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September Luncheon

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The date for the September luncheon is Thursday, September 19. Please note this is a week earlier than we normally have the luncheons.

On Thursday September 19, at 1:00 pm we will have lunch at the Benihana restaurant next to the Alto Palermo shopping center,  Ave. Coronel Díaz y Arenales (one block from Santa Fe), one of our most reliable and enjoyable venues.

Benihana restaurants are traditional Japanese hibachi steakhouses, which feature the Japanese cooking method known as “teppanyaki.”  Your meal is prepared fresh and served by a performing chef, right before your eyes. For a nice writeup on the history of the restaurant visit  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benihana. Our group has dined there previously with great reviews.

You can choose the chicken, steak or shrimp priced at 95 pesos for the chicken or 100 pesos for the other options. This includes soup, salad, water or gaseosa and the main course. Please note that the hibachi chicken rice is an optional extra. If this is offered by the waitress, it is an additional 10 pesos!

Check out their Spanish language site at   http://www.benihana.com.ar/Benihana

Date:          Thursday September 19

Time:         1:00 pm

Place:        Benihana, Coronel Diaz y Arenales

Cost:          95 or 100 pesos depending on menu choice

Please RSVP to secure a place.

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Spring at the Sivori

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BAIN DOWNTOWN MONTHLY MEETING

ANNUAL SPRING AT THE SIVORI EVENT

with champagne and hors d’oeuvres!

September 27th at 3 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE:  SPECIAL VENUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR RSVP

For the past six years, we have held our popular “Welcome to Spring” meeting at the Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori.  Join us as we return to the Sivori Museum’s beautiful garden courtyard to toast the arrival of spring!

The Sivori event is one of our favorite meeting venues due to the lovely location and relaxed atmosphere. This is a catered event, with champagne, sweet and savory treats to celebrate the arrival of Spring.  Note that the event takes place earlier in the day than our normal monthly meetings, and is a perfect place to bring a friend and enjoy the outdoors!  Children are welcome!

PLACE:  Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, Av. Infanta Isabel 555 in the Parque 3 de Febrero

  • For a map click here: http://goo.gl/maps/2sU6y
  • For directions and information on the current art exhibits, please visit the museum’s website at www.museosivori.org.ar)\
  • There is a nominal admission to enter the museum (one peso for Argentines, three pesos for everyone else)

TIME:  3 to 5 p.m.

RSVP: Unlike for our normal monthly meetings, we need you to RSVP to this event.  This is a catered event that requires a deposit, so we need to know in advance if you are coming – AND if you plan on bringing guests (children under 10 are free).  

Please RSVP to bain.downtown@gmail.com, by Wednesday, September 25th.  

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:  The meeting itself is FREE TO BAIN DOWNTOWN MEMBERS WHO RSVP.  The cost for non-members is $120 pesos.  A yearly membership with BAIN is $250 pesos, and if an RSVPed guest signs up for a BAIN Downtown membership at the event we’ll waive the guest fee!

 

September Monthly Dinner

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 DEMETRIA RESTAURANT, SAAVEDRA

Though it’s further from our usual locations, this is a special restaurant in Buenos Aires you’ll be glad you got to know. You go through a garden to get to the restaurant.  It’s got a “je ne sais quoi” worth remembering.

Address: Ramallo 2626, entre Av. San Isidro y Vidal, Saavedra (1 block from Cabildo and 3 blocks from Puente Saavedra)

Date: Thursday, September 12th

Time: 8:30 pm

Price:  AR$160 a person which includes first course (2 options), main course (3 options), dessert (2 options) and one drink (1 soft drink or 1 water or 1 porron de cerveza or 1 glass of wine)

Please R.S.V.P. to Teresa Ezcurra at tezlg@hotmail.com.

Menu options:

First course options:

  • Milanesitas de muzzarella con mix de verdes y croutons.
  • Pinchos de pollo con verdes y mayonesa de albahaca.

Main course options:

  • CARNE — Ragout de ternera con ñoquisitos de espinaca
  • PESCADO — Crocante de lenguado y papa con colchon de wok de vegetales
  • VEGETARIANO — Lasagna de calabaza, espinaca y queso con salsa de tomates

Dessert options:

  • Tarta tibia de manzana y canela con helado de Crema Americana
  • Mousse de chocolate con helado de maracuya

Drink options:

  • Un agua
  • Una gaseosa
  • Una copa de vino
  • Un porrón de cerveza

Walk the Nuestra Señora de Luján Pilgrimage?

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Luján is a city in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, located 68 kilometers north west of the city of Buenos Aires. The city was founded in 1755 and has a population of 67,266.

