Experience Thailand 2018
Sunday, September 16
10:00 am – 7:30 pm
Battery Park City, 75 Battery Place
Experience Thailand is an annual cultural festival, with experiential activities that showcase food, art and traditional dance from Thailand. This year’s event will feature Thai street food from top Thai restaurants, Muay Thai fighting, a Thai designers fashion show, and more:
- Thai Cooking Competition to win a round-trip air ticket to Thailand
- Thai street food booths by top Thai restaurants
- Thai cultural performances and art supported by Chang Beer (US – English)
- Muay Thai showcase by Five Points Academy: Muay Thai & Fitness , WATTeam and Raktan Muay Thai
- Yoga session by Janice Liou Yoga
- Thai Spa and massage trial by 5th Ave Thai Spa
- Thai culinary demonstration by a celebrated Thai chef, Chef Hong Thaimee
- Exhibition from the SUPPORT Foundation of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand
- A made-in-Thailand marketplace similar to one you would find in Bangkok featuring Thai food products, Thai orchids and custom fragrances.
- A series of fashion shows featuring distinguished and a new generation of Thai designers
- A live contemporary art performance by Thai artist Sarasin Chatwichitkul that will be auctioned off to support an art-based non profit
- A live mural painting featuring the rescued 13 soccer team “Wild Boar” by Thai artist Mr. Pairoj Pichetmetakul that will be auctioned off to support another NYC based non-profit
PLUS, this year’s Experience Thailand will feature a live cooking competition! NYC residents are invited to partake for a chance to win a round-trip air ticket to Thailand.
This event is hosted by Royal Thai Consulate General NY with support by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Thai Trade Office, and Board of Investment (BOI) and Bank of Thailand, all of whom will be in attendance and available to provide info and materials for those interested in tourism and business in Thailand.
