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