Culture & Adventure in Argentina
Hi, my name is Brian and I’m addicted to choripán. I can remember my first choripán like it was yesterday. I had been shopping for bombillas in La Boca and while looking out at...
Arts, Music & Festivals
Mente Night: Fuerza Bruta Delight
Mente recently had our fifth outing to Fuerza Bruta and we still cannot wait to see the show again. Performed in the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Fuerza Bruta is a post-modern, multi-sensory, theatrical show, created...
Arts, Music & Festivals
Weekend Highlights: Top Argentine Films
First thing's first: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
According to New York Times article "How Coronavirus Hijacks Your Cells," "infected people can avoid spreading the virus by wearing a mask, but healthy people do not need to wear...
Arts, Music & Festivals
Sumo is a band that hails from a province of Córdoba called Mina Clavero, and debatably one of the coolest things that came out of the Argentine rock scene. Its front man, Luca Prodan, was born...
Culture & Adventure in Argentina
Teaming with expats, Buenos Aires is home to tens of thousands of people who have relocated from their home countries to learn Spanish, in the lovely Argentine paradise. With such large expatriot communities, foreigners...
Arts, Music & Festivals
Song of the Week: Los Abuelos de la Nada
Looking for a guilty pleasure song to dance along to in your room? Look no further. Los Abuelos de la Nada (The grandfathers of nothingness) are a group whose name was inspired by a...
Argentine Culture & Traditions
Boca Junior Football game in Buenos Aires!
Our partner organisation LandingPadBA organised an excursion to the Boca Junior vs Arsenal game for our Mente Argentina interns, volunteers and study abroad students. What an amazing day we all had!
Our guest blogger Zac...
Arts, Music & Festivals
Song of the week: Raúl Barboza
Yet another musical tradition that helps to define Argentine culture is the unique sounds that we have come to call Chamamé . Chamamé is a genre of folklore music from the northeastern portion of Argentina as well...