Pop star Madonna will offer a concert in Buenos Aires, at River Plate Stadium, as part of her international "Sticky & Sweet Tour", presenting her new album "Hard Candy". The confirmed date is December 6, 2008, but more shows are likely to be added according to the demand of tickets.
'Sticky & Sweet' promises two hours of non stop hits in a show that features 16 dancers, a 12 piece band, more than 8 costume changes, and £l million of Swarovski crystals.

The show is broken into four sections:

Pimp: An homage to 1920's deco and modern day gangsta pimp. Madonna makes a grand entrance dressed by Givenchy.
Old School: Madonna tips her hat to her early 80's downtown New York City dance roots with flashes of Keith Haring and the dance culture vibe of the time including the birth of rap.
Gypsy: A VIP trip to La Isla Bonita infused by the spirit of Romanian folk music and dance.
Rave: Far eastern influences emerge all sparkly and sporty.

Guest artist: DJ Paul Oakenfold, will present a 45-minute DJ set before Madonna's show.

Update: Show of December 6th: Sold out. New dates: December 3rd, 4th and 7th.

Tickets on sale from September 8th, at Ticketek Argentina
or at its selling points, 9 AM to 9 PM:
- Mendoza 2467 (Belgrano)
- Viamonte 560 Local 6 (Microcenter)
- Cosme Beccar 274 (San Isidro)
- Av. Corrientes 860 (Teatro Opera)
(Cash, credit cards, and Visa Debit cards accepted). A service charge (*) will be added to the individual price of tickets:

Prices (in Argentine Pesos):
VIP field (standing): $630 + $100*
Paltea Preferencial: $630 + $100*
Paltea Baja: $475 + $75*
Platea Alta: $175 + $25*
Field: $215 + $35*
General: $95 + $15*

Tickets without service charge on sale at River Plate Stadium, from September 8th, 9 AM to 9 PM (except the days when football matches are played at the stadium).

More information:
www.madonna.com
www.madonna.com/stickyandsweet/

The “XIV Festival de Guitarras del Mundo 2008” (14th Guitars of the World Festival 2008), will take place from September 30 through October 12, 2008, with free entrance to the public.
For the past 14 years, the Festival "Guitarras del Mundo" has remained the biggest world wide event dedicated to guitars and guitar players, in which over 700 artists have participated and 36 countries from America, Europe, Asia and Africa have been represented.
"Guitarras del Mundo" features regional music from around the world as well as new musical pieces, promoting at the same time meetings among different guitar schools.
In this year's edition over 250 local and international guitar players will offer 280 concerts with free entrance in 82 venues around the country. Some of the prestigious artists that will participate in the festival are: Serkan Yilmaz (Tukey); Gonzalo Solari (Uruguay); Alter Ego (Cuba) Masao Tanibe (Japan), Orlando Rojas (Paraguay); Juan Antonio Sánchez (Chile); Rafael Smits (Belgium); Fréderic Limoge (France); José Ignacio López (Spain); Claudio Marcotulli (Italy); Vladislav Bláha (Czech Republic), Diego Mizrahi and Cristian Guzmán.
In the city of Buenos Aires, the concerts will take place at 8 PM in the following venues:
September 30: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junin 1930. Sala Villa Villa.
Ocober 5: National Library, Aguero 2503, and Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junin 1930
October 11: Espacio Tucuman, Suipacha 140.

At the same time, from October 9 through October 11, 2008, the first Festival "Cuerdas de America" (Strings of America) will take place at Centro Nacional de la Música, México 564, also with free entrance. This festival will showcase the work with different string instruments, like Paraguayan harps, "charangos", "bandolas", applied to the popular music of our continent. There will be three concerts per day, from 7 PM.

Both festival will have a common ending, on October 12, at Auditorio Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Design Center, Pueyrredon 2501.

The Festival Chopiniana 2008, organized by Fundación Chopiniana de Buenos Aires, will consist of eight piano recitals that will take place between the end of August and mid October, 2008, every Wednesday at 8 PM.

This event is sponsored by several private institutions, the Czech Center, and the embassies of Austria, Poland, Czech republic, and Vietnam.

Program:

Ballet Argentino, the company directed by Julio Bocca, will offer a series of performances from September 9th to 21st, 2008, at Teatro Maipo Buenos Aires, starring Eleonora Cassano, Hernan Piquin, and Cecilia Figaredo. These shows are part of a tour that includes cities around Argentina and Spain.

