In between work as a harm reduction peer educator with AVI Health and Community Services, Shae is a visiting Artist in Residence @drugcheckingvi storefront Substance, keeping the windows along Cook Street looking beautiful. The murals were started by the late @darcie.dark, who painted different window art every month for two years. Check out Darcie’s radical Care Bears on her Instagram page! Since Darcie’s death in 2022, Substance has been bringing in different artists for three-month residencies. Come on down to Substance to check out the latest mural and get your drugs checked – there’s a province-wide warning out right now about medetomadine, a potent veterinary tranquilizer that’s turning up in the down and causing heavy and dangerous sedation.