Outburst presents FROM THE SAME NIGHT: Zine Workshop.

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Zines have long been used to share ideas, document communities and circulate stories outside of mainstream channels, echoing the same spirit of resourcefulness and collaboration that has shaped Irish dancefloors.

From The Same Night is a hands-on workshop and a DIY ephemera-making toolkit, designed as part of club [construction], an ongoing research project by Reuben Brown. Each toolkit comes in a stamped paper record sleeve, containing a curated selection of hand-made reproduced club-culture artefacts; flyers pulled from walls, archival photographs, floor plans, press-clippings and other traces of nightlife. Participants are invited to work directly with the materials to create their own zines, engaging with the club histories and narratives embedded in the source material. 

While each toolkit contains more or less the same materials, the act of cutting, collaging, annotating and reconfiguring produces distinct and personal reimagining’s of the archive. The resulting zines form a collective record, a set of parallel interpretations that speak to the multiplicity of memory and the ways nightlife is remembered, forgotten, retold, misremembered and rebuilt.