ArtFutura, the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity of reference in Spain since 1990, arrives for the  second time in Buenos Aires. It will be held between November 5 and November 8, 2009, at MALBA.
ArtFutura has explored the most interesting projects and ideas that have come up on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation. Its activities include conferences, workshops, interactive installations, exhibitions and live performances.
ArtFutura’s Audiovisual Program will be presented in twelve Spanish cities simultaneously: Alicante, Barcelona, Cadiz, Gijon, Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona-Huarte, Valladolid, Vigo and Zaragoza. And this year, ArtFutura’s program will also be presented in the MALBA Museum in Buenos Aires in November.
As every year, ArtFutura’s Audiovisual Program 2009 will explore the projects and the most important ideas that have appeared on the international panorama of design, videogames and digital animation. Among its programs: the new selections for the ArtFutura Show and 3D in Spain, documentaries on the work of Chris Landreth, PES and Digital Kitchen, various retrospectives and two new sections: Reality Bytes (dedicated to new documentaries) and Futura Graphics (motion graphics and videoclips). The Dvein studios will present their projects for the first time in Argentina.

Dates: November 5-8, 2009
Location: Malba - Latin American Art Museum. Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
Free entrance. Limited Capacity
For more information and program, visit ArtFutura website.

The Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presents the 6th Edition of La Noche de los Museos - Museum Night 2009, that will take place on November 14, 2009.
Since 2004 one Saturday night the museums of Buenos Aires stay open from 7 PM until 2 AM offering different cultural activities, all of them free of charge, in the same as in other 130 cities around the world.
During this special night visitors will be able to enjoy free guided visits, as well as conferences, shows, theater performances, dance, screenings, video, multimedia, and diverse concerts of classical music, jazz, tango, folk, and rock.
In this edition, over 130 museums and art spaces will be participating, and 4 new neighborhoods will be added to the circuit: Villa Luro, Flores, Colegiales, and Coghlan.

For more information and complete program, visit La Noche de los Museos official website (most of the site in Spanish only).

The Embassy of India in Argentina and the government of the city of Buenos Aires present the Festival of India, intended to promote and portrait the Indian culture in our country. The inauguration will take place on Thursday, November 5th, 2009, at 12 noon, in the Centro Cultural Borges. The rest of the activities in the festival, that will last until November15th, will be held in different venues: Centro Cultural Borges, Hotel Sheraton, the Rose Garden, and Casa de la Cultura, every day of the week from 12 noon to 8 PM.
The festival includes dance and music performances representing different regions of India; Bollywood film festival at Centro Cultutal Borges; painting and photo exhibitions at Casa de la Cultura; workshops and seminars on Indian culture, yoga, ayurveda and meditation; demonstrations of Bollydance; a golf tournamet at the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires on Monday, November 9th; and a gastronomic festival at the Sheraton Hotel (with reservation only, calling 4318-9264).

All the events, except the food festival, are free and open to the public.

Dates: November 5 through November 15, 2009
Locations:
Centro Cultural Borges: Viamonte & San Martín
Casa de la Cultura: Avenida de Mayo 575

To see the complete program and schedule, visit: www.indembarg.org.ar/

After the reschedule for rain, the 5th edition of the All Star Polo Match (Partido de las Estrellas - Copa Park Tower) will be played on Sunday, November 8, 2009, at 4 PM at the main course of San Isidro Jockey Club. As every year, the purpose of this charity match is to raise funds for the children´s home Nuestra Señora del Pilar. The best Argentine players will be present for this important event.

The two teams, Jaeger-Le Couture and Anaflex (Bago), will be made up of 6 players each, who will be taking turns to participate in the match. The players that have confirmed their presence are: Facundo Pieres, Marcos Heguy, Bartolomé Castagnola, Pepe y Ruso Heguy, Javier Novillo Astrada, Bauti Heguy and Juan Martín Nero.

Location: San Isidro Jockey Club. Av. Marquez and Isabel la Católica, San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires.
Tickets: $ 20 pesos on sale at the venue.

The second edition of Festival Sustentable (Sustainable Festival), Organized by Diseño Sustentable, will take place from November 12 to November 15, 2009, at the Botanical Garden of Buenos Aires. Over 70 designers will present more than 100 products during this festival, that will also feature a varied theoretical and practical program on sustainable design and lifestyle, including:

Exhibitions with more than 100 products and projects by Argentinian designers and companies, with principles of economical, social and ecological sustaintability.

Talks by researchers, specialists, professors, instructors and companies.

Workshops led by designers specialized in recicling and manual techniques.

Audiovisual projections

Information and reading space with informative material about desing and ecology.

