Wednesday, September 9th 2009

Plans for the week of September 14th

Hi there Íbero Amigos,

How is everyone? Hopefully you are looking forward to a beautiful Spring in Buenos Aires, getting to know new friends, and of course, learning Spanish. We would like to let you know about the activities we have planned for the week to come. Remember that you can always bring a friend along, we want everyone who is interested to enjoy what we have planned.

See you this week!

For Monday night we are planning to see a famous drum troup well known by the youth of Buenos Aires. The performance is called La Bomba de Tiempo, and is a percussion band of 15 musicians that improvise and comunicate between each other using signals the group developed. The show is a really interesting musical performance. The show takes place in the Cultural Center in the barrio of Balvanera. The performance takes place from seven in the afternoon to around ten at night. If you are interested, we will meet at six in the afternoon at the school to go to the show together. Entrance to the performance is $20 (veinte pesos). You don't want to miss it!

Wednesday we are going to visit MALBA, which is the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires. This Museum, along with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, are two of the most important art museums in the city as well as being the largest. Malba has Latin American art from some of the most important figures from all over Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina. Malba also has an excellent collection of European Contemporary art from the 20th Century. We will see an exhibition of works from Brasilian Surrealists, Mexican muralists, work by Frida Khalo as well as art from many well recognized Argentine artists like Agustín Xul Solar and Emilio Pettoruti. If you would like to join us, we are going to meet at the school on Wednesday at 4 pm. Entrance to the museum is only $5 (cinco pesos). ¡Nos vemos!

Thursday we are going to watch an Argentine movie called: "El Hijo de La Novia", a film made in 2001 that tells the story of a son and his parents. This film is one of the most famous contemporary Argentine movies and was a candidate for the Oscar in 2002. If you want to see an excellent movie and practice a little Spanish we will see you Thursday at 2 pm.

Friday we will hold our weekly taller de conversación or Spanish conversation practice. The idea is to share an informal conversation in a bar or café close to the school. This time we are going to café Tortoni, the oldest and most well-known café in Buenos Aires, founded in 1858. During the 60's, Tortoni was a hot spot for intelectuals and writers like Borges. We will meet at the café (Avenida de Mayo 829) at 4 pm. Don't miss this opportunity to practice your Spanish in a beautiful and historic café!

Saturday we are going to get up a little early to take advantage of a trip that is definitely worth it. We will meet at the school to travel to Tigre, just north of the city. Tigre is a small but modern city made up of little river inlets. We will see one of The largest and most important ferías or markets in Buenos Aires: the Fruit Market, that offers stands selling everything. There is also the Delta in Tigre as well as many islands where people live, we will board a boat to take a trip around the Delta. We will eat at a very well known parilla near the Fruit Market. To get to Tigre we have to take a short train ride from Retiro, so we will meet at Íbero at 11 am to leave for Tigre!

We hope you find these events interesting and look forward to another exciting week at Íbero!

¡Chau y nos vemos!