Lao New Queer (LNQ) is a virtual art exhibition & showcase for LGBTQIA+ Southeast Asians across the world. LNQ marks the April New Year celebrated across South and Southeast Asia. 

When: 5-7 pm PST
Where: virtual 3D Hmong museum

This year, LNQ will be hosted in a virtual 3D Hmong Museum constructed by Chee Thao (pictured above). There will be two components: Art Exhibition + Art Showcase.

The Art Exhibition will feature work from 2D and 3D artwork displayed throughout the museum.

The Performance Showcase will feature performances and music. Work will be screened in the museum's auditoreum.

I will be selling my art and handmade goods at the Iu Mien Festival alongside many other Iu Mien vendors, community resources and small businesses. Learn more below!

Free admission and free parking!! Come join us for our second Iu Mien Festival 2023 on April 1, 2023 @ Hiram Johnson High School. Come learn and celebrate Iu Mien heritage. Our program includes Iu Mien Language competition, elected officials guest speaking, basketball & volleyball tournament, food vendors, resource booth, merchandise booth, live music, parade, and live dance.

I will be vending my art and handmade goods at Spring Into Wellness alongside many other LGBTQIA+ healing centered vendors, community resources and small businesses. Learn more below!

Join us on Saturday, March 25th, 2023 from 5-7 pm as we Spring into Wellness at the Sacramento LGBT Center!

Did you know the last week of March is National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week?

Compassionate Connections, Sacramento Filipinx LGBTQIA+, Love Liberated, and Sacramento LGBT Center will highlight community leaders, businesses, and non-profit organizations that serve Queer Trans (QT) Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) of Sacramento, CA.

We’ll have local food, goodies, wellness resources, and education inside the Sac LGBT Center building and parking lot. Let’s enjoy an evening of health and wellness!

This event is FREE to the community. Please be mindful that this event is QTBIPOC driven and we welcome allies.

If you support local, community-driven events that elevate the health and wellness of QTBIPOC in Sacramento, please consider donating.

A portion of proceeds will go to Sac LGBT Center, Sac Filipiinx LGBTQIA+, and Love Liberated of Sacramento to further sustain their efforts.

Iu Mien Community Services is hosting a cultural festival on Saturday, April 23rd from 10am-2pm at the Pannell Meadowview Community Center (see graphic for address). Join us for some free food, and cultural activities. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn more about local community orgs and their services and check out cultural vendors and their unique crafts/wares.

It’s Sagittarius Season and the middle mark of my Saturn Return so I thought I’d celebrate by hosting a cute virtual poetry reading + art show!

Grab a warm drink/a cozy meal and join me for a night of poetry + art in reflection of my journey thus far as an Ancestor-In Training while envisioning this next chapter of my path as a full-time artist/creator.

My reimagined + reclaimed name, Nying.Jae, is an embodiment of my evolution through continued creative healing. As I move forward in unraveling and peeling back layers, Nying.Jae feels like who I am, have been, and strive to embody at my core.

In honor of all of the above, I’ll be reading and discussing my full collection of poems, including a few lesser known pieces. I’ll also be showing art, new and old (some available for purchase!) and sharing forthcoming + in-the-works projects.

Topics/themes/ideas sure to be explored throughout this time together -- intersections of feminism + Indigenous identity as Khmu and Iu Mien women, femmes and folks assigned female at birth, belonging as perpetually displaced Indigenous Southeast Asian peoples of diaspora, culture keeping and culture shifting as second-generation and beyond, fatness, queerness, mental health, chronic pain and relationships to the body as firsthand survivors and inheritors of both ancestral wisdom and intergenerational trauma, reclaiming spirituality through art and muuuuuuch much more.

Banner image description: a full mid-day moon against a hazy, dusty, pink sky hanging over the tips of a lush, green jungle in Phongsaly, Laos. A gradient rust-red border contains orange, black and white text reading:
Nying.Jae aka J. Von Saechao
collected works
poetry reading + art show
[virtual]
12.15.21; 4-6pm PST

Tender Table is a monthly storytelling series featuring femmes of color and nonbinary people of color and their stories about food, family, and identity.