the

encyclopedia

show

 
 

Brought to you from the minds of poets and producers Robbie Q Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent lovingkindness. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all. 

 

Welcome to The Encyclopedia Show:

Winner of a 2010 Orgie Theatre Award!

"We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that Slam couldn't fill.

I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition." 

-Robbie Q Telfer in TimeOut Chicago