Teatro Esperança de Jaguarão (RS): memória, história e patrimonialização.

Abstract

This research main objective is to reflect on Theatro Esperança history, memory and process patrimonialization, a theater located in Jaguarão city, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, presenting it as a place of memory and history. To this end we analyze reasons why this heritage property, which got its doors closed for about fifty years, has remained as one of the cultural heritage symbols in Jaguarão, witnessed in previous studies and mentioned herein, and as the first well to be delivered toppling restored to the community. This theater has acquired a meaning of its allowed this status for the community, a place that raises many memories for residents and no accident was direct target of public policies for the heritage that developed in the 1980s to date. The methodology used is descriptive-analytic and for this, it has developed a literature both in relation to the history of the city, its architecture and the Theatro Esperança, contextualizing the theatrical art in Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul, and to support the conclusions and possibilities presented at the end of work, it developed the concepts of memory and history, cultural heritage and places of memory. In addition, it sought the documentation connected with the state and federal tipping process, and in general, we sought the city's collections and from other municipalities, pictures and articles published in journals since it opened. This material which was dispersed served as a strong reference to mount a more organic structure of the history of the theater and at the end, still present a more detailed analysis of some important documents that will form the basis for future research.