July Wine & Tapas

Time to join friends for an evening of wine, tapas, and conversation — this month in Villa Crespo.

Location: Villa Crespo *Exact address provided upon RSVP

Date: Saturday,  July 20

Time: 7:00pm

How does it work? Bring wine, finger food, and your sparkling self  to join other BAIN members and friends in a night of socializing and making new friends.

Look forward to catching up with you!

Please email RSVPs to shulah2@gmail.com Address will be sent to you via email response.

New to Buenos Aires?  New to BAIN or is this your first Wine & Tapas? It’s easier than you think!  One of our members has graciously opened their doors to create a social environment for any BAIN member interested in attending.  If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Toni Quinatna: tonilin@aol.com.

 
*This event is limited to current BAIN members only.  If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN, contact bain.downtown@gmail.com*

BAIN Downtown: Now on Pinterest!

We are diving into the world of social media, and we invite you to follow us as we navigate Pinterest!

View recommendations, items of interest in the city, restaurant suggestions and more as we build our boards, and help you learn more about the city of Buenos Aires.

Follow us on Pinterest and click the “Pin It” button on the right of your screen when you see something “pin-worthy”.  We look forward to sharing even more insider knowledge about the city – and perhaps enticing new members to join our events at the same time!

July Morning Coffee

The next BAIN Morning Coffee is coming up! Mark your calendars!
Date: Tuesday, July 16th
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00
Where: Caballito

Come spend a morning making new friends and catching up with old ones.
This is a casual, fun way to mingle and meet new people and it’s open to all BAIN Downtown members.

Never been to a coffee event before? New to BAIN or Buenos Aires? We’d love to have you join us. Let us know in your RSVP if you have any questions!

Please RSVP to Celia Criseo Jakimczuk at celiacriseo@rauljak.com.ar

We are looking for Morning Coffee Hosts!  You pick the date, it is a small window of time (10:30 – 12:00pm), you can limit the number of attendants if need be, and you receive AR$150 to assist in the cost of hosting.  This is a great way to keep our Morning Coffees the successful event that it is!  If you are interested in hosting a Morning Coffee, please contact Katarina Nyssens: katarina.nyssens@gmail.com.

*Exact address provided upon RSVP. We hope you can make it!
*This event is limited to current BAIN members only.  If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN, contact bain.downtown@gmail.com*

2013 Buenos Aires Children´s Book Fair

From July 8th to July 27th, 2013, the 23rd edition of the Buenos Aires Children´s Book Fair (Feria del Libro Infantil y Juvenil) will take place at Centro de Exposiones de Buenos Aires, with the motto “The Magic Continues” (La Magia Continúa) The Fair is a place destined for the cultural and educational upbringing of children, in an entertaining and joyful environment.

Apart from the exhibition and sale of books, the Fair will offer numerous activities for youngsters and children:

  • Workshops: drawing, story telling, painting, modeling, magic, science, illustration, comics, reading, cooking, creativity, music, puppetry, and much more.
  • Theater, puppet, circus, and music shows.
  • Games and contests
  • Story-telling
  • Talks with writers
  • Signing of copies
  • Children´s Library
Kids will be able to meet their favorite writers and cartoonists, participate in the workshops, read at the library or enjoy the shows organized by the exhibitors, that will take place at their exhibition stands.
During the course of the fair there will also be activities designed for professionals and students of the areas related to education and the world of children´s books.
This year for the forth time a Comics Festival will be presented during the fair, on July 26th and 27th. Distinguished Argentine authors will present talks, workshops and exhibits related to comics, their design, script writing, drawing, animation, and graphic humor.Every day at 5pm different choirs will be singing at the exhibition´s entrance hall.

Dates: July 8th to 27th, 2013

Location: Centro de Exposiciones de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Av. Figueroa Alcorta & Pueyrredón
Opening times:
July 9, 10, 11, and 12: 9 am to 6 pm
July 9 (National Holiday), Saturday and Sunday: 2 pm to 10 pm
July 15 to July 27: Monday to Friday 11 am to 8 pm.
Entry fee:
Adults: AR$30
Seniors, teachers and Children under 18: Free

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for the information below.  To keep up with this an other events in Buenos Aires, we have added a feature called “Blogs We Read” to the lower right-hand corner of the BAIN Downtown site.  Or, subscribe to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide and receive all of her posts though email!

Mickey Vail Returns to La Biblioteca!

La Biblioteca Cafe presents, a continuation in the series of Jazz Trios

Mickey Vail, Adrian Masteocola and Adrian DeFilippo

Friday, July 5 at 9:30pm

La Biblioteca Cafe, Marcelo T Alvear 1155, call 4811-0673 for reservations.

AR$70 for the show, required AR$60 additional food & drink bill

or purchase the dinner + show option for AR$180.

BAIN members receive a 10% discount off the entrada.

2013 Chili Cook Off Event – Don’t Miss It!

SACS Logo B&WSACS (Send a Child to School) helps children each year by providing the school supplies essential for a successful education. Each participating child receives a custom built backpack containing the required supplies for their grade level prior to the start of the school year.  This charity is dependent on community donations, volunteer assistance and fundraising events to continue its work each year.