Program:

Nine Sinatra Songs:
This first part commemorates the traditional dancing ball room with a strong female participation. This work has become one of the classics by Twyla Tharp, with reminiscences of the social dancing of the 50's through the nostalgic look of the 80's. With choreography by Twyla Tharp and costume design by Oscar de la Renta. The songs, sung by Frank Sinatra, are: Softly, Strangers, One for my baby, My way, Something stupid, All the way, Domani, That’s life and My way.

Tango:
In 1975 Oscar Araiz created a ballet based on Argentine Tango, in a way no other choreographer could ever do. The traditional tangos were arranged by composer Atilio Stampone: Responso (Anibal Troilo), La puñalada (Pintin Castellanos), Silbando (Piana y Castillo), El día que me quieras (Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera), Mi refugio (J.C. Cobian) and El choclo (Angel Villoldo). Costume design by Renata Schussheim.

Bésame:
With choreography by Ana María Stekelman, Bésame is based on the bolero Bésame mucho, composed by Consuelo Velázquez in 1940, at the age of 24. Costume design also by Renata Schussheim.

Dates and hours of the performances:
October 3 to 11, 2008.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: 8 PM.
Sundays: 5:30 PM

Location: Teatro Maipo. Esmeralda 443

Tickets: Form AR$ 90 to AR$ 200. On sale at the theater 10 AM to 8 PM, or Platea Net

The traditional Tortugas Country Club Open Polo Championship will kick off this Tuesday, September 23, 2008, when six exceptional teams from 34 to 39 goals will be disputing the Emilio de Anchorena Cup.
This tournament is the first of the three great Polo Open Championships in the Official Spring Season of the Argentine Polo Association, marking the start of the honorable "Triple Crown". In this new edition of the Tortugas Open, 11 of the 12 Argentine players with the highest handicap will be participating, along with other team mates with the highest handicaps on the road to obtaining the 10 goals, making up the six most qualified teams in the Polo world.

Zone A:
Ellerstina: Facundo Pieres (10), Pablo Mac Donough (10), Gonzalo Pieres (Jr) (10), Juan Martín Nero (9).
Indios Chapalufú II: Alberto Heguy (Jr) (9), Ignacio Heguy (10), Juan Ignacio Merlos (9), Eduardo Heguy (9).
Pilará: Agustín Merlos (10), Santiago Chavanne (8), Sebastián Merlos (9), Marcos Heguy (10).

Zone B:
La Dolfina: Adolfo Cambiaso (Jr) (10), David Sterling (Jr) (7), Mariano Aguerre (10), Bartolomé Castagnola (10).
La Aguada: Javier Novillo Astrada (9), Eduardo Novillo Astrada (Jr) (9), Miguel Novillo Astrada (10), Ignacio Novillo Astrada (9).
Black Watch: Bautista Heguy (10), Ignacio Figueras (6), Matías Mac Donough (9), Francisco de Narváez (9).

Schedule of Matches:

Entry fee: AR$ 25 to AR$ 200, depending on match and seats. On sale directly at the Club.

The ballet company of Teatro Colón, with artistic direction by Olga Ferri, will offer a new program of performances at Teatro Coliseo.

The first part will be dedicated to "Les Sylphides", with choreography by Michael Fokin, on the original pieces for piano by Frederic Chopin. In this "romantic dream", conceived by Fokin in 1908, the poet is surrounded by the immaterial creatures, the "Sylphides". The main roles in this part will be performed by Karina Olmedo, Silvina Perillo, Natalia Saraceno, Analía Sosa Guerrero, Silvina Vaccarelli, Alejandro Parente y Juan Pablo Ledo.
The second part of the program will consist of "Momentos", with choreography by Jorge Amarante and music by Glover Gill, an American composer dedicated to Argentine Tango, with his group Glovertango. "Momentos" has been awarded as the best contemporary Theater-Dance play in 2003 by "Teatro XXI" magazine and selected to be presented at the IV Buenos Aires Tango World Championship.
The program will end with the Grand Pas of the third act of "Raymonda", with music by Alexander Glazunov and choreography by Marius Petipa. In the third act od this classical ballet, the wedding of the protagonist with Jean De Brienne takes place, performing Hungarian dances in their honor and the classic pas-de-deux by the protagonists. This brillant scene will be performed by Karina Olmedo (26-27) and Silvia Petrillo (28-29) as Raymonda, and Edgardo Trabalón (26-27) and Alejandro Parente (28-30) as Jean de Brienne.

