International Polo Series 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

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The International Polo Series 2013 (Serie Internacional de Polo), organized by the Argentine Polo Association, will take place on April 9, 11, and 13, 2013 at the Campo Argentino de Polo in Palermo (Av. del Libertador & Dorrego).

This unique tournament, with the participation of three high handicap international teams (Argentina, England, and South Africa), is an important addition to the national and international polo calendar.

Teams:

Argentina: Diego Cavanagh 7, Pedro Falabella Jr 6, Manuel Plaza de Ayala 6, Martín Joaquín 3. Total: 22.

South Africa: Dirk van Reenen 3, Christopher MacKenzie 5, Jean du Plessis 6, Ignatuis du Plessis 8. Total: 22.

England: Matthew Perry 3, Oliver Cudmore 5, Mark Tomlinson 7, Luke Tomlinson 7. Total: 22.

Calendar of matches:

April 9 – 2 PM: South Africa vs England (Match 1)

April 11 –2 PM: Argentina vs Loser Match 1

April 13 – 2 PM: Argentina vs Winner Match 1

All matches are open to the public with Free entrance.

The schedule is subject to change depending on weather conditions, so keep checking for updates.

April Morning Coffee

Posted on April 7, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The next BAIN Morning Coffee is coming up! Mark your calendars!

Date: Tuesday, April 16th
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00
Where: Palermo Chico *Exact address provided upon RSVP
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 Ramona Michetti at rgmichetti@hotmail.com
We hope you can make it!

Are you interested in hosting a Morning Coffee?? You pick the day, and BAIN will chip in AR$150 to help cover hosting fees. Hosting is a great way to continue the event, and get involved with BAIN! Contact Katarina Nyssens at katarina.nyssens@gmail.com for more information!

*This event is limited to current BAIN members only. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN, contact bain.downtown@gmail.com*

ICANA Book of the Month Club

Posted on April 6, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Book of the Month Club 2013

Hosted by Paula Varsavsky

Book of the Month Club (annual).

Inicio: jueves 2 de mayo en Sede Central

Inicio: jueves 9 de mayo en Sede Belgrano

English speakers and readers are welcome to join the Book of the Month Club. Hosted by Argentine writer and journalist Paula Varsavsky at ICANA. We will enjoy and discuss one book every month. Either a fiction or non-fiction book is chosen by the host, suggestions done by participants are taken into account.

When it comes to fiction the focus is on characters, suspense, point of view, defamiliarization, sense of time and place, surprise, the reader in the text and other literary matters. As far as non-fiction is concerned the focus is on: subject, historical context, political and economic context, narrator and writing skills.

We will get together every Thursday of the first week of the month (or the second week)at 6:00pm for a one and a half hour gathering.

At the first meeting of the Book of the Month we will be reading a short-story together.

Informes e inscripción: dcultural@icana.org.ar 5382-1537

Reuniones mensuales. Nivel de Inglés requerido: Avanzado

Arancel: $100 por encuentro.

Dirección: ICANA Sede Centro Maipú 672

ICANA Sede Belgrano 3 de Febrero 821

Paula Varsavsky is the author of two novels Nadie alzaba la voz, also published in English in the U.S: No One Said a Word (Ontario Review Press) and El resto de su vida. She has also written a collection of interviews with British and American writers and short-stories. She is a regular contributor of local and foreign newspapers.

List of Books:

– A Shower of Gold, short-story by Donald Barthelme (May)

– Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (June)

– The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (July)

– Thinks! By David Lodge (August)

– Persuasion by Jane Austen (September)

– The Honorary Council by Graham Greene (October)

– The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (November)

– A Confederancy of Dunces by John Kennedy O´Toole (December)

Mickey Vail plays at La Biblioteca

Posted on April 5, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The date has been changed! This event will now take place on Wednesday, April 24 – all other details are the same.

Mickey Vail is playing at La Biblioteca Cafe, Marcelo T. Alvear 1155: www.labibliotecacafe.com.ar

Wednesday, April 24, 9:30pm

Reservations 4811 0673 Cover Charge $65 Minimum Consumption $55 Show and Dinner $160 (all in pesos, and BAIN members get 10% off the cover).

Mickey will be working with a trio of Adrian Mastrocola (piano) Tomy Fraga
(guitar) and Federico Palmolella (bass) which is the same makeup as the old
Nat “King” Cole Trio and we will do a number of his songs plus others by
James Taylor, Luiz Bonfa, George Gershwin and more plus an original song
“There Are Times” written by Mastrocola and me.

Come and enjoy the show!

April Monthly Dinner

Posted on April 4, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

This month’s BAIN dinner will be on Tuesday, April 9. The event is being organized by Jim Isaacs. Jim reports:

The event will feature Basque food, which heavily emphasizes seafood.

The Basque independence movement in Spain and to some degree France draws the world’s eyes, but the Basque people have a very strong presence in Argentina and Chile, too. By many estimates there are more people of Basque decent in Argentina than all of Europe, and there is a strong Basque community in Buenos Aires. Five presidents of Argentina are reported to have been of at least partial Basque descent, including Urquiza, both Uriburus, and Yrigoyen. Eva Peron and Che Guevera had Basque blood, too.

We will meet and dine at the excellent Restaurant Vasco Frances, located in the Basque cultural center, at 1370 Moreno (between Santiago del Estero and San Jose, in the Congresso nieighborhood).

Reviews: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g312741-d1232371-Reviews-Centro_Vasco_Frances-Buenos_Aires_Capital_Federal_District.html

Here are the details:

Time: Tuesday April 9, 2013 at 9 p.m.

Place: Restaurant Vasco Frances (main dining hall of the Basque cultural center) 1370 Moreno. Parking will be validated for 2 hours; let me know if you are driving and I will get specifics to you.

