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Project of the Week: PRANAS Chile

Project of the Week: 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.

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VIDEO: Movimiento Expresivo, Dance Therapy

VIDEO: Movimiento Expresivo, Dance 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.

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Inside Looking Out: Argentina’s Gated Community Generation

Inside Looking Out: Argentina’s Gated Community Generation

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.

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The Gaucho: Yesterday and Today

The Gaucho: Yesterday and Today

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.

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Project of the Week: Internet y Sociedad

Project of the Week: 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.

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SIETAR: A Pioneer in Argentina’s Interculturalism Field

SIETAR: A Pioneer in Argentina’s Interculturalism Field

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.

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The Argentines Descended from the Boats: Migration in Argentina

The Argentines Descended from the Boats: Migration in Argentina

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.

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Top 5 Ways to Blend in as a Porteño

Top 5 Ways to Blend in as a Porteño

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.

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Tourism and Tango: Dream Partners or Four Left Feet?

Tourism and Tango: Dream Partners or Four Left Feet?

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?

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Quinceañeras: The Coming-of-Age Business

Quinceañeras: The Coming-of-Age Business

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.

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