Dates:
Friday, September 26, 2008. 8:30 PM
Saturday, September 27, 2008. 8:30 PM
Sunday, September 28, 2008. 5:00 PM
Tuesday, September 30, 2008. 8:30 PM
Location: Teatro Coliseo. Marcelo T. de Alvear 1125
Tickets: from AR$ 16 to AR$ 50, on sale at Teatro Colón ticket office, Tucumán 1171, from 9 am to 5 pm. On the day of the performances the remaining tickets will be on sale at Teatro Coliseo´s tickett office, Marcelo T. de Alvear 1125, from 5 pm, except on Sunday, from 2 pm.

This annual event emphasizes the highly valuable cultural heritage of antique books, manuscripts, documents, engravings, maps and photographs available in the antiquarian bookstores of Buenos Aires, placing the city in an outstanding position among other cities where similar fairs are held, like Paris, Madrid, New York, or Milan.
The Fair will showcase over one thousand antique books, historical documents and photographs, primitive Argentine prints, first editions, and a great amount of diverse, carefully selected printed material.
The following Antiquarian bookstores will participate in the Fair: Alberto Casares; Cueva Libros; Librería Anticuaria "Poema 20"; Librería Armando Vites; Librería de Antaño; Librería del Plata; Librería Fernández Blanco; Librería Figueroa; Librería Helena de Buenos Aires; Librería Lord Byron; Manos Artesanas Comunicaciones; Víctor Aizenman; Terra Nova; Librería Histórica Emilio J. Perrot.

Dates: September 24 through 28, 2008
Opening hours: 2 PM to 8 PM
Location: Museo Fernández Blanco. Suipacha 1422.
Entry fee: AR$ 1.-

On Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28, 2008, the Tourism Entity of the city of Buenos Aires invites visitors to celebrate the International Tourism Day, enjoying its tourist and cultural sights, with a circuit of free Hop-on Hop-off buses which depart from four head points in the city: Obelisco (Carlos Pellegrini 271), Recoleta (Quintana 596), Plaza Italia (Av. Sarmiento & Av. Santa Fe) and La Boca (Av. Pedro de Mendoza & Palos). It will be possible to get on and off the buses in any of the 14 stops of the tours. The departures from the head stops are at 11 am and 3 pm, and the frequency is between 11 am and 6 pm.

The circuit will consist of 14 stops where visitors will be able to get off to know the attractions in the area, and then continue the route on the next bus. They will be handed written informative material about the different places to visit. The stops and their near attractions are:

Stop 1: Obelisco. Carlos Pellegrini 217: Obelisco, Plaza Lavalle, Palacio de Tribunales (Justice Courts), Teatro Cervantes, Teatro Colón (closed for renovation), Av. Corrientes.

Stop 2: Plaza San Martín. Florida Street & Plaza San Martín: Kavanagh building (1936), Palacio San Martin, Military Circle (Palacio Paz), Hotel Marriott Plaza, Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento, Torre Monumental, Florida Street, Galerias Pacifico.

Stop 3: Recoleta. Quintana 596: Del Pilar Church, Recoleta Cemetery, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Palais de Glace, Fine Arts Museum, Alvear Avenue.

Stop 4: Costanera Norte. Av. Rafael Obligado & Muelle del Club de Pescadores: Fisher´s Club Pier, Airport Jorge Newbery, Rio de la Plata.

Stop 5: Barrancas de Belgrano. Echeverría & Virrey Vertiz: Barrancas de Belgrano park, Chinese Quarter, Larreta Museum, Cabildo Avenue.

Stop 6: Palermo. Av. Del Libertador & Av. Sarmiento: Tres de Febrero Park, Zoo, Japanese Garden, Polo Field, Planetarium, Palermo Race Track, Islamic Mosque.

Stop 7: Plaza Italia. Av. Sarmiento & Santa Fe: Botanical Garden, Zoo, Evita Museum, Garibaldi´s Monument.

