What's Up in Wells

Karaoke Night
2025-11-15 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-29 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-12-06 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-12-13 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-12-20 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-12-27 21:00 - 23:30, 2026-01-03 21:00 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver) | Jack O’ Club Restaurant & Pub, 12383 Hwy 27 E., Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Every Saturday from 9 pm to late

Food + Film
2025-11-20 15:00 - 20:00 | Banquet Room, Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
NEW PROGRAM | Food + Film
It’s a 3-part commmunity event!
Where: Wells Barkerville Community Hall Banquet Room
When: Nov 20th, 2025
How Much: After School Program is a suggested $20.00.
Potluck and Film are by donation!
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Part 1: The After School Program! 2:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Calling all Youth ages 6 – 16!
Register in Advance -> https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScmEanpHrq…/viewform…
Join Elyssia and Emily with Island Mountain Arts on a cinematic and culinary journey, featuring some of our favourite treats, our favourite films. We’ll tackle fancy pastries and fancier presentation, as our contribution to the potluck!
Part 2: The Potluck | 5:30 PM
Bring a dish to share, or snack on what we make with the after school program!
Part 3: The Film | 6:00 PM
We’ll cozy up and watch Kiki’s Delivery Service (105 min), and get you home before 8:00 PM!
Questions? Email info@imarts.com for more information!

Art As Resilience
2025-11-21 - 2025-11-24 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Play in creativity, and learn about your nervous-system needs as you nurture all that you are in the artful wilds of Wells.
Writing & drawing exercises to get your pencil moving.
Poems & prose to inspire you, music to uplift you.
Applied Neuroscience education and coaching in embodied presence.
3 x 3hr workshop sessions: learn and create with expert co-facilitation and all materials provided.
PLUS free optional Saturday night movie in the Sunset Theatre, screening Nightbitch with Amy Adams from the book by Rachel Yoder.
BOOK NOW!
Earlybird Fee: $179.00CAD for bookings before Oct 31st 2025.
Regular Fee: $199.00CAD payable before Nov 15th 2025.
Bring a friend for 30% OFF the second fee.
(Food and accommodation not included.)
For more information visit: www.emmajarrett.ca
To book directly please email: emmasjarrett@gmail.com
Scholarships available!
Please contact sarahguestphotography@gmail.com for an application.

Creative Watch Party - Nightbitch!
2025-11-22 20:00 - 21:30 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
An opportunity to watch an excellent movie, with a twist. You too can create as you enjoy. It’s a Creative Watch Party. Let the movie inspire your writing, drawing, arting of any kind in the low-lighting, with popcorn and drinks! And of course, you can simply come to watch if that suits you better.
Nightbitch is a film created from Rachel Yoder’s book, turned into a stunning piece of comedic horror by Director Marielle Heller and starring Amy Adams: “An artist who pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mum seeks a new chapter in her life and encounters just that, when her nightly routine takes a surreal turn and her maternal instincts begin to manifest in canine form.”
What’s not to love and resonate with?!
Tickets at the box office from 7.30pm, show at 8pm. Concession available and there will be time for discussion with Sarah Guest and EmmaJ over drinks afterwards too.

Pickleball at the Hall
2025-11-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-27 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-30 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
8 pm and Sundays from 4-6 pm at the Community hall. No experience required, all you need is a clean pair of shoes. The drop in fee is $3

Exhibit Opening - Wells Works
2025-11-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Island Mountain Arts, 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada

Wells Community Christmas Revelry
2025-12-12 14:30 - 17:00 | BC
Tis’ the season for celebrating together and it’s going to be a big weekend for that from December 12-14 in the Wells and Barkerville area! Osisko Development and the Cariboo Gold Project would like you to join us for some Christmas Revelry on December 12.

If you can, please bring a non-perishable food item for the Christmas Hamper program too.

We encourage those taking part in Wells activities this weekend to utilize the parking lots just around the corner at our Community Relations Office (4270 Sanders Avenue) and the District of Wells Office (4243 Sanders Avenue) to help avoid congestion on Pooley Street.

Make an ornament with IMA
2025-12-12 14:30 - 18:00, 2025-12-13 14:30 - 18:00, 2025-12-14 14:30 - 18:00 | Island Mountain Arts, 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
We’ve got the little wooden rounds, paint and pens, and all the glitter you would want!
All you need to bring is your creativity to this drop in ornament creation workshop!
Friday Dec 12 | 2:30 – 6PM – we’ll have extra supplies on hand to make some extra things, as a part of Osisko’s Holiday Crawl.
Saturday Dec 13 | 11 – 6PM
Sunday Dec 14 | 11 – 6PM
Donations graciously accepted.

