This week the Minister of Heritage is hosting a National Summit on the Future of Arts, Culture and Heritage Sectors in Canada. The Culture Shift spoke with Shannon Litzenberger (she/her) an award-winning dance artist, embodiment facilitator and cultural leader working at the intersection of art, ideas and transformational change about her upcoming article in The Philanthropist, ’State of Emergence: Why We Need Artists Right Now’, what recovery may look like and how policy can incorporate learnings from the pandemic. As a dancer and performance maker, Litzenberger's work explores our relationship to the politics of belonging, and the forgotten wisdom of the body. She has been an invited resident artist at Soulpepper, Toronto Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Atlantic Ballet Theatre, Banff Centre, the Remai Modern, and the Gros Morne Summer Music Festival. As a skilled freelance strategist, programmer, leadership developer, policy thinker and embodiment facilitator, she works with leading organizations in the arts, academia, and the corporate sector. She is currently a Program Associate with CPAMO; a guest facilitator at the Ivey Business School; a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Mentor; and a Chalmers Fellow, exploring the relationship between embodiment, leadership and social change. Her most recent work World After Dark was nominated for a 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award. www.shannonlitzenberger.com