Stay at "La Tempera"
We welcome artists, writers and creative professionals all year round, for periods ranging from one to six months.
Each resident organizes his or her own schedule and activities, with opportunities to get together for meals, movie nights, yoga sessions, hikes and trips to explore local sites.
Art spaces
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LA TEMPERA
ARTIVITIES & WORKSHOPS
2025
La Tempera Art Residency, in collaboration with the visual artist and performer Malvina Tsiora, is hosting a variety of inspiring workshops and retreats for the Summer of 2025, related to Body Movement Practices and Visual Arts. ♒︎
Gatherings are taking place in June during the weekends, for either one or two days, and in July a whole week retreat, as the highlight of the season. 𓄼𓄹𓄼𓄹
Regarding the two-day workshops, the fees for accommodation and meals are extra and optional, so “drop-ins” are always welcome; still it is necessary to reserve your spot (until 10 May)
In case of interest for the retreat of July, all accommodation/food & workshops will be included in a package, as we aim to ensure a coherent atmosphere of intimacy and fidelity among the participants of the group/community.
The intention behind these gatherings is to create a web among artists from different places and backgrounds, as well as to interact, explore and create collectively on the spot, on the base of authenticity and care in nature. ๑
Inspiration is a collective matter and what we contribute as individuals may have a powerful and healing impact on the community.
For more info & for confirming your spot please contact:
malvii2@hotmail.com
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(+30) 694 648 2412 - What's App
*Reservations until 10 May ⸙
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Spaces and rates
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Paul Eluard Space
Bright, airy loft (8 m high) with terrace, 62 m² living room, two mezzanines (13 and 20 m²), two bathrooms and two bedrooms. Ideal for 2 to 4 artists: illustrators, designers, architects, scriptwriters, writers.
Price for one month: €1,350 for 1 person, €1,800 for 2 people, €20 per night per additional person (maximum 4 people).
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Claude Monet Space
A 100 m² duplex (60 on the first floor and 40 on the first floor) with a garden-view terrace, suitable for painters, illustrators, storytellers, researchers and writers.
The whole is rustic and functional:
First floor: a 60 m² studio with a kitchenette and a wall for stapling papers and canvases (2 x 2.5 m).
First floor: a 40 m² attic studio (5 m high), bathroom and separate toilet.
Beds can be installed on both floors.
Price for one month: 1000€ for one person, 30€ per night per additional person (maximum 2 people).
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Cezanne space
Espace Cézanne is a space for painters, writers, illustrators and acoustic musicians on the second floor of the Blue Tree House.
The wall for painting is 5.45m long by 2.45m high, overlooking a quiet garden, with bathroom and toilet, ceiling height 6m, with wood-burning stove, ideal for quiet people recharging their batteries. Internet connection is good.
Price for one month: 800€ for a single person.
Giotto Space
Detached 18th-century house with garden, 45 m2 painter's atelier, kitchenette, upstairs bedroom-office with en suite bathroom & garden.
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Shared Spaces
The Library (63 m²): reading and study room, exhibition and stage.
The Living Room (30 m²): projection and conversation room next to the shared kitchen.
The Garden
1/2 hectare including communal gardens and outdoor spaces for events and artistic activities.
ARTIVITIES & WORKSHOPS
2025
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1 JUNE BALL GAME & PERFORMANCE PRINCIPLES
A workshop related to the principles of presence “on stage”, aiming to explore, among others, the ways of relating within a group while performing.
A playful method, created by a well known physical theater group, that intends to introduce “performance” as a way of interaction, involving individuals in a constant state of Responding and Reacting while “acting”.
[Part 1: Ball game]
[Part 2: Movement and Improvisation partitures]
*Ideal for performers and anyone seeking to develop non-verbal
communication codes within a group - no previous experience required
Duration: 5 h
Participation fee: 50€
Min people 5 - Max 15
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7 - 8 JUNE TRANSITIONING ๑ BODY LANDSCAPES
A gathering for Body*Movement Practices related to “Somatics” methods and “Contact Improvisation” principles.
A course that intends to bring individuals in touch with our own bodies and from that state in contact with other bodies. “Somatics” is an umbrella that embraces many embodiment techniques, that come from different teachers and practitioners. What they have in common is that they work through experiential anatomy, by bringing the focus of attention to the oversight of the body. Somatics may be, among others, a useful tool for performers. Through movement and Active Imagination, we observe how our bodies move and react, any patterns that may arise, while slowly reaching the primal source of movement.
In the second stage, we will explore some principles regarding Consensual Contact and Instant Composition through contact, creating embodiment dialogues and discovering new potentials of expression & communication.
*no previous experience required - although it is very welcome.
Duration: 2 days – 12 h
Participation fee: 130€
Accommodation: 75€ (3 meals included)
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14 - 15 JUNE DREAMS OF VACANCY & ACTIVE IMAGINATION
A research that aims to create some space for our dreams. Inspired by the wonderful work by Gaston Bachelard “The poetics of space”, we are integrating such resources, in order to reveal the symbols and archetypes of our own sub-conscious space.
