guides and gamified exercises for team deployment
Network Access: Connections with forward-thinking peer leaders
Competitive Intelligence: Live case studies of regenerative business models in action
Ideal Participants: C-Suite executives, VPs of Strategy/Innovation/Operations, sustainability and ESG champions, culture leaders, community organisers, and senior executives driving transformational change in their organizations, public, private or grassroots initiatives.
Limited seats to ensure high-quality peer dialogue and personalized takeaways.
Register here.
S3K | Preserve Performance
✨ Join us for a special pre-BKKCAW performance by Notep & Cyrus James Khan at the CCAT Global Hub: Bangkok 1899 ✨
Notep (Thai musician & environmentalist) and Cyrus James Khan (digital artist & technologist) will take us on a journey into Mangrove Forest Restoration on Koh Tao through their visionary project S3K, where science, storytelling & spectacle come alive. Expect immersive soundscapes, stunning visuals and a powerful reminder of our connection to nature.
📅 September 27, 19:00-22:00
🎟️ Free entry, but registration is required to book your spot!
👉 Register here: https://luma.com/riw1txyx
In partnership with AktivAsia, Fuzion Far East and EQ Archives.
This event is presented as part of the Creatives for Climate Action - Thailand (CCAT) Global Hub at Bangkok 1899 during Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025.
On this Land…We Shall Return: A Culinary Investigation
This is a culinary lecture-performance that investigates a colonial storyline that, once you’ve spotted it, will likely be recognized over and over again. It is the narrative of the “empty, barren land”.
We will flip the script for one night and travel to the shores and inner lands of Indonesia and Palestine, where ties to agriculture and the sea run deep. Through food, scent, a layered soundscape and archival materials, this multi-sensorial experience explores autonomous community practices, liberated atmospheres and non-human rebels.
All profits from the event will be donated to a Gazan refugee family in Jakarta.
September 19, 18:00
Na Café at Bangkok 1899
RSVP on this link
1,500 THB per ticket
Mindful Breathing Reset (Thai-Only Session)
เราขอเชิญชวนทุกท่านมาร่วมกิจกรรม Mindful Breathing Reset โดย คุณ สมชาย สุนทรยาตร วันเสาร์ที่ 30
กิจกรรมเจริญสติที่ Bangkok 1899 นี้จัดร่วมกับ Paccaya Foundation
Mindful Breathing Reset เป็นการฝึกสติผ่านความใส่ใจในตัวเอง และความเคลื่อนไหว วิธีการนี้ช่วยให้จิตใจผ่อนคลาย คลายความตึงเครียด และฟื้นฟูระบบประสาท
การตระหนักรับรู้กับลมหายใจ ช่วยให้เรารับรู้และใส่ใจกับเสียงต่างๆ ที่อยู่ภายในใจหรือเสียงสังคม รวมทั้งเสียงที่เราไม่อยากได้ยิน หรือไม่ได้สนใจเป็นปกติ เพื่อแปรเปลี่ยนมุมมอง และเข้าใจเสียงต่างๆ ได้มากขึน
🗓️ 30 สิงหาคม 2025
🕕 18:00–19:00
📍 Bangkok 1899 - ห้องกิจกรรม (ชั้น 2)
มาตามสบาย ไม่จำเป็นต้องมีประสบการณ์ในการทำสมาธิมาก่อน กิจกรรมนี้เป็นการบรรยายภาษาไทย
Na Projects Presents: The Prom Prap Table: A Food Literacy Dinner
Curated by Nammon & Palm | Rooted in Nang Loeng, Pom Prap Sattru Phai
Special performance by Jairo Ortiz, Cellist (Artist-in-residence)
What is food literacy?
At Na Projects, food literacy goes beyond cooking or eating — it’s about understanding the origins, stories, and significance of what we eat. Through this dinner, we delve into Nang Loeng’s rich culinary heritage, where royal traditions, street-side creativity, and neighborhood wisdom intersect.
Curated by Nammon and Palm, each dish tonight is a living archive — carrying flavors, memories, and meanings passed down through generations.
This isn’t just a meal. It’s a way to learn through taste.
Let the table be your classroom. Let food be your teacher.
Special Musical Collaboration
Tonight’s experience is accompanied by a live performance from Jairo Ortiz, a distinguished cellist and cultural educator:
Born in Morelia, Mexico, he is a member of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, based at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 2015, he received the National Youth Award, presented by the President of Mexico. He holds a Master’s Degree in Cello Performance from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA, where he studied on a full scholarship.
In 2018, he was selected as an international fellow of the City Music Foundation in London. His career has brought him to stages across Europe and the Americas, including Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. He currently serves as main conductor of the Los Pinos Community Orchestra, leading 60 children in music education and performance in Mexico City.
As part of his commitment to social engagement through the arts, he joins Bangkok 1899 artist residency and will collaborate with Na Projects’ Food Literacy Program to explore the intersections of music, food, and memory — reminding us that culture is not only preserved, but performed and shared.
Each dish and each note tonight invites you to taste, feel, and remember. Welcome to the table.
Mindful Breathing Reset
Mindful Breathing Reset has returned for the third session, led by Somchai Soontornyat!
(Thai Language Only Session)
We invite you to join us for a mindfulness practice session at Bangkok 1899, in collaboration with Paccaya Foundation.
Date: July 31, 2025
Time: 18:00–19:00
Location: Bangkok 1899 – Activity Room (2nd Floor)
This session includes:
– A 40-minute guided Mindful Breathing Reset meditation
– A 20-minute Q&A session
The Mindful Breathing Reset practice gently guides participants to cultivate mindfulness through breath awareness and body scanning. This technique fosters a calm state between wakefulness and sleep, helping to relieve stress, relax the mind, and support nervous system recovery.