On January 16th, 2010, the audience at Café Deux Soleils was amazed, amused, and educated by the first installment of The Vancyclopedia Show. There were accordion sing-a-longs, eye-opening slideshow presentations, and of course, poems, including several by the fabulous host, Robbie Q Telfer.

Now Chicago-based Robbie Q is back with a new installment of The Vancyclopedia Show, the Vancouver edition of his much-lauded Encyclopedia Show. This 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 Vancyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent loving kindness. 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.

(photo: Robbie Q Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, co-creators of The Encyclopedia Show)

The topic for this – the 2nd installment of the Vancyclopedia show – will be: The Moon.

“The Encyclopedia Show is a monthly mash-up of performance — stories, poetry, music, comedy, tragedy and all the rest – centered on a topic. Each month’s topic (bears, explosives, the moon) binds together an otherwise eclectic showcase of the city’s sharpest tacks and brightest bulbs.” – Gaper’s Block