The Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (CCRR, "Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center") is a

cultural center A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts. Cultural centers can be neighborhood community arts organizations, private facilities, government-sponsored, or activist-run. Asia * Ce ...

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, Argentina. It is owned and operated by the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one o ...

(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. The cultural center organizes conferences, expositions, workshops, courses and contests both on a national and international scale. 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. 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

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. The center quickly became an important meeting place and groundwork for visual artists upon the opening of the Galería del Rojas. The CCRR is located on

Avenida Corrientes Avenida Corrientes () is one of the principal thoroughfares of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. The street is intimately tied to the tango and the porteño sense of identity. Like the parallel avenues Santa Fe, Córdoba, and San Juan, it ...

in the central Buenos Aires neighborhood of

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. Adjacent to it is

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, a restored cinema also owned and operated by the University of Buenos Aires.

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Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas on VADB
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