The second 2nd Buenos Aires International Circus Festival, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, Culturesfrance, and the French Embassy in Argentina, with the collaboration of  Quebec, Alliance Francaise and the Embassies of Brazil and Canada, will take place between April 29 and May 9, 2010. Several big tops will be put up at "Buenos Aires Polo Circo", Combate de los Pozos 1700, in the neighborhood of Parque Patricios, and there will be activities in three other venues: Centro Cultural Cine Teatro 25 de Mayo; Alliance Francaise, and Centro Cultural General San Martín.

The Festival will offer the public unique experiences such as outstanding artistic performances, conferences, talks, creative and fun national and international shows, including twenty companies from Canada, France,  Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil, focusing on contemporary circus.

The opening of the 2nd International Circus Festival will take place on Thursday April 29th, 7:30 pm, at "Buenos Aires Polo Circo", with the prestigious Canadian Circus show "LOFT" from the company “les Sept Doigts de la Main”.

The closing of the Festival will be on Sunday, May 9th, 7.00 pm, also at "Buenos Aires Polo Circo", with a Grand Gala coordinated by Gaston Elie (an Argentine member of the Cirque Du Soleil), and consisting of national and international numbers not belonging to any of the events presented during the Festival.

Some of the shows are free of charge. For the Special Events (Caidos del Cielo - Tombes du Ciel, by Les Studios Cirque de Marseille, Night of the Bicentennial - Place des anges, and Escalando Alturas - Comeback!) it is not necessary to pick up advanced tickets. These are open air shows and admission is free.

The Closing Gala is also with free admission, but space is limited. Entrance to the big top will be in order of arrival.

TICKET SALES: You can buy your advanced tickets up to one day before the selected  performance in the following points of sale. On the day of the performance, only  at the box offices of the respective venues:

Centro Cultural General San Martin: Sarmiento 1551, Centro.
Box Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 11am to 6pm

Buenos Aires Polo Circo: Av Juan de Garay and Combate de Los Pozos, Parque Patricios
Box Office Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 11am-6pm
From 29 April to 9 May: Monday to Sunday, 1pm-9pm

Complejo Cultural Cine Teatro 25 de Mayo: Av. Triumvirato 4444, Villa Urquiza
Box Office Hours: Monday to Sunday, 11am-6pm

Casa de la Cultura: Avenida de Mayo 575 - PB, Centro
Box Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 11am-6pm

The Alliance Française,  Av. Cordoba 936, has no ticket office. For the shows at this site, buy tickets one day before the  performance at any of the points of sale listed above.

The Buenos Aires International Book Fair is the largest of its kind in the Spanish speaking world. It is considered one of the most important cultural and editorial events in Latin America, and a meeting point for authors, editors, book sellers, distributors, teachers, librarians, scientists, and over 1,200,000 readers from around the world. The Fair will occupy the "Azul", "Verde", "Amarillo", "Rojo", "Blanco", and Nº 9 pavilions of La Rural exhibition complex, and 3 outdoor tents.  As every year, it will feature conferences, round-tables, talks with prestigious national and international intellectuals, book presentations, shows, activities for children and teenagers, events for specialists and publishing professionals, and book sales of literature in all languages.

The special activities this year include: a Book Reading Marathon; the 5th International Poetry Festival; a Story-telling meeting; free courses and workshops. The Fair will also be one of the venues of the Second Biennial Kafka Borges / Buenos Aires, Prague, among other activities.

One of the outstanding features of the Fair is the participation of internationally renowned authors. Some of the intellectuals that have confirmed their presence this year are: Italian writer Alessandro Baricco, the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda, Cervantes Prize winner 2006, the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, author of "La Virgen de los sicarios", the narrator and Spanish essayist Enrique Vila-Matas, the American novelist John Katzenbach; politics specialists Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, the French historian  and epistemologist, François Dosse, the writer, poet and journalist Manuel Rivas Spanish, among others.

On Saturday, May 1st, the fair will join the celebrations of "The Day of the City", with a free, open air show, from 5.30 pm. On a stage located on Av. Sarmiento and Av. Santa Fe, the renowned artists Caetano Veloso, Sandra Mihanovich, and Tania Libertad will offer a great show.

After the show, the Book Fair will remain open until 1 am, celebrating "The night of the city at the fair", with free entrance after 9.00 pm, and more musical shows and extra activities inside the Fair.

Location: La Rural Exhibition Center, Ave. Santa Fe and Sarmiento, Palermo, Buenos Aires.
Dates: April 22nd through May 10th, 2010
Opening hours:
Sunday to Thursday: 2 pm to 10 pm
Friday and Saturday: 2 pm to 11 pm
Saturday May 1st: 2 pm to 2 am
Entry fee:
Monday to Thursday: AR$ 12.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: AR$ 15.
Children under 12.
Saturday May 1st, after 9 pm: free.

For further information, visit the 36th International Buenos Aires Book Fair official website (in Spanish only).

On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Ciudad Cultural Konex presents the sixteenth 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:

Lorenzo Shakespear (design) 

Fernanda Cohen (illustration) 

Publiquest (technological marketing) 

Miguel Brea (illustration) 

Adobe (ong) 

Estamos Felices (independent record label) 

Nicolás Hardy (photography) 

Andrea Servera (dance) 

Diego Vainer (music) 

Dario Chapur (landscaping and art) 

Gerardo Richarte (informatics safety) 

Estudio Pomada (industrial design)

“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, April 27, 2010. 8 PM 

Location: Ciudad Cultural Konex. Sarmiento 3131. Buenos Aires. 

Tickets: AR$ 25. 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

On Saturday April 24th, 2010, for the third time the Festival "El Dia de la Tierra" will be presented in Buenos Aires, joining the world wide Earth Day celebration, an international event celebrated annually on April 22 since 1970, that gathers millions of people around the globe in a "Call for climate".

The artists that will participate this year in Buenos Aires are: El Mató a un Policía Motorizado, Bebel Gilberto, Aztecas Tupro, Yicos, Tremor, Hablan por la Espalda, El Festival de los Viajes, Falsos Profetas, Roxana Carabajal, Los Síquicos Litoraleños, Sergio Sandoval, Gustavo Lamas, Ismael Pinkler, among others.

Other programmed activities are: eco-conferences on innovation and sustainable design; organic food market; yoga classes, 3D movies.

The special activities for children include: music workshop; bread baking in a solar oven; traditional wool weaving; chess; massages for children; art and recycling  workshops.

Date: Saturday April 24th, 2010. From 12 pm to 11 pm. The event is not suspended in case of rain.

Location: Ave Figueroa Alcorta and Austria. Plaza Naciones Unidas (The Flower).

Free entrance.
More information: El dia de la Tierra Buenos Aires official website.