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A photo from the 1920s. A woman, sitting on a rock face, looks wistfully into the distance. The following words appear: "The Archive of Missing Things, online game version, Hold on Let Go, Vancouver, February 5, 2025).

“The Archive of Missing Things was founded in order to collect, catalogue and store all missing objects that are in the world. The Archive was built around a secret.”

The Archive of Missing Things is a web-based game, inspired by Zuppa’s critically acclaimed live show of the same name. You sit at a long table, one of several players attempting to uncover the correct path in an online gamebook. You have 90 minutes to find The Heart of the Archive. You will have to be observant... and lucky.

On December 5, HOLD ON LET GO audience members will explore the web-based game on their own laptops in Vancouver's Russian Hall. This special Zuppa presentation is made possible in part by The Canada Council for the Arts.

An alleyway with mossy stones.
A mirrorball, hung in a corner, casts hundreds of shining points of reflected light along the wall and ceiling.