Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas
El Rojas
Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas is located in Buenos Aires
Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas
Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas
Location within Greater Buenos Aires
AddressAvenida Corrientes 2038
Balvanera, Buenos Aires
Argentina
Coordinates34°36′17″S 58°23′46″W / 34.60472°S 58.39611°W / -34.60472; -58.39611
OwnerUniversity of Buenos Aires
Opened1984 (1984)
Website
www.rojas.uba.ar

The Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (CCRR, "Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center") is a cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is owned and operated by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the country's largest university. It is named after journalist and writer Ricardo Rojas (1882–1957), who served as the university's rector from 1926 to 1930.[1]

The cultural center organizes conferences, expositions, workshops, courses and contests both on a national and international scale.[2] It also counts with a digital repository of books, texts, magazines and catalogues available for free, covering a wide array of topics. According to the UBA Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Culture and Communication, which operates the center, up to 900 workshops and courses are taught at the CCRR every semester, attracting over 100 thousand visitors each year.[3]

The CCRR was founded in 1984, in the aftermath of the last military dictatorship and in a context of social awakening. The building itself previously housed the Faculty of Medical Sciences students' union. The center quickly became an important meeting place and groundwork for visual artists upon the opening of the Galería del Rojas.[4]

The CCRR is located on Avenida Corrientes in the central Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera. Adjacent to it is Cine Cosmos, a restored cinema also owned and operated by the University of Buenos Aires.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Barovero, Diego (13 September 2022). "Ricardo Rojas, la educación y la cultura". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "El Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, con nuevas entrevistas en el Ciclo Maestras". Diario Vivo (in Spanish). 9 August 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Centro Cultural Rojas". arteinformado.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "35 años del Rojas". Perfil (in Spanish). 25 September 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Reabre el mítico cine Cosmos, un símbolo cultural porteño". Clarín (in Spanish). 4 November 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
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