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The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is pleased to present Public Space, a year-long transforming project founded on artistic and cultural collaboration. Over 2021, four artists will facilitate collaboration-based participatory and community-focused programming for underserved Durham Region groups and non-profit organizations. Currently installed within the VAC Loft Gallery, is Incubator - an art/mushroom incubator project by Sahar Te with the fabrication and sculptural hand of Nicolas Fleming.

From the earth we grow is a free sculpture garden located on the VAC grounds. Taking inspiration from untold, little-known, or oft-ignored BIPOC events, three artists will create interactive, challenging, and historically critical public outdoor sculptures. Couzyn van Heuvelen, Anna Binta Diallo, and Sandy Williams IV have been invited to present works in response to historically ignored histories within Canada's many diverse communities. The grounds are free to visit at any hour, access to the VAC building depends on opening hours (closed Mondays). The VAC building will be closed from December 20, 2021 until January 3, 2022.

Bodies in Conflict brings together three artistic practices that examine histories of bodily traumas associated with different ingestible substances. Through large-scale installations and video, artists will create several new site-specific installations that critically detail the historical and ongoing subjugation of historically oppressed communities through their relationship to specific in/organic consumed materials.