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.