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Temperance Hall, South Melbourne (2025)

29/06/2025

🤑🤑🤑📣🗞⚠ One [1] day to go!!📣🗞⚠🤑🤑🤑

We need your help to pilot the 'Apartment Studio Residency' in 2026 – an opportunity for visiting national and international artists to live and work on-site at Temperance Hall, sharing their practices with the local community, alongside local artists working in the Front Studio Residency.

This will be the only live-in, on-site artist residency focused on dance and experimental performance.

Thank you in advance for anything you can give this end-of-financial year to help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall!

https://www.givenow.com.au/temperancehall

28/06/2025

🚨📣🚨2 days to go! 📣🚨📣

Help us to Reassemble Temperance Hall by supporting a return of the Front Studio Residency in 2026. Six Independent dance artists receive:
- A dedicated studio space for 2 months
- A $5000 artist fee
- Producing support
- A public outcome shared with the Temperance Hall community at a raw and vital early stage
- Professional documentation.

Private donations have huge practical and symbolic impact on our operations. Any amount is helpful!

27/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨3 days left!🚨🚨🚨

Can you help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?

With your support, we will:
- Embed the Front Studio and the Apartment Studio as permanent artist residency spaces
- Set up the Apartment Studio with dance flooring and furniture
- Make a new website that archives the remarkable legacy of work at Temperance Hall since 2016, and builds visibility for what’s next.

Private donations make a huge impact, and they strengthen the viability of every other funding source we pursue. Any amount is helpful!

https://www.givenow.com.au/temperancehall

22/06/2025

"Last night I woke up again outside the Galerie Schmeler. A German man with a strange face was carrying around a soft object, pointing out images and lowly whispering to it. The accursed shareholder of the accursed share- a recently deceased hare.

"I pressed my ear to the glass hoping to take part in this teutonic tour of modern art, but was surprised instead to hear the hare explaining one of the most beautiful experiences of my life to me- recounting it in lurid detail."
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Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident, Geoffrey Watson shares his work 'The Story Of The Hare' across two outcomes; an EXHIBITION (open studio) Sunday 29th June 6pm, and a PERFORMANCE (work-in-progress) Sunday 6th July 6pm.

'The Story Of The Hare' is a dance about this moment. During Geoffrey's Front Studio residency, he has been working across dance, robotics, object design, text and music. With collaborators Mara Galagher and Bob Jarvis, Geoffrey has used the extreme luxury of this time and space to explore the expression of a fantasy over as many disciplines as he can manage.

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'The Story Of The Hare' will be presented in two different outcomes over consecutive Sundays:
- EXHIBITION (open studio) – Sunday 29th June 6pm
This will allow audiences to see the inspiration material and objects that have informed the creation of The Story Of The Hare. This is an opportunity to see the Front Studio in action, hear about the future of Temperance Hall, and check out the new Apartment Studio.
- PERFORMANCE (work-in-progress) – Sunday 6th July 6pm
This performance will be performed by Geoffrey Watson & Mara Galagher.

Please join us!

https://events.humanitix.com/geoffrey-watson

19/06/2025

Can you help as we...literally Reassemble Temperance Hall?

📣📣 WINTER WORKING BEE ❄️❄️

Brrrr...time to generate some heat. On Sunday 13th July we are holding a Winter Working Bee.

Can you donate your time/sweat/muscle to help as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?

Join us for a fun and social day of painting, cleaning, gardening and tidying as we prepare to step into a new chapter at Temperance Hall!

How the day will run:
11:00-12:00pm — Registration + tea & coffee + assign team leaders & groups
12:00-4:00pm — "You Better Work"
4:00-6:00pm — Kick back and relax with a glass of mulled wine | Social Hour

REGISTER TO ATTEND VIA THE LINK IN BIO!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecFoMCu6PjkdFMP6ZdDAKIJdAr-syTiyGVvjJLplgYoPShXA/viewform

11/06/2025

Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident, Geoffrey Watson shares his work The Story Of The Hare across two outcomes; an EXHIBITION (open studio) Sunday 29th June 6pm, and a PERFORMANCE (work-in-progress) Sunday 6th July 6pm.

"Last night I woke up again outside the Galerie Schmeler. A German man with a strange face was carrying around a soft object, pointing out images and lowly whispering to it. The accursed shareholder of the accursed share- a recently deceased hare.

"I pressed my ear to the glass hoping to take part in this teutonic tour of modern art, but was surprised instead to hear the hare explaining one of the most beautiful experiences of my life to me- recounting it in lurid detail."

The Story Of The Hare is a dance about this moment. During Geoffrey's Front Studio residency, he has been working across dance, robotics, object design, text and music. With collaborators Mara Galagher and Bob Jarvis, Geoffrey has used the extreme luxury of this time and space to explore the expression of a fantasy over as many disciplines as he can manage.

_________________________________________________________

The Story Of The Hare will be presented in two different outcomes over consecutive Sundays:
- EXHIBITION (open studio) – Sunday 29th June 6pm
This will allow audiences to see the inspiration material and objects that have informed the creation of The Story Of The Hare. This is an opportunity to see the Front Studio in action, hear about the future of Temperance Hall, and check out the new Apartment Studio.
- PERFORMANCE (work-in-progress) – Sunday 6th July 6pm
This performance will be performed by Geoffrey Watson & Mara Galagher.

