About the Artists

Grupo Folklórico del Asocación Mayab
The resident company of Asocación Mayab are Bay Area based Mayan dancers and musicians. They perform traditional dances in the Jarana Yucateca style. Women dancers wear the traditional terno dress that consists of a jubón, hipil and fustán. The men dress all in white with a typical guayabera shirt, hat and handkerchief. Grupo Folklórico del Asocación Mayab has performed throughout the Bay Area including at San Francisco City Hall and in Carnaval.

Grupo Folklórico del Asocación Mayab
La compañía residente de la Asociación Mayab está formada por bailarines y músicos mayas del Área de la Bahía. Interpretan danzas tradicionales al estilo jarana yucateca. Las bailarinas visten el tradicional terno, compuesto por jubón, hipil y fustán. Los hombres visten de blanco con la típica guayabera, sombrero y pañuelo. El Grupo Folklórico de la Asociación Mayab se ha presentado en toda el Área de la Bahía, incluyendo el Ayuntamiento de San Francisco y el Carnaval.

Susana Praver-Perez
Susana Praver-Pérez is a poet, visual artist, editor, and organizer of cultural events. Her debut collection of poetry Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (2022). Her second collection, Return Against the Flow, (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), was chosen by both Ms. Magazine and NYU’s Latinx Project as one of the best 30+ poetry books of the year and was awarded the 2025 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book of Poetry Award in 2025. Susana divides her time between Oakland, California and San Juan, Puerto Rico and writes through the lens formed in the liminal space between languages, cultures, and geographies.  

Susana Praver-Perez
Susana Praver-Pérez es poeta, artista visual, editora y organizadora de eventos culturales. Su primer poemario, "Hurricanes, Amoríos y Otros Desastres", recibió el Premio PEN Oakland Josephine Miles a la Excelencia Literaria (2022). Su segundo poemario, "Return Against the Flow" (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), fue seleccionado por Ms. Magazine y el Proyecto Latinx de la Universidad de Nueva York como uno de los mejores libros de poesía del año (más de 30), y recibió el Premio Juan Felipe Herrera al Mejor Libro de Poesía 2025. Susana divide su tiempo entre Oakland, California, y San Juan, Puerto Rico, y escribe a través de la perspectiva que se forma en el espacio liminal entre idiomas, culturas y geografías.

Norman Zelaya
Norman Antonio Zelaya is a native of San Francisco, California. His writing is inspired by his Nicoya heritage and his lived experience as a SF Mission District homeboy. He’s the author of two collections of short fiction, Orlando & Other Stories (Pochino Press, 2017), and most recently, Gente, Folks (Black Freighter Press, 2022). His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Apogee Journal, NY Tyrant, 14 Hills, and Cipactli, among other journals. Mr. Zelaya has read and lectured throughout California, and across the country. He’s also appeared on stage, in film, and in the squared circle as the masked luchador, Super Pulga. He lives and works in San Francisco, where he’s completing a debut novel.

Norman Zelaya
Norman Antonio Zelaya es originario de San Francisco, California. Su escritura está inspirada en su herencia nicoyana y su experiencia vivida como un homeboy del Distrito Misión de SF. Es autor de dos colecciones de cuentos cortos, Orlando & Other Stories (Pochino Press, 2017) y, más recientemente, Gente, Folks (Black Freighter Press, 2022). Su trabajo ha aparecido en ZYZZYVA, Apogee Journal, NY Tyrant, 14 Hills y Cipactli, entre otras revistas. El Sr. Zelaya ha leído y dado conferencias en toda California y en todo el país. También ha aparecido en escenarios, películas y en el cuadrilátero como el luchador enmascarado, Super Pulga. Vive y trabaja en San Francisco, donde está terminando su primera novela.

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

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.