APTOS >> Everything is in place for this year’s sold-out TEDxSantaCruz event at Cabrillo College.

The conference’s first installment in five years, scheduled for April 13, features 22 professionals from various fields speaking about topics such as overcoming grief, climate awareness, listening to others and using our collective knowledge to help others. Additionally, it also has a slate of musical performers and food vendors to provide a little something for everyone.

This year’s performers include:

• August Lee Stevens, a Hercules-based singer-songwriter who blends soul, folk and indie rock and just released her debut extended play “Better Places.”

• Daniel Nemire, lead singer of the Santa Cruz band King Tide.

• Keith Greeninger, a Santa Cruz folk singer and storyteller who has won awards from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival and Napa Valley Folk Festival.

• Jase “Monk” Earl, founder of Afrobeats who combines the contemporary music of the African diaspora with deejaying.

• Samba Soul Dance Company, a local dance company that will be performing a Brazilian Samba dance led by director and coach Gisella Ferreira, the Samba Queen.

Additionally, Afrobeats and Samba Soul will be performing an afterparty 5 to 6 p.m. on the lawn near Crocker Theater.

“As with everything in this year’s ‘Rising Together’ theme, we focused on celebrating the power of collaboration and providing space for both emerging and established artists and tastemakers,” said co-producer Elana Solon in a statement.

The event will also feature food and beverages from Epoch Eats, Life Aid Beverage Co., My Mom’s Mole, Oli’s Cheesesteaks, Taquizas Gabriel and Cabrillo College’s Culinary Arts program.

TEDxSantaCruz was established in 2011 as an independent offshoot of the annual TED conferences that originated in Monterey in 1984 and became a global phenomenon, racking up millions of views on YouTube and other platforms with its TED Talks series that invite influential individuals to deliver addresses on modern issues and solutions that can be taken to address them.

TED has yielded many similar organizations, including TEDx, which also host events in a similar nature to TED but operate independently with a license from TED. Santa Cruz’s iteration was founded by former Cabrillo College professor David Warren and has hosted events in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2019.

The conference is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 13 at the Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College, 6500 Lower Perimeter Road, Aptos. Tickets are sold out, but people can request to be placed on a waitlist by going to Tedxsantacruz.org/events/">Tedxsantacruz.org/events/, where they will receive a follow-up email if tickets become available. There will also be a livestream on the TEDx main page at Tedxsantacruz.org the day of the event.