Surrey Pride festival moves back to Central City Plaza on June 20<\/p>\n
Published 7:30 pm Thursday, June 4, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey Pride\u2019s 2026 festival will return to Central City Plaza on Saturday, June 20 with a day of entertainment and rainbow-hued celebration.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s festival was held at Surrey Civic Plaza, outside city hall, but a Surrey Soccer Fan Zone will be busy there for a month-plus starting Thursday, June 11, for FIFA World Cup action.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re back to Central City Plaza this year, where we\u2019ve been before,\u201d confirmed Martin Rooney, a Pride fest co-founder.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Pride #27, and we\u2019re there (at Central City) until Pride #30, for the next few years, because we have a long-term deal with them,\u201d he added. \u201cOur 20-by-30-foot flag is once again going up inside the mall. That\u2019s a big deal, and there\u2019ll be a Pride flag pole on the plaza, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Festival entertainment this year features drag performers, DJ dance music, Music City Showcase artists, Matthew Presidente, Stephen Scaccia & The Pride Collective and more, from noon until around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be hosting and performing again, and we have a stellar cast,\u201d said Surrey Pride president Donald Crowe, who performs as Myria Le Noir. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing in impersonators from all over B.C., all with roots to Surrey, connected here, which we really like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crowe said the annual festival \u201cisn\u2019t political, it\u2019s a party\u201d that draws people and volunteers from around B.C.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople come to enjoy themselves, celebrate, and I\u2019m very excited to be part of it,\u201d he said during a Pride Festival kickoff event on Civic Hotel\u2019s rooftop deck May 28, days before vandals painted over the rainbow crosswalk at nearby Holland Park.<\/p>\n
Rooney said the Surrey festival is a safe place to celebrate Pride.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to be very cautious moving forward about how the political environment ends up turning out here in Canada,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just have to look south of the border where they\u2019re de-trans-ing everybody and they\u2019re ripping rainbow crosswalks off streets and not allowing Pride flags to fly. It just brings back all those haunting memories of the early fight for civil and equal rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Look for the festival schedule, event sponsors and City of Surrey proclamation of Pride Month on surreypride.ca<\/a>, or check facebook.com\/SurreyPrideBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSkye Avenue & Lounge, our food and beverage sponsor, will have their patio open for reservations,\u201d Rooney noted. \u201cThe show will be livestreamed inside too.\u201d<\/p>\n This fall, Surrey Pride hosts another \u201cSo YOU Think YOU can DRAG\u201d fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Sheraton hotel in Guildford. The winner gets up to $5,000 in matching funds. To get involved and raise money for an organization or charity, email mandmxv@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey Pride festival moves back to Central City Plaza on June 20 Published 7:30 pm Thursday, June 4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-723045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}