Every August it’s time to put on a sultry face and slide into a tight embrace on the dance floor at the Buenos Aires’ Tango Festival. At this yearly tango festival, tango aficionados and international visitors enjoy live tango orchestras, dance shows and competitions, tango-related films, art exhibitions and of course milongas (dance parties), celebrating […]
2018 Buenos Aires Carnival Information
Carnival in Buenos Aires is a grand fiesta that takes place every year throughout the month of February. See this neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to find out where you can catch your colorful local murga take to the streets. View Cortes Carnaval in a larger map Times: — Every weekend of February, plus the carnival holidays of […]
Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival
The Buenos Aires jazz scene often gets overshadowed by the sounds of tango and rock ‘n’ roll, but for five days in spring jazz music fills the city during the annual International Buenos Aires Jazz Festival. With sounds ranging from classic bebob, to gypsy jazz, klezmer, to swing and nuevo tango, the festival features concerts […]
ArteBA: Buenos Aires’ Annual Contemporary Art Fair
ArteBa is one of Latin America’s largest contemporary art fairs. Taking place over the course of three days, the annual Buenos Aires’ event attracts over 120,000 art junkies from across the planet and provides visitors the chance to hobnob with the Argentine elite, artists and celebrities. Sponsored by The ArteBA Foundation and brought together […]
Feria del Libro: Buenos Aires International Book Fair
The words ‘Book Fair’ have the potential to conjure up images of elementary schoolyards with tables of used paperbacks underneath kitschy tents. Whatever mental representation arises, it is completely deceptive when it comes to Buenos Aires ‘Feria International del Libro.’ This annual celebration of the literary universe and its purveyors is the Spanish-speaking world’s […]
