July Social Monthly Meeting

Posted on July 18, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

BAIN DOWNTOWN SOCIAL MEETING

FRIDAY, JULY 26 AT 5:30pm

BAIN Downtown members are invited to join in this month’s Strictly Social meeting. Help us welcome back the folks who left Buenos Aires for their winter vacation by joining us at the Downtown Matias in Recoleta, an Irish pub located next to Starbucks in the Terrazas Buenos Aires Design Center.

We will be there starting at 5:30pm., BAIN will provide appetizers and there is a 2 for 1 happy hour menu available!

Location: Downtown Matias at the Buenos Aires Design Center in Recoleta (next to the Recoleta Cemetery, nearest the intersection of Av Libertador and Pueyrredon).

Date and Time: Friday, July 26, 5:30 p.m.

Program: Conversation! Meet someone new! Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN! We will provide light appetizers and finger food while our guests enjoy the happy hour specials of 2 for 1 on beverages.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – AR$50*

*If you join BAIN at the meeting, your guest fee is waived.

(The fee to join BAIN for a year’s membership is AR$250)

Other Notes:

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American Night Happy Hour

Posted on July 17, 2013 by dawngill

Consular officers from the U.S. Embassy will be attending the next American Night happy hour at the Hard Rock Café in Buenos Aires, this Thursday, July 18th from 5 – 9 pm. This event will provide a chance to socialize and network within our expat community as well as get answer to your questions about services the Embassy offers to U.S. citizens, including passport renewal, transmition of citizenship to your children, documenting their birth overseas as U.S. citizens, and immigrant and non-immigrant visas.

Additionally, several dozen Argentine university students preparing to participate in the Summer, Work, Travel exchange program in the U.S. will be present and anxious to learn about our country and pratice their English. The Hard Rock Cafe has agreed to offer Two-for-One drink specials and discounted food for all in attendence. We hope to see you there!

American Citizen Services

U.S. Embassy

Exposición Rural 2013: 127th Exhibition of Cattle Breeding, Agriculture, and International Industry

Posted on July 16, 2013 by dawngill

The traditional Livestock and Agriculture Exhibition (“La Rural”), held every year in Buenos Aires for over a century, is one of the most important of its kind worldwide, bringing together more than a million visitors among producers, tourists and general public. In this year’s edition, from July 18th to July 30th, more than 400 exhibitors will be showing their products: laboratories, leather goods shops, banks, automotive industries, farm machinery, and providers of services and goods for the agricultural industry.

Visitors will have the opportunity to attend activities like cattle competitions, cattle auctions, traditional costumes contests, rein skills, Polo exhibitions, indoor Pato (Horseball) championship; and show jumping competitions, that take place every day at the main court, as well as exhibitions of all kinds of farm animals, Argentine crafts, folk shows, and tastings of traditional products at the exhibition´s pavilions.

The Fair will feature numerous activities for kids: riding school; dog training; feeding of farm animals; 3D movie about work in the country; Augmented Reality Farm; and many other activities that will get them closer to the farming work.

One important feature as every year is the “Salon de las Regiones y Agroalimentos”, that will be held from July 18th to July 21st, an exhibition within the fair exclusively dedicated to the food and agriculture industry in the Argentine provinces, showcasing products like:

Cereals
Beer, Wine and Liquors
Preserves
Agro-Alimentary Products
Chocolates
Sweets
Organic Products
Dried Furits
Cheese, oil, dulce de leche.

Location: La Rural Exhibition Center. Av. Sarmiento 2704

Dates: July 18th to July 30th, 2013
Opening hours: Every day from 9 am to 8 pm.
Entry fees:

Monday to Friday: AR$ 30

Saturday and Sunday: AR$ 35

Seniors and Pensioners: Monday and Tuesday: Free – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: AR$15

Children under 8: free

Exposicion Rural 2013 official website

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for this information. To keep up with this and 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!

July Morning Coffee

Posted on July 5, 2013 by dawngill

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

Posted on July 3, 2013 by dawngill

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

Feria del Libro Infantil y Juvenil official website

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!

Expo Cuisine & Vins: June 12, 13, 14

Posted on June 8, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Over 300 first class companies will showcase their products on June 12, 13, and 14, 2013, at the Expo Cuisine&Vins 2013, the 20th edition of the wine exhibition organized by Cuisine&Vins Magazine, where visitors have the chance to taste some of the best wines produced in Argentina.

New and traditional wineries will present their premium labels, talks and tastings by enologists and wine makers. There will also be stands dedicated to spirits, cigars, luxury resorts, delicatessen, crafts from all over the country, as well as the new flavors of the most outstanding restaurants of the moment.

Wine tastings will be offered every day, with limited capacity and with previous accreditation at the Expo.

Location: Palacio Paz. Santa Fe 750, Plaza San Martin, Buenos Aires

Dates: June 12, 13, 14, 2013

Opening hours: 5 pm to 11 pm

Entry fee: AR$ 170, includes a complimentary tasting cup.

Tickets on sale at the venue.

More info: Expo Cuisine&Vins website.

Screening; Free China: The Courage to Believe

Posted on June 6, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

We have a special screening of the award-winning film “FREE CHINA: The Courage to Believe” coming up in the Centro Cultural Borges (Viamonte 500 esq. San Martin) on Friday, June 14 at 7pm. The 54 minute documentary is in English with Spanish subtitles.

FREE CHINA has just been released in US theatres – see its review in “LA Weekly”:http://www.laweekly.com/movies/free-china-the-courage-to-believe-2086087/

June 4, 2013 was the 24th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing. Please read Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu and blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng´s statement and attached petition for “A Year for Human Rights in China” –
http://thecommunity.com/2013/06/desmond-tutu-and-chen-guangcheng-a-year-for-human-rights-in-china/

Mickey Vail Returns to La Biblioteca!

Posted on June 4, 2013 by dawngill

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!

Posted on May 28, 2013 by dawngill

SACS (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!