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is an upcoming workshop and portable archive toolkit, designed by Reuben Brown as part of club [construction], originally developed with support from and as part of Outburst Queer Arts Festival 2025; Belfast, at the Black Box; Belfast. “From The Same Night” is both a portable archive and a DIY ephemera-making toolkit, designed as part of club [construction], an ongoing research project by Reuben Brown. Each toolkit is housed in a stamped paper record sleeve with a protective cellophane cover, 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 these materials to create their own zines, engaging with the histories, absences and narratives embedded in the source material. Zines have long been used to share ideas, document communities and circulate stories outside of mainstream channels, their DIY-nature makes them an accessible and immediate way of working; quick to reproduce, easy to share and open to experimentation. In the context of club-culture, they echo the same spirit of resourcefulness and collaboration that has shaped Irish dancefloors, allowing history to be recorded, remixed and passed between hands.
While each toolkit contains more or less the same selection, the act of cutting, collaging, annotating and reconfiguring produces distinct and personal reimaginings 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.