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REMINDER – Get your tickets for the Fall Fling! Thursday, March 27, 6 p.m.

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FALL FLING!

Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 6.00 to 10.00 p.m.
Venue: Pur Sang in Recoleta, Quintana 191 (corner Montevideo)

 

 

Dress code? Anywhere from cocktail to casual!

Cost: Members – AR$150
Non-Members – AR$250*
*Guests who join at this event will pay the AR$150 member cost. Cost of membership is AR$250

TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE
(see any Board member at any BAIN event;more contact information below)

Join us for BAIN Downtown’s newest event of the year

Fall Fling will be reminiscent of the NovemberEnd of Year Party, but on a slightly smaller scale.
Enjoy sweet and savory appetizers, juices and soft drinks, red and white wine, and champagne.
Saxophone, guitar and vocals performed throughout the evening by Fabián Giuri

For more information or to purchase your tickets, come to any BAIN Downtown event, contact a BAIN Downtown Board Member:
Toni at tonilin@aol.com
Bonnie at bonniekraft@yahoo.com
Silvia at silporta@hotmail.com
Solange at shmecham25@gmail.com
Raisa at raisa.rautala@formin.fi
or send a note to bain.downtown@gmail.com

The Annual End of Year Cocktail Party

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ANNUAL END-OF-YEAR COCKTAIL PARTY

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

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Date:  Thursday, 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!

Cost:  Members – AR$100

Non-Members – AR$250*

*Guests who join at this event will pay only the AR$100 member cost

Cost of membership is AR$250

TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE

(see any Board member at any BAIN event; more contact information below)

Enjoy a sumptuous selection of canapés, hot and chilled appetizers, sweets, 

various juices and soft drinks, red and white wine, and champagne!

Saxophone, guitar and vocals performed throughout the evening by Fabián Giuri www.fabiangiuri.com

For more information or to purchase your tickets, come to any BAIN Downtown event or contact:

Dawn Gill at dawn.e.gill@gmail.com

or Bonnie Ridley Kraft at bonniekraft@yahoo.com
or send a note to bain.downtown@gmail.com

Buenos Aires Food Week

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Buenos Aires Food Week, a new bi-annual event in which 25 of the best restaurants in the city will offer lunch and dinner menus at promotional prices, will be held from September 16 – 29.

With similar editions in New York, San Pablo, Milan and other major cities worldwide, the goal of this Food Week is democratizing access to haute-cuisine, offering the general public the opportunity to learn about premium restaurants and taste unique dishes at attractive prices.

Each restaurant will offer a fixed three step menu (starter, main course and dessert) with a fixed price of $ 99 pesos for lunch and $ 169 pesos for dinner, not including drinks, service and tip + optional $ 1 Peso to be donated to the charity organization Fundación Banco de Alimentos.

The restaurants participating are:

  • Agraz – Caesar Park Hotel
  • Akira Nikkei
  • Aldo´s Vinoteca Restoran
  • Astor Bistró
  • AyG Buenos Aires
  • Azema
  • Azul Profundo
  • Bernata
  • Bice
  • Bio Solo Organico
  • Blanch
  • Brasserie Petanque
  • Cardinale (Hotel Sheraton)
  • Cardon
  • Casa Cruz
  • Club 31 restaurant-Grand Hotel
  • Crizia
  • Demuru
  • Deriva
  • Doppio Zero
  • Francesco
  • La Brasserie – Marriot Plaza Hotel
  • La Rosa Náutica
  • Leopoldo
  • Le Grill
  • Mercado Central
  • Mooi
  • Mullu
  • Novecento
  • Plaza Grill – Marriott Plaza Hotel
  • Sipan Palermitano
  • Sivela 465 – Mio Hotel
  • Social Paraíso
For a complete list of restaurants, menus and online reservations, visit: www.bafoodweek.com.
If places are left available, people may also attend directly the restaurant of their choice.
Payments can be made in cash, debit card, or credit card at the end of the meal.
The additional 15% discount with Mastercard Black or Platinum cards only applies to cards issued in Argentina.

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for the information above.  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!

Gallery Nights August 2013

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Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día, AdnCultura (La Nacion newspaper), and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires on the second Thursday of every month, between April and December.

The August edition will be held on Thursday, August 15, 2013, from 7pm to 10pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from Plaza San Martín to Callao and from Tucumán to Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for this information.  To keep up with this and 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!

American Night Happy Hour

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Consular officers from the U.S. Embassy will be attending the next American Night happy hour at the Hard Rock Café in Buenos Aires, this Thursday, July 18th from 5 – 9 pm.  This event will provide a chance to socialize and network within our expat community as well as get answer to your questions about services the Embassy offers to U.S. citizens, including passport renewal, transmition of citizenship to your children, documenting their birth overseas as U.S. citizens, and immigrant and non-immigrant visas.  

Additionally, several dozen Argentine university students preparing to participate in the Summer, Work, Travel exchange program in the U.S. will be present and anxious to learn about our country and pratice their English.  The Hard Rock Cafe has agreed to offer Two-for-One drink specials and discounted food for all in attendence.  We hope to see you there!

