Posts Tagged ‘events in buenos aires’

Food and Wine Expo at the Palacion Paz

Food and Wine Expo at the Palacion Paz
If you can only make it to one wine event, this is the one you shouldn´t miss.  By attending the event, you get to try hundreds of Argentine wines as well as different cheeses, chocolates, and other gastronomical pleasures.  However, the big draw for this event is the elegant setting, taking place...
March 13th, 2010 | Argentine Wine, Events | Read More

Buenos Aires Book Fair – Feria de Libros

Buenos Aires Book Fair – Feria de Libros
One of the largest and most important cultural events of the year, the Feria de Libros is an event that anyone should try to get to once.  Taking place at La Rural, and using the entire space, the book fair is comprised of over 1,000 exhibitors, mainly different publishing companies from Argentina and...
March 12th, 2010 | Events | Read More

Dakar Rally Buenos Aires

The Dakar Rally is an intense off-road race that goes from Argentina to Chile and back to Argentina.  It was inaugurated in 1978, and was originally between Paris and and Dakar.  Unfortunately, due to politics, terrorist threats, and basic security issues, the race was deemed too dangerous to continue...
January 10th, 2010 | Events | Read More

BAFIM – Buenos Aires International Music Festival

BAFIM – Buenos Aires International Music Festival
The BAFIM is a fairly new event (started in 2006), but has grown incrementally in three years.  Attendance in 2008 was over 100,000, which is nearly triple the 35,000 people that attended in 2006. As a music lover, the main draw to the BAFIM is the selection of “nearly” free live shows.  I say...
November 15th, 2009 | Events | Read More

Pepsi Music Festival

Pepsi Music Festival
“More than 100 bands are going….let´s all go.” This is Pepsi´s slogan for the Pepsi Music festival, and there´s no reason why everyone shouldn´t go.  The Festival is the largest of the big multi-day concerts held in Buenos Aires, with 100 hundred bands playing during five different days. ...
October 10th, 2009 | Basics | Read More

FIBA – International Performing Arts Festival

FIBA – International Performing Arts Festival
Buenos Aires, often considered the cultural capital of Latin America, has a thriving performing arts scene. Back in 1997, a handful of Argentine visionaries had an idea…to show the world the importance and the quality of contemporary performing arts in Buenos Aires. They decided to create a festival...
October 8th, 2009 | Events | Read More

SAMC – South American Music Conference

SAMC – South American Music Conference
The South American Music Conference first started in 2004, and is the most important electronic music event in South America. Over 40 national and international DJs play in 3 different rooms, but what really makes this event is important, is that it is a conference to exchange information about electronic...
September 10th, 2009 | Events | Read More

Vinos y Bodegas Expo

Vinos y Bodegas Expo
This is another huge wine event, and a perfect opportunity for you to try over 1000 Argentine wines from both large and boutique Argentine wineries. It is the largest and the most important wine event in Latina America, and provides wineries, wine lovers, buyers and sellers, all a chance to get together...
September 3rd, 2009 | Argentine Wine, Events | Read More

Tango Festival and World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires

Tango Festival and World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires
If you have even the slightest interest in tango, you should be attending this festival, the largest of its kind worldwide. Even if you don’t, you may want to consider that if you are in Buenos Aires, you are in the heart of the tango culture, and this is the best chance you’ll ever have to learn...
August 20th, 2009 | Events, Tango | Read More