Presentation

Presentation

The mission of UENF’s Culture Office is to strengthen the university’s cultural policy by coordinating the cultural activities being developed at UENF. It seeks to integrate cultural activities with cultural facilities in order to guarantee cultural citizenship and contribute to regional development.

This department also aims to manage UENF’s cultural facilities, in particular the Convention Center’s cinema and the Casa de Cultura Villa Maria.

The Casa de Cultura Villa Maria is a supplementary body of the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), whose purpose is to develop research, teaching and the preservation of collections and the production and dissemination of knowledge. Its functions include promote and encourage the production, practice and development of cultural, artistic and scientific activities at UENF and especially, promote actions aimed at disseminating the product and cultural, artistic and scientific production of the University, the municipality and the region and, maintain, expand and preserve the documentary (sound, audiovisual, iconographic, textual and bibliographic) and museological collections through continuous actions of acquisition, conservation, preservation, access and public consultation of cultural assets, encouraging and contributing to the development of research that has as its object the collections and cultural assets in question.

Cine Darcy is a cultural center of the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro Darcy Ribeiro (UENF) that aims to promote art, culture and citizenship in the community by linking artistic and cultural activities to UENF facilities and its surroundings, with an emphasis on independent audiovisual artistic productions.