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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

Raymond Nat Turner
Raymond Nat Turner, “The Town Crier,” is the Artistic Director of the JazzPoetry Ensemble UpSurge!NYC. Turner's appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival, KCSM's Jazz On The Hill, NYC's Vision Fest and Dissident Arts Festival. He's currently Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report and KPFA's "Talkies."

Tureeda Ture Ade Mikell
Tureeda is an award-winning poet, storyteller, activist, and U.C. Berkeley Bay Area Writing Fellow whose work has been presented nationally and internationally, from Egypt to China, both in person and online. Known as Story Medicine Woman among peers, and a Black Panther Party alum, Mikell has served as storyteller and poet-in-residence at countless cultural institutions including the Museum of the African Diaspora, Oakland Museum, Randall Museum, San José Museum of Art Invitational, the de Young Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences. She is the author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press), nominated for the California Book Award, and The Body: Oracle of Memory (Black Lawrence Press) recently placed in, The Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mikell is co-curator of the Patrice Lumumba Anthology with East Side Arts Alliance now anthologized internationally, her works are presently archived and recorded in San Francisco's infamous City Lights Book & Publishers, and is the recipient of Berkeley Poetry Festival's 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tony Aldarondo
Tony has performed music and poetry in venues throughout the San Francisco Bay area…and once while standing up on a JetBlue airplane! He is also an actor and a voiceover artist. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Big Heart Poet, We Are Poets, and his latest Poet On The Run. Tony loves performing poetry in venues with live audiences and his favorite thing of all his being the best dad he can be to his two awesome teenage kids.

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.