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Phuket Town’s Por Tor Festival is back from 25 August to 10 September 2026, filling shrines and streets with red turtle cakes, family offerings, and a beautifully walkable heritage calendar. Here is why Ang Khu sweets, neighborhood processions, and Thai-Chinese ritual make this one of the island’s most vivid late-August events.
Inside Phuket’s restored 1907 Chartered Bank House, TCDC Phuket is opening a warm new design address where architecture, local brands, and neighborhood memory can all become inspiration for the way we style a home. The result feels less like a formal institution and more like a living guide to materials, display, and community-made beauty.
A week of projection mapping, Khon, jazz, and old-town architecture is giving Phuket’s Baba-Peranakan heritage a bright new evening stage from 23–29 August 2026.
TCDC Phuket has opened inside the 1907 Chartered Bank House, bringing exhibitions, a design library, studios, and free public access into one welcoming new creative address for the island.
In Oita this summer, a joyful exhibition is bringing some of Japan’s most beloved screen paintings back into human scale. Through the Tsuzuri Project, visitors can stand close to high-resolution facsimiles, see the texture without glass, and feel how digital craft and traditional shokunin skill can work beautifully together.
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