by Avery Kelly, 04 April 2013. Tags: ideame, narrative therapy, PRANAS Chile
IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: PRANAS Chile.
Posted in Literature, Society
by Anna Johansson, 11 January 2013. Tags: dance, downs syndrome, therapy
Movimiento Expresivo is an organisation that uses dance to encourage creative and emotional expression among teenagers and young adults with down’s syndrome and other disabilities. Anna Johansson reports.
Posted in Music, Society, TOP STORY, Video
by Soledad Vega, 21 December 2012. Tags: countries, gated communities, nordelta
Twenty-eight teenagers will graduate from Cardenal Pironio school in Nordelta this year, the first class to have completed their entire education inside a gated community. Sociologist Soledad Vega reports.
Posted in Society, TOP STORY, Urban Life
by Lucas Radicella, 12 November 2012. Tags: gaucho, History, pampas, tradition, tradition supplement
Lucas Radicella takes a look at the history and evolution of the gaucho, the legendary and almost mythical figure of rural Argentine society, known for his fierce independence and free spirit.
Posted in Society, TOP STORY
by Mariel Matze, 08 November 2012. Tags: crowdfunding, ideame, Internet y Sociedad
Each week, the Indy features and promotes one project on crowdfunding website Ideame, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Internet Y Sociedad.
Posted in Society
by Mariel Matze, 02 November 2012. Tags: interculturalism, SIETAR, stereotypes
Last week, the Argentine chapter of SIETAR, a society dedicated to promoting the interdisciplinary field of interculturalism, launched in Buenos Aires with the aim of fostering greater cultural consciousness. Mariel Matze reports.
Posted in Society
by Kelsey Jost-Creegan, 04 September 2012. Tags: colonization, History, immigration, migration
In Argentina, 4th September is Immigrants’ Day, to commemorate the diverse waves migrants who have formed the demographics of the country’s population. Kelsey Jost-Creegan investigates.
Posted in Society, TOP STORY
by Kate Beioley, 22 August 2012. Tags: buenos aires nightlife, medialunas, public displays of affection, shoes, therapy
The porteño culture has a rich and complex history. Its myriad culture lends itself to in depth study and understanding….but this is a top five and we haven’t got time for that. So here’s our guide to faking it as a native in Buenos Aires in under 1000 words. Forget the obvious stuff like learning castellano or moving to Argentina, here’s the advice you really need.
Posted in Society, Top 5
by Kate Beioley, 15 August 2012. Tags: Culture, lombardi, macri, milonga, tango, tango culture, tango festival
As the Buenos Aires Tango Festival kicks off this week, Kate Beioley wonders: is tourism helping to keep tango culture alive, or is it killing it?
Posted in Current Affairs, News From Argentina, Society, The City, TOP STORY
by Alex Glynn, 07 August 2012. Tags: 15th birthday, celebration, debutant, party, ritual, society, sweet sixteen
Alex Glynn investigates the phenomenon of the 15th birthday, and discovers the coming-of-age ritual common in Latin societies is very much alive an well in Argentina.
Posted in Society, TOP STORY