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The Encyclopedia Show presents Series 4, Volume 10: The Universe

The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each show. This month’s topic: the universe.

The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines 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.

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Recorded Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at the Vittum Theater.

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