Through creative acts and community building rituals we re-make the world
kristen j. a. sison
k / bones / bonesthrown
taking up the practice of deep listening,
Co-Director of Rooted And Rising
Founding member of Kapwa Collective + Conscious Minds Co-operative.
Editor + curator of Womxn and It’s Bigger Than All Of Us.
Forever bookwitch ✧
Kristen currently lives by a creek beneath a cedar grove, on the unceded territory of the Sinixt people, in a little mountain town in the southern interior of BC. She grew up in Scarborough, the east end of Toronto, on Dish With One Spoon Wampum Treaty Territory. Her ancestral lineage roots back to the islands currently known as the Philippines.
In 2025 Outsiderness was released, a personal documentary by Carlo Alcos, a 2nd-generation Filipino-Canadian whose parents immigrated to BC in the early '70s. The film wrestles with questions of identity and belonging. She played an Associate Producer role for this project. @outsiderness_doc
K hosts That Primordial Feeling, a weekly show on Kootenay Co-op Radio every Monday from 7-8 pacific. Listen at 93.5 FM on radio dials in Nelson, + stream live at https://www.kootenaycoopradio.com/
Some ways I can be of assistance:
Lately I’ve been assisting other artists and healers with website creation. Connect with me if you’re seeking support with this! A client called me a website doula, which feels right :)
I also have 10+ years of experience collaboratively building community spaces grounded in shared values. Spaces of practice, experimentation, vulnerability. I’m keen and curious about: movements that inspire a greater sense of wholeness, that dance towards our shared responsibilities; being in right relationship with land + water + the many nations —*both human & more-than-human—to whom we are connected across all points in space and time. Dropping into the body, living well through the liminal, and the evolution of consciousness are continued points of curiousity :P
I offer respect to the teachings of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, and seek to embody my responsibility to this covenant. The Dish With One Spoon Wampum asks us to peaceably share the resources, waters, and gifts of this beautiful land and its abundance of fresh water. I commit to doing my part to uplift the true intentions of these treaties. I know I am not growing alone, and that we are wiser when we learn to work together.I give gratitude to the Anishinaabe, Peoples of the Longhouse, the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the Petun — Original Stewards of the lands and waters I grew up on. I honour the continued presence, active resistance and wise leadership of the first peoples across Turtle Island, and across the globe, backwards and forwards in time. I honour our first teachers: our more-than human relatives & kin — Water + all elementals, the Plant Nations, Animal Nations, Tree Elders, Rocks + Winds. May the work I do serve as medicine on our shared path towards sovereignty and liberation.