We are thrilled to be chosen as the featured charity for the Annual Buenos Aires Chili Cook Off!  Last year, this event raised over $13,000 pesos, which we used to supply 630 children with school supplies for the 2013 school year.

There is now a date, time and place for the 2013 Chili Cook Off event – and there are daily updates as the judges and cooks are announced.  Keep up to date with the bios of each cook and judge by following the 2013 Buenos Aires Chili Cook Off Facebook Page.  SACS is the featured charity at this year’s event, let’s work together to BEAT last year’s donation total!

Where: Pagana Club, Vicente Lopez 2134 (between Uriburu and Azcuenaga), Recoleta

Date: Sunday, June 16, 2013

Time: 2:00pm – 6:00pm

Are you out of town for this fantastic event?? You can still donate to SACS!  Stay warm inside the comfort of your home, or wherever you may be, and donate via PayPal!

June Book Club

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for our book club discussion!  We wanted to provide everyone with the information for our June meeting and hope that you can join us for the discussion.   


Here is the information for the next book club meeting:  

Book choice: Purgatory by Tomas Eloy Martinez
Date: Tuesday, June 11th
Time: 15h30 -17h30
Location: Las Canitas
Please email your RSVP to: anetworks1@gmail.com

(She will send you the exact address)

For those interested in learning more about the book we will be discussing, here is a brief summary and a link to the book description and reader reviews on Amazon.
 

Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory, the final and perhaps most personal work of the great Latin American novelist Tomás Eloy Martínez. Emilia Dupuy’s husband vanished in the 1970s, while the two were mapping an Argentine country road. All evidence seemed to confirm that he was among the thousands disappeared by the military regime. Yet Emilia never stopped believing that the disappeared man would reappear. And then he does, in New Jersey. And for Simón, no time at all has passed. In Martínez’s hands, this love story and ghost story becomes a masterful allegory for history political and personal, and for a country’s inability to integrate its past with its present. http://www.amazon.com/Purgatory-Novel-Tomás-Eloy-Mart%C3%ADnez/dp/B00AKRPSRS

Hope to see you on June 11th!

Regards,
The Book Club Organizers

*This event is limited to current BAIN members only.  If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN, contact bain.downtown@gmail.com*

May Monthly Luncheon

Our May luncheon will be at a Peruvian restaurant that has only been open for two months and is delivering great food with reasonable pricing. 

The restaurant is conveniently located about one block away from the Tribunales Subte stop on the D line – close to the main court house. A favorite dish is the Seco de Cordero and the ceviche dishes are also very good. The menu is quite extensive so I am sure you will find something to your liking.

Upon arrival I will collect 25 pesos which pays for your cover charge, tip and non-alcoholic beverage. The balance can be given to me before you leave. 

Date: Thursday, May 30

Time: 12:30 pm

Cost: 25 pesos plus actual food and alcohol (if any) costs per menu.

 

 
Please e-mail to reserve a spot with Michael: mweldon213@yahoo.com.  If you are new to BAIN, or would like to join as a guest, let Michael know so that he can provide you with the exact address and location.

Beer Festival: BeerDay Buenos Aires 2013

On May 26, 2013, the Auditorium of Buenos Aires Design Center (Av. Pueyrredon 2501, Recoleta. Level 2) receives Beer Day Festival, a beer tasting event focusing on specialty beers. The Festival will bring together 20 breweries from different regions in the country in one place.

Throughout the day, visitors will have the opportunity to learn how to cook with beer, and try dishes to be tasted with the different specialty beers; taste more than 50 styles of beer; and attend to talks on food pairing, sensory analysis of beer, tasting process and history.

The event will also feature live shows and DJ sets. One of the guests is the band tribute to the Blues Brothers, The Soul Men.
Some of the Argentine breweries participating in the event are: Cross (Bariloche), Owe (Neuquén), Fenicia (Rosario), Sauce (Santa Fe), Owl (Entre Rios) and Antares (Mar del Plata), among others.
The entrance fee includes five tastings of different styles of specialty beers (including Honey, Indian Pale Ale, Scotch, Porter and Weissbier) and access to all the talks. The event starts on Sunday at 2pm and finishes at 1am.
Tickets:
May 19 – 20: $ 130 Pesos
May 21 – 26: $ 150 Pesos
On sale at:

Tickets must be purchased in advance, they won´t be sold at the door.

Fuerzabruta in Buenos Aires

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Fuerza Bruta 2014 in Buenos Aires

Fuerzabruta is a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery. Featuring mind – blowing visual effects that must be seen to be believed – a man running full throttle through a series of moving walls, women frolicking in a watery world suspended just inches above the audience – Fuerzabruta is a show that floods the senses.

Fuerzabruta, presents the new material and re revisits previous material, giving a new dimension and nature. What no one ever saw, plus all the power of previous shows, and accumulated experience over Fuerzabruta trips around the world.

Starting January 16th, 2014, you can see their show at Centro Cultural Recoleta. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

A  highly recommended show not to be missed. Check the trailer of their last show in Buenos Aires:

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