Chinese New Year Celebrations 2012
Buenos Aires’ Chinatown is gearing up to ring in the new year beginning this Saturday, January 21st and continuing through the weekend. The streets of Barrio Chino will be blocked off to automobile traffic and lined with stands featuring a wide variety of economical Asian street food, calligraphy demonstrations and exotic plants for sale. The festivities [...]
The 2011 Buenos Aires’ Tango Festival
The 2011 Buenos Aires World Tango Festival, now in its 11th addition runs from August 16th until August 30th. This year’s festival is a few days shorter in duration than last year’s event but it still packs a tango punch with over 150 live shows, classes, conferences and other activities featuring over 500 national and [...]
Rendez-Vous — A Boutique Hotel in the Heart of Palermo
Rendez-Vous is a boutique hotel that perfectly fits in with its chic surroundings in Palermo Hollywood. Popular with Brazilians, this oasis in the middle of one of Buenos Aires’ trendiest areas is immaculately clean with a contemporary feng shui flair. Overseen by the friendly and professional, Fréderic Dubois, the hotel features 11 uniquely decorated rooms [...]
Ciudad Emergente — Buenos Aires’ Underground Culture Festival
Ciudad Emergente (Emerging City), a festival dedicated to underground art and music, is quickly becoming one of Buenos Aires’ most anticipated yearly events. Since 2008 the city’s culture department has hosted this free festival to promote youth culture and explore new trends emerging in the world of music, film, art, dance, fashion and now, stand-up [...]
Ciudad Emergente 2011
The Buenos Aires winter festival Ciudad Emergente’s 4th edition will take place this Thursday, June 17th through Monday the 20th. This year the annual celebration of underground culture has a Parisian flavor with invited artists from the European city that has long-inspired Buenos Aires. The festival is set in the expansive Recoleta Cultural Center, [...]
ArteBA — Buenos Aires’ Contemporary Art Extravaganza
ArtBa is a contemporary art extravaganza for art collectors and those who just wish they were. The event, billed as Latin America’s largest art fair, draws artists, curators, gallery owners and art junkies from across the globe. It also hosts high-profile international collectors, among them gallery owners and celebrities. This year, Hollywood front-man, John Cusack [...]
The Children’s Museum
The Children’s Museum of Abasto is a not-to-missed Buenos Aires attraction for the under-12 crowd. Here parents might observe the first spark of their child’s future career through experiential exhibits that allow them to play at being grown-ups. Interactive displays allow kids to act as a broadcast journalist, dentist, TV cameraperson, construction worker and supermarket [...]
13th Buenos Aires International Indie Film Festival
The 2011 Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival will screen 426 films from April 6 through April 17 in eleven locations through the city. The festival’s 13th edition includes 42 full-length Argentine films and 48 shorts. Two nights will be dedicated to Argentine film with a premiere of Los Marzianos, a new comedy by popular [...]
BAFICI — Buenos Aires’ Indie Film Festival
April in Buenos Aires means one thing for film lovers — it’s BAFICI time. The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film is a 11-day movie extravaganza showing some of the world’s best independent cinema in theaters across the city. In 1999 the Buenos Aires Culture Department began hosting this yearly festival to showcase the [...]
Jewish Sites of Interest in Argentina
The Jewish population in Argentina is dwindling but there are still a lot of sites of interest for those interested in Jewish history in the region. Keep in mind that because of terrorist attacks of the 1990s, most synagogues will ask for identification before allowing anyone to enter. Most synagogues have a larger service on [...]
