BAIN LADIES NIGHT OUT – Come join us for Happy Hour!
Date: Wednesday, March 13
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Primafila Restaurant Terrace Bar, Buenos Aires Design Center Terrace
RSVP: Ann Sager, annsager@me.com
The next BAIN Morning Coffee is coming up! Mark your calendars!
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 Peggy Greer at pjgreer@gmail.com
*Exact address provided upon RSVP. We hope you can make it!
BAIN Downtown members and their guests are invited to the Buenos Aires International Newcomers Downtown monthly meeting on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 p.m. Come join us! We’ll be socializing over cookies from Sugar and Spice; discovering new information about our adopted country, Argentina; and just having fun.
Place: ICANA, Maipú 686, (between Viamonte and Tucumán) in the city center
Our meeting will be on the ground floor in the beautiful library.
Please note that the entry is at Maipú 686, and NOT at Maipú 672
Date: Friday, March 1 (Due to the short month, our February meeting is taking place in March!)
Time: 4.00 p.m. – members and guests begin to arrive
4.30 p.m. – the program begins
5.30 p.m. – after-meeting social, venue To Be Announced
Program: The topic of this month’s presentation will be Argentine popular culture and its heritage, by anthropologist, Mara Tissera Luna. Ms. Luna studied in the Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Filosofía y Letras and focused her studies on Sociocultural Orientation. She currently works for NGO Relaf, www.relaf.org, which deals with the fulfilment of children’s rights and public policies for the care of children without parental care. Starting this past December, she is also a professor at UBA.
Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge
Non-members/Guests – AR$50
We look forward to seeing you on Friday!
Date: Wednesday, February 13
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Primafila Restaurant Terrace Bar, Buenos Aires Design Center Terrace
RSVP: Ann Sager, annsager@me.com
The next BAIN Morning Coffee is coming up! Mark your calendars!
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!
The website Restaurant.com.ar organizes its yearly Tour Gourmet Buenos Aires, an opportunity for all foodies (member of Restaurant.com.ar and the general public alike) to enjoy some of the best restaurants in Buenos Aires with incredible discounts.
In this edition of the Tour Gourmet, from January 15 to February 28, 2013, all participating restaurants offer a 35 % to 50 % discount every day on the total of the check when ordering “a la carte”. There will also be special discounts on wine tastings at the Sheraton Buenos Aires on specific dates. This is a free event for the general public and doesn’t require registration.
To use this benefit, enter Tour Gourmet website, (in Spanish only) choose a restaurant, print the discount coupon clicking on “Certificado de Beneficio”, and present it when arriving at the restaurant or asking for the check (note some of the discounts are only applied for cash payments).
The list of participating restaurants will be updated every day.
The new year is a time to explore the world around you, whether you’ve been in the same place for a few days or multiple years. BAIN wants to help you learn more about the city we call home!
Miguel with Art Connoisseurs has invited BAIN to join in this week’s tour of two San Telmo museums, a historic location-turned-cafe coffee stop and a description of the San Telmo neighborhood. Interested? Read on!
Date: Saturday, January 19th
Time: 3:30pm
Place: Meet at the entrance of the Museum of Modern Art, Avenida San Juan 350
The tour will last approximately 3 hours includes the visit to Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art and a coffee break at L´Atelier de Céline.
The tour has a cost of AR$ 200, BAIN members are offered a price of AR$180 (all costs included).
If you would like to join, please RSVP to Dawn Gill: dawn.e.gill@gmail.com
SACS (Send a Child to School) is ready to fill backpacks for the 2013 school year. We will be providing over 600 Argentine children with backpacks and other school supplies. We will deliver these to the children at the end of February so they will be ready for the first day of school. Many of you have helped us in the past – thank you! On Wednesday, February 6th we will be hard at work again. Please consider giving us some of your time & energy.
During this work session we will be filling the backpacks with school supplies, grouping them by organization, & bagging them for delivery. Wear cool clothing and comfortable shoes! We will provide a light lunch of yummy empanadas to enjoy when we have finished working!
Thank you for your interest & support of SACS/NALE
Additional information concerning SACS/NALE is available at our website – www.sacs-nale.com
Thanks so much,
SACS Board members
BAIN Downtown 