Meet Kip

Kip Alden is a genderqueer song leader and educator of Gaelic and Ukrainian ancestry, grounded in relational approaches to healing and collective liberation. They guide trauma-informed song circles of all sorts that centre connection, nervous system resourcing, and somatic awareness— spaces where voice becomes a tool for remembering, reclaiming, and reimagining. Drawing from nature-based education and politicized somatics, Kip supports individuals and communities to stay with complexity, cultivate resilience, and act from a place of grounded presence. Their ongoing offerings hold song as a communal practice for tending grief, nurturing joy, and resourcing each other through change. Deeply shaped by childlike wonder and queer ecology, the spaces Kip holds invite playful ritual and creative resistance to dominant narratives of what it means to be and belong — offering song as a way to weave new possibilities for how we can continue to show up for collective transformation.