Some of the participating designers are: Tramando, Baumm, Neumática, Indarra DTX, Planar, Juana de Arco, Designo Patagonia, Marcelo Senra, Miki Friedenbach and Estudio Cabeza, among others.

Among the items that will be exhibited, visitors will have the opportunity to see: cardboard furniture, street and urban furniture made with recicled plastics and rice husk, bio-mass heaters, solar ovens, low consuming street lights that work on cinetic energy, social and fair commerce projects, accesories made with reused paragladings, the latest trends in sustainable textiles like clothes made with organic cotton, wood pulp and other biodegradable materials, and products made from standard industry pieces.

On Saturday, November 14, the festival will remain open from 8 pm to 2 pm as part of the Museum Night, with DJs, audiovisuals, and guided visits.

Location: Botanical Garden Carlos Thays, Avenida Santa Fe 3951

Dates: November 12, 13, 14 and 15, 2009

Opening hours: 11 am to 7 pm (Saturday 14 until 2am -Museum Night)

All activities are free of charge.

The French Week in Buenos Aires "Vivi Francia 2009" will take place from October 26 to November 4, 2009, organized by the French-Argentine Commerce and Industry Chamber (CCIFA), and sponsored by the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires. A series of activities to enjoy French culture, art, gastronomy, fashion, music and architecture, free and open to all, including guided visits to French buildings in Buenos Aires, a movie festival at Alliance Francaise, make-up and fashion shows, art exhibitions, and a gastronomic festival.

Some of the scheduled activities are:

Guided visits:

Monday 26, 3 pm: Parisian corners of Buenos Aires - Av. Alvear & Cerrito

Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, 5 pm: Legislative Palace - Peru 160

Wednesday 28, 3 pm: Art, Palaces and Landscapes - Av. Santa Fe & Maipu (San Martin Monument)

Business:

Wednesday 28, 10 am to 7 pm: French-Argentine Business Forum - Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt (registration required)

Cinema:

Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Friday 29, Saturday 30, 8 pm: Movies by David Teboul at Alliance Francaise.

Exhibitions:

Saturday 31, 6 pm: Inauguration of "Images of the Louvre: Six Centuries of French Paintings", in the streets of La Boca.

Wednesday 4, 7 pm: Inauguration of the exhibition "Charles Thays, a French Gardener" - Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junin 1930.

Language:

Conversation groups "Degustation de Francais", every day at a different location (minimum charge of $ 30 pesos)

Music:

Tuesday 27, 8.15 pm: concert homage to Georges Brassens - Espacio Ultra, San Martin 678.

Science:

Visit of Mrs Francoise Barre-Sinousi, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008.

Fashion and beauty:

Monday 26 to Sunday 1, 4 pm to 9 pm: talks and workshops at Living Frances Renault, Paseo Alcorta Shopping Mall.

Wedsnesday 28 to Sunday 1: Festival Givenchy

Gastronomy:

Festival Gourmet at Sofitel Buenos Aires

Soirees Culturelles at Sofitel Buenos Aires (minimum charge of $ 30 pesos per person)

All the activities are free of charge, some of them with a limited capacity.

For more information, complete daily schedules, and registrations, visit "Vivi Francia 2009" official website (in Spanish only).

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.

Dates: October 16 - 20, 2009

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

Expotrastiendas official website.

The 116th Hurlingham Club Open Championship, the oldest Polo tournament in the world, will kick off this Wednesday, October 14, 2009, with the participation of the eight best world wide Polo teams and the top ranked polo players.

The Hurlingham Club Open is the second of the championships in the Argentine Polo season that make up the "Triple Crown", following the Tortugas Open Championship and preceding the Argentine Open Championship.

Don´t miss the opportunity of attending this world class event. You can experience Polo the Argentine way. Contact me so I can arrange transportation for you.

Zones:

Zone A: La Aguada Tupungato, Pilará Piaget, Chapa Uno and Alegria.

Zona B: Ellerstina Etiqueta Negra, La Dolfina Peugeot, Indios Chapaleufú II and El Paraiso.

