Awakening Song Wat 2025 is the newest addition to our Awakening Festivals series, debuting as the first Awakening event in Song Wat, recently ranked as one of the world’s coolest neighborhoods by Time Out.

This acclaimed Bangkok light and digital art festival will run from August 8–17, 2025, transforming the historic district of Song Wat with 14 striking light installations by local and international artists, showcased across 12 iconic locations.

The festival’s theme, ‘Culturalight’, celebrates Song Wat’s cultural heritage, rich history, multicultural community, and vibrant street life through an immersive nighttime experience.

Explore all festival locations using the official Awakening Song Wat 2025 Google Map

Scroll down to see the full list of installations.

Artist: .pry

Location: Baan Rim Naam Songwat

After the great Sampheng fire, King Rama V personally redrew this street—transforming it into a place where people of different origins could begin again. The Redemption Song” brings Song Wat’s spirit to life with light, sound, and interactive elements. Also inspired by Bob Marley’s music, this installation invites you to become part of its story—a song of redemption, hope, and new beginnings.

Artist: ธัญ-ธี / THAN-T

Location: Reflex Riverside (Second floor Baan Rim Naam Songwat)

“WONG-WAT” captures the lives and spirits of Song Wat through spinning wheels made from layers of colorful acrylic, etched with motifs inspired by the neighborhood’s architecture, calligraphy, cuisine, and daily life. When lit, these wheels cast playful overlapping shadows across the walls. On the other side of the space, visitors are invited to create their own shadows—becoming part of the ever-turning story of Song Wat.

Artist: Chanatip Cheevamongkol

Location: AGAR RAGA

This immersive light showcase reflects the heartbeat of Song Wat—market chatter, laughter, and daily movement. The vivid hues of the light echo the heat of commerce and the flow of the community. Viewers are not mere spectators but part of the beat itself, walking through beams that link past, present, and the memories still pulsing in the walls around them.

Artist: Peeranut Pimdee

Location: Xia Eung Kong Shrine

A burst of red energy erupts like firecrackers in a Chinese festival—banishing bad luck, welcoming fortune, and lighting up Song Wat’s Chinese heritage. This installation celebrates the spiritual force of the community, where light and belief collide to pass down vitality from generation to generation.

Artist: ทีมกกน. / Under,where!?

Location: Baan Khiew, Charoen Wattana Warehouse, Room A

“Dad, is there anything to eat in the fridge?” A simple question echoes through time—once asked in a house filled with children, now quiet with waiting. Now they’ve grown up and moved on, leaving behind a quiet emptiness, until special occasions bring them back—reunited in a space that feels the same, yet somehow changed. The artist uses the refrigerator as a vessel of memory—holding traces of home, love, routine, and the shift from domestic life to commercial food trade. It reflects the changing role of objects, and the stories they carry in Song Wat.

Artist: Kamin Phakdurong

Location: Baan Khiew, Charoen Wattana Warehouse, Room C

“Pay respect, my child—it brings blessings.” A phrase once said in passing becomes luminous with meaning in this walk-through of Chinese-Thai heritage and belief. Through glowing lotus flowers, lanterns, and the presence of the household shrine, this installation invites you to reflect on those who came before, lighting a path to remembrance and the presence of ancestral spirits.

Charoen Watana, one of Song Wat’s oldest warehouses erected in 1951, once thrived with sacks of spices and goods. This installation revives its past, and its spirits, the memories that are wrapped in scents of spice, through soft, floating canopies made of repurposed shipping sacks, glowing under multicolored light. With ambient soundscapes inspired by the sounds of commerce and modular speakers throughout, Light Supplies transforms this historic hub into a luminous gathering ground of memory, movement, and connection. More than an installation, the artist envisions it as a living space—to sit, converse, and rediscover the spirit of Song Wat.

Note: A special live music performance will take place on August 11, 2025.

Artist: OCHARNAKORN (305STOP)

Location: Warehouse Wooden Entrance

“Hand” honors the founding gesture of Song Wat—literally drawn by King Rama V himself to connect communities and riverside commerce. The projection mapping installation reimagines the hand as a symbol of creation, craftsmanship, and collective effort—reflecting the human touch behind both city-building and community spirit.

Artist: อภินันทญาติ์ บัวเอี่ยม, ดรัสวัส วัฒนโรจนานิกร

Location: Long Dang Dang

The golden dragon is a powerful symbol of strength and prosperity in Chinese culture. In this installation, the dragon soaring high above represents a guardian spirit—watching over the descendants of Song Wat, warding off misfortune, and inviting luck and abundance into the lives of families in the community.

Artist: ASITNAHC

Location: CÉRÉMONIALE Matcha Atelier

“49/51” reflects the near-equal proportions of truth found in commercial districts—places built on a constant balancing act between the old and the new. What may seem perfectly symmetrical to the eye might hide that one-percent difference—subtle, but meaningful. This installation is split into two nearly identical sides, representing a state of thought that asks us to look deeper and from all angles—before drawing conclusions.

Artist: Waranyoo Kasurop

Location: I WANNA BANGKOK

“A Portal to the Flavors of the Song Wat District” “The Grab Cultural Gate” is a light installation designed to be the starting point of a journey into the culinary world of the Song Wat district. More than just a beautiful structure, this gate serves as a medium that connects people to the stories, culture, and unique flavors hidden within the alleys of this historic neighborhood. We have drawn inspiration from iconic elements of the Song Wat district, from the patterns of old architecture to symbols of raw ingredients and signature dishes — reinterpreting and expressing them through lines of neon lights that illuminate the night. This gate stands as a symbol of transition from past to present, where traditional food culture is preserved, passed down, and blended with contemporary expression.

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Artist: wak studio

Location: Luang Koh Isak Mosque

In Chinese culture, fish (“yú”) symbolize abundance. Soul Yú draws on this belief—glowing fish lanterns drift through space, forming a luminous expression of Song Wat’s spirit. They evoke memory, connection, and an enduring hope that life will always find its way forward.

Artist: Dablight

Location: Sit in Soi

An interactive dance floor that responds to your movement—Song Wat Song Dance turns the space into a playground of light, rhythm, and shifting culture. Chinese lanterns, flowers, and food icons pulse across the ground and walls, reflecting a neighborhood dancing between its past and its new identity.

Artist: ALT+R Alternate Reality Studio

Location: Elephant Parking Area

The lighting and colors of MINI’s seven Experience Modes —lively, playful, warm, and calm—reflect the spirit of Song Wat, a neighborhood in constant motion, shifting with the rhythm of people, culture, and time.

MINI believes every moment should begin with delight. This installation is your chance to Electrify the Night, to reconnect with yourself and those around you through immersive light, sound, and movement that awaken every mode of you.