This weekend, Buenos Aires comes alive with a lineup of cultural events from Cocktail Week to theater to immersive art experiences, there’s no excuse to stay inside.

BsAs Cocktail Week

Runs through Sunday 7

Bars across Buenos Aires

All events are free entry

This year’s BsAs Cocktail Week is dedicated to sustainable mixology. For seven days, city bars will offer promotional cocktails and special experiences. The program includes signature drinks (with at least one non-alcoholic option), DJ sunsets, and a series of talks, masterclasses and competitions at the Parque de la Innovación.

International and local bartenders will explore themes like identity, community and resilience in the industry. The week also hosts The Cocktail Bar Awards, recognizing environmental practices and social impact. For a full list of activities offered and participating bars, check out the events webpage.

Llegás Theater Festival with half-priced theater

Runs through Friday, September 12

Theaters across the city

Half-priced entry, along with various free events

Buenos Aires will host the 8th edition of the Llegás Theater Festival, offering more than 35 plays at half price across 15 venues in the city, featuring over 250 artists. The event is a spotlight on collaborations between independent, public and commercial circuits. A full list of participating shows is available online.

The program offers a diverse variety of midday shows, dance, circus, music, magic and family-friendly performances, alongside porteño theater classics and unconventional stagings. Free events are also part of the lineup. The festival closes with a big party on Friday, September 12 at 8 p.m. at Circuito Cultural JJ.

Art Masters: Museo del Prado in Virtual Reality

Opens Thursday 4: Tuesdays through Fridays — noon to 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays — 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

La Rural’s Pabellón Frers (Entrance is at Av. Santa Fe 4363, Palermo)

Tickets start at AR$30,000 for adults, and AR$20,000 for under 14 years old. They can be purchased online

For the first time in Argentina, the masterpieces of Spain’s Museo del Prado can be experienced in an immersive journey through five iconic works of European art by Velázquez, Goya, Rubens and Brueghel, Bosch and Veronese.

This traveling exhibition uses multi-user virtual reality — also called the metaverse — to create a poetic reinterpretation of the museum’s treasures. Guided by a virtual character, a security guard on his last day of work, audiences step into spaces normally closed to the public before venturing inside the paintings themselves. The experience unfolds in three stages: an introductory gallery, the immersive VR journey, and an interactive closing space.

Two new exhibitions at ungallery

Thursdays through Saturdays — 2 to 6 p.m.

ungallery (Ministro Brin 1335, La Boca)

Free entry

Ungallery presents two new exhibits in their enormous La Boca space. Taking over the ground floor is “Cielo en tu océano” by Mariano Botas, curated by Natalia Albanese Gilbert. The exhibition features around twenty recent acrylic works exploring the vastness of sky and sea, time and contemplative life.

After decades in Chile and now based in Mexico, Botas creates abstract, inner landscapes reflecting impermanence and personal journeys. The paintings trace his travels between Mexico City, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, capturing moments of chance, texture and movement. The exhibition invites viewers to immerse themselves in the works, discovering reflections of their own sky and ocean.

Upstairs is a photography exhibit, “La intimidad como artificio,” a collection of unpublished self-portraits by Argentine artist Lena Szankay from 1988 to 1995, curated by Lorena Alfonso. Created during the early stages of her career, these analog photographs explore the tension between intimacy and performance, revealing inner worlds rather than fixed identities. Szankay has exhibited internationally, including in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Frankfurt, and her work is part of major museum collections.