The Annual End of Year Cocktail Party

Posted on November 7, 2012 by dawngill

Join us for BAIN Downtown’s most popular event of the year!

Date: Wednesday, November 14

Time: 7.00 to 10.00 p.m.

Venue: Pur Sang in Recoleta: Quintana 191 (corner Montevideo)

Dress code: Anywhere from cocktail to casual!

The venue for the party is Pur Sang. This stately French-style residence was built in 1904 in the heart of the charming neighborhood of La Recoleta. Pur Sang is currently owned by the Cooperative Association of Thoroughbred Breeders, Ltd. The name, Pur Sang, comes from Pura Sangre. In English, Pure Blood.

Join us for BAIN Downtown’s most popular event of the year!

Enjoy a sumptuous selection of canapés, hot and chilled appetizers, sweets, various juices and soft drinks, red and white wine, and champagne!

Plus tap your toes to Bossa Nova rhythms of the Adriana Rios Brazilian Band performing throughout the evening!

If that isn’t enough to tempt you – we will be holding a drawing to win some fabulous prizes, such as:

A leather coat of your choice from Bettina Rizzi
Dinner for 2 at El Tejano
30-day supply of bagels from Sugar and Spice
Dinner for 2 at The Lost Asian
1-hour massage at Buenos Aires Life Centre
1-hour facial from Sylvia Milicay
Basket of baked goods from Lucho’s Homemade Treats
2 tickets to Shen Yun at the Opera Citi Theatre
2 tickets to the award winning Los Angelitos Tango Show
A Premium Leather Wine Tote from Vinitum Bags
….and more to be announced!

TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE

Members – AR$100

Non-Members – AR$200

For more information or to purchase your tickets, contact a board member!

Dawn (Recoleta, Palermo) – cell: 153 406 2010; email: dawn.e.gill@gmail.com

Walcott (Villa Crespo and area) – email: walcotth@gmail.com

Celia (Cabillito and area) – telephone: 4901 1880; cell: 154 087 1256; email: celiacriseo@rauljak.com.ar

Bonnie (Recoleta, Retiro, Puerto Madero) – email: bonniekraft@yahoo.com

Support Our 10K Runners!

Posted on November 7, 2012 by dawngill

If you’re looking for a reason to leave the house this Sunday morning, come and cheer on the BAIN Members that will be running in the 4th Annual Maraton AmCham! There is a competitive 10K and a participative 3K, but there will be music, excitement and fun for anyone who is interested in enjoying the fresh air!

The race begins at 9:00am at the corner of Figueroa Alcorta & Monroe, and the runners will follow a route available here: http://www.maratonamcham.com.ar/recorrido.php.

The BAIN runners will be meeting prior to the start, between 8:30 – 8:45am, feel free to join in the excitement and hopefully join in a future race during this summer season!

For more details, here is the website for the AmCham race: http://www.maratonamcham.com.ar/index.php

And for more information on additional races, participative and competitive, view the Club de Corredores website: http://clubdecorredores.com/

4 Year Anniversary of Spanglish

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Museum Night 2012 – La Noche de los Museos 2012

Posted on November 6, 2012 by dawngill

As usual, Sandra, who writes My Buenos Aires Travel Guide is the first to announce this month’s Museum Night – a great event to look forward to! Thanks, as always, to Sandra for these great updates!

Museum Night 2012 – La Noche de los Museos 2012

The Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presents the 9th Edition of La Noche de los Museos – Museum Night 2012, that will take place on November 10, 2012, from 8 PM until 3 AM.

Since 2004 one Saturday night the museums of Buenos Aires stay open all night offering different cultural activities, all of them free of charge, in the same way as in other 130 cities around the world.

During this special night visitors will be able to enjoy free guided visits, special exhibitions, as well as conferences, shows, theater performances, dance, screenings, video, multimedia, and diverse concerts of classical music, jazz, tango, folk, and rock, and move around the city on more than 80 bus lines that will offer free rides during the night.

In this new edition, the Museum Nights pays tribute to the great Argentine tango composer/musician Astor Piazzolla in the 20th anniversary of his death.

Some of the main events of the evening will take place at the Planetarium Galileo Galilei, Av. Figueroa Alcorta and Av. Sarmiento:

8:30 pm: The contemporary ballet of Teatro San Martin presents “Las 8 estaciones” (The 8 seasons), with music from “Las cuatro estaciones porteñas”, by Astor Piazzolla, and Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”.

