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October Ladies’ Night Out!

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On Thursday, October 16th, we will have the opportunity of experiencing a new happy hour in one of the nicest bars in town. Milion has recently opened a new space with a beautiful patio.
Date: Thursday, October 16th
Time:  18.30 to 21.00
Location: Milion Bar, Parana 1048 (Recoleta) 
Please RSVP to:   Silvia Portalanza   silporta@hotmail.com
Hope to meet you there!

Monthly Luncheon — Wednesday, October 15

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Date: Wednesday, October 15

Time: 12:30 pm

Place: Beijing – El Salvador 5702, esq. Bonpland

Cost: 100 pesos (includes tip)

This month BAIN members will  be dining at a new Chinese restaurant – Beijing. The folks at Shi Yuan (which I have always considered was the best Chinese restaurant in the city) have opened a new venue in Palermo. The restaurant is on a corner and is about two blocks away from bus stops of the 39 and 111 lines.

Same waiters, same chefs and pretty much the same menu. The difference is that they now offer a Menu Ejecutivo for lunch so we are going to take advantage of that. I keep claiming that we will never see 100 peso lunches again but I keep getting surprised.

The special menu includes a starter of two spring rolls – either carne or vegetarian, a main course selection from over 10 different items served with a bowl of steamed rice and includes water or soda. The portions are quite large and are certainly tasty!

Please note no alcoholic beverages or dessert are included.

 

Please RSVP to me to secure a place. Do not reply to this e-mail as it will go to BAIN, but rather send the reply to my address below.

mweldon213@yahoo.com

 
4815-4660

 

Annual End of Year Party — Thursday, November 20

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Date:  Thursday, November 20, 2014

Time:  7.00 to 10.00 p.m.

Venue:  Pur Sang in Recoleta

Av. Pte. Quintana 191 (corner Montevideo)

 

A beautiful French style residence constructed in 1904

http://www.recepcionespursang.com.ar

 

 

Join us for BAIN Downtown’s

most popular event of the year,

to be held at our most popular venue!

 

Enjoy a sumptuous selection of canapés,

hot and chilled appetizers, sweets,

various juices and soft drinks,

red and white wine, and champagne.

 

And music!

 

More details to follow.

 

This is a ticketed event, and pricing will be confirmed at a later date.

Tickets will be available in early October.

October Wine & Tapas — Saturday, October 18

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​You’re invited… Please join​ us for an evening of wine, tapas, and​ friendly ​conversation.  

Location: Palermo Chico – Exact address provided upon RSVP
Date: Saturday, October 18th.
Time: 8.00 p.m.

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.  We look forward to catching up with you!

Please email RSVPs to jsdiv@outlook.com  
The address will be sent to you via email response.

New to Buenos Aires? New to BAIN Downtown, 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 Linda Talluto: LTalluto@gmail.com.
 
*This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only, and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com

 

Monthly Meeting — Strictly Social — Friday, October 31

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BAIN Downtown members and their guests are invited to join in this month’s Social get-together.  This popular meeting will be held at

 Leitmotiv, Palermo

José Antonio Cabrera 5696

The event will start at 6.00 p.m.  BAIN will provide appetizers and there will be 2 for 1 drinks available.

Date and Time:  Friday, October 31 at 6.00 p.m. — Halloween!!!

Program:  Conversation!  Meet someone new!  Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN!  We will provide light appetizers and finger food while you enjoy the two for one beverage specials.

Fees:  BAIN Downtown members -– no charge

Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – AR$50*

*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for about one year’s membership is AR$250.

Monthly Meeting — Strictly Social — Friday, September 26

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BAIN Downtown members and their guests are invited to join in this month’s Social get-together.  This popular meeting will be held at the

 Melía Recoleta Plaza Boutique Hotel, Posadas 1557, Recoleta.

The event will start at 6.00 p.m.  BAIN will provide appetizers and there will be 2 for 1 drinks available.

Location:  Melía Recoleta Plaza Boutique Hotel, Posadas 1557, Recoleta.  (Go from the front entrance to the rear of the hotel, and up the stairs.)

Date and Time:  Friday, September 26 at 6.00 p.m.

Program:  Conversation!  Meet someone new!  Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN!  We will provide light appetizers and finger food while you enjoy the two for one beverage specials.

Fees:  BAIN Downtown members -– no charge

Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – AR$50*

*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for about one year’s membership is AR$250.

