CHF Chicago Humanities Festival

ABOUT Encyclopedia Show

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. Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent loving kindness.

ABOUT Shanny Jean Maney

Shanny Jean Maney is a performance poet and teacher. With poet pal Robbie Q Telfer, she co-founded The Encyclopedia Show, a radical literary reading/spectacular which now runs in venues all across the globe.  She and Telfer continue to curate the the original show in Chicago.  She also co-curates the Ear Candy open mic/music/poetry slam series in glorious Normal, IL.

Shanny lives with her husband in central Illinois.

ABOUT Robbie Q. Telfer

Robbie Q. Telfer is a touring performance poet, having been a featured performer/reader in venues across North America and Germany, most recently with the spoken word experience The Junkyard Ghost Revival. Previous work appears in the American Book Review, Octopus Magazine, and cream city review. He lives in Chicago, where he curates the Encyclopedia Show and is the director of performing arts for Young Chicago Authors, a not-for-profit that gives creative writing opportunities and mentorship to Chicago teens.