Cost: $ 175 per person, inclusive of three course meal, one glass of wine (likely to be augmented), one water or soda, cubierto and tip.

RSVP to Jim Isaacs at jisaacs61@hotmail.com Space is limited/first-RSVP first served.

BAFICI

Posted on April 3, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international film festival that takes place from April 10 – 21 in different theaters all over Capital (including the Planetarium in Palermo!). BAFICI was born in 1999 and has ever since grown to become one of the most prominent film festivals in the world.

With its wide range of films including Argentine, Latin American and worldwide premieres as well as well-deserved retros, BAFICI is the greatest, most prestigious event for the independent cinema in Latin America.

Ticket pre-sales are available now, online and at two venues in the city; Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575), from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Mon-Fri) and at Village Recoleta Mall (Vicente López and Junín, 4th floor), same hours (every day). Tickets are AR$20 at full price with discounted tickets available at AR$15.

Visit the official website for BAFICI: buenosaires.gob.ar/festivales for more information. The site is available in English and Spanish.

You can keep up with this and other festivals to visit Buenos Aires by visiting the Buenos Aires Festivals website , or following them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FestivalesGCBA.

TC2000 Street Car Race in Recoleta

Posted on March 26, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Be aware – Libertador and Figueroa Alcorta streets will be closed from Callao to Tagle beginning Friday morning, March 29.

For the second time after sixty years the city of Buenos Aires will organize a car race on a street circuit. This will occur when Super TC2000 strolls the city streets of Recoleta on the first date of the Argentine Championship Super TC2000 on March 31st, 2013.

The circuit will have an extension of 3200 meters and will run on Av. del Libertador and Av. Figueroa Alcorta, between Tagle and Ayacucho.

The TC2000 (Turismo Competicion 2000) is a touring car racing competition recognized as one of the world’s best in its category for its sports quality and famous drivers. 28 top level drivers will participate in this event, racing at a top speed of 230 km/hour on the stretches.

The streets where the circuit will be held will be protected from both vehicles and partial elements ejected, by concrete structures of 1.10 meters, and above them a mesh 1.9 meters high.

The classification rounds and promotional activities will take place on Saturday, March 30th, and the Gran Prix will be run on Sunday, March 1st, with it’s start at the ACA on Av. del Libertador y Tagle. The activities on both days will begin at 10:00am, with the following schedule:

Saturday 30:
10:00 am – 12:30 pm: Training 1
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm: Training 2
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Qualification
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Training 3

Sunday 31:
11:10 am: Previous lap
11:12 am: Race 14 laps FLC
12:30 pm: STC2000 Opening boxes
12:40 pm: Grid show
12:45 pm: National Anthem
1:00 pm: Previous lap
1:05 pm: 36 lap race
2:10 pm: Podium
The event is open to the public with free access.
There are preferential seats and access to Paddock and Boxes on sale through http://www.ticketek.com.ar

Fair at the British Embassy: April 6

Posted on March 22, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Join the folks at the British Embassy for a Fall Fair on Saturday, April 6 from 12:00pm – 6:00pm.

AR$20 to enter, children under 10 enter free.

Address: Newton 2575 (close to Gelly Obes in La Isla in Recoleta)

**Remember! Bring your ID, to enter the property, you need to show a valid ID.

RAIN DATE: Saturday, April 13

Visit www.abcc.org.ar for more details!

April Wine & Tapas: Escape Your Neighborhood Bubble!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Head out West and get to know Caballito!

*It’s not as far as you think!!*

This month’s host Celia lives in a delightful apartment in Caballito, close to two main roads and lots of great parking. There are also plenty of buses that run to this neck of the woods, so don’t be shy! Learn a new barrio and enjoy time with friends!

Location: Caballito *Exact address provided upon RSVP

Date: Saturday, April 6

Time: 8:00pm

How does it work? Each attendee brings a dish to pass, a beverage to share and yourself to enjoy company, conversation, and finger foods!

Look forward to catching up with you!

Please email RSVPs to celiacriseo@rauljak.com.ar

*This event is limited to current BAIN members only. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN, contact bain.downtown@gmail.com*

March Monthly Dinner

Posted on March 20, 2013 by dawngill

This month’s BAIN dinner will be on Tuesday, March 26. The event is being organized by Jim Isaacs, our part-time dinner Chairman.

The event will be at restaurante 4141 in Palermo. 4141 has been very highly rated, and was well liked by the BAIN dinner group in a May, 2012 visit. [So, you might ask: why return to a place where some of us have already eaten, when Buenos Aires has hundreds of excellent options? Because Jim is still in the United States today, and is organizing this from a distance. That means working with a restaurant manager he knows!]

Reviews: http://www.guiaoleo.com.ar/restaurantes/4141-Restaurante-9588

Here are the details:

Time: Tuesday March 26, 2013, at 8:45 p.m.

Place: 4141 Restaurante, located at Honduras 4141 (hence the name 4141; this is about 1/2 block from Gascón, in Palermo Viejo).

Cost: $ 150 per person, inclusive of three course meal, one glass of wine (which will probably be augmented without cost), one water or soda, cubierto and tip.

RSVP to Jim Isaacs at jisaacs61@hotmail.com

Finally, the menu:

First course (this will be served fairly close to 9 p.m., so that those who need to be at work the next day will not be out too late)

Tomato Soup
or
Pear, prosciutto and rucula salad

Main Course:

Brisket of beef (a favorite of almost all who have tried it at 4141) with choice of side dishes
or
Nut and ricotta cheese ravioli
or
Moroccan chicken

Dessert

Flan with port sauce
or
Ice Cream Soda with apples, fennel and parsley (yup, they mean it, and it is good)