Grandpa Stories

Currently in Development for 2027

Reneltta Arluk is Urban Ink's 2014-2015 Artist in Residence, she is an actor/playwright/director and Artistic Director of Akpik Theatre. Videographer/Editor - Kevin Tseng ktseng0629@yahoo.com

Grandpa Stories that Archie recorded have been transcribed, digitized and cleaned up by Meriläinen Müsic for the next process in the audio telling Reneltta Arluk is putting together. The intention is to commission Métis composers to score his stories for a single guitar and offer a song in return. More details to come.

Tookoolito

Tookoolito

Tookoolito started guiding at fifteen for fishing boat captains, and explorers. In 1860, she met Charles Francis Hall. He was looking to hire an Inuit guide to help locate Sir John Franklin's remains. A deep friendship grew that greatly influenced each other’s lives. This friendship was not without its conflicts.

Reneltta is writing a play about this, virtually unknown, national icon of Canadian history from the perspective of a modern Inuk woman writing about a then modern Inuk woman.