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Masala y Maiz: a conversation and gathering

with Saqib Keval and Norma Listman

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DATE: February 6, 2025 TIME: 11 am

LOCATION: LagoAlgo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City

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Courtesy of LagoAlgo.

On the occasion of Art Week in Mexico City, Active Cultures and LagoAlgo are pleased to present a program and gathering with activists and chefs Saqib Keval and Norma Listman, founders of the renowned restaurant group Masala y Maiz.

Moderated by curator Paola Santos Coy, the conversation will be followed by an intimate cocktail and snacks from the Masala y Maiz team.

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About the Artists

Paola Santos Coy

Paola Santos Coy is a curator and writer based in Mexico City. From 2012 to 2024, she held the position of Director at Museo Experimental el Eco, where she focused on exploring the intersections between art and architecture. Her practice is grounded in experimental approaches, emphasizing context-based initiatives, site-specificity, and...

Masala y Maiz

Saqib Keval and Norma Listman are the renowned chef-owners of the Masala y Maiz Group, an activist project in Mexico City that explores the migration of people, culinary techniques, political movements, and ingredients between South Asia, East Africa, and Mexico. The food is a mestizaje- an organic blending of cultures over...

About LagoAlgo

LagoAlgo is a cultural center located in the heart of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, dedicated to being a catalyst for positive change and regeneration within the community. It combines a sustainable restaurant, ‘Lago,’ with an all-access artistic zone, ‘Algo,’ managed by OMR Gallery. The center is housed in a renovated modernist building from 1964, designed by architects Leónides Guadarrama and Alfonso Ramírez Ponce, and later refurbished by Naso Studio. LagoAlgo brings together music, contemporary art, architecture, nature, and gastronomy, aiming to inspire observations on contemporaneity and our place in the future of the planet through culture and the arts.

Credits

Active Cultures’ programs this year are made possible through the generous support of its Board of Directors; the Gatherers Annual Fund; the Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA) Coalition; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan; the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture; and the California Arts Council.