Laakkuluk

Laakkuluk is an award-winning  filmmaker, performance artist, poet, actor, storyteller and writer based in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance that involves storytelling and centers three elements: fear, humour and sexuality. Laakkuluk describes uaajeerneq as both a political and cultural act and an idiosyncratic art form. Upon giving her the 2021 Sobey Award, the award jury said that her “performance practice courageously defies preconceived notions through embodied lived experience.” The Governor General describes Laakkuluk’s work as “advocating for gender equality in creative spaces and…encouraging Inuit to share their stories.”