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*

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)

April Book Club

Posted on March 19, 2013 by dawngill

Thanks to everyone who joined us in March for our book club meeting — it was great to continue to see new faces and we hope to see more in the future! We wanted to provide everyone with the information for our April meeting and also share the book chosen for May.

Here is the information for our April Book Club meeting:

Book choice: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Date: Monday, April 8
Time: 13h00 -15h00
Location: Recoleta

Please email your RSVP to: dawn.e.gill@gmail.com
(She will send you the exact address)

Also, to help people plan for upcoming meetings, the group also decided on a book for the May meeting. The book chosen is Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout. Stay tuned for the May meeting date and time which will be announced after April’s book club meeting.

Hope to see you all on April 8th!

Regards,
The Book Club Organizers

*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 Social Monthly Meeting

Posted on March 16, 2013 by dawngill

BAIN DOWNTOWN SOCIAL MEETING

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 AT 5:00pm

BAIN Downtown members are invited to join in this month’s Strictly Social meeting. Continue St. Patrick’s Day into the week at Downtown Matias in Recoleta, an Irish pub located next to Starbucks in the Terrazas Buenos Aires Design Center. Our start time is 5 p.m., 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, March 22 5:00 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:

The BAIN Downtown website:

Check out our website at https://baindowntown.com/ for the online membership directory and more.

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SACS Open House

Posted on March 11, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Dear BAIN Members,

Send a Child to School (a charitable organization that provides backpacks filled with school supplies to children in need) would like to invite you to a coffee open house on Thursday, March 14 from 10:30 to 12:30. We would love to share with you information about our organization and the fundraising activities we do. We look forward to seeing you next Thursday. Once you RSVP we will send you the address of Stephanie Bruchou’s house in Lomas de San Isidro.

RSVP: “Marian St. James” <marianstjames@yahoo.com>

Thanks so much!

SACS Board members

March Morning Coffee

Posted on March 1, 2013 by dawngill

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

Date: Tuesday, March 19th
Time: 10:30 am-12:00
Where: Recoleta* 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 Peggy Greer at pjgreer@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*

February Monthly Meeting… in March!

Posted on February 22, 2013 by dawngill

BAIN DOWNTOWN FRIDAY, March 1!

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!

March Book Club

Posted on February 21, 2013 by dawngill

Dear all,

Our first Book Club of the year was a great success, loads of new
faces which we hope to see more often in the future!

Book Cub announcement for March:
Book choice: The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafan
Date: Tuesday 12 March
Time: 13h00 -15h00

Location: Puerto Madero

Please email your RSVP to: Marcia@transpack.com.ar
(She will send you the exact address)

The group also decided on a book choice for April. The book choice
during April will be: Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgener

Hope to see you all on 12 March!

Regards,
The Book Club Organizers

February Monthly Luncheon

Posted on February 15, 2013 by dawngill

Date: Thursday February 28

Time: 12:30 pm

Location: SRA headquarters, Florida 460

Cost: 200 pesos

Reservations are mandatory and your choice of a main course should be indicated. Respond to: mweldon213@yahoo.com

At Florida 460, between La Valle and Corrientes sits the former home of the family of ex-president Roque Sáenz Peña.

The Peña home is currently owned by the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), it was established in 1866 by the country’s wealthiest oligarchs and is today known mostly for their annual livestock show, La Rural, held annually in Palermo. Their motto is “Cultivating the soil is to serve the country”. Today the SRA is very much in the headlines as the government is trying to expropriate La Rural. You can read a full description here: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedad_Rural

The high-end real estate which is the headquarters of the non-profit Argentine Rural Society is a testament to the importance of agriculture to the wealth of Argentina. The red paint stains above the doorway are the lasting evidence of the number of protests held here through the years – most recently in September of 2012. Historically the Rural Society is noted as an institution designed to keep the wealth in the hands of the few. Today the Rural Society is not as insular as it once was but protesters maintain that it still serves only to propagate the needs of big business. A visitor will have to be very persuasive to get the chance to go inside and take a limited peek, as the institution’s doors are usually closed and gated off.

Sociedad Rural Argentina is part of the Group of Eight – eight organizations of great power in Argentina: Rural Society Argentina (SRA), Argentina Industrial Union, Argentina Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Construction, the Stock Exchange, the Association of Private Bankers Argentino (ADEBA), Confederations Argentine Rural (CRA) and the Association of Banks of Argentina (ABA). This sounds to me, more like the Captains of Industry rather than the oligarchy.