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. The November performance feature award-winning poets, Shizue Seigel and Tureeda Mikel. Songs and music will be courtesy of Cadence Myles. There will be an open microphone to follow and the event will include complimentary snacks and beverages.

Event URL on SFIAF website: https://www.sfiaf.org/2023_lsp_nov_15

RSVP Link: https://www.sfiaf.org/20231115

Artist Biographies.

Shizue Seigel is a writer, performer, educator and activist. Her work explores complex

intersections of history, culture and spirituality through prose, poetry and visual art. The child of

Japanese American incarcerates, she grew up in Baltimore, Occupied Japan, California farm

labor camps and skid rows. She draws on lived experience as an Army brat, the Haight-Ashbury,

Indian ashrams, corporate advertising, HIV prevention and the activist arts community. Through

her arts organization Write Now! SF Bay, Shizue supports writers and artists of color through

workshops, events and anthologies. Her eight books include five Write Now! Uncommon

Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism and several anthologies.

Tureeda Mikel (aka Ture Ade’ or Story Medicine Woman) is an award winning poet with her

work published in four languages. Tureeda has also been variously referred to as an activist for

holism, Djele Musa, Woman of Truths, Black Panther Alum, and word magician. Her

publications include, Synchronicity, The Oracle of Sun Medicine; nominated for the 2020

California Book Award, the Patrice Lumumba Anthology (in collaboration with East-Side Arts

Alliance, 2021). Tureeda is a Bay Area Writing Project Teacher Consultant at UC Berkeley

where she has published 72 anthologies with CA Poets in the Schools for at-risk youth. She has

also been the Eth-Noh-Tec Nu Wa Delegate storyteller in Beijing and the Museum of African

Diaspora 2022, poet in residence.

Oakland based multi-instrumentalist, singer and song-writer, Cadence Myles was born to make

music. She combines the styles and influences of Alicia Keys, Michael Jackson, Jill Scott, 311,

Prince and Usher and channels them into one human being. In addition to performing her own

work, Cadence co-hosts the Oakland QT Open Mic and The Brown Low.