Green College Presents

 

Salon Three - Feb 2nd Troubling 'Normalcy'

Reception Room, Green College, 7:30 to 10:30pm

7:30-7:45
Welcomes, CCFI Director, Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Canada Research Chair, Professor Peter Seixas, Department of Curriculum Studies, and S4DAC Artistic Director and Unruly Salon Artistic Director, Mr. Geoff McMurchy

7:45-8:15
Prof. Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto, OISE, “Disability Studies and the Art of Theorizing the Normality Genre”

8:15-8:45
Prof. Rod Michalko, New College, Equity Studies, Disability Studies, Equity Studies, University of Toronto, “Too Much and Not Enough:  Disability and the Problem of Excess”

8:45-9:45
Lynn Manning, Actor, Los Angeles, CA, performs excerpts from his critically-acclaimed play, Weights, which he has performed at the Kennedy Center. Lynn Manning is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, and former Blind Judo Champion of The World.  He accomplished all of this after being shot and blinded in a bar fight at age twenty-three.  In WEIGHTS, his autobiographical play, Manning brings the listener into a world of sound through storytelling, poetry, music and the rhythms of life around him.

9:45-10:30
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.

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