Societat Cultural l’Oliva of Canyet
The Oliva Cultural Society (Societat Coral l’Oliva) of Canyet was founded in 1901 as an entity intended to provide new leisure options for the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Its founders were members of the Unió Society – a cultural entity founded around 1888, based in a place called El Sot – which they decided to leave due to differences with other members.
In 1905, Oliva already had its own choral section, La Cañetense, founded following the precepts of Maestro Clavé, whose testimony would be collected, from 1921, by the Oliva Art and Culture Choir Section. The performances of this choir, popularly known as the Canyet Choir, immediately became an indispensable component of all the neighborhood’s festivals.
The Societat Coral l’Oliva also became a prominent center of theatrical activity. In 1925, the Drama Section of the organization was created, which would bring together a good number of fans from the neighborhood and which would gradually consolidate over the years, to the point of having the collaboration of the painter and set designer Antoni Ros i Güell and such renowned actors from Badalona as Enric Borràs or Joaquim Grífol.
The Museum preserves the organization’s two banners in its collections.
Banner of the Oliva de Canyet Cultural Society
First quarter of the 20th century
Velvet, embroidery and trimmings
114 x 72 cm
Inv. MB 10411
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