Babette Santos

Babette Santos is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Cultural bearer who is passionate discovering deeper parts of oneself, their identity, and their spirit in storytelling through movement arts, music and expressive arts Inter-modality techniques.
They are dedicated to developing spaces in decolonizing through arts to organize with community to heal, build strong relations, allyships, create greater visibility for IBPOC, LGBTQ+.

2024 Kapwa Arts Facilitator Kids, Youth and Adults at Collingwood Neighbourhood House

2017 Expressive Arts Therapist in Langara College's EXAT Expressive Arts Therapy program

2017 Artist training for schools Artstarts: Artstarts Integration Lab.

Babette is a performer artist Kathara Indigenous Pilipino Arts Collective Society an artist specializing in Pilipino indigenous dance, music and martial arts movement.

They advocate for peace and justice through Indigenous arts in festivals,conferences, fundraisers with partnerships with organizations and schools in the Unceded Coast Salish Territory.

Babette is gateful for the relationship building on Unceded Coast Salish Territory that centers on Pilipino indigenous idea of Kapwa(interconnectedness) many expressions of art making, traditional indigenous origins and contemporary exploring intersectionality, ancestral connections that unravel a deeper sense of self with another.