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 [...]
Mendoza’s Gay Vendimia Festival
Mendoza’s Gay Vendimia festival in Argentina’s beautiful wine capital is the largest LGBT event in the country, aside from Buenos Aires huge gay pride celebration. Under the slogan ‘Vendimia for Everyone’ the festivities take place the second week in March, after the main Grape Harvest Festival ends.This conservative northern city has a smaller, more demure [...]
Hitchhiking in Argentina: Gear, Patience and Safety
Hitchhiking in Argentina is smelly, exhausting, wet, sweaty, cold, hot, windy, dry, uncomfortably awkward and highly rewarding. Thumbing rides in this huge, sparsely populated country can mean days in a variety of miserable conditions, from icy Patagonian wind to a tropical Andean heat. Still nothing compares to a ride well earned, that sudden thrill [...]
Vendimia: Mendoza’s Grape Harvest Festival
The city of Mendoza is gearing up for its biggest party of the year, the National Grape Harvest Festival. Held the first weekend of March, the Fiesta de la Vendimia is the time when this normally sleepy northern city comes alive to celebrate, with the local nectar flowing freely. Aside from an abundance of Malbec, [...]
Grape Harvest Festival 2011 Events
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the Vendimia Grape Harvest Festival in Mendoza. Here is the line up for 2011’s main events: Friday March 4: Musical performance by the group Altertango. Pageant contestants make their introductions atop floats Place: Downtown streets •Time: 10:00 p.m. • Cost: Free Saturday March 5th: Daytime parade with beauty [...]
Gay Nightlife in Mendoza
Gay nightlife in Mendoza isn’t anything near as wild as in Buenos Aires, but thanks to the city’s small size you can meet people and zero in on your preferred scene quite easily. Here are some good places to start, for food and dancing: Espacio 348 — A gay-friendly bar with a cool oriental décor, [...]
