The Last Supper Party is a free-admission monthly spoken word and music series curated by Kimi Sugioka and presented by San Francisco International Arts Festival(SFIAF). The series runs every third Wednesday at 7:00pm. This month Last Supper Party is featuring Zara Jamshed & Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem

Event URL on SFIAF website: https://www.sfiaf.org/2024_lsp_jan_17

RSVP Link: https://www.sfiaf.org/20240117

BIOS

Zara Jamshed (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani-American poet from NYC living in Oakland, CA. Their debut full-length poetry collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize, and is available now with Game Over Books. Zara is a Periplus Collective fellow and has had their work supported by Anaphora Arts, Asian American Writer's Workshop, Open Mouth Literary, Queer Ancestors Project, Still Here SF, Sundress Academy for the Arts, THEYFRIEND, and VONA. Putting their engineering degree to use, they currently work to bring the economic and environmental benefits of solar energy to California’s low-income renters.

Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem is a writer, artist, educator, and activist. She is a visionary and key contributor to arts and social justice initiatives in the Bay Area and beyond. Her first poetry collection is “Hot Thicket” with Black Lawrence Press. She writes about generational trauma and resilience, her Lebanese and Arab American identity, and many of her works shed light on systemic inequities like gender-based violence and poverty. Cassandra illustrated “Basho’s Haiku Journeys” a children’s picture book about the Edo period poet Matsuo Basho. She holds a BA from California Institute of Integral Studies and MFA from California College of the Arts.