Name: Last Supper Party. An Evening of Poetry and Music with Paul Flores, Rita Lackey and Loa Niumeit
Start: 2025-04-05T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-05T20:00:00-07:00
Location: temos coffee

Last Supper Party. An Evening of Poetry and Music with Paul Flores, Rita Lackey and Loa Niumeit

The Last Supper Party Performance Series
RSVP: https://www.sfiaf.org/lsp_apr_5_2025
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