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The Last Supper Party
An Evening of Poetry and Music with Elmaz Abinader, Mimi Gonzalez and Michael Holmes
Curated by Kimi Sugioka
At Temo's Cafe
Open Microphone to Follow
Date(s) & Time(s): Sat. March 1, 6:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes w/ intermission
Location: 3000 24th St, SF, CA 94110
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Inaugural Last Supper Party
Full Interview with Fe Bongolan

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
Elmaz Abinader
Elmaz is an author and a performer. Her most recent poetry collection, This House, My Bones, was The Editor’s Selection for 2014 from Willow Books/Aquarius. Her books include a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon, a book of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams… which won the Oakland PEN, Josephine Miles Award. Her plays include Ramadan Moon, 32 Mohammeds, and Country of Origin, Elmaz is one of the co-founders of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices) a writing workshop for writers-of-color. She teaches at Mills College, is an instructor at the Oakland YMCA, and lives in Oakland with her husband Anthony Byers. www.elmazabinader.com
Mimi Gonzalez
Mimi is a comedian, writer, Pisces and feminist who happily farmed black walnuts for almost 20 years in the great state of Michigan. Prides, marches, cruises, colleges, hotel lounges, military bases, live theaters of combat, and of course womyn’s festivals are where she’s spent the past 30 years working in stand-up comedy. All of her comedy journals included poetry so she channeled her energy into an MFA from Mills College in Oakland and now she’s creating her own form of genre-blended/hybrid expression called “Punchlines & Poetry.” Recognizing the natural human need to express ourselves, Mimi’s facilitated generative writing workshops since 2010, expanding the container of creativity for all levels through her “Write Hear” writing workshops.
Michael Holmes
Michael (aka Michael Also) is a California native with an MFA in Poetics. Michael has worked in California public schools as an English teacher and more recently as a garden teacher. Songwriting has been his main form but poetry remains a consistent inspiration. With the help of Paul Corman Roberts, he recently created a chapbook of poems. The book is inspired by listening for voices from the land before colonization and the beacons of resistance and transcendence in the human and natural world.
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 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.