American Citizen Services

U.S. Embassy

Exposición Rural 2013: 127th Exhibition of Cattle Breeding, Agriculture, and International Industry

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The traditional Livestock and Agriculture Exhibition (“La Rural”), held every year in Buenos Aires for over a century, is one of the most important of its kind worldwide, bringing together more than a million visitors among producers, tourists and general public. In this year’s edition, from July 18th to July 30th, more than 400 exhibitors will be showing their products: laboratories, leather goods shops, banks, automotive industries, farm machinery, and providers of services and goods for the agricultural industry.

Visitors will have the opportunity to attend activities like cattle competitions, cattle auctions, traditional costumes contests, rein skills, Polo exhibitions, indoor Pato (Horseball) championship; and show jumping competitions, that take place every day at the main court, as well as exhibitions of all kinds of farm animals, Argentine crafts, folk shows, and tastings of traditional products at the exhibition´s pavilions.
The Fair will feature numerous activities for kids: riding school; dog training; feeding of farm animals; 3D movie about work in the country; Augmented Reality Farm; and many other activities that will get them closer to the farming work.
One important feature as every year is the “Salon de las Regiones y Agroalimentos”, that will be held from July 18th to July 21st, an exhibition within the fair exclusively dedicated to the food and agriculture industry in the Argentine provinces, showcasing products like:
  • Cereals
  • Beer, Wine and Liquors
  • Preserves
  • Agro-Alimentary Products
  • Chocolates
  • Sweets
  • Organic Products
  • Dried Furits
  • Cheese, oil, dulce de leche.
Location: La Rural Exhibition Center. Av. Sarmiento 2704
Dates: July 18th to July 30th, 2013
Opening hours: Every day from 9 am to 8 pm.
Entry fees: 
Monday to Friday: AR$ 30
Saturday and Sunday: AR$ 35
Seniors and Pensioners: Monday and Tuesday: Free – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: AR$15
Children under 8: free
Exposicion Rural 2013 official website

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for this information.  To keep up with this and 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!

2013 Buenos Aires Children´s Book Fair

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From July 8th to July 27th, 2013, the 23rd edition of the Buenos Aires Children´s Book Fair (Feria del Libro Infantil y Juvenil) will take place at Centro de Exposiones de Buenos Aires, with the motto “The Magic Continues” (La Magia Continúa) The Fair is a place destined for the cultural and educational upbringing of children, in an entertaining and joyful environment.

Apart from the exhibition and sale of books, the Fair will offer numerous activities for youngsters and children:

  • Workshops: drawing, story telling, painting, modeling, magic, science, illustration, comics, reading, cooking, creativity, music, puppetry, and much more.
  • Theater, puppet, circus, and music shows.
  • Games and contests
  • Story-telling
  • Talks with writers
  • Signing of copies
  • Children´s Library
Kids will be able to meet their favorite writers and cartoonists, participate in the workshops, read at the library or enjoy the shows organized by the exhibitors, that will take place at their exhibition stands.
During the course of the fair there will also be activities designed for professionals and students of the areas related to education and the world of children´s books.
This year for the forth time a Comics Festival will be presented during the fair, on July 26th and 27th. Distinguished Argentine authors will present talks, workshops and exhibits related to comics, their design, script writing, drawing, animation, and graphic humor.Every day at 5pm different choirs will be singing at the exhibition´s entrance hall.

Dates: July 8th to 27th, 2013

Location: Centro de Exposiciones de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Av. Figueroa Alcorta & Pueyrredón
Opening times:
July 9, 10, 11, and 12: 9 am to 6 pm
July 9 (National Holiday), Saturday and Sunday: 2 pm to 10 pm
July 15 to July 27: Monday to Friday 11 am to 8 pm.
Entry fee:
Adults: AR$30
Seniors, teachers and Children under 18: Free

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!

Expo Cuisine & Vins: June 12, 13, 14

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Over 300 first class companies will showcase their products on June 12, 13, and 14, 2013, at the Expo Cuisine&Vins 2013, the 20th edition of the wine exhibition organized by Cuisine&Vins Magazine, where visitors have the chance to taste some of the best wines produced in Argentina.

 

New and traditional wineries will present their premium labels, talks and tastings by enologists and wine makers. There will also be stands dedicated to spirits, cigars, luxury resorts, delicatessen, crafts from all over the country, as well as the new flavors of the most outstanding restaurants of the moment.

 

Wine tastings will be offered every day, with limited capacity and with previous accreditation at the Expo.

 

Location: Palacio Paz. Santa Fe 750, Plaza San Martin, Buenos Aires

Dates: June 12, 13, 14, 2013

Opening hours: 5 pm to 11 pm

Entry fee: AR$ 170, includes a complimentary tasting cup.

Tickets on sale at the venue.

More info: Expo Cuisine&Vins website.

 

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!

Mickey Vail Returns to La Biblioteca!

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La Biblioteca Cafe presents, a continuation in the series of Jazz Trios

Mickey Vail, Adrian Masteocola and Adrian DeFilippo

Friday, July 5 at 9:30pm

La Biblioteca Cafe, Marcelo T Alvear 1155, call 4811-0673 for reservations.

AR$70 for the show, required AR$60 additional food & drink bill

or purchase the dinner + show option for AR$180.

BAIN members receive a 10% discount off the entrada.