Artist Spotlight: Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk’Luk’l

Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island
1 min readOct 12, 2017

Luk’Luk’I : Mother

“A full-time mother and part-time sex worker goes missing on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the 2010 Winter Olympics. This narratively sophisticated and righteously angry commentary on social neglect is set against a backdrop of glib patriotism.”

More about Wayne Wapeemukwa https://nowtoronto.com/movies/tiff2017/luk%E2%80%99luk%E2%80%99i/

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Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island

Journalist, author of the Portia Adams Adventure series, Podcaster at Ada’s Sisters who teaches at Ryerson and the University of Toronto.