Arts & Culture

Discover our vibrant city.

Enjoy a live theatre performance at one of our venues, step into our past to learn about Surrey’s heritage, and explore our art and museum exhibits.

Credit: Nicolas Sassoon’s Liquid Landscapes at Surrey Art Gallery’s UrbanScreen (located at Surrey Civic Plaza). Photo: Brian Giebelhaus

A view of the UrbanScreen art display at Surrey Civic Plaza

Major events & festivals

Surrey produces several major events every year, including Party for the Planet, Surrey Canada Day, Surrey Fusion Festival and Surrey Tree Lighting Festival. 

Fusion Festival

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  • Surrey's cultural venues
  • Indigenous and public art
  • Surrey's heritage sites

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A large crowd attending Surrey Canada Day in 2024
Jun 19

Your Surrey Canada Day 2025 Guide: 10 Must-Dos

Child reading a book titled "Art Monster Book"
Jun 17

Imagining our Stories at Family Art Party

grass digital film
Jun 12

Longtime friends share experimental and process-based arts practices through cyanotypes, film, photography, and more

woman on a bike
Jun 12

Surrey Civic Theatres Presentation Series 2025/26

Jun 3

National Indigenous Peoples Day in Surrey

Art gallery piece of folk art
Jun 2

Gallery’s 50th anniversary tells stories of the collection’s beginning and current moment

rainbow crosswalk
Jun 2

Pride Month

Outdoor artwork exhibit in the Surrey Civic Plaza at night time
May 15

Outdoor artwork at Surrey Civic Plaza reimagines BC landscapes through visual sleights of hand

4 individuals at an art gallery in discussion and laughing
May 9

Surrey-based art collective and professor team up for tour & reading

Black and white image of two rusty, beat-up cars on either side of a large tree in a grassy field with a fence to the right and a large hill in the background.
May 1

Juried art exhibition opens at Surrey Art Gallery for a summer showcase of local talent

Ginalina
Apr 24

Surrey Civic Theatres Presents Surrey SPARK Stages: A Weekend of Performing Arts for Kids, May 23–25, 2025.

Visitors in a Tangled Thicket exhibition
Apr 15

Practice “slow looking” with exhibiting artists at the Gallery

Indigenous arts, crafts and culture at Museum of Surrey
Apr 15

Celebrate Indigenous arts, crafts and culture at Museum of Surrey

The Re-enactors troupe posing in front of a heritage barn
Apr 1

Performing artists in residence launches at Clayton Community Centre

Claire Moore, Illuminated Pods, 2025, paper, natural and plastic materials, motion sensor, filament lights
Mar 28

Mind and matter meet in Surrey collective art show

artwork depicting clouds
Mar 21

Outdoor artwork at Surrey Civic Plaza invites you to play in the clouds

"The Isle" artwork by Leanne Whynot, featuring a forest on the back of a sleeping bear
Mar 19

Surrey teachers give artist talk at Surrey Art Gallery

Youth celebrating the Surrey Steps Up 2025 event
Mar 17

Hundreds celebrate youth making a difference at Surrey Steps Up

Let's Hear It JUNOS Plaza Party
Mar 17

Surrey marks milestone with Let’s Hear It BC JUNOS Plaza Party

a woman in cultural dress performing at an event
Mar 14

Surrey awards over $617,000 in arts, culture and heritage grants

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