The city is stirring up a lively mix of culture and music this weekend — here’s your Buenos Aires recommendations for where best to toast, debate, and dance.

Mezclar 2025 — Buenos Aires Bar Festival

Wednesday 14 through Saturday 17

Various bars around the city

The first Buenos Aires bar festival is here! Four days filled with activities that mix talks, masterclasses, guest shifts, and down time to throw back a drink or two.

CoChinChina and La Uat are turning four and celebrating in style, together with Víctor Audio Bar and the internationally awarded Tres Monos. The festival brings together some of the most prominent names in local and international cocktail culture. The best way to stay in the know about when and where activities are taking place are to follow these bars on Instagram.

Special guests include Maura Lawrence Milia from Café Arixi (Mexico), Eli Martínez Bello from Tlecan (Mexico City), Poroto from Baker’s, Ricardo Nava from Mauro Bar, Hunter and Sara from Maybe Sammy (Australia), Berry Mora from Arca (Tulum), and Luna Orellano from El Barón Café (Colombia).

There will also be masterclasses at Punto Mona, and guest shifts every day at different bars across the city. Toast, learn, and connect with colleagues, friends and cocktail lovers.

The Night of Ideas

Friday 16 and Saturday 17

Events in Teatro Colón’s Salón Dorado (Libertad 621) and El Centro de Experimentación (Viamonte 1168)

Free entry, tickets can be picked up at the theater’s box office

Organized by the Institut français d’Argentine in cooperation with the French Embassy, the network of French Alliances in Argentina, Fundación Medifé, and the network of Franco-Argentine Centers, as well as municipalities, provinces, and academic and cultural institutions from seven cities in Argentina, The Night of Ideas is a cultural event that blends the arts with social sciences.

This ninth edition will revolve around the theme “The Power to Act,” an invitation to reflect on our capacity to take action in the face of global socio-economic, environmental, and political crises. From talks about fake news, to conversations about how “Being informed is a combat sport,” you can view a complete program of the Buenos Aires’ events online.

Ilustro para no olvidar Exhibition

Thursdays through Saturdays — 3 to 7 p.m.

Microgaleria (Loyola 514, Villa Crespo)

Free entry

Ilustro para no olvidar (I illustrate to not forget), is a cultural memory documentation project that uses illustrations to record demolished or soon-to-be-demolished architecture — structures that shape the historical landscape of Buenos Aires. 

An exhibition is on display at the microgalería, an art gallery housed in an old home in Villa Crespo. The traveling exhibition is called 11:11 PH which stands for horizontal power, it represents the transformative power of art and public education coming together.

11:11 is a manifestation of resistance, the exhibit invites the public to appreciate the strength of craftsmanship, the tangible and intangible heritage found in architecture, as well as collective and horizontal power.

Martes De La Grande — Jam sessions

La Grande (Dumont 4040, Chacarita)

Tuesdays — 7 p.m.

Tickets are ARS$12,000 and can be purchased online

Live music, DJs, jam sessions, cocktails, food, ping pong, foosball. Have we convinced you yet? Martes De La Grande is a weekly jam sesh where the musical group La Grande, directed by Santiago Vázquez — creator of La Bomba de Tiempo and Pan — performs. 

La Grande is a rhythmic improvisation band that uses the repertoire from Santiago Vázquez’s various albums as raw material to deconstruct, remix, and mashup live on stage. The band consists of bass, drums, sax, trombone, cello, guitar, and keyboards and they regularly feature guest artists as well.

The second half of the evening is a jam sesh open to both musicians and conductors, participants sign up upon arrival and are then called onstage for a little collective improvisation. This is consistently a good night out, and a solid pick that the whole crew will be happy with.