Lynn Manning 
Weights:  One Blind Man’s Journey
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
8 p.m.
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College, Syracuse University Campus

Weights is an autobiographical solo performance of poetry and spoken word by award winning poet, playwright, actor, and former Judo champion, Lynn Manning. In Weights, Manning recounts his experience of acquiring a disability after being shot in a bar at the age of twenty-three. Manning challenges racist and ableist assumptions and explores insights gained from marginality. Positioned at the intersections of race, gender, and disability, Weights is neither a solely a disability narrative nor a racial story: rather, it is a story about the tangle that we call identity. Along with an extensive list of TV and film credits, Manning has performed Weights nationally and internationally, including such venues as the Kennedy Center, The National Black Theater Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Manning has received three NAACP Theater Awards, including Best Actor.

Syracuse Symposium is organized and presented for the College of Arts and Sciences by the SU Humanities Center. For more information on other Syracuse Symposium events, visit http://syracusesymposium.org. 
 
Co-sponsors of this performance include SU Humanities Center; The School of Education; SU Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies; Cultural Foundations of Education; Teaching and Leadership Programs; the Music Education Program; the Department of Women's and Gender Studies; and the Department of African American Studies.

CART will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Irving Garage for a small fee. For more information on this performance, please contact Beth Ferri at baferri@syr.edu.

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