“From the Same Night” – DIY Ephemera Toolkit Workshop

A participatory zine workshop with artist Reuben Brown.

From the Same Night DIY Ephemera Toolkit is a portable archive, DIY ephemera-making toolkit, and participatory zine workshop developed by Reuben Brown as part of club [construction], an ongoing research project exploring queer club culture, memory, and archival practices.

Each toolkit is housed within a stamped record sleeve and contains reproduced club-culture artefacts, including flyers, floor plans, archival photographs, press clippings, and found graphics. While participants receive a similar selection of materials, each toolkit is transformed through cutting, collaging, annotating, and reassembling, producing distinct and personal interpretations of the archive.

The workshop begins with collective discussion around the materials and the ways counter-cultural histories are recorded, forgotten, or preserved. Participants are invited to consider who records cultural histories, what is deemed worthy of preservation, and how memory is shaped through fragments that move between people, spaces, and contexts. Through a process inspired by DIY publishing cultures, participants create their own zines while responding to prompts centred on nightlife, visibility, memory, and experiences that resist conventional documentation.

Designed as an accessible, peer-led environment, the workshop positions participants as collaborators and co-researchers. The resulting zines are gathered, scanned, and documented to form a temporary collective archive, revealing the multiplicity of queer memory and the impossibility of a single authoritative narrative.

Artist – Reuben Brown

Produced with support from Outburst Arts.