Member Post — Moving Sale

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Judithe NicolaΪ / Recoleta / 4803-8509 / jnicolai@yahoo.com

EVERYTHING MUST GO / SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

New Cuisinart Ice Cream

Yogurt & Sherbet Maker

New CALLAWAY Copy full set of Golf Clubs + Cart+ Travel Bag + Balls + Accessories

 Photographic Laboratory

Please Inquire

Pasta Machine

 Tennis Racquet High End Clothing

New Fondue Set

 Swim Paddles Dresses

New Belgian Waffle Iron

 New Portable Eddie Bauer Complete Badminton Set Skirts

3 Vessel Buffet Food Warmer

 Fishing Rod Pants

Kitchen and Equipment Tools

 Picnic Backpack / With Plates/Wine Glasses / Etc. Two Piece

Bulk Packaging Supplies / Foil Cling Wrap / Zip Lock Baggies

 Portable folding Picnic Table with Umbrella / Seats 4 Blouses

Catering Trays / Doilies

 Mosquito Netting Sweaters

Gourmet / Bon Appétit/ Living/ ECT. Cooking Magazines

 Violin/Case/Accessories/ DVD

Instruction Materials

 Coats / Sweater Coats

Complete Johnson Bros. English China for 8 / Manorhouse

All Serving Plates / Soup Terrine

 All New

Calligraphy Set

Desk Set

Stationary / Cards

 Sports Wear

Accessories

Shorts

T-Shirts

Glasses / Wine / Beer/ Cordials

 Knitting – Start Up Kit Shoes

Beautiful Large Jewelry Box

 Crochet – Start Up Kit Hats / Scarves

 

SACS Spring Charity Cocktail — October 22, 2014

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7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Live Music, Raffle Prizes, Silent Auction, Beer & Wine, Appetizers and Desserts

Price: $500 pesos per person

All money raised supports SACS (Send a Child to School). The SACS mission is to provide backpacks and school supplies to children in need in Argentina.

Ticket sales: silporta@hotmail.com 15-3073-3039
marcia @transpack.com.ar 15-3698-1949
tinamontana@gmail.com 15-5343-9220
jenny_vargasg@yahoo.com 15-4070-8365

Book Group — October 14, 2014

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Dear Book Lovers, 
 
BAIN’s next Book Club will be on Tuesday, October 14th. 
Meeting Details:
Book:  The Orientalist (2005) by Tom Reiss.
Time: 3:30 p.m.
NEW Location: Café In Boca al Lupo (fair warning: this place has excellent desserts so make sure to leave some room for postre!)
Address: Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: loucrie@yahoo.com (Julia)
Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).
 
This month we will be reading The Orientalist (2005) by Tom Reiss, a non-fiction book.
 
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino–a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust–is still in print today.
 
Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks. As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum’s deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds–of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists–that have also been forgotten.  The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth century–of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism.  Written with grace and infused with wonder, The Orientalist is an astonishing book.
The book, as always, is available electronically. (Click on title above for the kindle version on Amazon).
For those who like to prepare in advance, here’s how our reading schedule is looking for the upcoming months:
 
November 11th: The Tunnel (1948) by Ernesto Sabato
(*This novel by Argentine Ernesto Sabato is quite short (ca. 120 pages), so those who want to practice the Spanish might venture to read it in the original as well.)
 
An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel’s growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about.
 
 
December 9th: The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it’s not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past–a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful dean of faculty. And it’s not the secret of Coleman’s alleged racism, which provoked the college witch-hunt that cost him his job and, to his mind, killed his wife. Nor is it the secret of misogyny, despite the best efforts of his ambitious young colleague, Professor Delphine Roux, to expose him as a fiend. Coleman’s secret has been kept for fifty years: from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to understand how this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, had fabricated his identity and how that cannily controlled life came unraveled. Set in 1990s America, where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciation and rituals of purification, The Human Stainconcludes Philip Roth’s eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives that are as tragically determined by the nation’s fate as by the “human stain” that so ineradicably marks human nature. This harrowing, deeply compassionate, and completely absorbing novel is a magnificent successor to his Vietnam-era novel, American Pastoral, and his McCarthy-era novel, I Married a Communist.
 
If you have any questions about the titles or meetings of the Book Club, please contact me at loucrie@yahoo.com
 
Hope to see you there!
Julia

 

September 17 — Ladies’ Night Out!

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On Wednesday, September 17th, we will have the opportunity of experiencing a new happy hour in one of the most beautiful hotel bars in town. The bar of the Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires, which is a five-star hotel located in the Retiro district and overlooking the Plaza San Martin. 
Date: Wednesday, September 17th
Time:  18.30 to 21.00
Location: Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires, Florida 1005
Please RSVP to:   Silvia Portalanza   silporta@hotmail.com
Hope to meet you there!