Saturday, April 16, the Asian Pacific Islander Sacramento Queer Coalition will host the APIQ Homecoming at Sacramento State in the University Union from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

APIQ Homecoming is a conference for members of the LGBT and API communities, as well as their allies that will honor the multiple, complex identities and shared experiences of many marginalized groups.

The event will feature 15 workshops, 14 speakers, five caucuses and a variety of performances and films.

Richard Carrillo is a Sac State alumnus who majored in business and is highly involved with the APIQ Homecoming event.

Carrillo said there is a GoFundMe page for anyone who would like to share, tweet and contribute additional funds to the event. Support for the API Homecoming will help cover the travel costs of speakers, food, parking, and promotional costs.

The event is open to the entire campus and community, and the cost of admission is $12.50 for students and $25 for non-students.

“We are happy to grant people scholarships to attend the event,” Carrillo said.

Traditional Hmong dance will open the event, and Filipino and Hmong food will be served.

The Ohana Dance Group will perform hula in the afternoon, and a movie about Hawaiian hula and transgender people who do not fit the gender binary will be shown doing hula in Hawaii.

Dee Lee, an artist, activist and organizer will be attending the event and will be speaking as the co-chair of the group Sacramento Hmong LGBTQIA.

Lee holds events as a way to connect and support other like-minded individuals.

“If wishes came true, I wish to end all forms of discrimination and gender-based violence,” Lee said.

Jade Phoenix Martinez, a trans-Filipina activist originally from Sacramento and who now lives in Los Angeles, will perform a poetry slam-style reading during the lunch intermission.

“If there is anything I want to achieve in this life, it would be to live my most authentic expression without holding back,” Martinez said. “To be an agent of change that forges a path ahead and leaves a trail behind for my kid and her generation. I want to plant seeds of resistance and liberation for my trans and gender non-conforming siblings. For my queer kin folk, I want to see the death of patriarchy.”

Prospective volunteers may sign up at http://tinyurl.com/APIQVol. For additional information, or to request a financial hardship-based fee waiver for the admission, email [email protected]