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The Last Supper Party

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

Kato Bisase
Kato Bisase is a Ugandan-American poet, essayist and short story writer who has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. His work dances with a wide spectrum of topics and tensions, among them: human depth in a cursory world, the African experience in the American context, the Black experience in non-Black spaces . . . and the beautiful anxieties conceived inside all of them. His writing can be found in Peach Magazine, PopMatters, Protean Magazine, and The Ana. View Kato's website HERE.

Taneesh Kaur
Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco. She is also a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her visual art has shown in galleries around California and has received praise from the Luxembourg Art Prize 2023. Her poetry appears in journals such and anthologies around the nation, most recently in great weather for MEDIA's Beacon Radiant. Her full-length poetic memoir, "Thawing," was published in 2024 by Collapse Press. Taneesh has a Master's in linguistics from San Francisco State University, and is currently an MFA student of poetry at University of San Francisco. More of her work can be found in English and Spanish HERE.

James Siegel
James J. Siegel is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of the poetry collections “The God of San Francisco” (Sibling Rivalry Press) and “How Ghosts Travel,” which was a finalist for an Ohioana Book Award. He is also the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. His poems have been featured in several journals including The Cortland Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, HIV Here & Now, The Good Men Project, and more. View James' 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.