Luján is best known for its large neo-gothic Basilica, built in honor of the Virgin of Luján, the patron saint of Argentina. Every year, more than six million people make pilgrimages to the Basilica, many walking there from Buenos Aires. The city is known as La Capital de la Fe (Capital of Faith). It is a popular day-trip for believers and non-believers alike, with abundant grill restaurants (like most places in Argentina) and souvenir shops with religious memorabilia.Basílica_Luján_desde_Plaza_Belgrano

Regardless of your reasons for doing this walk — personal, fitness, social or religious – why not get out those dusty and forgotten walking shoes and put them to good use?  The pilgrimage starts on Saturday, October 5, 2013 and it takes two days to accomplish the 37 mile journey.

Since this is not a stroll in the park, the key issue for a successful walk is training. Let’s start training together by walking around the city so that we are ready on October 5th. Want to train on your own but join us the day of? Sure, just let us know your plans so that we can make hotel reservations for you on Saturday night and reserve a bus ticket for the trip back to Bs.As. For more information go here: http://www.peregrinacionlujan.org.ar/Agenda.htm. Children are welcome. Pictures and more pictures.

If interested, email Solange at smecham25@yahoo.com.

September Book Club Meeting

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Want to discuss a book with other readers?  We meet monthly to discuss a book chosen the month before.  The book we will be discussing in September is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.

If you have not yet attended a BAIN book club meeting or are looking to start, please join us! Here is the information for the September book club meeting:

Book choice: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Date: Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Time: 13hs -15hs
Location: Palermo
Please email your RSVP to: ssgaby@hotmail.com

For those interested in learning more about the book we will be discussing, here is a link to a summary and some critic and reader reviews on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052181

We hope to see you on September 23rd!

BAIN Language Exchange Group

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BAIN is starting a Language Exchange Group

Are you interested in practicing your Spanish?  Practicing your English?  Let’s start talking!

We will have two language groups with various levels of proficiency.  A small mixed group of native speakers (English/Spanish) will spend half of the time communicating in one language and half the time in the other.  Activities will be structured to cover all areas of language acquisition — vocabulary, pronunciation and listening comprehension. In addition, the activities will be designed to enable students to discover the “conversation culture”, that is, the way that native speakers of the other culture interact. The class will have a relaxing, fun and flexible structure so that it can be stress-free and enjoyable.

 If interested, or if you have questions about the structure, please contact Solange at smecham25@yahoo.com or Celia at celiacriseo@rauljak.com.ar .

Yayoi Kusama at the MALBA

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Are you wondering why the trees in front of the MALBA are red with white dots? This will help explain the theme…

INSIDE BUENOS AIRES

(Photo by swh)

The new MALBA exhibit, featuring renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s work, kicks off this weekend promising a full house of art enthusiasts.

The artist, who is known for her ethereal light installations, sculptures, paintings a videos and more, is one of the most famous to come out of the New York avant-garde movement, and for good reason.  Her works deal with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual themes, and presents a unique world of color and infinite lights, influences by minimal, surrealist, expressionist and pop art.

The exhibit opens to the general public on Sunday and will showcase over 100 works from the 50’s to the present day. It will run throughout winter until the 16th of September.  Figueroa Alcorta 3415, Palermo. 4808-6500.

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One Table with Hernán Gipponi

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Pick Up The Fork

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Maybe I’m spoiled, hard to please, or just turning into one of those irritating food snobs, but rarely do I encounter a truly memorable restaurant dining experience. I’m talking about the big L, the big O, fireworks, a big brass band mind parade, the whole shabang. So imagine my delight when I found out that the capo in the kitchen, famed Argie chef Hernán Gipponi, began organizing a new way to dine on Monday nights at his restaurant in the Fierro Hotel: Hernán, one table, wine flowing like beer, and a feast inspired by seasonal market ingredients. Sign.Me.Up.Porfis. 

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Fuerzabruta in Buenos Aires

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Fuerza Bruta 2014 in Buenos Aires

Fuerzabruta is a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery. Featuring mind – blowing visual effects that must be seen to be believed – a man running full throttle through a series of moving walls, women frolicking in a watery world suspended just inches above the audience – Fuerzabruta is a show that floods the senses.

Fuerzabruta, presents the new material and re revisits previous material, giving a new dimension and nature. What no one ever saw, plus all the power of previous shows, and accumulated experience over Fuerzabruta trips around the world.

Starting January 16th, 2014, you can see their show at Centro Cultural Recoleta. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

A  highly recommended show not to be missed. Check the trailer of their last show in Buenos Aires:

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