MUSIC & DANCE

ITALIAN OPERA (Mahidol University’s Prince Mahidol Hall, Salaya campus, today at 4pm) Held to mark the 150th anniversary of Italian-Thailand diplomatic relations, the “Italian Opera Gala” concert features a number of celebrated Italian operatic masterworks performed by the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alfonso Scarano and Thai and Italian soloists. The line-up includes sopranos Sassaya Chavalit and Sasinee Aswajesdakul, mezzo-soprano Taziana Carraro, tenor Paolo Lardizzone and baritone Francesco Landolfi. Tickets cost 400, 600, 800, 1,000 and 1,500 baht (half prices for students) from thaiticketmajor.com or call 02-849-6565 ext 6603/4 or 6624. Visit thailandphil.com or call Hotline on 062-526-6645.

TRANCE FEST (Bitec Hall 99-100, Bang Na-Trat

Road, today at 5pm) “The Spirit Of The Warrior” is the new theme for the second edition of the “Transmission Festival Bangkok” featuring a full artist line-up of Aly & Fila, Ben Nicky, Ferry Corsten, Jordan Suckley, Key4050, Markus Schulz and The Thrillseekers, with warm-up by local talent DJ LonSkii. As a special guest, Praguebased Driftmoon will be performing the theme music, The Ceremony Of Warriors. The festival will be complete with the audio and visual production, special effect and stage production. Tickets cost 2,800 baht (4,500 baht for early bird VIP) and can be purchased from ticketmelon.com. Visit transmission.events/th.

RBSO CONCERT (Thailand Cultural Centre’s Main Hall, Ratchadaphisek Road, today at

8pm) The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra presents “Poppen Plays Barton Viola Concerto” concert featuring pre-eminent German viola virtuoso Diemut Poppen as guest soloist. Belgian maestro Michel Tilkin will return to conduct the orchestra in a programme that includes Mozart’s overture from Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail,

K 384; Bartok’s Viola Concerto and Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 in E Minor, Op 95 (From The New World). Tickets cost 300, 700, 900, 1,200 and 1,500 baht from thaiticketmajor.com or call 02-262-3456. Visit bangkoksymphony.org.

MANOHRA AND PETER PAN (Kad Theatre of Kad Suan Kaew, Chiang Mai, tomorrow at noon

and 3.30pm) The ATOD Children and Youth Development Association presents “Manorah Fantasy & Peter Pan 2018”, a double-bill performance of a 30-minute Manohra ballet with music composed by the late King Bhumibol and a 75-minute performance of Peter Pan featuring various styles of dances including jazz and modern and contemporary dance. They will be performed by a cast of international awardwinning ballet dancers and 300 dance students from Chiang Mai Ballet Academy. Proceeds will go to 48th Pansa Chalermprakiat School under the royal patronage of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Tickets cost 300, 500, 800 and 1,000 baht from the counter information at Kad Suan Kaew, the ATOD Children and Youth Development Association and Chiang Mai Ballet Academy. Special group rates for students are available. Call 091-119-1559, 053-260-373 and 053-306-358.

FAIR

ASIA’S CAT SHOW (BCC Hall, 5th floor of CentralPlaza Lardprao, Phahon Yothin Road, 10am

8pm, until tomorrow) Held for the first time in Asia by the Cat Fanciers’ Club of Thailand, the “CFA International Asia Cat Show 2018” features 500 purebred pedigree cats from 50 countries competing in many contests, including rare breeds such as Burmese, Korat, Khao Manee, Havana Brown, Bombay and Oriental Shorthair. There are also free health check-ups and rabies vaccinations for cats, sales of cat food and innovative products and special offers from Kofuku Cat Hotel. There is no admission fee. Call 02-6675555 ext 4104.

EXHIBITIONS

POLITICS IN GAMES (Design Center, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Phaya Thai Road, 10am-6pm Tuesday-Friday and

10am-4pm Saturday-Sunday, until April 12) Held in collaboration with Goethe Institute and Germany’s Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), “Games And Politics” is an interactive exhibition comprising 18 different computer games, 16 of which are open for playing. The players will find themselves confronted with a wide range of political issues. The topics include precarious working conditions as in Sunset (2015); the aftermath of armed conflict as in This War Of Mine (2014); migration and refugees as in Papers,

Please (2013) and Escape From Woomera (2004); and governmental surveillance as in Touchstone (2015). There is no admission fee. Visit goethe. de/thailand or call 02-108-8231/2.