Stop 8: Abasto. Av. Corrientes & Anchorena: Museum Carlos Gardel, Abasto Shopping Mall.

Stop 9: Boedo. San Ignacio & Boedo: Café Margot. Bars cafés, and tango houses.

Stop 10: San Telmo. Av. San Juan & Bolívar: Dorrego Square. Antiquarian Fair on Sunday. Parque Lezama. National History Museum.

Stop 11: La Boca. Av. Pedro de Mendoza & Palos: Boca Juniors Club. La Boca Fine Arts Museum. Open Air Museum Caminito Street.

Stop 12: Costanera Sur. Av. España & Dellepiane: Ecological Reserve. "Las Nereidas" fountain, by Lola Mora. Museum of Sculptural Replicas.

Stop 13: Puerto Madero. Alicia Moreau de Justo 200: Docks, bars and restaurants, Old navy vessesl, The Woman´s Bridge.

Stop 14: Plaza de Mayo. Diagonal Norte & Florida: Pink House, Metropolitan Cathedral, Cabildo, City Government Building, Avenida de Mayo, National Congress.

See also New Hop-on Hop-off bus service in Buenos Aires.

On Wednesday, September 17th, 2008, Olivier Père, artistic director of the "Quinzaine des réalisateurs" (The Director's Fortnight), will be presenting this showcase, one of the most important events in the calendar of international festivals, composed of 44 films that account for the richness, risk and diversity of movie making.
The Quinzaine, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary, was born amid the political and cultural turmoil of May of '68, and from then on it keeps endorsing the free, independent, cinema, that goes beyond labels and frontiers.
This event is sponsored by: French Emabssy, Goethe-Institut, Cinémathèque Française, Austrian Film Commission, Cultural and Informative Center of the Embassy of Japan, and the Embassies of Austria, México and Portugal.
The films that will be presented are:

40 x 15. (France, 2008). Olivier Jahan.
De la guerre. (France, 2008). Bertrand Bonello.
Barravento (Brazil, 1961). Glauber Rocha.
Liverpool (Argentina-France-Netherlands-Spain-Germany). Lisandro Alonso
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Germanyl, 1969-1970). Werner Herzog.
Acne (Uruguay - Argentina - Spain - México). Federico Veiroj
Invasión (Argentina, 1969). Hugo Santiago.
De la guerre (France, 2008). Bertrand Bonello.
Operai, contadini (France/Italy, 2000). Danèle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Othon (Germany/France, 1969). Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.
Die Plötzliche Reichtum Der Armen Leute Von Konbach (Germanyl, 1970). Volker Schlöndorff.
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (Germany, 1973). Alexander Kluge.
Fata Morgana (Germany, 1968-1970). Werner Herzog.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes; (Germany, 1972). Werner Herzog.
Los hijos de Fierro (Argentina, 1975). Fernando “Pino” Solanas.
Últimos días de la víctima (Argentina, 1983). Adolfo Aristarain.
La Mémoire courte (France/ Belgium, 1979). Eduardo de Gregorio.
Bug (United States, 2006). William Friedkin.
Anche libero va bene (Italy, 2006). Kim Rossi Stuart.
Celine et Julie vont en bateau (France, 1974). Jacques Rivette.
Faustrecht der Freiheit (Germany, 1975). Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Les amoureux (France, 1994). Catherine Corsini.
Samt el qusur (Tunicia/France, 1994). Moufida Tlatli.
Vale Abraão (Portugal/France, 1993). Manoel de Oliveira.
Petit arrangements avec les morts (France, 1994). Pascale Ferran.
La promesse (France/ Belgium, 1996). Jean- Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
Voyages (France, 1999). Emmanuel Finkiel.
Badkonake sefid (Iran, 1995). Jafar Panahi.
Kidzu ritan (Japan, 1996). Takeshi Kitano.
Der 7 Kontient (Austria, 1989). Michael Haneke.
Benny’s video (Austria, 1992). Michael Haneke.
Ma vie en rose (Belgium/France, 1997). Alain Berliner.
West Beyrouth (Lebanon, 1998). Ziad Doueiri.
Die Unberührbare (Germany, 2000). Oskar Roehler.
Japón (México/Germany/Netherlands/Spain, 2002). Carlos Reygadas.
Un oso rojo (Argentina/Spain/France, 2002). Adrián Israel Caetano.
Las horas del día (Spain, 2003). Jaime Rosales.
Tarnation (United States, 2003). Jonathan Caouette.
La question humaine (France, 2007). Nicolás Klotz.
Jude (Great Britain, 1996). Michael Winterbottom.
Buud Yam (Burkina Faso, 1997). Gaston J-M Kabore.
Ça brule (France/Switzerland, 2006). Claire Simon.
A fost sau n-a fost? (Rumania, 2006). Corneliu Porumboiu.
Honor de cavallería (Spain, 2006). Albert Serra.
La influencia (Spain/México, 2007). Pedro Aguilera.

