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The Last Supper Party

The Last Supper Party
An Evening of Poetry and Music with Avotcja, Andreína Maldonado and Esperanza Cabrales curated by Kimi Sugioka and presented in collaboration with Cocina Mayah.

We invite our audience to share ideas and bread and find inspiration in the thoughts and words of artists and writers 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.

About the Artists

Andreína Maldonado
Andreína Maldonado is a Venezuelan-born singer, songwriter, and multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. As the founder of BienStar Consulting and a co-founder of Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds, she brings music, movement, and storytelling into spaces of community care and social change. She co-leads the immigrant-led Latin fusion band INTI MYSTICA and works with Coro Nueva Era, a choir of immigrant women and workers whose songs carry stories of migration, resilience, and collective hope. Rooted in her Venezuelan heritage and deeply shaped by the Bay Area’s vibrant communities, Andreína creates performances that invite audiences to move, reflect, and celebrate together.

Esperanza Cabrales
Esperanza Cabrales is a queer, nonbinary Xicanx spoken word and multimedia artist based in unceded Muwekma Ohlone lands, also known as Oakland, CA. They're a poetry writing workshop facilitator and organizer for Rich Oak Events, which hosts the Berkeley and Oakland Poetry Slams. They have performed throughout California, with the honor of having been in the Queer Cultural Center's Creating Queer Communities L1 cohort, culminating in a poetry showcase at the 2024 Fall National Queer Arts Festival. Their work, ‘A Non-Controversial Poem’, was published in the 2025 edition of La Raiz Magazine.

Avotcja
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is an award winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist and a popular Bay Area DeeJay & Radio Personality. She is the founder/Director of “The Clean Scene Theater Project (AKA) Proyecto Teatral De La Escena Sobria”. She continues to teach Creative Writing, Storytelling & Drama in Public Schools and thanks to the California Arts Council she was also an Artist in Residence at the Milestones Project & San Francisco Penal System. Avotcja is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization), PEN Oakland, California Poets in the Schools.

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.

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. 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 (February and April) 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

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.