LETTER: More arts, culture funding needed in South Surrey<\/p>\n
Published 7:00 am Thursday, October 1, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
I am reaching out as a South Surrey resident and artist to ask for fair and sustainable funding for arts and culture at Semiahmoo Arts Society.<\/p>\n
Having moved here from Vancouver, I see so much potential in South Surrey. More and more people are moving here from the city, and all over, looking for space, community and a different way of living. I believe our cultural infrastructure should grow alongside our population.<\/p>\n
Semiahmoo Arts Society has been an important part of creating that foundation, providing opportunities for artists, classes, exhibitions and community programming. I believe organizations doing this work deserve sustainable public support.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t simply about funding one organization. It\u2019s about investing in the cultural identity of South Surrey and recognizing that arts and culture are an important part of building a vibrant community.<\/p>\n
I would like to see a fairer distribution of arts funding across Surrey, so that residents in South Surrey have meaningful access to cultural opportunities close to home.<\/p>\n
As an artist, I would also love the opportunity to become more involved in building the creative community here. I believe South Surrey has the potential to develop a cultural identity of its own, and I hope the city will help make space for that to happen.<\/p>\n
Thank you for considering this.<\/p>\n
Katrina (Iya) D\u2019Souza, South Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: More arts, culture funding needed in South Surrey Published 7:00 am Thursday, October 1, 2026 Editor, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-916780","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\/916780","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=916780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}