To see the complete program and schedule, visit Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires website.

Dates: September 17 through October 15, 2008
Location: Sala Leopoldo Lugones. Teatro San Martin. Ave. Corrientes 1530
Tickets: AR$ 7. Students and Seniors: AR$ 4.

The Jockey Club Open Championship has its two finalists.
The world famous players from La Dolfina (32), Adolfo Cambiaso (Jr) and his brother in law Bartolomé Castagnola, who have successfully incorporated to their team the outstanding Uruguayan player David Stirling (Jr), defeated El Paraiso (29) 15-6 on the second semifinal played on Sunday 14. With this result, they will face Santa Maria de Lobos (31), which in turn had defeated Chapa Uno R.E. Hope Funds (34) on the first semifinal played on Saturday 13.
The Final match of this prestigious tournament will take place on September, Saturday 20, 3 PM, at the fields of Jockey Club in San Isidro.

The magnificent fields of Buenos Aires Jockey Club, located in the town of San Isidro outside Buenos Aires, will host one of the 6 most important open tournaments in our country: the 44th Jockey Club Open Championship, that will take place from September 8th through September 20th, 2008.
Eleven teams, from 28 to 34 goals, will participate in the tournament, which boasts some of the most remarkable polo players from Argentina and abroad, including: Adolfo Cambiaso (Jr), Bartolomé Castagnola, Agustín Merlos and Bautista Heguy, four of the Argentine players with 10 goals of handicap, along with other great players such as: Juan Ignacio and Sebastián Merlos, Francisco de Narváez (Jr), brothers Ignacio and Eduardo Heguy, and Ignacio Novillo Astrada, among others.

Participating teams:
Chapa Uno: Bautista Heguy 10, Santiago Araya 7, Horacio S. Heguy 8 and Francisco de Narváez (Jr) 9. Total: 34.
La Dolfina Peugeot: Juan Chavanne 5, David Stirling (Jr) 7, Adolfo Cambiaso (Jr) 10 and Bartolomé Castagnola 10. Total: 32.
Alegría Park Hyatt: Frederick Mannix (Jr) 7, Jack Baillieu 8, Francisco Bensadón 8 and Luke Tomlinson 8. Total: 31.
Santa María de Lobos: Guillermo Caset (Jr) 8, Gerardo Collardin 7, Mariano González 8 and Diego Araya 8. Total: 31.
Trenque Lauquen: Hilario Ulloa 7, Juan A. García Grossi 7, Pablo Jauretche 8 and Jaime García Huidobro 8. Total: 30.
Washington / Prisa: Facundo Sola 6, Rubén Sola 7, Hernán Tasso 7 and Ignacio Novillo Astrada 9. Total: 29.
La Baronesa: Nicolás Pieres 6, Cristian Laprida (Jr) 7, Marcos Di Paola 8 and Alejandro Agote 8. Total: 29.
El Paraíso: Alejandro Novillo Astrada 7, Ignacio Toccalino 7, Julio Novillo Astrada 8 and Guillermo Willington 7. Total: 29.
Los Indios: Ignatius Du Plessis 5, Mariano Uranga 6, Alberto Heguy (Jr) 9 and Eduardo Heguy 9. Total: 29.
Villa Real: Roberto Villa Real 1, Sebastián Merlos 9, Juan I. Merlos 9 and Agustín Merlos 10. Total: 29.
Coronel Suárez: Stuart Erskine 7, Gastón Laulhé 7, Sebastián Harriott 7 and Juan Harriott 7. Total: 28.

