DAMBANA FACILITATOR 2023
Kristen Jordan Alaan Sison
Kristen Sison (www.bonesthrown.com) is a Filipina woman born in Scarborough, Toronto on Dish With One Spoon Wampum Treaty Territory. She is a community choreographer + artist-healer in the community arts and climate justice realms, storytelling ways of embodying reverence.
A founding member of grassroots groups Kapwa Collective, Conscious Minds Co-operative, and Rooted and Rising, she has been devoted to creating intergenerational spaces for decolonization and communing with the sacred. In these ways, she believes we can empower communities to re-imagine and live into yummy thriving futures(now). She edited and self-published Womxn (2016) and It’s Bigger Than All Of Us (2021) featuring the work of 50+ BIPOC artist-creators.
Kristen is currently living in Nelson, BC, on the unceded territory of the Sinixt, the Ktunaxa, and Syilx Peoples. For the past 15 years she’s been a deep witness and participant in Toronto’s now blossoming Filipino arts + culture scene. She was introduced to community art programming and exploration of her Filipino roots at 16 years old, and knows that introduction shaped the trajectory of her path as an artist.