Schedule of matches:

Wednesday, October 14- Zone A
Suspended for rain. New dates and schedule:

Thursday, October 15 - Zone B
2:00 PM Ellerstina Etiqueta Negra vs El Paraíso (3)
4:00 PM La Dolfina Peugeot vs Indios Chapaleufú II (4)
Ellerstina Etiqueta Negra 16 - El Paraíso 8

La Dolfina Peugeot 18 - Indios Chapaleufú II 17

Saturday, October 17 - Zone A
1:00 PM La Aguada Tupungato vs Alegria (1)
3:00 PM Pilará Piaget vs Chapa Uno (2)
La Aguada Tupungato 19 -Alegria 13

Pilará Piaget 16 - Chapa Uno 14

Sunday, October 18 – Zone B
2:00 PM La Dolfina vs El Paraiso
4:00 PM Ellerstina Etiqueta Negra vs Indios Chapaleufú II 

2:00 PM Pilará Piaget vs. Alegría

4:00 PM La Aguada Tupungato Winelands vs. Chapa Uno Hope Funds 
La Aguada Tupungato Winelands 10 - Chapa Uno Hope Funds 8

Saturday, October 24 – Zone A // For the Mexico Cup

12:00 PM El Paraíso vs. Indios Chapaleufú II (Canceled due to rain)

4:00 PM Ellerstina Etiqueta Negra vs. La Dolfina Peugeot 
Ellerstina Etiqueta Negra 19 - La Dolfina Peugeot 13 

Sunday, October 25 – Zone B // For the YPF Cup

2:00 PM Alegría vs. Chapa Uno Hope Funds

4:00 PM La Aguada Tupungato Winelands vs. Pilará Piaget

Result:

Saturday, October 31 - CANCELED FOR RAIN

New date: 
Friday, November 6
FINAL 116th HURLINGHAM OPEN

4:00 PM ELLERSTINA ETIQUETA NEGRA vs LA AGUADA

ELLERSTINA ETIQUETA NEGRA 14 -LA AGUADA 12

The schedule of matches is subject to modifications depending on weather conditions. Check for updates in case of changes.

The fifth edition of Buenos Aires Photo will take place at Palais de Glace in Recoleta from October 28th through November 1st, 2009. This is the only art fair specialized in Photography in Latin America.

This exhibition brings together more than 30 galleries from different countries like: Argentina, Chile, Perú, United States, and Spain.

The works by the finalists of the Petrobras Buenos Aires Photo Award 2009 will be presented,  as well as special sections dedicated to Esteban Pastorino, Sameer Makarius, Nicola Constantino, and contemporary photography  from Berlin. There will be conferences and book presentations every day during the fair.

For more information on participating galleries and schedule of lectures, visit Buenos Aires Photo 2009 official website.

Dates: October 28 to November 1, 2009

Location: Palais de Glace. Posadas 1725

Opening hours: 1 PM to 9 PM

Entry Fee: AR$ 20

Pepsi Music 2009, one of the most important music festivals in Argentina, will take place this year on the last weekend of October and the first weekend of November, at Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Av. Libertador 7501).

It will be a music marathon with over 100 bands and outstanding national and international artists.

Line up:

Friday, October 30, 2009:
THE PRODIGY

Saturday, October 31, 2009: Rescheduled for rain for Friday, November 6
NO TE VA GUSTAR / LOS CAFRES / KAPANGA / LAS PELOTAS / FIDEL / ARBOL

Sunday, November 1, 2009:
FAITH NO MORE/ DIE TOTEN HOSEN / CARAJO / CADENA PERPETUA / BULLDOG / VIOLADORES / THE LOCOS

Saturday, November 7, 2009:
DIVIDIDOS / LA VELA PUERCA / RATONES PARANOICOS / NON PALIDECE / LIVING COLOUR

Friday, November 6, 2009:

NO TE VA GUSTAR / LOS CAFRES / KAPANGA / LAS PELOTAS / FIDEL / ARBOL

Sunday, November 8, 2009:
CATUPECU MACHU / / CALLE 13 / LOS AUTENTICOS DECADENTES / LOS TIPITOS / KARAMELO SANTO / DANTE / MISTERIO

Other confirmed bands are:

Banda de Turistas, De Bueyes, DDC, Def con Dos (Spain), Dr. Krápula (Colombia), Ella es tan cargosa, Héroes del Asfalto, La Portuaria, La Zurda, Los Pericos, Mamá Pulpa, Panteón Rococó (México) and Zumbadores among many others that will be added in the upcoming days.

Tickets are on sale through www.ticketek.com.ar or at the following sales points:
BELGRANO: Echeverria 2594
ABASTO: Av. Corrientes 3247, 2nd floor, food court
MICROCENTER: Viamonte 560, Shops 6 and 8
CENTRO CULTURAL RECOLETA: Junin 1930
LA TRASTIENDA CLUB: Balcarce 460
LOCURAS (Once: Av. Rivadavia 2734 -Flores: Av. Rivadavia 7308 - Belgrano: Av. Cabildo 2606)
LEE-CHI (Barrio Norte: Rodriguez Peña 1034).

Only sales point without service charge: Obras Sanitarias Stadium: Av. Libertador 7395 (Monday to Saturday, 12 to 8 pm).