9:15 pm: Documentary on Astor Piazzolla

11:00 pm: Quintet from Astor Piazzolla Foundation

00:15 am: Escalandrum and Piazzolla Electrónica

1:00 am: Documentary on Astor Piazzolla

Over 180 museums and art spaces will be participating in this edition.

For more information and complete program, visit La Noche de los Museos official website (site in Spanish only).

Club Aleman de Equitacion

Posted on October 23, 2012 by dawngill

Feria Masticar with Las Cabrillas

Posted on October 23, 2012 by dawngill

Do you enjoy eating? Mark your calendars for November 16 – 18 and come to the Feria Masticar, “the Feria by chefs, for chefs”.

The best way to read about it is through their website: feriamasticar.com.ar

Or check out the Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/FeriaMasticar

Our friends from Las Cabrillas will be presenting at the feria – they will also be donating a raffle prize to the BAIN End of Year Party! You can’t win if you don’t buy your tickets! Get your tickets at the next BAIN event, or contact any of our Board Members!

Gran “Rysttafel” Holandes

Posted on October 18, 2012 by dawngill

The Asociacion Holandesa de Beneficencia invites BAIN members to their Gran Rysttafel Holandes Fundraiser! The minimum donation is AR$400 – for more information or to RSVP, contact ahbeventos@gmail.com.

Calendar Girls

Posted on October 14, 2012 by dawngill

The Suburban Players is the longest running English-speaking amateur theatrical club in Argentina, having been around since April 1963. Originally founded by a group of American expatriates, our objective, then and now, is to stage plays in English for the enjoyment of all those involved whilst simultaneously providing quality entertainment for the community.

They are a non-profit organization that collaborates on a regular basis with established charities, helping community oriented fund raising campaigns with our proceeds.

Visit their website for more information: The Suburban Players

October Monthly Dinner

Posted on October 13, 2012 by dawngill

This month’s BAIN dinner will be held on Wednesday, October 17 at “Mundano.”

Mundano is a beautiful restaurant that has live music most weekend nights. It has an inviting outdoor patio area (covered, in case of rain!) where those who wish to do so can enjoy a glass of wine at 8:30 or so. Event organizer Jim Isaacs has arranged to have Pianist Luciano Pletener come for part of the evening; Luciano plays show tunes, popular music, and tango. Dinner will be at 9 p.m., inside.

Here are the details:

Time: Wednesday October 17, 2012 (start time: 8:30 p.m. in the patio; dinner 9 p.m.)

Location: Mundano, Corner of Malabia 1401 (corner of Cabrera) in Palermo.

Cost: 125 pesos per person, inclusive of everything (a three course meal, a glass of wine, one gaseosa or water, service/table charge and tip).

RSVP by Tuesday night to Jim Isaacs at jisaacs61@hotmail.com

Finally, the menu:

First course (pre-selected to keep the evening on schedule, Jim pledges that this will NOT be a late night event)

Mundano Salad (greens, tomato, capers, artichoke, mushrooms and Parmesan cheese, with a light pesto type dressing)

Second course:

Pacu (fish) seasoned with lemon, with potato
or
Pork tenderloin
or
Trout wrapped in bacon, spinach tortilla and tomato cream sauce
or
Dark (black) risotto with shrimp and red caviar
or
Wok sauteed seasonal fresh vegetables over greens

Dessert:

Apple tart with “american” (vanilla) ice cream
or
Kiwi soup
or
Chocolate volcano with red fruit and ice cream

BAIN Fashion Night

Posted on October 12, 2012 by dawngill

Hello to our Downtown BAIN friends!

The members of BAIN Suburbs invite you to join us for our FASHION NIGHT Friday 19th Oct at 8:00pm at the Galeria Paseo de Golf in Lomas de San Isidro (J. Segundo Fernandez 256 – The Gallery is right beside a Golf course.) Cost: 50 pesos

The end of the year is arriving but we don’t want to wait until November for our big BAIN “party”, so on Friday 19th October you are invited to join us with your friends and partners to our very first BAIN Fashion Night!

We will be waiting for you at the entrance with a glass of champagne, a Jazz band and an incredible eclectic ambience. We will then have a fashion show in the back patio, where not only will the gorgeous models be fashioning amazing clothes for both women and men along to the groovy beats of great music from DJ NoNo but also we are going to be able to appreciate the paintings of artist Juan Manuel Botte, which will be exhibited.

Some of the boutique shops in the gallery will be open, especially for us, with some amazing discounts and offers!

To be included on the guest list it is essential that you RSVP… to lianaexpatlife@gmail