KOREAN PATCHWORKS (Korean Cultural Center, between Sukhumvit 15 and 17, 9am-5pm

Monday-Friday, until May 11) Held in collaboration with the Ssamzisarang Korean Boudoir Craft Academy to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Thailand and Korea, the “Jogakbo: The Handicraft of Harmony” exhibition features almost 80 pieces of jogakbo or traditional patchwork used to create domestic wrapping cloths from scraps of leftover fabrics. Included in the collection are the creations inspired by the national flags of two countries. There is no admission fee. Visit facebook.com/ koreanculturalcenterTH or call 02-651-0165—8.

WONDER OF NINJA HOUSE (Westgate Hall, 4th floor of CentralPlaza Westgate, Nonthaburi,

today-May 31, 10am-2pm and 2pm-7pm) The “Ninja Maze … The Big Adventure” exhibition is the first chance to witness the famous Iga Ninja Village outside Japan. Divided into Family and Adult zones, the interactive exhibition features a typical ninja house full of escape routes, hidden doors and traps. Children will be taken on an exciting adventure while testing their ninja skills in eight rooms while 10 rooms are awaiting adults to explore the secrets of how the ninja are able to infiltrate and escaped undetected. Tickets cost 450 baht from thaiticketmajor.com or call 02-262-3838.

FILMS

MINI FILM FEST AT NEW CINEMA (Cinema Oasis, Sukhumvit 43, today at 11am and tomor

row at noon) Cinema Oasis is opening its door with “Beyond Phad Thai”, a mini film festival featuring six movies that will take the audience far beyond simplistic Siamese exotica. The programme will open with the first Thai indie film

Tongpan today at 11am, followed by Citizen Juling at 1.30pm and The Forest at 7pm. Screenings tomorrow will be The Convert at 11am, Agrar

ian Utopia at 3pm and Wandering at 7pm. All films have English subtitles. There will be a Q&A session with the director after the screening of each film. The programme will run until Songkran Thai New Year. Tickets cost 160 baht. Seats are limited. Visit cinemaoasis.com or call 097-929-5366.

OUTSTANDING MOVIES (River City Bangkok’s Room 201, Charoen Krung 24, every Saturday at

4pm, until March 31) The River City Bangkok Film Club puts on screen outstanding films of diverse genres by four dynamic directors from Switzerland, Greece and Mexico. The line-up includes My

Life As A Zucchini, a Swiss animation by Claude Barras today; Include Women Out, a comic road movie by Vangelis Seitanidis on March 24; and

Like Water For Chocolate, a Mexican drama by Alfonso Arau on March 31. There is no admission fee. For reservations, email rcbfilmclub@gmail.com or call 02-237-0077 ext 611 and 701.

GET-TOGETHER

DAY FOR FAMILY WALK AND FITNESS (Rose Marie Academy Campus, Nichada Thani Road,

today, 3pm-7.30pm) Rose Marie Academy Foundation is holding its annual fund-raising event “Family Glow Walk And Fitness Day” for the whole family. The walk/run will have two distances — 5km and 10km. There will also be many games and attractions including health check-ups, yoga, aerobic dancing, badminton and table tennis. Proceeds will go to support education and the quality of everyday life of children living at Baan Eurporn foster home in Chumphon province. Tickets cost 500 baht (20% discounts for groups of five or more) from rmafoundation.org/ glow. Call 02-960-3661—3.

TALK

EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY (Music Hall, Arts and Culture Building, Chulalongkorn University,

Phaya Thai Road, today, 5.30pm-9pm) To celebrate the 125th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s historic Chicago speech, the Ramakrishna Vedanta Association and Indian Studies Center of Chulalongkorn University are holding a talk on “Swami Vivekananda’s Education Philosophy”. Two eminent monks of Ramakrishna Mission order from Singapore and India will be keynote speakers. There is no admission fee. For reservations, call 02-218-3945.