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

About the Artists

Marvin Flores
Marvin is a Chicano poet, teaching artist, and community organizer who won the 2024 Youth Speaks Bay Area Slam and went on to represent the Bay Area at the national youth slam in Washington, D.C. His work centers on bringing poetry to under-served and underrepresented youth in the South Bay, with the goal of launching a youth slam specifically for local voices. Marvin also started Los Jaguares, a student-led organization at Foothill College dedicated to political education, advocacy, and holistic community support. Los Jaguares addresses the spiritual, physical, and mental well-being of Latino students by providing opportunities for students to become involved in their local communities. Marvin is also the first ever poet laureate of his college campus.

Ann Bennetsen
Anna is a multidisciplinary artist who develops her craft at the Youth Art Exchange (YAX). In addition to being a poet, Anna is also a singer-songwriter, musician and photographer. She first joined YAX through the darkroom photography class in the spring of 2025 and believes YAX to be an amazing environment for her to grow as an artist and a person.

Jazzfrancisco
Jazzfrancisco (guitarist Jackson Moran and clarinetist Nathaniel Vincent) perform original compositions and jazz standards interpreted in the style of Django Reinhardt. 

Nathaniel Vincent
Nathaniel Vincent is a multi-instrumentalist and improviser. His primary focus is clarinet, but he is also proficient in other wind instruments and enjoys experimenting with new sounds and ideas.

Jackson Moran
Jackson is a senior studying English Literature at San Francisco State University. He is expected to graduate in December 2026. Jackson has also worked at San Francisco Zoo & Gardens where he gave educational lectures on zoology and biology and facilitated interactive activities for the public.

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.