Free University Night bring you another event at Mandarine (previously MINT), Punta Carrasco, Costanera Norte and Sarmiento, midnight-8am. Don’t forget to mention that you are guests of FUN – girls get free entry until 3am and boys until 2am (2.30am if you have university identification).

Nina Polverino and band play Thelonious Club, Jeronimo Salguero 1884, first floor, from 9.30pm-3am. Check out their music beforehand at www.myspace.com/ninayellob.

Celebrate the long weekend at Sugar, Costa Rica 4619 (on the corner with Armenia), 9pm-5am, happy hour until midnight.

The Subcommission of Eurosalsa invite you to participate in their salsa classes, every Thursday from 7.30pm-9pm, except public holidays. Classes cost $15 for non-members and $10 for members, payment is on the door and, if you come as a couple, only one of you needs to pay. Estudio DNI, Corrientes 2140 first floor.

Niceto Club’s regular Thursday “party with a sense of humour” ushers in the long weekend with great local DJs “The Unstable Company” entertainment troupe. Expect transvestites and break-dancers at this classic Buenos Aires night. Fun Machine will play in Room B. Niceto Vega 5510, from midnight, entry free until 1am, $30 until 2am, $40 until 3am and $50 after 3am. If you are lucky enough to be on the guest list, the price is $20 until 2am and $30 after. Strictly over-18s only, ID may be required on the door.

Big Bang: If Everyone Lies, No One Lies, a play by Carlos Ares performed by only two actors opens tonight at 10pm, Ciudad Cultural Konex, Sarmiento 3131. Entry costs $30.

DJs Fabian Dellamonica and Lisa Rough host a night of varied music: mod, R&B, 60s soul, modern jazz, rocksteady, bluebeat and early reggae at Le Bar, Tucuman 422, 10pm-2am, entry free.

Luis Tomasello’s exhibition of more than seventy abstract objects. Some pieces are designed to produce certain subtle and hyper-sensitive ocular vibrations in the viewer and others play on the gamma movement, the internal tension of forms, all explored on a flat square surface. Sala Cronopios, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junin 1930, 7pm-9pm, from 30th April to 31st May 2009.

International Student Network 2009 invite you to spend one of two long weekends with them in the beautiful Argentine region of Mendoza. The excursion includes return bus trip, two nights’ accommodation, a day trip into the mountains and visiting wineries. The cost is $770 if you choose to stay in a shared room in a hostel (breakfast included) and $980 if you choose a three star hotel with breakfast and dinner included. The trips leave at 7pm on 30th April 2009, returning Sunday 3rd May, or 7pm Friday 22nd May, returning Monday 25th May. For more information, email: isn@isnbuenosaires.com.ar.

In collaboration with the International Festival of Human Rights Cinema, the Sustainable Tourism Project in La Boca and Barracas presents Cine al Sur, “a unique opportunity to get closer to historic sites and areas in the southern barrios, which are notable for their cultural and artistic practices”. Cine al Sur includes talks from directors, guided visits, audio-visual workshops, photographic exhibitions, musical shows. All activities are free and open to all the public. Cine al Sur begins 25th April at 7pm at Cine Teatro Brown (Av. Almirante Brown 1375, La Boca), with the presentation of the award-winning Spanish film “Nomadak” and finishes on 7th June in the Circuito Cultural Barracas (Avenida Iriarte 2165) with the 6pm showing of Italian film “I moti spontanei”.

A complete list of programming is available via telephone: 54 11 4302 1472, or email: infoturismobaires@icei.it or infofestival@derhumalc.org.ar.