Go to the beach in Buenos Aires!
January 6 to February 29
Parque de los Niños, Parque Roca

10:00 Hs.

For the fourth year in a row, Buenos Aires Beach is back, for you to enjoy the summer with your friends! It's the first and only urban beach in Latin America.

Such as the great capitols of the world like Paris, Roma, Tokio o Berlin, Buenos Aires Beach offers you a great alternative to enjoy summer with your friends. Since its first edition in 2009, more than 800.000 people lived summer in the beach!

Buenos Aires Beach has beach umbrellas, beach chairs, inflatable games, football (soccer) fields, beach volley courts, live bands, magic shows, reading areas and many more attractions for you to have the best fun, for free!

The beaches are close to urban neighborhoods, located in different parks in town: Parque Las Heras, Plaza Roque Sáenz Peña, Parque Rivadavia, Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Plaza Boedo, Plaza Almagro y Plaza Monte Castro.

All beaches will be open from tuesday to sunday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

Toys invade Buenos Aires!
Until february 25, the City Museum (el Museo de la Ciudad) invites you to know a wide variety of toys. An exhibition that works as a vehicle to express the fantasies of the youngest.

The City Museum was able to gather, across the years, a wide variety of toys that express not only a key aspect of porteño's life, but also allows a particular view of the history of the city. The world of toys has, besides it recreational essence, an approach to the social and economic means in which they are developed. The toys, seen as vehicles to express the fantasies of the children, their learning and their connection with the world, didn't escape from the cultural standards of the moment when they were made.
Beginning at 1 PM.

Recoleta Cultural Center

December 22 to December 31

The Recoleta Cultural Center brings you a real range of proposals including paintings, installations and visual arts. Among them stand the risk, imagination and creativity.

These days of December are ideal for those trips and visits often neglected over the years, and what better to enjoy a good afternoon to go to one of the privileged cultural dissemination and promotion of the City.
Since its inauguration, the Recoleta Cultural Center opens its doors to the most various forms, and allows visitors access to a real range of proposals.

Museums in Buenos Aires Celebrate Christmas

December 19 to January 8

The Directorate General of Museums presents the programming Museum in Buenos Aires offer on the occasion of the upcoming holiday season, nativity exhibitions and religious iconography and a play for children telling the story of Santa Claus.

EXHIBITIONS:

Cribs XV Sculpture Contest - 2011
Sculpture Museum invited artists Luis Perlotti over 17 sculptors to participate in this event, the museum organized every year at its headquarters in Pujol 644, to keep alive the tradition of the Nativity and Christmas. Photo: Viviana Macías 1 st prize.
Until January 6, 2012.


Iconography XI Meeting of Argentina
Organized by the Editorial St. Paul in the Museo de Arte Popular Jose Hernandez, Av del Libertador 2373.
Until Sunday, January 8, 2012.
"The icon is a channel of grace, makes present to the person it represents, is a meeting place, a window into eternity." Curator: Magdalena Acuña Armano.


Nativity of Mary Isabel Fotheringham
Spanish American Art Museum Isaac Fernández Blanco, Suipacha 1422.
Fotheringham's work, modern in the technical and aesthetic resolution, was always marked by the historical tradition of their family, for their religious faith and, particularly, by a deep knowledge of Argentine rural area as reflected in this birth, rescuing ethnic types and popular customs, for the years of their production, they were disappearing.

THEATER FOR KIDS:

A very special gift (History of Santa Claus)
In charge of the Museum Theater Group Traveler. In the Historical Museum of Buenos Aires Cornelio de Saavedra, Crisologo Larralde 6309.
Sundays in November and December at 17 h.

More information http://www.museos.buenosaires.gov.ar

JAZZ TO WATCH

December 16 to December 31

The Cinema La Plata invites you to a unique programming. A series of documentaries on the life and work of the most important artists of the jazz culture. Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Charlie Haden, among others.

THE MILES DAVIS STORY, directed by Mike Dibb
Great Britain, 2001 / 125 '

A large pan for life and work of Miles Davis, using an interview in his last years and the voices of fellow travelers in their multiple musical explorations: the drummer Jimmy Cobb, the only surviving recording of Kind of Blue, an eloquent John McLaughlin, who has fusion cuisine with imitation of the teacher included.

ESCAPE TO THE SILENCE OF SMALL DIEGO
Chile, 2009 / 90 '

In the late 60's, the Chilean saxophonist Alfredo Espinoza shone in Buenos Aires as a member of the Portsmouth Jazz Band. Then he crossed the ocean and settled in France, where he received the admiration of the great European jazz. This documentary covers his work nomad and unravels the fate of an artist who seemed to vanish into thin air.

SELF Sonora, Mujica Manongo
Peru, 2010 / 45 '

PerúJazz integral as well as other musical projects, solo musician, visual artist and creator of soundtracks and multimedia shows, Peruvian percussionist Manongo Mujica makes himself a film illustrating the development of an extensive original composition, which combine improvisation jazz type a search in the Afro-Peruvian roots.

FRANK ZAPPA: A PIONEER OF THE FUTURE OF MUSIC, by Frank Scheffer
Holland, 2007 / 108 '

This Dutch documentary uses a rich archive itself to reconstruct the career of the legendary guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, author of orchestral gems as The Grand Wazoo and experiments related to fusion and free, in an inexhaustible flow and always tinged with humor . George Duke and Steve Vai are among the many who are excited remembering.

