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

Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis
Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis is a writer, visual artist and peace, justice, anti-war activist. Lorene was born in Ramallah Palestine where she lived for five years before immigrating to the US with her family in 1964. She writes poetry, prose short story, sci-fi, and children’s books. Lorene is a widely published poet with poems published in19 print anthologies. She self-published a 48-page poetry chapbook in 1987 and has 4 poems published online in Ladige Review-Californian Poets Feature-Part 3 and an interview. She is currently completing two anthologies of her life’s work and is seeking publication of an historical fiction children’s book about ancient Jericho. Lorene has been performing poetry readings in the SF Bay Area and beyond since the late 80’s when she performed her first important reading with Lebanese/Greek poet, writer, and world-renowned visual artist, Etel Adnan at Small Press Traffic on 24th and Guerrero in the Mission District, SF. View Lorene's website HERE.

Nyree Young
Nyree has participated in various musical endeavors for the past 12 years in the Bay Area. She is a singer-songwriter who plays acoustic guitar, bass, djembe, and a number of percussive instruments. Nyree is on a path creating space for all of us to connect back to our ancestors, nature and back to each other using her voice, sound and vibration in hopes of continuing healing in the world. 

Shizue Seigel
Shizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer, visual artist and community activist based in San Francisco. As founder/director of Write Now! SF Bay, she has supported 500+ writers and artists of color since 2015 through workshops, readings and publications. Shizue will be reading from her new poetry collection about relationship across class, race, generation and religion, “Courting A Man Who Doesn’t Talk.” View Shizue'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.