Schedule:

Monday 8:
11.00 AM (C 6) Villa Real vs Coronel Suárez (1)
2.00 PM (C 2) Washington / Prisa vs El Paraíso (2)
3.30 PM (C 3) La Baronesa vs. Los Indios (3)

Wednesday 10:
3.00 PM (C 3) Chapa Uno vs Winner (1)
1.00 PM (C 2) Santa María de Lobos vs Trenque Lauquen

Thursday 11:
1.00 PM (C 3) Alegría Park Hyatt vs Winner (2)
3.00 PM (C 1) La Dolfina Peugeot vs Winner (3)

Saturday 13:
Semifinals

Sunday 14:
Semifinals

Saturday 20:
Final Buenos Aires Jockey Club Open Championship

Don´t miss the opportunity of attending this world class event. You can experience Polo the Argentine way. The Polo Day Tour includes transportation, bilingual guide, beverages and snacks. Make your reservation in advance. Small groups.
Email me: sandra@batravelguide.com

The First Worldwide Klezmer Festival will take place in Buenos Aires from September 15 to September 21, 2008, with the participation of bands and orchestras from United States, Europe, and Argentina.
The purpose of this event is to spread this music genre admired by different audiences around the globe, which goes beyond frontiers and languages, and to show this European culture and its traditions to the audience through this lively, catchy, and energetic music.
The festival, named EMMKA, is sponsored by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and has been declared a festival of cultural interest by the Secretary of Culture of the Federal Executive Office, the Honorable House of Representatives; the Honorable Argentine Senate and the Government of Entre Ríos.

Klezmer is the music of the Yiddish culture. Yiddish is the language spoken by the large European-Jewish Community, extended within a wide area of Central and Eastern Europe during the Second Millennium; from Germany to Russia and the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
Originally, klezmer (plural klezmorim) referred to the musical instruments used to play this music; however, it was later extended to refer to both the genre and musicians, who are now called kleyzmorim.

After being absent for several decades, at the end of the '70s, Klezmer Music started to be appreciated again; especially as non-Jewish jazz musicians, such as Don Byron, started to perform it. Don Byron is a famous clarinetist, who is part of the worldwide renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band, an orchestra which is an example of the rebirth of Klezmer.
This "Rebirth" of the Klezmer Music quickly spread in the US and Europe, resulting in the formation of many multicultural orchestras in the '80s and '90s. In Argentina there was also a similar phenomenon, yet quite later. Several bands of Klezmer Music have been formed especially in the city of Buenos Aires over the last three years.

The schedule includes shows in Theaters, Cultural and Community Centers, universities, museums, embassies, churches, synagogues, and open air concerts to be given downtown near the Obelisk at midday every day of the Festival.
A Klezmer Gala will be held at Theatre Presidente Alvear, Corrientes 1659, on Tuesday, September 16th, 9pm.
The main event of the Festival will take place on Saturday, September 20th, at Costanera Sur, in which all Festival's Groups will participate, with free admission.

For more information and complete schedule, visit Klezmer Fiesta, the festival's official website.

This monument, located in the intersection of Mariscal Castilla and Aguado streets, in Palermo Chico, depicts the Argentine hero, General Jose de San Martin, at his old age, sitting and accompanied by his granddaughters. This is the only monument which represents San Martin in a civil status and as an elderly man. It was made in 1951 by the Argentine sculptor and engineer Ángel Ibarra García, who wanted to give San Martin a human dimension, representing him as a man of "flesh ans blood".


Three bas-reliefs on the base represent his life in France: "Cultivando sus dalias" (Cultivating his dahlias); "En la ribera del Sena" (In the bank of the Seine); "Limpiando sus armas" (Wiping his arms).

The monument faces the "Instituto Nacional Sanmartiniano", an institution devoted to preserve the memory of San Martin, founded in 1933 by José Pacífico Otero. It is a scale replica of his house in Grand Bourg, France, made by architect Julio Salas and inaugurated in 1946.