CHARLIE HADEN, Caduff Challenge
Switzerland, 2009 / 84 '

Charlie Haden played with all its low was the protagonist from the years of free jazz with whose king, Ornette Coleman, was also. Here he is with his family, telling his long story that combines art with political commitment, and testimonies of people surrounded by friends as Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and Carla Bley.

LA BOMBA DE TIEMPO

Like every Monday, the bomb in the Konex from 19 pm.

The phenomenon that every week for over four years and calls for a crowd of people and creates a real party. "La Bomba de Teimpo" (Time Bomb, in english) is a group formed by leading drummers drumming in the direction of Santiago Vazquez. The musicians practiced improvisation directed and use a system of about 70 signs made ​​with the hands, fingers and body.

Each concert is unique and unpredictable as it depends on the interaction of all involved in the ritual: the musicians, the director, the audience, venue, acoustics, instruments, weather and time.

The music of the drums is added every Monday to improvise a different guest: The Monkey Spasiuk, Liliana Herrero, Javier Malosetti, Lito Vitale and Dante Spinetta are some of the figures who have shared the stage with La Bomba de Tiempo.

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Planetarium at New - Luis Pescetti and Juan Quintero

December 15

Planetarium of the City of Buenos Aires Galileo Galilei

19:00 Hrs

The new planetarium opened yet: Luis Pescetti and John Quinteros present their show "Lyrics Pilgrim" and then the Planetarium will be open for interested parties to enjoy a screening of 10 minutes to appreciate the new technology. FREE ENTRANCE.

"PILGRIMS LETTERS" AND JUAN LUIS QUINTERO Pescetti - POETRY AND SONG

"Poetry and song come together in an intimate encounter: dormant magic"

In this particular presentation, Luis Pescetti read some poems and accompanying Juan Quintero, alternating music and poetry in an encounter unusual and exquisite.

A journey where poetry read by Pescetti merges with musical accompaniment Quintero, playing Cuchi Leguizamón authors such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Jaime Roos, Javier Ruibal and Pedro Guerra, among others.

Luis Pescetti: a writer of books for children and adults, musician and actor.

Juan Quintero, songwriter, folklorist, a member of Aca Seca Trio.

NEW Planetary

The Planetarium "Galileo Galilei" of the Ministry of Culture, Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires opens its doors completely renovated in technology. Since its reopening presents their shows with a new star projector, a new system of full dome immersive video, renewed internal dome mobile seat 4D that have a system for interactive participation.

Optical Planetarium

MEGASTAR II Model A, installed in our showroom, shows stars of magnitude up to 11 °, a million stars that conventional planetary, a true revolution in the sky projections. It also shows more than 140 clusters, nebulae and the Milky Way can be seen with a realism never before achieved. It is the first in the world to adopt LED lamps to project in large domes. The instrument of 32 lenses ensure maximum projection quality.

Immersive Video

The new shows also dazzle by their high resolution images. DigitalSky II SKy Skan, is a full dome video system that covers advanced full hemispherical dome.

The result is the creation of a single definition immersive environment, color, movement and realism surprising. So far we enjoy planetarium room of the starry sky observable from any place on Earth in times past, present or future; The new system adds the ability to perform a historic shift in perspective: immersive projection takes us anywhere in the universe to live astronomical wonderful experiences.

Among the many ERP functions could include:

-Generation of highly realistic virtual environments.

Simulation of eclipses, transits, meteor showers.-Travel and flybys of deep sky objects like nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, etc.

Simulation of atmospheric effects (refractive scintillation of the stars).

-Projection of constellations, ancillary marks orientation and astronomical elements (ecliptic, Ecuador celestial meridians vertical circles, almicantaradas, azimuthal and equatorial coordinates, etc.).

-Orbits of the planets and their movements apparent strokes in the sky.

The 4D seats, with their movements, providing more realism to the performances projected on the renewed inner dome.

No doubt the amount of projection systems will generate a unique space for storytelling, teaching concepts and explore the whole universe.

Gardel Composer Series

December 1 to December 31

Museo Casa Carlos Gardel
Jean Jaures 735 - Capital Federal

17:00 Hs

Organza cycle by the Museo Casa Carlos Gardel. The last Sunday of each month at 17 h. Free admission!.

Website: www.museos.buenosaires.gob.ar

Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11 to 18. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 to 19. Closed on Tuesdays.

The house where Carlos Gardel lived and his mother, located in the traditional neighborhood of Supply, has been recovered by the Directorate General of Museums for the purpose of turning it into a museum to rescue, preserve, exhibit and disseminate the cultural heritage citizen represents the work of Gardel.

Carlos Gardel was a singer, songwriter and actor naturalized Argentine , considered the most important tango in the first half of the twentieth century . According to researchers born in Toulouse , France , on December 11th of 1890 , and, according to others, was born in Tacuarembo , Uruguay , on December 11th of 1887 , living since his childhood in Buenos Aires . He died on June 24th of 1935 in Medellin , Colombia , in a plane crash . In 2003 , proposed by the government of Uruguay , Gardel's voice has been recorded by the Unesco in the program Memory of the World , dedicated to the preservation of heritage documents.