« La chasse aux lettres » is an interactive reading experience composed of a series of fictional letters, taking readers from one letter to another across the city of Thetford Mines. Throughout the post-apocalyptic fiction, readers find themselves in a mid-spring, desolate version of the city, intimately accompanying the protagonist and his quells about the world he navigates, and his quest to find survivors within it.
The second edition of « La chasse aux lettres », a series of post-apocalyptic fictional letters, offered readers two activities in one and the same edition; that is, two different ways to read and experience the story. Throughout the city of Thetford Mines, letters were displayed in numerous public settings as they had in the event’s inauguration in 2022, allowing readers to navigate the story and the city in a rally-styled fashion. In the Hôtel du Domaine, again in Thetford Mines, these same letters were exhibited in a conference room as though an art gallery, allowing participants to read all the letters from the same room, with only mere steps separating the letters.
This edition of « La chasse aux lettres », a series of post-apocalyptic fictional letters on a desolate world in the wake of a pandemic infection, will take place at the Concordia University, more specifically at downtown campus’s library, LB room 6.19, on September 27, 28, 29 and 30. The activity, here only presented in the art exhibit format, will be available to all Concordia students and members of the general public (hours to be announced soon), and will be offered at a “pay what you wish” system, so participants can select a payment option that corresponds to their financial situation. Food and beverage options will be served at the location at specific times until supplies last, more information will be announced soon on social media accounts.
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