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The Last Supper Party

The Last Supper Party
An Evening of Poetry and Music with Tureeda Ture Ade Mikell, Tony Aldarondo and Sara Biel curated by Kimi Sugioka and presented in collaboration with Muddy Waters Coffeee & Lounge.

We invite our audience to share ideas and bread and find inspiration in the thoughts and words of artists and writers 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.

About the Artists

Colleen Shoshana McKee
Colleen is the author of seven books of poetry, memoir, and fiction, including her latest book, Feeding Ghosts, a queer, Jewish story about grief, friendship, and food. Her book Routine Bloodwork was a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Award. Colleen Shoshana teaches English to creative writers and immigrants, who are sometimes the same people. ColleenShoshanaMcKee.com.

Olga Zilberbourg
Olga's English-language debut Like Water and Other Stories (WTAW Press) explores multicultural identity, bisexuality, and immigrant parenthood. Zilberbourg's writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, World Literature Today, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Chicago Quarterly Review, Confrontation, and elsewhere. Born in Leningrad, USSR, in a Russian-speaking Jewish family, she has published four books of fiction in Russian. She lives in California where she co-facilitates the San Francisco Writers Workshop and, together with Yelena Furman, runs Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former USSR.

Timothy Goodspeed / The Soapbox Salute
The Soapbox Salute is a project that aims to bring attention to injustices in our world. From the wars we wage, to our neighbors sleeping on benches, to the children in concentration camps nothing is off limits. Timothy Goodspeed uses his striking songwriting to draw in the listener with vivid imagery and striking melodies to call in even the most stone hearted to melt with empathy. 

Timothy is a musician, teacher, and father living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Learn more at Thesoapboxsalute.com/links

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.

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 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

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.