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 45th Jockey Club Open Championship, that will take place from September 6th through September 19th, 2009.
Ten teams, between 28 and 35 goals, will participate in the tournament, which boasts some of the most remarkable polo players from Argentina and abroad, including: Juan Martín Nero, Marcos, Bautista, Ignacio and Eduardo Heguy, Francisco de Nárvaez (Jr), Hilario Ulloa, Marcos Di Paola, Ignacio Toccalino, Alejandro Agote and Guillermo Caset (Jr), among others.

Participating teams:

Indios Chapaleufú II: Alberto Heguy (Jr) 8, David Stirling (Jr) 8, Ignacio Heguy 9, Eduardo Heguy 9. Total: 35.
Chapa Uno: Rodrigo Ribeiro de Andrade 8, Hilario Ulloa 8, Bautista Heguy 9, Francisco de Narváez (Jr) 9. Total: 34.
Trenque Lauquen La Tapera: Lucas James 7, Agustín Nero 7, Juan Martín Nero 10, Marcos Heguy 10. Total: 34.
El Paraíso: Guillermo Caset (Jr) 8, Ignacio Toccalino 8, Mariano Gonzalez 8, Alejandro Novillo Astrada 7. Total: 31.
Trenque Lauquen: Pablo Pieres 7, Diego Araya 8, Héctor Guerrero 7, Jaime García Huidobro 8. Total: 30.
La Baronesa: Nicolás Pieres 7, Cristian Laprida (Jr) 7, Marcos Di Paola 8, Alejandro Agote 8. Total: 30.
Hurlingham: Sebastián Harriott 7, Santiago Araya 7, Silvestre Donovan 8, Marcelo Frayssinet 7. Total: 29.
La Cañada: Ezequiel Martínez Ferrario 7, Juan Martín Zavaleta (Jr) 7, Manuel Crespo 7, Santiago Toccalino 7. Total: 28.
Don Urbano Equidiet: Diego White 7, Tomás Pieres 7, Miguel del Carril (Jr) 7, Juan Manuel Echeverz 7. Total: 28.
La Indiana: José Donoso 7, Jack Baillieu 7, Guillermo Willington 7, Joao Paulo Gannon 7. Total: 28

Schedule:

Sunday 6:
11.00 AM: La Cañada vs Don Urbano (1)

Monday 7:
3.00 pm: Hurlingham vs. La Indiana (2)

Tuesday 8:
3.00 pm: Trenque Lauquen La Tapera vs. Trenque Lauquen

Wednesday 9:
1.00 pm: Winner (1) vs Indios Chapaleufú II
3.00 pm: El Paraíso vs. La Baronesa

Thursday 10:
3.00 pm: Winner (2) vs Chapa Uno


Sunday 13:
2.30 pm: Semifinals

Monday 14:
2.30 pm: Semifinals

Friday, October 9:
3.00 pm: Final Buenos Aires Jockey Club Open Championship


Free entrance
Av. Marquez 2302, San Isidro

Created in 2004, Petrobras Tennis Cup has become the most important Challenger Circuit in Latin America. The aim of this competition is to provide young players with the opportunity of competing in top level torunaments, with good prizes and, most importantly, to add poits for the ATP world rank.
This year the Cup will be played in 6 countries: Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. The Argentine series will take place at Vilas Tennis Club in Palermo, from September 26 through October 4, 2009.

The tennis players in the main keys are:
Gaston Gaudio (Arg) Wild card
Cuevas, Pablo (Uru) 67
Zeballos, Horacio (Arg) 76
González, Máximo (Arg) 79
Massú, Nicolás (Chi) 89
Ramírez Hidalgo, Rubén (Sp) 115
Ventura, Santiago (Sp) 118
Junqueira, Diego (Arg) 122
Roitman, Sergio (Arg) 125
Dabul, Brian (Arg) 131
Bogomolov, Jr. Alex (USA) 133
Chela, Juan Ignacio (Arg) 137
Recouderc, Laurent (Fra) 150
Kavcic, Blaz (Slo) 152
Lapentti, Nicolás (Ecu) 163
Schwank, Eduardo (Arg) 164
Hocevar, Ricardo (Bra) 191
Brzezicki, Juan Pablo (Arg) 188
Souza, Joao (Bra) 191
Muñoz de la Nava, Daniel (Sp) 194
Silva, Julio (Bra) 197
Marrero, David (Sp) 205
Ferreiro, Franco (Bra) 208

Dates: September 26 to October 4, 2009
Location: Vilas Club. Valentín Alsina 1450, Palermo, Buenos Aires
Tickets: Ticketek Argentina
More information: Copa Petrobras official website

The “XV Festival Internacional Guitarras del Mundo 2009” (15th Guitars of the World International Festival 2009), will take place from October 6th through October 18th, 2009, with free entrance to the public.

