Arts Strategy

Your city's creative future!

The City of New Westminster is updating its Arts Strategy to reflect today’s realities and current conditions, community priorities, and the evolving role of the City within the local arts ecosystem. This update is intended to reflect on what continues to serve the community, acknowledge where challenges remain, and establish high-impact strategic directions for the future.

Updating the Arts Strategy is about:

• Reviewing what continues to work
• Acknowledging where challenges remain
• Addressing changes across the arts, culture, and creative sectors

Arts Strategy, 2026

We are working with Cornerstone Planning Group to develop a renewed Arts Strategy in collaboration with community. Details about community engagement opportunities will be shared here throughout 2026.

Get Involved | We Want to hear from you

As part of this process, the City is hosting a series of online reflections workshops focused on current conditions and lessons learned from the previous Arts Strategy. Workshops will be between May 20th - 27th, 2026.

Arts Strategy, 2019

Click here to read the City's current Arts Strategy

Thank you to everyone that came together to work on the new Arts Strategy! The Arts Strategy was approved by Council on December 10, 2018.

Additional information

• Arts Strategy SWOT
• Arts Strategy Public Engagement Summary
• Previous Draft (Spring 2018) - Our Arts Impact

Other Strategic Documents

• Theatre Strategy, 2019
• Public Art Policy, 2022
• Public Art Plan (coming soon)