Muine Bheag Arts invites artist collectives, duos, and collaborative groups to take part in Distro: Live Publishing, an experimental, DIY publishing studio hosted in the Muine Bheag Community Centre as part of COMMUNE from 15th - 25th August 2025.

This is a shared space for temporary collaboration, a place to explore what it means to publish collectively, test ideas in real time, and make work in public view. There’s no theme and no required outcome, just a focus on peer-led collaboration, DIY, and experimental approaches to making and publishing.

Each selected group will be allocated a timeslot on one of the available dates (18th, 19th, 20th August) where they will have access to:

• Work together in a shared, peer-led context

• Explore publishing as process

• Test ideas publicly, in full form or unfinished

• Leave behind traces: a zine, a test print, a diagram, a bundle of notes...

Your contribution, whatever shape it takes, will become part of a temporary exhibition curated by Chloe Maguire, unfolding as a living archive of collective publishing practices.

Equipment and materials will be provided but please feel free to bring your own too!

Deadline to apply: Friday 4th July at 5pm