Free strawberries, music at new fruit-focused festival in Surrey<\/p>\n
Published 7:30 pm Monday, June 29, 2026<\/p>\n
An inaugural Strawberry Festival promises free strawberries and admission, live entertainment, community celebration and more at a Newton mall.<\/p>\n
Fittingly, Strawberry Hill Shopping Centre will host the one-day event Saturday, July 11 in the parking lot off 122 Street, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
Festival headliners are Channi Nattan & Inderpal Moga, plus music by Anna Katarina, Vanessa Lefan, Kaya Ko, Bukola and Surrey Jazz Nights artists, along with local vendors and kids\u2019 programming.<\/p>\n
The festival producer is Unite Capital Partners, operating partner of the shopping centre, on 35 acres at 72 Avenue and Scott Road, where parking is free and plentiful.<\/p>\n
The company expects close to 5,000 people to attend their first-time event, which salutes the strawberry-growing history of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the early 1900s, Japanese Canadian farming families settled the agricultural uplands of what is now Strawberry Hill and built the region\u2019s strawberry industry,\u201d a company rep says. \u201cThe Strawberry Festival is a celebration of that legacy \u2014 and of the vibrant, multicultural neighbourhood that carries it forward today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free strawberries, music at new fruit-focused festival in Surrey Published 7:30 pm Monday, June 29, 2026 An inaugural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-770335","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\/770335","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=770335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}