Please join us!

https://events.humanitix.com/geoffrey-watson

30/05/2025

A Case for ‘Temperance Hall Association Inc.’: A message from Temperance Hall Director William McBride

Last month, we officially registered our new organisation name as ‘Temperance Hall Association Inc.’; this month the Board appointed me as Director, after 12 months as the only salaried employee; and we will shortly sign a new 4-year lease with our landlords Working Heritage.

This comes 17 long months after we announced major funding losses and the threat of closure. It has been a slow and precarious journey to get here, but this month we have launched an EOFY fundraising campaign with the tagline ‘Reassemble Temperance Hall’ and I wanted to take the opportunity to explain what I think that means, and why I think it’s worth your investment!

See link in bio/stories to read the complete statement!

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The Board and I are creating a context for Temperance Hall that:
- Centres independent artistic practice
- Emphasises dance, movement and expanded choreographic art forms
- Provides opportunities for artists whose work may not find support in mainstream programming contexts
- Offers conditions of practice that are as uncomplicated as possible.

This work is already happening in 2025.

This year, we launched the Front Studio Residency, supporting 6 artists with a studio for 2 months, $5000 and a public outcome. Later in the year we will commission 3 artists to make and share new work. And we have supported hundreds of independent artists through space residencies and heavily subsidised venue hire. In 2026, we will launch the Apartment Studio Residency, using the on-site studio apartment as an opportunity for national and international artists to bring their practices to Melbourne. The goal is to have both studios in constant use, and a year-round program of public outcomes where these artists share their work with audiences.

Donations have been hugely consequential to Temperance Hall remaining open in 2025, and we have channelled that support, undiluted, to independent artists.

Thank you in advance if you can contribute to our EOFY fundraiser, and please share with anyone you think might be in a position to help us Reassemble Temperance Hall.

20/05/2025

Can you help as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?

We are here to stay – for the q***rs, for the misfits, and for Melbourne’s vast and brilliant community of dance artists.

Over the past 12 months, our staff and Board have worked to Reassemble Temperance Hall. With the help of key supporters, we have brought ourselves back from the brink and we are slowly but surely building something vivid and renewed.

Last year, generous and forward-looking supporters of Temperance Hall provided the financial investment that established the Front Studio Residency.

This year we have an opportunity to expand this program with the Apartment Studio Residency – offering Melbourne’s only on-site, live-in artist-in-residence program dedicated to dance and experimental performance.

The Apartment Studio Residency will enable Temperance Hall to host visiting regional, national and international artists, bringing diverse practices into direct conversation with local artists.

Beyond these residencies will be creative developments, showings, workshops – the building blocks of artistic practice, artform development and cultural creation.

The emphasis is on supporting artists at work – thinking, testing, practicing, failing, sharing, creating.

Follow the link in our bio to donate and Reassemble Temperance Hall.

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(Sound excerpted from Kevin Lo’s sound design for ‘Molly’ by Caroline Meaden. Dance ghosts include: Louie Rachael; Gabriella Imrichova; Chaire Leske; Kady Mansour; Michaela Tancheff; Tony Yap; Arabella Frahn-Starkie; Benjamin Hurley; Mara Gallagher; Alexander Powers; Ke Li; =w= (Jiawen Feng); Iris Elgar; Molly McKenzie; Gemma Sattler; Raina Peterson; Siobahn McKenna; Hamish McIntosh and collaborators (Isabel Estrella, Valentina Emerald, Zorp).)
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05/05/2025

Congratulations 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙚𝙣 on your outstanding residency outcome. It was really special to see this work in progress. Thank you everyone who visited Temperance Hall last week to watch and participate in 𝙁𝙡𝙪𝙞𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨. We hope to see more of Chung's work very soon.

𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

📸 Image credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

28/04/2025

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬!

Current Front Studio Resident, Chung Nguyen, presents 𝑭𝒍𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, a work-in-progress that combines dance, video and installation. A new collaboration with visual artist James Nguyen, this work explores the reciprocal relationship between human bodies, environmental trauma and healing.

>>𝐖𝐞𝐝 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥, 𝟕𝐩𝐦

10/04/2025

**𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃**

Current Front Studio Resident, Chung Nguyen, presents 𝑭𝒍𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, a work-in-progress that combines dance, video, installation and participatory practice. A new collaboration with visual artist James Nguyen, this work explores the reciprocal relationship between human bodies, environmental trauma and healing.

>>𝐖𝐞𝐝 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥, 𝟕𝐩𝐦

28/03/2025

Join Chung Ngyen, Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident, for a workshop exploring their embodied creative process, embryonic fluid spaces and relational touch ~

Limited places available. This workshop will provide unique insight into this artist's studio practice and hands-on experience!

Chung Nguyen (he/they) is a Vietnamese dance artist, somatic movement facilitator and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, with an interest in somatic and contemplative approaches to healing and performance.

>>𝐒𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟐 𝐀𝐩𝐫, 𝟐-𝟓𝐩𝐦

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