Teatro da Ubro – União Beneficente Recreativa Operária – had its heyday between 1920 and 1950, when several shows inspired by modernism served as a cultural alternative for the local working class.
The initiative for the creation of Teatro da Ubro came from Ildefonso Juvenal and Anfilóquio de Carvalho Gonçalves. But cultural exponents such as Antonieta de Barros, Maura de Senna Pereira, Trajano Margarida and Juvenal Melquíades were also part of the group.
In its heyday, Teatro da Ubro was an important stage for the various cultural manifestations on the Island, as it had among its members, women and black intellectuals at a time of marked racial prejudice. On January 4, 1925, the Centro Catarinense de Letras was founded on its premises.
From 1951, with the death of Deodósio Ortiga, the theater group that kept the house running was dismantled. Abandoned since then, the building collapsed in 1993, leaving only its facade, which was restored and incorporated into a new building. The new Teatro da Ubro brought an alternative venue to the city, resuming uses that this space already had in the first half of the XNUMXth century.
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