

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Well-RED featuring Arlene Biala & Rosanna Alvarez!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 13 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 13 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Well-RED featuring poets Arlene Biala &amp; Rosanna Alvarez!

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_January2026

Arlene Biala
POET, AUTHOR, PERFORMANCE ARTIST
Arlene Biala is a Pinay writer from the San Francisco Bay Area who has been participating in poetry performances and workshops for over 30 years. She is a 2023-2026 Lucas Artist Residency Fellow in Literary Arts at the Montalvo Arts Center and was Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County for 2016 and 2017. She is the author of continental drift, one inch punch, and her beckoning hands, which won the 2015 American Book Award. Her latest book, a thousand voices whispering, (November 2025) from Sampaguita Press is available at bookshop.org, Barnes &amp; Noble, and Arlene's tote bag.

Rosanna Alvarez
Rosanna Alvarez is a Chicana storyteller, educator, Aztec dancer, and visual artist whose work thrives at the intersection of cultura, creativity, and comunidad. A woman of many hats—literally and artistically—her practice spans poetry, performance, publishing, and handcrafted art that honors memory and movimiento. A silver medalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book of Poetry Award, she is the author of Braided [Un]Be-Longing, a collection that weaves poetry, testimonio, and ancestral echoes into a journey of healing and reclamation.

Her work has been anthologized and published across academic journals and community-rooted collections, including Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, the MALCS Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, Somos Xicanas, and Anger Is a Gift, among others. 

Through every medium, Rosanna invites others to dream, heal, and dismantle fronteras as we co-create a future rooted in dignity, humanidad, and collective joy.

She is also the co-founder of Eastside Magazine, the founder of Ocote Libre Press, and an Ethnic Studies educator at West Valley College.


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 &amp; 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 Blackbaud Giving Fund, 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 &amp; 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 &amp; Mark's Art Party for their generous giving.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, open-mic, parties, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 53

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: San Jose
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Works/San José, art and performance center
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- **full address**: Works/San José, art and performance center, 56 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95113-2500, United States

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- **organizer**: Poetry Center San José (https://allevents.in/org/poetry-center-san-josé/26009314)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 13 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Works/San José, art and performance center, 56 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95113-2500, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Poetry Center San José
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, open-mic, parties, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Well-RED featuring Arlene Biala & Rosanna Alvarez! ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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