Reneltta Arluk
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Website: https://akpiktheatre.com/reneltta/about
Photographer: Nahanni McKay
Reneltta Arluk is Inuvialuk, Dene and Cree from the Northwest Territories. Her first written work, TUMIT, is a one-woman play exploring personal relationships and breaking generational cycles. TUMIT, meaning tracks in Inuvialuktun, takes her gift of storytelling one step further. She is a writer that has contributed to several anthologies as a playwright and poet.
Inspired by creating with the Treaty 6 Territory of Frog Lake First Nation in Alberta, Reneltta Arluk developed a practice she terms Protocol and Play. Protocol and Play is not a “how-to” guide but dialogues a process in progress allowing for continuous questioning on how to be better and do better for Indigenous communities and the stories they hold.
Founded by Reneltta Arluk in 2008, Akpik Theatre is a northern focussed Indigenous theatre company that adheres to its namesake, the cloudberry, striving to flourish in the northern climate it reflects.
