Dear Ladies –
This month we will visit a great venue in the heart of Recoleta. The Club Frances has an elegant bar with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere in a classic building full of history.
Place: Hotel Club Frances
Address: Rodriguez Pena 1832 (Recoleta)
Date: Tuesday, July 21
Time: 7:30 pm
Deal: A la carte
Please RSVP to silporta@hotmail.com
Join us at Manhattan Club Grand Cafe to discuss Picaflor by Jessica Talbot. Even if you haven’t managed to read the book, we welcome you to join us for coffee and more. Date: August 4, 2015 Time: 3:30 pm Location: Manhattan Club Grand Café, Ave Cabildo 1792 (corner with La Pampa) RSVP: jendan@gmail.com The author, Jessica Talbot, may be able to join us for the meeting. Picaflor can be purchased directly and locally from Jessica for $AR 80 or $AR 120. Contact her at jessicatalbot@yahoo.com and is also available in electronic form from Amazon. Picaflor: Finding Home in South America by Jessica Talbot In Picaflor, a true story, Jessica Talbot invites the reader to travel beside her as she searches for love and meaning, while traversing the fascinating countries of South America. Along the way she lets go of grief, grasps hold of the present and finds herself occupying her own weather beaten shoes. When unexpected signs appear on her path she asks, ‘Is this serendipity or fate?’ As the journey unfolds she realizes that you don’t need to know, it can be magical either way. The story starts with Jessica getting a tattoo of a hummingbird, a reminder of new beginnings. Then a kiss at sunrise in the snow-dusted Andes of Peru sends her on a restless, risky journey that ends in Argentina. As she travels through unknown terrain, new friends give her important insights into the meaning of friendship, and old ties strengthen as she frees herself from the past. It’s in the exhilarating but complicated city of Buenos Aires that she finally understands what it means to feel ‘home’. September Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness….. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released (suffering from psychosis?) and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. Through these characters, among others, the story shows the plight of the peasantry leading up to the French Revolution and then the subsequent brutality of the revolutionaries in the early years of the revolution. The story also tries to highlight the parallels between French and British society. Please forward any suggestions you have for future reads to jendan@gmail.com.
Limited seating!!! RSVP early. mweldon213@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2015
Time: 12:30 pm
Place: GIBRALTAR, Perú 895, San Telmo, phone # 4362-5310
Cost: 180 pesos (includes tip and beverages) — correct change is appreciated.
Gibraltar is as close to an English pub as you will find in Buenos Aires and one of the few pubs in town that serves draft cider.
Michael has put together the following menu for BAIN Downtown members:
Entrada: Garlic bread with cheese will be on the table when you arrive
Main course:
– Fish and Chips served with a veggie & tartar sauce
or
– Beef and Ale Pie served with French fries
or
– Chicken Green Thai Curry served with rice
or
– Burger regular with cheese and trimmings, or with bacon and fried onion, or with blue cheese– 250 grams
Beverage: Choose either water, two glasses of wine, or two pints of draught beer or cider (over a liter ! ! )
Please indicate your preference for the main course when you RSVP. The kitchen is small and a heads-up for the cook will help to make sure there are minimal delays. Anyone who desires a vegetarian option please get in touch and it can be arranged.
Since seating will be limited (maximum 20 people) I suggest you reply early.
Please RSVP to
4815-4660
Bring food of your choice to share — medialunas purchased at your local bakery, homemade coffee cake – or anything in between. Our BAIN host will provide coffee, etc.
Good company and great conversation. Meet with old friends and make new ones.
Location: Wendy Huebner’s in Balvanera (You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)
Date and Time: Tuesday – July 14
from 10.30 until noon
Please RSVP to: Wendy Huebner wlhuebner@hotmail.com
**The Morning Coffee is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.
**This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contactbain.downtown@gmail.com
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Current members may (subject to approval) send e-mails to bain.downtown@gmail.com for forwarding to the membership.
BAIN accepts no responsibility or liability for the contents of this message.
Join us at Manhattan Club Grand Cafe to discuss The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. Even if you haven’t managed to read the book, we welcome you to join us for coffee and more.
You might want to buy a copy of Picaflor (August book) at the July meeting — AR$80 or AR$120.
