The Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presents "An aperitif with Gardel", a series of talks that can be enjoyed every Thursday in October at 18, via Instagram.

This cycle will be based on food talks, drinks, fashion, theater and cinema at the beginning of the 20th century, convened by the BA Museums at the Casa Carlos Gardel Museum (@museocarlosgardel).

Marina Canardo, museum director, will be the host of the series of talks who will present on Thursday, October 1 at 18, to Vicky Salias, clothing designer and director of the National Museum of Costume History since 2017, in the talk “Percal. Tango stories from the cloth ".

In this first talk, they will talk about the exhibition “It is said about me. History of tango and fashion ”that runs through tango clothing throughout history in relation to tango lyrics, fabrics and dresses such as calico and crinoline, the story of Carlos Gardel's florid gaucho costume and the ideal of tango dress in relation to stage tango.

Thursday 8 October at 18, with Martín Auzmendi, drink educator, food journalist, founding partner of the Buenos Aires cocktail week, of the Pizza Marathon, de La Fuerza and one of the refounders of Rome in the Supply, They will review in the Salute a la bar talk the drinks and cocktails that are named in the tangos and in Gardel's voice to understand what was drank and open the drinkable map of the City of Buenos Aires.

While, Thursday 15, Cañardo with Carolina González Velasco, historian, PhD at the UBA, currently professor and researcher at the Arturo Jauretche National University and Adjunct researcher at CONICET, in the talk Vermouth function. "Theater People" in Gardel's time will develop the different aspects that made up the theater as a social and cultural phenomenon: its development as a commercial product in an active entertainment market, the social world that comprised it and its corresponding relationships and tensions, its role as a power plant for the presentation and representation of ideas and meanings about reality.

A week later, junto in Carina Perticone, semiologist, Professor of Art Theory at UNA, Master in Criticism and Dissemination of the Arts and CONICET doctoral fellow, in the talk "Morfate your pucheretes". Food culture in Gardel's time they will talk about food culture in Gardel's time as part of the fertile and multicultural framework, of fusions and hybridizations, of inherited flavors and aromas that were found in Buenos Aires cuisine, as ours as a tango by Carlitos.

By last, Thursday 29 October at 18, Cañardo with Héctor Ángel Benedetti, investigator, writer and author of texts on Argentine popular music and other topics, member of the board of directors of the Argentine Society of Writers and deputy director of Culture of the Municipality of Merlo, in the Cinema talk (not so) silent before the "Frames of songs" will talk about the industrial development of Argentine cinema in the face of new technologies at the end of the years 20: from the first sound experience to obtaining an efficient product, with tango as the main protagonist.