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On Your Block Multicultural Festival

Tipperary Park, 315 Queens Ave, New Westminster, BC V3L 1K1
On Your Block is about bringing communities together to promote unity, celebration, and togetherness. Embracing ourselves and the diverse talents and cultures within our communities. It will also be about building new friendships as well as reconnecting and nurturing old ones. There will be plenty of food trucks, live music, entertainment, local vendors, arts and crafts, and activities for everyone to enjoy.

River Basin Days

Come sail away with the Fraser River Discovery Centre! This month we’re headed to Jerry Sulina Park in Maple Ridge to build our very own nature boats! We’ll explore what kinds of objects float, scavenge for building materials, and learn a few simple boat-making techniques. Then, we’ll watch our boats set sail on their inaugural voyage

TD Uptown Live

The TD Uptown Live Street Party is an annual, free family-friendly event that features live music on multiple stages, a beer garden, 30 food trucks, over 40 artisan vendors, and interactive activities. There are three performance stages and an acoustic space on site where artists entertain. TD Uptown Live covers more than six full city blocks in the Uptown business district of New Westminster around Sixth Avenue and Sixth Street. There is no shortage of things to do and areas to explore while circulating through the event site. 3 Stages | Family Activities | E-Gaming Zone | Beverage Garden | Artisan Market | Food Trucks For full stage schedules and artist biographies visit our website www.UptownLive.ca The Edgar Development Main Stage: Features some of BC's best local artists playing a variety of genres from pop rock, world beat, indie rock, rock, and funk. The PC Urban Next Gen stage to be a love letter to the diverse, modern, up-and-coming musicians in the Lower Mainland. This stage will feature artists who sit in the pop, R&B, and modern funk realm. The Prospera Electronic Garden : TD Uptown Live will be debuting a brand new Electronic Music Stage with Dusk2Dawn Productions. Come and enjoy high-energy electronic funk and fusion music on a world-class audio system with incredible local talent that is sure to get you moving. The Royal City Centre Acoustic Lounge : Featuring acoustic sets from talented, young, local musicians and singer songwriters.

12th Street Festival of the Arts

Festival of the Arts will take place between 11:30am to 5:00 pm; creating a car-free corridor for local residents and visitors to explore “A street fair to celebrates the character of a neighborhood and it retail merchants”. Our 12th Street festival of the Arts will have multi-cultural vendor booths displaying their creative arts for sale, particularly our ethnic foods and 2 stages of entertainment and activities for the kids. Allowing us all to experience 12th streets differently for a few hours. This day forms part of the City of New West-supported Street festival event and will be the long awaited one last held in 2014. We invite you to come and join in the fun! The Festival of the Arts aims to help connect you all to our multicultural merchants and community, encourage us all to use alternative modes of transport, support local businesses and expose people to healthy and creative ways of using streets as public space for a day of recreation. Kindly note, from 8th down 12th Street to 6th Avenue be closed from 9:30am to 7:00pm. Alternative routes include 8th Avenue and 6th Avenue which are open to traffic.