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The Last Supper Party

An Evening of Poetry and Music with Lewis Jordan, Giovanna Lomanto and Lisa Graciano
Curated by Kimi Sugioka
At Temo's Cafe as part of the Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP)
Open Microphone to Follow

Date(s) & Time(s): Sat. December 7, 6:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes w/ intermission
Location: 3000 24th St, SF, CA 94110

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The Last Supper Party Performance Series
The Last Supper Party is a monthly spoken word and music performance series inspired by Fe Bongolan’s landmark painting of the same name; a 200 sq. ft. canvas that covered one wall of our office when we were housed on Sutter Street during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Last Supper Party presents the voices of diverse artists and writers who call out the myriad injustices and impacts of corruption, unchecked power and greed.

We invite our audience to share ideas and find inspiration in the thoughts and words of artists whose perspectives are drawn from a kaleidoscope of cultures. But who are united by compassion and a common desire to seek justice, equity and truth.

On even months (October, December, February, April and June) The Last Supper Party will be part of the Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP).

The Story of The Last Supper Party Painting
“1985. Ronald Reagan was still President. The global movement to end apartheid and free Nelson Mandela from Robben Island Prison was underway. In San Francisco homelessness was ramping up. The AIDS pandemic was taking down swaths of our city’s population: friends, family, and co-workers. Yet a whole other world of class and wealth did nothing while the rest of our world was in trouble. Sitting in my studio in an Inverness cabin, I stayed with my paints and let something happen. It was there that I found my artist’s voice to not attack directly, but to let the exposure of that apathy – bred by a society that embraced greed over humanity—do the work.

Forty years later, with all that has changed and not changed, it is painfully unsurprising that this painting still shouts.

~ Fe Bongolan

About the Artists

Lewis Jordan
Lewis Jordan is a saxophonist and poet, playing to scale walls, working to build bridges. He explores forms of creativity and expression through improvisational and interdisciplinary approaches, working with artists from a range of practice: dance, poetry, theater and music, presented in his Music at Large series. Lewis continues to seek performers who strive to honor their traditions while speaking to the urgency of the present. His influences stretch from the music of Leadbelly, Mingus and Ayler to the words of Cummings, Hughes and Krishnamurti. He brings the transformative nature of human collaboration to all his projects.

Giovanna Lomanto
Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and dog costume contest judge (ask her about it), who has published three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and an art book with various small presses. A recent MFA graduate from New York University, she currently serves as the co-publisher of the independent press Game Over Books and the lead curator of LitQuake’s QTBIPOC event series. Her work can be found at SFMOMA, KQED, and the bookshelves of her friend’s homes. 

Lisa Graciano
Lisa Graciano is a singer, songwriter and guitar player with extensive experience in performing live. She grew up in 3 South East Asian cities, and immigrated to the Netherlands with her mother when she was 22 years old. She spent some of her formative years in the alternative music scene of Manila, before moving to Amsterdam where she played the European folk, jazz and blues music circuit. She now lives in Oakland, and leads the gamelan-infused band Purnamasari. She is a self-proclaimed citizen of the world and cultivates the Earth identity. View Lisa's website HERE.

Kimi Sugioka (Curator)
Kimi Sugioka is a poet, songwriter, and educator. She is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Alameda, a post that includes creating platforms for the presentation of a diverse variety of poets and spoken-word artists. Kimi also performs her own work frequently throughout the Bay Area. Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley, California, Kimi has worked in public education for decades, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Fe Bongolan (Creator of The Last Supper Party Painting)
Fe Bongolan is a Bay Area visual and performing artist. She is an alumnae of San Francisco State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Crafts and Design. She found theater arts in her last year at SFSU, and to this day it consumes her life. After working as an actress with Asian American Theater Company and Teatro Campesino, in 1992 she began work with the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, immediately involved as an artist from the community working alongside Rhodessa Jones in helping women inmates from San Francisco County Jail write their stories for performance. In 28 years with the Medea Project, Fe developed as actor, writer, dramaturge and assistant director to Rhodessa, helping inmates and ex-offenders find their voice and develop their writing for performance in jail, the community and main stage.


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