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What does it look and sound like for a School of Music to make and hold space for Indigenous sound practices? Using a few personal case studies, Alexa Woloshyn will discuss the limits and possibilities of anti-colonial solidarity, especially through collaboration with Indigenous nations and organizations such as powwow drum group Thunder Nation and the Cold Spring Dancers from the Seneca Nation of Indians. She will highlight themes of joy, resistance, and resurgence while also acknowledging potential harms emerging from power  imbalances at academic and artistic institutions. Together, participants will reflect on what respectful and reciprocal relations can look and sound like for non-Indigenous musicians, educators, and scholars, like myself, in contrast to what Dylan Robinson calls "hungry listening" (2020).