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 Abdul Kenyatta, Idrissa Lattier, Kevin Dublin, Mia Pixley, and Thomas Laymon.
Event URL on SFIAF website: https://www.sfiaf.org/2024_lsp_jan_17
RSVP Link: https://www.sfiaf.org/20240117
BIOS
Abdul Kenyatta is the Executive Director of the Speakeasy Storyteller Series. He is an award-winning storyteller and spoken word champion, including the Dirty Haiku Champion at Tourette’s Without Regrets and the 2017 Bay Area Liars Competition. He writes for NPR and Snap Judgment, in addition to singing jazz and blues. “Have Stories, Will Travel.”
Idrissa Lattier is a StorySlam Oakland Star and president of Bright Futures Growth and Development Center, a nonprofit growth and development center serving students from pre-kindergarten through young adulthood.
Kevin Dublin a San Francisco-based poet and writer, is doing everything he can to keep the city’s literary culture alive. He leads a number of writing programs, including the Elder Writing Project, which brings creative writing classes to retirement communities across the Bay Area. He also hosts a community-building reading series, mentors under-resourced kids, spends his summers teaching writing at various youth camps and dreams of founding his own writing youth camp in San Francisco.
Mia Pixley, PH.D is a clinical psychologist, composer, performer, conservationist, mother, and avid distance swimmer, who explores the resonance between ourselves, the natural world, and the underworld. She has performed on GRAMMY award winning albums and alongside GRAMMY award winning artists on stage.
Thomas Laymon resides in Oakland by way of Detroit, is a lifelong learner and educator, and storyteller. While he’s new to the performing arts, Thomas aims to find the extra in the ordinary, to note the unnoted, and to mark the unremarked by sharing his “true story” life experiences. with whoever will lend their ears.