Name: Well-RED featuring Ellie Celine & Maria Garcia Teutsch!
Start: 2025-12-09T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Works/San José, art and performance center

Well-RED featuring Ellie Celine & Maria Garcia Teutsch!
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
38 South Second Street, downtown San José.
Open mic to start the show!
If you are unable to attend in person, we welcome you to join via Zoom! Register in advance for this event via Zoom.
Link: https://bit.ly/Well-RED_December2025
Ellie Celine is a Filipino-American poet who resides in the Bay Area. Her writing skills are better than her juggling skills, but ask her to juggle and she’ll do it.
Maria Garcia Teutsch is an award-winning poet, professor and experimental filmmaker whose work merges the lyric intensity of poetry with the visual language of cinema and stage. Her most recent poetry chapbook, What She Saw in the Lotería Cards was published by Bottlecap Press in 2025. Her cinepoem, The Blue Whale of Madness (2025) was selected as a semi-finalist at the Austin International Art Festival, Palermo International Film Festival, and Brussels World Film Festival. She is the author of the prize-winning collection, The Revolution Will Have its Sky, (Minerva Rising Press); and The Swallows of America (Dancing Girl Press). With a career steeped in curating literary journals (Homestead Review, published by Hartnell College in Salinas, and Ping-Pong journal of art and literature, published by the Henry Miller Library), she brings a uniquely cinematic eye to language. As founder of Ping-Pong Free Press and Poet Republik Ltd., she publishes and curates boundary-pushing literature and international poetry in translation. In 2023 she wrote and directed two one-act plays which premiered in Berlin, Germany. Her poetry has been featured in numerous publications, always offering emotionally resonant, visually charged storytelling and which are known for their surreal, image-rich worlds and hybrid narrative structures. Her poetry serves as the source material for her experimental performances and cinepoetic work. Her poem, “When I Write by Hand,” was set to music in the audio drama, “Waking Up.” www.poetrepublik.com
Downtown SJ provides free parking on the street after 6:00 p.m. Available street parking is difficult to find after 6:30 p.m.
If you are unable to find parking on the street, there are two parking garages of note:
1.) 25 S. 3rd Street PARKSJ Garage (located underground, under The Globe Apartments), about 300 meters from Works/San Jose;
2.) 2nd & San Carlos PARKSJ Garage (first 90 minutes are free). This is a 5-10 minute walk to Works/San Jose

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Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn), Knight Foundation, The Poetry Foundation, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant. We also thank Brandenburg Family Foundation and Anne & Mark's Art Party for their generous giving.