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Please join us for the first in a series of dinner events where guests are invited to share paranormal experiences, urban legends, and personal stories while enjoying a delicious meal. This family-style meal will take place at a private residence in Whittier, CA. Details will be sent prior to the event. Tickets are $100 and include a 3-course meal, drinks and an original artwork (combined $150 value). Purchase tickets below.
PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is a series of happenings centered around the act of consuming food along with casual conversations of the supernatural. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural Summer Series of the Supper Club will take place at monthly installments throughout Southern California, with invited artists and creatives curating and preparing meals around selected themes. Participants will also receive an original signed print/menu as part of the ticketed event.
The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is part of the MexiCali Biennial’s Creative Fundraising initiative to fill gaps in funding from recent cuts to arts and humanities grants.
Email info@mexicalibiennial.org with any questions or concerns including dietary restrictions and substitutions before ordering.
PARA/normal Borders Supper Club #1: Land of Milk & Honey
This menu is inspired by the MexiCali Biennial 2022-2023 series, titled Land of Milk & Honey – a series that examined historical, cultural, and political relationships through topics relating to agriculture and foodways. April Lillard-Gomez, the organization’s Director of Special Projects and a classically trained chef, creates a menu reflective of her upbringing in Oklahoma through a selection of hearty, approachable, and a little bit kitschy courses. As a celiac, she has dedicated her passion for food into crafting gluten-free versions of classic Southern “granny-inspired” foods that are just as comforting as the original. The entire menu is gluten free and made in a dedicated gluten free kitchen.
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April Lillard-Gomez is a curator, writer, and program director of the MexiCali Biennial. As a member of the Biennial’s curatorial team, her research and writing on borderlands art and history have featured in numerous exhibitions and catalogs, as well as the Biennial’s recently published research guide with the Library of Congress. She serves as lead grant writer for the Biennial, which has received numerous awards from sponsors such as the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and California Humanities. A classically trained chef, Lillard-Gomez also organizes food happenings and events across Southern California, including the pop-up dinners “A Feast for Calafia” and “The Island of California.” Originally from Oklahoma, she is based in Los Angeles and co-runs MXCL BNL LAB, the Biennial’s new dedicated research facility and exhibition space.