Festin de Noël - a French-Canadian Feast
2025-12-12 15:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-13 15:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-14 15:30 - 21:00 | The Wells Hotel, 2341 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
Barkerville’s Olde-Fashioned Christmas weekend is a magical time, and we put on a fantastic feast so neighbours and visitors alike can enjoy a beautiful meal with us over this busy weekend in Wells and Barkerville.
On December 12, 13 & 14, we’ll be hosting a Holiday Buffet featuring a bounty of classic French-Canadian dishes. Festin de Noël is culinary tribute to La Belle Province.
Price per person is $45+GST, including dessert and coffee. Children aged 4-12 are 1/2 priced, and children ages 4 and under are free (note we have limited high chairs and booster seats).
We’ll be taking reservations for this event so you can guarantee a seat at the table during this busy winter weekend. Seatings are at 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm, and 7:30 pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Give us a call at 250-994-3427 or email office@wellshotel.com to reserve your spot for dinner!
Menu:
* Baguette au levain (sourdough baguette) – vegan
* Brie en coûte (baked brie) – vegetarian
* Champignons farcis (stuffed mushrooms) – vegetarian
* Betteraves marinées (marinated beets) – vegan, GF
* Salade de choux de Bruxelles (Brussel sprout salad) – vegetarian, GF
* Potage Saint-Germain (split pea soup) – vegan, GF
* Ragoût de boulettes (meatball stew) – DF
* Légumes d’hiver rôtis (roasted root vegetables) – vegan, GF
* Haricots cuits au four (baked beans) – vegan, GF, DF
* Rôti de porc aux pommes (roast pork with apples) – GF
* Tourtière (meat pie)
* Tarte au sucre (maple sugar pie) – vegetarian
* Salade d’oranges au miel (spiced and honeyed orange salad) – vegetarian, GF, DF

Barkerville's Old Fashioned Christmas 2025
2025-12-13 - 2025-12-14, 2025-12-14 - 2025-12-15 | Barkerville Historic Town & Park, 14301 Hwy 26 E., Barkerville, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Join us for Olde-Fashioned Christmas, happening December 13th & 14th. The weekend will include Christmas shopping, carolers, sleigh rides, Father Christmas, and more!
Saturday Dec. 13th & Sunday Dec. 14th, 2025
Welcome Centre is open 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Daily Admission
Regular admission includes entrance to the site for the day, as well as all public programming and demonstrations.
General (ages 17-64): $12 + GST
Seniors (ages 65+): $10 + GST
Youth (ages 6-16) free with a non-perishable food donation to Wells Christmas Hamper
Children (ages 0-5) free

Christmas Cabaret!
2025-12-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
It’s official! We are going ahead with our much beloved Christmas Cabaret on Saturday, December 13th @ 8PM. Spend your day in Barkerville Historic Town & Park for their Olde Fashion Christmas Weekend, and spend your saturday night at the Sunset Theatre!Box Office & Concession will open at 7:30PMShowtime is 8PMTickets are $20.00 and can be purchased by sending an e-transfer to:sunsettheatre@gmail.com

Christmas Eve Dinner
2025-12-24 17:00 - 19:00 | The Wells Hotel, 2341 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
Spending Christmas in Wells? Come gather with us! We are inviting friends, neighbours, and guests to join us ’round the table for a FREE Christmas buffet.
Seriously, put your wallet away. If you would like to contribute to the spirit of the evening, we’d love your help with washing dishes, prepping food, or even taking a to-go box to someone in need who can’t make it in person. The bar will be open to purchase drinks.
Dinner will be followed by a fireside Christmas story reading at 7 pm for the kids

Old Time New Year's Eve
2025-12-31 20:00 - 23:30 | Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Ring in the new year with this all-ages old-time dance. Great music, beverages, a photo booth, group dances, raffles, board games and more!
The evening’s entertainment is helmed by the D9 Stringband (Horsefly, BC), featuring:
Pharis & Jason Romero | https://www.pharisandjason.com/Max Malone | https://www.instagram.com/maxmalonemusic/Grace ForrestTrent Freeman | https://www.trentfreeman.com/Patrick M’Gonigle | https://www.patrickmgonigle.com/Allison de Groot | https://www.allisondegroot.com/
