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The Last Supper Party

An Evening of Poetry and Music with Paul Flores, Rita Lackey and Loa Niumeitolu
Curated by Kimi Sugioka
At Temo's Cafe
Open Microphone to Follow

Date(s) & Time(s): Sat. April 5, 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

Paul Flores
Paul S. Flores is one of the most influential Latino performance artists in the country and a nationally respected youth arts educator. He creates plays, oral narratives, and spoken word works about transnationality and citizenship that spur and support societal movements that lead to change. Flores' work has played all across the United States and internationally in Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador.

Rita Lackey
Rita Lackey is a Singer Songwriter and has a new album titled A Shot In The Dark. This collection of amazing songs includes, Need A Little Love and For The Children. Her music is a blend of jazz, r&b and originals that will captivate an audience. This talented Bay Area artist has performed at Yoshi's, Art & Soul Festival and for numerous special events. Currently, she teaches at Community Music Center in San Francisco, and conducts vocal workshops. Having performed all over the globe, Ms. Lackey brings to the stage a style like the early days of popular music. 

Loa Niumeitolu
Loa Niumeitolu is a Tongan poet, community organizer, educator and farmer.  Her writing appears in Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English; Homelands: Women's Journey Across Race, Place and Time; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought; Muliwai: Hawai'i Review: Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures and BBC Scotland. She reads and performs her poetry often in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ohlone Territory, and internationally, in-person or online. She is also a frequent poetry workshop facilitator.

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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