This is the perfect summer venue for birthday parties, family reunions, and corporate events. With a full-service cabana and tent rentals available, you can sit back and relax as you and your loved ones have fun. Big Splash offers a fully licenced bar and patio, with delicious summer-inspired cocktails and ice-cold beers on tap!

With two eateries available on site you can enjoy summer favourites made in-house with burgers, pizza, salads, poutines, fish & chips and more! “2020 has been a difficult year for many, and we hope that Big Splash can make a difference. With safety in mind, we plan to open our water park this year at 35% capacity to allow families to enjoy the sunshine and have a break while working together to flatten the curve.

We want to thank our first responders for the hard work they have been doing and want to assure our guests that we will do everything to keep our facility safe for everyone.”- Tamara Tam, Director of Operations. To learn more about the safety precautions, directions to the park, hours of operation, ticket information, ride information and more, please visit our website http://www.bigsplashwaterpark.ca/home/

About Big Splash Water Park | Owned and operated by Executive Hotels & Resorts since 2017, Big Splash Water Park is a Metro Vancouver favourite, located in sunny Tsawwassen. Offering endless fun and water activities for people of all ages, the 7-acre resort-style park has 13 water slides to choose from.

Borrowers will also enjoy an extended due date of September 8 on newly borrowed materials. All materials returned to the library will be held in a 72-hour quarantine before being put back into circulation. Studies have shown that the COVID-19 virus can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel; therefore, the 72-hour quarantine will provide ample time to ensure that trace amounts of virus on books and other materials are eradicated.

With regard to reopening branches, the Library is taking a phased and cautious approach. “The health and safety of our staff and patrons is our top priority as we implement our reopening plans,” said Surinder Bhogal, Chief Librarian. “We have added safety protocols such as physical distancing, quarantining materials, proper hand hygiene, frequent surface sanitization, and installing plexiglass barriers at service counters.

We remain committed to providing as much service as possible. We’ll evaluate the Takeout service and may extend to other branches, and we’re working toward reopening some library branches after Labour Day.”

For people who enjoy digital materials, Surrey Libraries has tripled the number of eBooks and eAudiobooks ordered each month, substantially increased the size of the eSuperloan collection, and launched weekly titles available without holds for quicker access to new reading material and popular titles.

For more information, visit www.surreylibraries.ca/books-media.

From Drawing & Painting, to Mixed Media, to Cartooning and Comic Creation, we’re offering a mix of small in- person studio classes and online programs to provide young people with visual arts skills and techniques, as well as inspire new levels of creativity. We are also offering an online Drawing & Painting Intensive for teens (13-19) in August. In this program, artist-instructors will guide students in independent research into artists and history.

From that, inspiration and knowledge will inform students to create original works at home during online classes. Participants will also investigate the ideas in their work, while refining fundamental skills such as composition, design, and colour theory. In conversation with their peers, students will also explore and practice constructive critique.

We have reduced class sizes for our Junior and Teen Summer Dance Intensives. As always, this program features classes in ballet, character, modern, repertoire, and jazz with special guest instructors and Arts Umbrella faculty. These Intensives offer young dancers a comprehensive way to maintain fitness and prepare for regular classes in September.

The movie has been shown at several film festivals across Canada, included being selected for Vancouver’s 2019 Doxa Festival. He is thrilled that Standing on the Line is a part of Surrey Civic Theatres’ Online Pride Movie Night.

“I’m honoured Surrey Civic Theatres has chosen my documentary as the feature film, particularly as I am a new resident of the province, so to have my film presented like this, I’m so happy, because it makes me feel a part of things, and I’ve found the people of BC to be so welcoming. I love living here.”

All three films are presented with the kind permission of the National Film Board of Canada and can be seen on June 26 at 8pm on the Pride Movie Night Event Page

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Follow @SurreyCivicTheatres On Facebook or @SurreyArtsCtre on Twitter to learn more about the upcoming Pride Movie Night.

At Arts Umbrella, we believe every child should have access to an arts education. Over the past few months, our methods for delivering that education have been challenged. Without that human to human connection that we rely on to spark imagination, we’ve had to reimagine what it means to inspire creativity.

Like many arts organizations, Arts Umbrella has met the COVID-19 crisis with hope and innovation. We’ve brought classes online and shared prompts for at-home activities, but we also wanted to ensure that young people have access to the supplies they need to be creative – at home.

“Each year more than 7,000 young people access our donor-funded Community Programs at no cost,” says Paul Larocque, President & CEO of Arts Umbrella. “These programs were cancelled from March to June due to the COVID-19 crisis, and we wanted to find a way to provide for this vulnerable community during such a difficult time.”

With generous support from Opus Art Supplies, Arts Umbrella has delivered more than 200 art kits to children and youth at Kiwassa Neighbourhood House in Vancouver and through our Westminster Savings Artful Afternoon program in Surrey.

“Our primary focus is to support through inspiring, educating, and enabling the creative community,” says Tom James, President & CEO at Opus Art Supplies. “We see creativity as a basic need. People have physical, mental, and emotional needs, and we all want meaning and purpose. At Opus, we really feel that it’s foundational for children to be able to express their creativity.”

Natalie Moravek is the Childrens’ Program Coordinator at Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, where she oversees all out-of-school learning opportunities for school-aged children in grades K-5. Their immediate response to the COVID-19 crisis was to provide food security to the vulnerable members of their community. Since March they have been delivering weekly food hampers to 150 households.

“Once we had food delivery in place, we could turn our attention to other things,” says Natalie. “How do we stay engaged at home to lead healthy, balanced lives? People need more than food right now; they still need connection to people, they still need resources for outdoor play and creativity.

“During her weekly visits with families, Natalie found that their number one request was for physical supplies to engage their kids in creative activities, supplies they would normally access at school or through Kiwassa’s programs, but don’t have at home.

The Arts Umbrella art kits delivered to Kiwassa have now gone on to children of essential workers at two of their emergency child care sites. They have also gone to at-risk youth through Kiwassa’s street outreach, as well as to students who access the hot lunch program at the local elementary school. Some of the blank sketchpads are being used as journals to promote youth mental health

In Surrey, the art kits have been available for curbside pick-up to families who access our Westminster Savings Artful Afternoons program. Artful Afternoons is a free after-school program that provides at-risk children with a space and high-quality supplies to express themselves.