The last 12 months have forced us to "stop, collaborate and listen" (word to Vanilla Ice) as we work toward a new normal. As the field embraces "green" touring, deeper community engagement, and artists as partners, how do we evolve the residency to maximize the impact and minimize the environmental toll?

This conversation, held as part of WAA and Arts Midwest’s partnered online 2020 conference, centers Indigenous ways of knowing, being, creating, engaging, and presenting – practices that, we are reminded, have evolved over millennia: As Nadine McDonald-Dowd put it: “We’ve kept this country strong for 60-odd-thousand years, we’ve survived colonization.”