The Last Supper Party Performance Series
The Last Supper Party is a spoken word and performance series inspired by Fe Bongolan’s landmark painting of the same name; a 200 sq. ft. canvas that was displayed in our office when we were on Sutter Street.
The Last Supper Party is curated by Alameda Poet Laureate, Kimi Sugioka. The series 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 bread 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.
The 2024-25 season of The Last Supper Party will take place at Temo's Cafe at 3000 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110. The series will run on the first Saturday of the month from October - May at 6:00pm.
On even months (October, December, February and April), The Last Supper Party will be part of the Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP).
For artist biographies, to RSVP for a performance and more details on the Last Supper Party painting, click on the highlighted dates below.
Saturday October 5, 2024
Susana Praver-Perez
Stephanie Sherman
Madeleine Zayas
Saturday November 2, 2024
Taneesh Kaur
Kato Bisase
James Seigel
Saturday December 7, 2024
Lisa Graciano
Giovanna Lomanto
Lewis Jordan
Saturday January 4, 2025
Clarisse Kim
Frances Ancheta
Tadeh Kennedy
Saturday February 1, 2025
Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis
Nyree Young
Shizue Seigel
Saturday March 1, 2025
Elmaz Abinader
Mimi Gonzalez
Michael Holmes
Saturday April 5, 2025
Paul Flores
Rita Lackey
Loa Niumeitolu
Saturday May 3, 2025
Duane Forrest
Fernando Marti
Susan Dambroff
To see past individual web pages and the full line-ups of the first three seasons of The Last Supper Party go to THIS LINK.
To watch videos of some of the past performances at The Last Supper Party go to THIS LINK.
Poets, Spoken Word Artists and Singer-Songwriters interested in presenting their work at The Last Supper Party, send an email to [email protected].
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.
Thirty six years later, with all that has changed and not changed, it is painfully unsurprising that this painting still shouts.”
~ Fe Bongolan
Biographies
Kimi Sugioka (Series 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.