Expotrastiendas, the art fair organized by the Argentine Association of Art Galleries (Asociación Argentina de Galerías de Arte or AAGA) since 2001 aims to promote and disseminate visual arts, helping artists to show their production in a different context, which attracts collectors and buyers as well as the general public.
Expotrastiendas and AAGA jointly organize different cultural events, such as seminars, contests and exhibitions, which foster and provide dynamism to the art market.
This year, Expotrastiendas will include a place for the electronic arts, organized by Rodrigo Alonso. There will also be a special space for the Argentine art of the 30’s, and a schedule of performances with international guests: Carlos Tejo (Spain), Cecilia Mato (Uruguay), Ursula Stadler (Switzerland), Luis Ricaurte (Mexico) and Pabla Ugarte (Chile).
Buenos Aires’ Government and the Mexican Embassy will pay tribute to the Argentine art expert Raquel Tibol, a naturalized Mexican. Peruvian reviewer Jorge Villacorta will take part in this event.
Photography will be represented by "The Manifestation", Sponsored by ARGRA and curated by Pepe Matéo and Sabra Nocita.

Dates: September 13 through September 18, 2008
Location: Centro de Exposiciones de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Figueroa Alcorta Avenue and Pueyrredón Avenue
Tickets:
General: AR$15
Retirees and Students: AR$8
Children under 12: free admission

The Festival Beckett Buenos Aires was created in 2006, celebrating the 100th anniversary of birth of Samuel Beckett. This 3rd edition of the festival, sponsored by the Irish Embassy, will present plays by and based on the famous Irish playwright, films and dancing shows by national and international groups, in the Centro Cultural Borges, from September 7, 2008.

Program:

Sunday 7
7. 30 PM …si un día FELIZ…
By Florencia Suarez Bignoli.
Based on some Beckett's texts, this group recreates his atmosphere with three female characters.

Friday 12
10.30 PM. Final de Partida
By Samuel Beckett
GRUPO DE TEATRO NO TEATRAL presents an innovative production of this classic play.

Sunday 14
7.30 PM. Obra Inversa + Cortos cinematográficos
By Samuel Beckett and Argentine directors.
Together with Obra Inversa, a music group with influences from the antique, popular and contemporary music, there will be screenings of Film, directed by Samuel Beckett, starring Buster Keaton, and short films written and produced in Argentina inspired in the work of Beckett.

Saturday 20
10.30 PM. Mirá lo que hay que escuchar
The company BECKETT IMPROMPTU presents a show inspired in the works "Not I" and "Play", written by Samuel Beckett.
With direction of Patricio Orozco, the show is based on the voices and sounds that inhabited Argentina since 1806 up to the present.

Sunday 21
7.30 PM. Mirá lo que hay que escuchar

Friday 26
10.30 PM. Trika Fopte + 13 Días (Spain)
TRIKA FOPTE presents an interesting theatrical game, in which the espectator must excercise his maximum attention capacity, due to the dramatic use of space and language, deformed to become a new one.m By the gruop “Vuelve en Julio”
The company 13 Días (Spain) combines fine arts with performing arts.

Saturday 27
10.30 PM. Happy Days (London)
By Samuel Beckett
This play is presented in English.

Sunday 28
7.30 PM. Happy Days (London)

Location:
Centro Cultural Borges. Viamonte & San Martin, Galerias Pacifico, Buenos Aires

Tickets:
Selling point: Centro Cultural Borges, Galerías Pacífico. Viamonte & San Martín.
Phone: 0054 (11) 5555-5359
Hours:
Mondays through Saturdays 10.00 am to 09.00 pm
Sundays 12:00 noon to 09.00 pm
Fees:
Entrance: AR$ 20,00.-
Pensioners: $ 15,00.-

More information: Festival Beckett Buenos Aires official website.

The best adventure film festival in the world, Banff Mountain Film Festival, arrives in Buenos Aires for the eighth time as part of its World Tour, with spectacular films about mountaineering, nature, and extreme sports, from countries like Norway, Germany, United States, and Canada, among others.

The program combines 13 short videos and films, featuring great stories of daring sporstmen, surrounded by breathtaking natural landscapes. The Banff Mountain Film Festival was created in 1976, in the Canadian town of Banff, when 450 people gathered to watch 10 movies. From then on the festival grew every year to screen the best pictures that capture the spirit of mountain and adventure culture. The Festival´s World Tour began 15 years ago, and it was presented for the first time in Argentina in 2001.

Dates: September 15th, 16th, and 17th, 2008
Location: Village Cinema Recoleta. Vicente Lopez 2050
Tickets on sale at Hard Rock Café (Pueyrredon 2501), Monday to Saturday: 12 pm to 8 pm. Sunday: 12 pm to 7 pm.

For more information and complete program, visit the Banff Mountain Film Festival's website.