Brick Goes to the Theatre
Presented by Brick, A Literary Journal
Brick’s Summer issue explores performance and the written word with a new radio play from Anne Carson and reflections on art by Ronna Bloom. We’re paying tribute to the new issue and its intrepid forms with a special event at The Theatre Centre.
Ronna Bloom and Erica H. Isomura will share from their pieces in the issue and readers Celia Green and Sara Jaffri will debut Anne Carson’s “Oh Buster.”
Join us for a lively evening of readings, as we bring the literary and theatre communities together!
Check out Brick 117!
Brick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on.
RONNA BLOOM is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, selected with an introduction by Phil Hall, published in 2023, and In a Riptide published in 2025.
ANNE CARSON is a poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor who was born in Canada and now lives often in Iceland. Her books include Eros the Bittersweet, Autobiography of Red, Nox, Wrong Norma, and many others.
ERICA H. ISOMURA is an interdisciplinary artist-writer who was born beside the Stó:lō (Fraser River). Her practice is rooted in community and craft, combining paper art, bookmaking, printmaking,
writing, and mixed media with land-based and critical diasporic knowledge. Erica earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Guelph.
Readers for Anne Carson’s “Oh Buster”
Celia Green’s practice includes choreography, writing, performance, and facilitation. They create highly physical performance that often explores bodily sensation, mess, and the pursuit of freedom. Celia also occasionally works in film doing performance and movement direction.
Sara is a box office representative at the Theatre Centre and has performed for live theatre, film, percussion and voice overs.
July 24, 2026
6:30pm
No Registration required. This is a Free event!
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