Date: July 7
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Manhattan Club Grand Cafe, Ave Cabildo 1792 (corner with La Pampa)
RSVP: tonilin@aol.com
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction , two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Future Book Choices
Please note that we are working with the author of Picaflor to see if she will attend our book club. She is offering the book for AR$80 or 120. If you would like to buy a copy, please contact tonilin@aol.com and we will arrange.
Next Meetings:
Tuesday, August 4
Picaflor: Finding Home in South America by Jessica Talbot
In Picaflor, a true story, Jessica Talbot invites the reader to travel beside her as she searches for love and meaning, while traversing the fascinating countries of South America. Along the way she lets go of grief, grasps hold of the present and finds herself occupying her own weather beaten shoes.
When unexpected signs appear on her path she asks, ‘Is this serendipity or fate?’ As the journey unfolds she realises that you don’t need to know, it can be magical either way.
The story starts with Jessica getting a tattoo of a hummingbird, a reminder of new beginnings. Then a kiss at sunrise in the snow-dusted Andes of Peru sends her on a restless, risky journey that ends in Argentina. As she travels through unknown terrain, new friends give her important insights into the meaning of friendship, and old ties strengthen as she frees herself from the past. It’s in the exhilarating but complicated city of Buenos Aires that she finally understands what it means to feel ‘home’.
September
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…..
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released (suffering from psychosis?) and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. Through these characters, among others, the story shows the plight of the peasantry leading up to the French Revolution and then the subsequent brutality of the revolutionaries in the early years of the revolution. The story also tries to highlight the parellels between French and British society.
Please forward any suggestions you have for future reads to jendan@gmail.com.
La Conga is a large Peruvian restaurant (over 120 seats). The food is excellent.
There are two other smaller restaurants very near La Conga so make sure you check the name and address!
Please join
BAIN Downtown for an evening of wine, tapas, and friendly conversation.
Location: Puerto Madero – Exact address provided upon RSVP
Time: 8:00 p.m.
How does it work? Bring wine, finger food, and your sparkling self to join other BAIN members in a night of socializing and making new friends. We look forward to catching up with you!
Please RSVP to Marcia at marcia@transpack.com.ar
The address will be sent to you via email response.
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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.
FRIDAY, July 31, 2015 at 6 p.m.
BAIN Downtown members and guests are invited to join in this month’s social get-together. This popular meeting will be held at the Plaza Bar, in the lovely Plaza Hotel.
BAIN will provide light appetizers and finger food, and members can purchase drinks from the extensive bar menu.
Location: The Plaza Bar, in the Plaza Hotel (Retiro, in the city center) across from Plaza San Martín. There are two ways to reach the Plaza Bar:
You can enter via the main lobby at Florida 1005. Walk to the back of the lobby, go left and down the stairs, go left again towards the Plaza Grill. Another left gets you to the Plaza Bar.
Or, proceed to Florida 1025, go through the revolving door and down the stairs, and the Plaza Bar is on your right.
Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge
Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – 50 pesos*
*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 250 pesos.
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Visit our website: https://baindowntown.com/ and follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BAINDowntown
Current members may (subject to approval) send e-mails to bain.downtown@gmail.com for forwarding to the membership.
BAIN accepts no responsibility or liability for the contents of this message.
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 24 from 10:30 until noon
Bring food of your choice to share — medialunas purchased at your local bakery, homemade coffee cake – or anything in between. Our BAIN host will provide coffee, etc.
Good company and great conversation. Meet with old friends and make new ones.
Location: Shula Hamilton´s home in Villa Crespo. (You will receive the address when you send your RSVP.)
RSVP to: Shula Hamilton shulah2@gmail.com
**The Morning Coffee is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.
**This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com
BAIN Museums and More has organised a guided tour of the Evita Museum in English.
When: Wednesday, June 17 @ 11am
Where: Lafinur 2988
On July 26, 2002, fifty years to the day after Evita’s death, her grandniece, Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez, inaugurated the Evita Museum in Buenos Aires.
Evita, an icon whose historical importance spans two centuries, now has her own museum.
The Evita Museum is housed in a mansion constructed for the Carabassa family during the first decade of the 20th century. Architect Estanislao Pirovano gave the mansion its formal image which combines elements from both the Plateresque and Italian Renaissance styles.
This beautiful building was declared a National Historical Monument in 1999.
BAIN Downtown 