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📝 September Job Fair 2026 at Anvil Centre – 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

📝 Resume Clinic with BCNSP – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

🍅 New West Farmers Market – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

💉 Naloxone Training at Tipperary Park – 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM

🎙 Rock Room Karaoke Nights at The Legion – 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

📚 Drop-in Wildfires Bookshop – 5:45 PM

🎙 Georgie's Local Karaoke Night – 7:00 PM

🎭 Howe Sound New West Bingpot! Thursday Trivia – 7:00 PM

❓ Steel & Oak Thursday Trivia Night – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

💃 Salsa In The Park at Westminster Pier Park – 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

🎙 The Terminal Pub Colossal Thursdays Karaoke – 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

🎤 Notorious Grey Fox Open Mic Jam – 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

🎨 River As A Muse at Anvil Centre

💑 City Love Scavenger Hunt For Couples - New West Area – 1:00 PM

🗣 English Conversation Circles – Friday Sessions – 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

✨ City Hall Illumination - Blue - Prostate Cancer Awareness Month – 5:00 PM

🎲 Friendsday Night Board Games – 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM

🎸 Sip n’ Strum Fridays at Mechanics of Music – 7:00 PM

🎲 Georgie’s Local Hot Bitch Rock & Roll Bingo – 7:00 PM

🎲 Howe Sound Hitmix Bingo – 7:00 PM

🎙 Howe Sound New West Karaoke Night – 7:00 PM

🍸 Cocktails and Conjuring at the Flapper Lounge – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

🎙 Weekly Karaoke Every Friday – 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

🎥 Movies in the Park: Freaky Friday – 8:30 PM

🎉 MC Trexxt's Birthday Bash at the Terminal Pub – 9:00 PM

🎙 Notorious Grey Fox Karaoke Friday Nights – 9:00 PM until Close

🎨 River As A Muse at Anvil Centre

🎶 Taylor Swift 'N Strum - Red Album – 10:00 AM

🗣 Spanish Conversation Drop-in – 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

🌱 Eco-Fest & Weed Pull – 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

🌊 Protecting our Fraser Homes – 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

🗣 English Conversation Circles – Saturday Sessions – 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

🎶 Uptown Live Summer Series – 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM

🚶 Explore New West Walk at Anvil Centre – 11:30 AM

🚢 Samson V Museum – 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

🛍 Hyack Square Market Days – 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM

💑 City Love Scavenger Hunt For Couples - New West Area – 1:00 PM

🎨 Linocut Print Making – 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

📚 Summer Reading Club Wrap-Up Party! – 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

🚲 Youth Cycle Express: $2 Drop-in for Youth Ages 13 - 18 – 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM

✨ City Hall Illumination - Blue - Prostate Cancer Awareness Month – 5:00 PM

🎸 Live Music Saturday at the Legion Branch 2 – 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM

🧸 Kids Again: Adult Game Night at You N' Me Cafe – 7:00 PM

🎸 Ed, Salve and Friends at the Terminal Pub – 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM

🎭 PechaKucha Night Vol 40 in Queens Park – 8:00 PM

🎶 Saturday Night Live Music at The Terminal Pub – 9:00 PM

🎙 Karaoke Saturdays at Kelly & Carlos O’Bryan’s – 9:00 PM to 12:30 AM

🎶 Georgies After Dark at Georgies Local – 9:30 PM

🕺 Saturday Dance Party at Georgie's – 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM

🕹 Fighting Game Night – Phantom Alley

🎨 River As A Muse at Anvil Centre

More stages, more performers and two days of free entertainment are taking over Uptown New West this Labour Day weekend.

Uptown Live is closing out its expanded 2026 Summer Series with a big weekend of music, dance and cultural celebration on September 5 and 6. Saturday’s expanded Cultural Fusion day will feature four stages and 15 performers, with live entertainment popping up throughout Uptown New Westminster — and admission is completely free.

Saturday’s lineup includes performances at Uptown Plaza, JJ Bean, Rocky Point Ice Cream and Beem Plaza, with the 700 block of Sixth Street also joining the festivities. Uptown Plaza will feature a bigger stage and production setup, including an hour-long headline performance by Aaron Wong & The Del-Fi Destroyers: Elvis Tribute. Over at Mi Tierra Latina, the music will be joined by a special two-year anniversary celebration, with deals and discounts along the sidewalks.

Then on Sunday, September 6, the party continues with eight performers across three stages at Uptown Plaza, JJ Bean and Royal City Centre Plaza.

Whether you're grabbing coffee, meeting friends, shopping or simply looking for something fun to do, Uptown Live is giving New West plenty of reasons to wander Uptown this weekend.

🎟️ Free admission | All ages welcome

👉 See the full lineup and event details

A new paranormal television series has a strong New Westminster connection, thanks in part to former local resident Amanda Quill.

Unsettled Spirits follows two spiritually gifted Indigenous investigative teams as they explore hauntings, poltergeist activity and mysterious entities. Investigators Amanda Quill and Jesi Whitton lead their teams using a combination of traditional knowledge, spiritual connections and modern investigative technology.

Quill, who previously lived in New Westminster and now calls Vancouver home, is already well known to us for another reason.

I had the pleasure of meeting both Amanda Quill and Robb Demarest, who are among the top detectives in our game, How Well Do You Know New West? Their impressive knowledge of the Royal City has always stood out — and now, with several episodes of Unsettled Spirits reportedly taking place in New Westminster, we may have a little more insight into why they know the city so well.

The first episode of Unsettled Spirits takes viewers to Funky Winker Beans, the famous dive bar in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

The investigation centres partly on a resident living in the hotel above the bar who has experienced what he believes is a dark and heavy presence in the building. His time living there has also brought him close to considerable loss connected to addiction and death in the neighbourhood.

As Quill and her team investigate, they experience significant unexplained activity and come to believe that spirits may still be trapped inside the building.

The team then faces the difficult task of understanding why those spirits remain and whether they can be helped to move on.

The premiere is only the beginning of the show’s local connections. Several episodes in the first season reportedly take place right here in New Westminster, meaning local viewers may recognize some familiar locations as the series unfolds.

For those of us who know Amanda through How Well Do You Know New West?, seeing her take centre stage in a television series exploring some of the region’s most mysterious places adds an especially fun local connection.

And perhaps we finally know the secret behind those detective scores.

Unsettled Spirits is available to watch on APTN+.

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