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The Last Supper Party

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 (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

Carlos Baron
Carlos Baron A professional actor and story-teller, Carlos Baron is an expert in acting, directing and multi-cultural theatre. A childhood in Chile marked by both the lyricism of Pablo Neruda’s poetic legacy and the violence of the Pinochet regime flavors the experiences that Baron has brought to his writings over decades as an exile from his homeland. After studying sociology and theater arts at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Baron returned briefly to Chile to defend the Salvador Allende government, for which he was imprisoned. Upon returning to the Bay Area, in 1975 he helped to found La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley. La Peña provides, among other things, a cultural meeting ground for Chilean exiles. Baron was the center’s first cultural coordinator. Multiculturalism and Latino theater remain the primary interests of Baron, who was also the theater and dance coordinator for the Mission Cultural Center and founder of San Francisco’s Teatro Latino. As a professor of theater arts at San Francisco State University, Baron not only has helped to expand La Raza and multicultural studies at the university, but also directs the university’s Teatro Arcoiris, or Rainbow Theater, a multicultural theater workshop.

Paula Tejeda
Paula Tejeda is a native New Yorker of Chilean ancestry whose formative years between the United States and Chile granted her with unique bicultural insight and first-rate bilingual fluency in Spanish and English. Her multicultural insight is exceptional. Tejeda’s diverse professional and artistic background includes community outreach, event production, radio and television production, dance and theatre. She is a published columnist and poet. She also publishes a periodic newsletter focused on local and Chilean current events, and she is the founder and owner of Chile Lindo, a San Francisco Legacy Business.

Marcia Campos
Marcia Campos is a binational citizen, Chile-USA. After the 1973 military coup in Chile, she was a political exile in Mexico where she was active in the solidarity movement with the victims of torture and repression of the dictatorship. She worked at the National Institute of Anthropology and History achieving the position of Tenured Professor-Researcher of the graduate division of the National School of Anthropology. Upon relocation in California, Marcia Campos pursued a career in the field of Human Services having experience of multilevel advocacy and services for persons with developmental disabilities. She has a vast experience in public policy, migrants and legislative processes for which she was elected President of the Alameda Developmental Disabilities Council. Marcia has been an active promoter of human rights, international peace and nuclear disarmament. She is a regular contributor at KPFA radio and other media outlets in the Bay Area. She is co-producer of a documentary on the life and works of Fernando Alegría; Viva Chile…M! Marcia Campos was Fernando Alegría’s loyal companion and support in the last decade of his life through the moment of his passing in Walnut Creek, in October 2005.

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.