Through Automatic Writing, Movement, Active Imagination and Drawing we will record and capture stories from within our depths.
For the Aboriginals and other Indigenous Peoples, Dreaming is an objective and at the same time a collective process. Nothing is separate, everything is a temporary node within a process of flow. Such an approach allows access to interpersonal creativity and to a deeper understanding. When working with the concept of “Dream Time”, we engage with the side of ourselves, that has access to the collective intelligence.
*Ideal for all kinds of artists or non-artists.
Duration: 2 days (10 h)
Participation fee: 140€
Accommodation: 75€ (3 meals included)
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21 - 22 JUNE BODIES OF WATER - Workshop & Exhibition
A course about fluidity. Inspired by the amazing work of Hydro-Feminist Astrida Neimanis, we are diving into the qualities that water carries, through guided movement, rooting to “Somatics” as well as “Physical Theater” principles. By reconnecting with the element of water, we re-member and re-late in the base of care, through Movement, Drawing, Instant Poetry and Composition.
* What if we think of embodiment as watery? Maybe then we might experience ourselves less as isolated entities and more as oceanic eddies. Water just allows other things to be. Nor passive nor aggressive state nor same nor different but sharing. It holds. It allows to flourish. It sustains. It cares. Water is between bodies and off bodies before us and beyond us but also very presently this body too. It holds things in relation.
from “Bodies of Water”
by Astrida Neimanis
Duration: 2 Days, 10 h + Exhibition
Participation fee: 140€
Accommodation: 75€ (3 meals included)
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29 JUNE GATHERING FRAGMENTS - Ceramics Workshop
Clay as the “Earth-Element” - Creation as a Sensory Experience.
Ceramics stand as the oldest form of artistic expression in human history. Clay has been one of the primal sources of creations, shaping everyday-projects as well as building habitats, being used as the very base. This gathering is a calling for re-collecting some fragments of the past in order to form and transform the present, by observing the attitude of the element itself, and experimenting with potentials such as flexibility and vulnerability.
*no previous experience required
Duration: 4h
Participation fee: 50€
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12 - 18 JULY 4 & MORE ELEMENTS IN MOTION
The 4 elements are forces of transformation in any kind of creative action.
In this course we are going to dive into their different shapes and qualities, as they manifest in the landscape within and outside our bodies.
We will explore ways and waves of motion, that fire/water/air/earth+ bring and carry. We will map and locate them in our physical state, in order to move them, experimenting through Instant Composition / Performance / Poetry / Painting / Sculpting & more.
This is a call for all kinds of artists, with the aim to share an interartistic experience with what is already there, yet waiting to unfold.
Duration: 7 Days (40 h)
Participation fee: 325€
Accommodation: 210€
Meals: 140€ (x3 meals & snacks)
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Malvina Tsiora
I am coming from the world of Visual Art. I have graduated as a painter from the Fine Art University in Athens, Greece, while I followed a six month training course at ArtEZ university in Netherlands , related to Performance art and painting. Since my graduation (2017) I work as a freelance artist, participating in group projects as well as in solo art exhibitions. At the same time I am building creative and educational workshops for kids related to painting and for adults when it comes to body movement practices. The last years find me involved in several groups, seminars and trainings related to Performance, Physical Theater, Contemporary dance, Contact Improvisation and “Somatics” methods, experimenting with different ways of relating and improvising, broadening the potentials of an inter-creative experience. As a woman and as an artist I support, among others, community living, informal states of education and creation in the base of inclusion, consent communication and care.
La Tempera Rules
Your space will be allocated to you on arrival, and the other buildings are private.
Please leave the premises in the same state of cleanliness as when you arrived.
We ask you to use energy sparingly (for example, to turn off lights when you leave a room), in the interests of the environment.
For supplies, Entrains-sur-Nohain is 4km away (Wednesday market) and Clamecy 20km away (medieval town with all shops) and Etais-la-Sauvin (grocery store).
If the artist doesn't have a car, he or she can borrow one of La Tempéra's bicycles and be driven by one of the venue's permanent members, within reason.
After 10 p.m., please ensure that the venue is quiet.
La Tempéra accepts no pets (except fish), drugs or alcohol, with the exception of table wine.
Getting there
By train
Take the train from Paris (Bercy station) to Cosne-sur-Loire (1h40, multiple trains per day). We can come pick you up at the station in Cosne-sur-Loire.
By car
"La Tempera" is located in Château-du-Bois, a hamlet 5 km from the town of Entrains-sur-Nohain. You can find us on Google Maps here. The drive from Paris takes about 2 hours.
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Address: 6 route des Vilnots, Château-du-Bois, 58410 Entrains sur Nohain, France
Email: latempera.contact@gmail.com
Tel: +33 6 37 09 66 60
