City of Surrey's 2022-2026 Financial Plan

PARKS, RECREATION & CULTURE

EDUCATION & CULTURE

• Received UBCM Award of Excellence in Service Delivery for the “ Urban Forest Resources for Outdoor Learning ” project. These resources support Surrey teachers to use our parks as rich learning environments while fostering a greater awareness of the importance of stewardship among their students; • Introduction of the Surrey Art Gallery Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry Summer Exhibition: This multimedia installation takes visitors back in time to Japanese Canadian farms in the twentieth century prior to WWII. These farms would later lie abandoned and were then sold to support the construction of internment camps during WWII when the government forcibly removed Japanese Canadians research with these collected stories of farm life, Autumn Strawberry weaves together a series of short vignettes imagined through a 60-minute hand-painted and digital from the west coast of British Columbia. Combining archival

• Virtual Party for the Planet: The livestream was successful in spreading environmental education and awareness of City initiatives and generated positive interactions between viewers with over 3,400 social media engagements. Virtual Party for the Planet was the winner of the City of Surrey’s Employee Excellence Award for Collaboration between Departments; • Surrey Civic Theatres Summer POP! Performances Outdoors in Parks: To bring arts experiences to residences while public health orders required theatres to be closed, Surrey Civic

Theatres created an outdoor performance series working in partnership with Surrey Parks.

Performances were presented by 24 professional organizations presenting work created by 115 artists. Tickets sold: 1,800 with 17 of 31 performances sold out;

animation projected onto the Gallery’s walls and screens;

Summer POP! Performances Outdoors in Parks Event

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