Ciudad Emergente, Buenos Aires’ free youth cultural festival has rolled around again, and will take place Wednesday the 6th of June until Sunday the 10th. The winter festival aims to appeal to young people of every persuasion from metalheads to electronic-music fans with live music, films, poetry readings, dance performances, fashion shows, stand-up comedy and […]
The 2011 Buenos Aires’ Tango Festival
Editor’s note: Please read about this year’s World Tango Festival here. 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 […]
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, […]
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 para todxs’ (Vendimia for Everyone) the festivities usually take place the second week in March, after the main Grape Harvest Festival ends. This conservative northern city […]
Vendimia: Mendoza’s Grape Harvest Festival
The city of Mendoza’s biggest party of the year is the National Grape Harvest Festival, now in its 83rd year. Fiesta de la Vendimia events begin in January and February throughout the province, and culminate in March, when 40,000 visitors come to celebrate and enjoy the local nectar, awakening the normally sleepy northern city. Aside […]