For the past 15 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 local and international guitar players will offer over 100 concerts with free entrance in 84 venues around the country. Some of the prestigious artists that will participate in the festival are: Juanjo Dominguez, Jorge Cardoso, Rudi, Nini Flores, Ricardo Moyano, Juan Falú (Argentina); Janne Lehtinen and Pentti Hilden (Finland); Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo and Stefano Raponi (Italy); Iliana Matos and Eduardo Martin (Cuba); Cem Duruöz and Serkán Yilmaz (Turkey); Ignacio López, José Luis Martinez, Rosalía Royo (Spain); Dale Kavanagh (Canada); Eduardo Fernández (Uruguay); Elias Esper (Argentina-Syria); Nora Buschmann (Germany); Juan Carlos Laguna (Mexico); Dolores Costoyas (Argentina-Switzerland).

In the city of Buenos Aires, the concerts will take place in the following venues:

The closing of the Festival, with the participation of more than 30 Argentine and international guitar players in a variety of styles and musical genres, will take place at Teatro Argentino de La Plata (Calle 51 entre 9 y 10), on October 18, 7.30 PM.

Click here to see the complete program.

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, Ciudad Cultural Konex presents the fifteenth edition of Pecha Kucha Night, a “showcasing + networking” event created in Japan in 2003 by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, in which 12-15 creators from different disciplines have 6 minutes and 40 seconds each to show an idea or project, through 20 images screened for 20 seconds. Once the presentations are finished, the guest artists get together to exchange their opinions, and the public is invited to enjoy some music and conversation.

The participating artists confirmed for this edition are:

Juan Pablo Cambariere (design)
Sol Abadi (photography)
Caro Chinaski (comics and illustration)
Eduardo Bergallo (sound engineering)
Galo Soler Illia (nanotechnology)
Va de Vuelta (NGO)
Mariano del Águila (drum&boxx),
La Despensa (Spain, communication)
Santiago Siri (artificial intelligence)
Jazmin Calcarami (make-up)
Omar Viola (milonga)
Federico Joselevich (multimedia) * new!

“Pecha kucha” (which means chit-chat in Japanese), is presented in several cities around the world, including: Amsterdam, Atlanta, Auckland, Austin, Bangladore, Bangkok , Beijing, Belfast, Berlin, Bern, Bogotá , Budapest, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Costa Rica, Delhi, Dublin , Frankfurt, Glasgow, Gothenberg, Groningen, Hamburg, Harvard, Helsinki, Hobart, Lagos, Linz, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Melbourne, Mexico city, Miami, New York, Newcastle, Oslo, Perth, Portland, Porto Alegre, Prague, Riga, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Santiago, Seattle, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Udine, Vienna, Washington DC. 

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009. 8 PM 
Location: Ciudad Cultural Konex. Sarmiento 3131. Buenos Aires. 
Tickets: AR$ 20. Ticketek Argentina or Ciudad Cultural Konex ticket office: Monday to Thursday 5 PM to 10 PM, Friday and Saturday 5 PM to 11.30 PM, Sunday 5 Pm to 9:30 PM.

More information: www.pechakucha.com.ar

Tango has been declared by Unesco as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Celebrating this event, the Ministry of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires organizes an Open Air Milonga on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October 2009, at the emblematic corner of San Juan and Boedo, with the participation of renowned Argentinian and Uruguayan artists like Susana Rinaldi and Rubén Rada, among others.

The declaration was approved at Unesco's fourth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in place in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

Program:

Saturday 3

7.00 pm: "Típica" singers.

7.45 pm: Exhibition by the World Tango Salón Champions 2009: Hiroshi and Kyoko Yamao.

8.00 pm: Gran Milonga Popular.

9.00 pm: Milonga with live orchestra, presenting Vale Tango. Ariel Ardit and Esteban Riera will present the tango “Veredas de las dos orillas” specially composed for this occasion. Guest artist: Malena Muyala.

Sunday 4
SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO THE DEATH OF POPULAR SINGER MERCEDES SOSA

7.00 pm: Rubén Rada will perform his tango specially composed for this occasion.

7.15 pm: Susana Rinaldi and Orquesta del Tango de la Ciudad.

8.00 pm: Exhibition by the World Tango Escenario Champions 2009: Jonathan Spitel and Betsabé Flores

8.15 pm: Gran Milonga Popular with Orquesta del Tango de la Ciudad.