Karaoke Night
2026-07-25 21:00 - 23:30, 2026-08-01 21:00 - 23:30, 2026-08-08 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

Jam Camp in the Mountains
2026-07-26 - 2026-07-31 | Island Mountain Arts Studios, Mildred Ave, Wells, V0K 2R0
Sign up today to bring your family and friends to Jam Camp in the Mountains in beautiful Wells. Create music with us in the alpine meadows of our small community! Stay in your tent or RV, or choose from many lodging options in Wells and Barkerville.
Camp activities will be in the Wells School and outside during good weather. You can join us no matter your age or musical ability – beginner and experienced musicians are all welcome. There will be many workshop and lesson choices for you to enjoy.
This year, Jam Camp in the Mountains is partnering with Island Mountain Arts, an organization with almost 50 years of history. They are leaders in the arts community in BC who host the ArtsWells Festival, arts workshops, artist residencies, and a public gallery, and partner with organizations like the Jam Camp Society. Learn more about Island Mountain Arts here.
Jam Camp in the Mountains is
1 hour from Quesnel,
2 hours from Prince George, and
10 minutes from Barkerville Historic Site.
Dates
Jam Camp will begin on Sunday, July 26. Campers are invited to arrive in Wells late morning or early afternoon and be set up by 5 pm. Our first official camp activity is the Welcome Potluck that evening.
Our final performance takes place on the evening of Thursday, July 30, and Jam Camp ends on Friday, July 31. Friday is a free day for packing up camp, saying goodbyes, and taking your last stroll in the area before you go.
The full schedule of the week’s events will be sent out closer to the date, and will be similarly structured to those of past camps. Morning activities will start around 9am. Activities include full group workshops, small group lessons, and songwriting/musical project groups. Days include a lunch & leisure break, a dinner & leisure break, and evening activities wrapping up around 9pm.
Registration Fees
All folks participating in Jam Camp aged 4 and up will pay a sliding scale registration fee of $200 to $500 CAD per person.
Jam Camp fees cover 4.5 days of workshops, activities, and instruction.
Fees do not cover food or accommodation. Groups must make their own arrangements for accommodation (see Accommodation section below) and are responsible for their own meals. Campers can make their own food or visit local restaurants.
The sliding scale allows campers to choose the payment that suits their family or group best. If you are able to pay more than the base fee per person, that will help keep camp affordable for everyone.
Notes:
E-transfer is the simplest way to pay for your registration.
If you pay via PayPal, PayPal will charge a fee of approximately 3% of your total registration & camping fees.
You may also choose to help subsidize registration for a low-income attendee, or to support the non-profit Jam Camp Society.

Yoga with Jen: Somatic
2026-07-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Banquet Room, Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Somatic yoga blends traditional yoga with somatic movement to prioritize internal physical sensations over athletic poses. This gentle, mindful practice is designed to retrain your nervous system, release stored tension, and heal chronic pain by focusing on awareness and compassionate movement rather than forcing perfect alignment.
Join Jen Ray for a somatic yoga practice every Sunday at 10:00 am in the Banquet Room of the Wells Community Hall. Pay what you can, suggested $10

Pickleball at the Hall
2026-07-26 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-08-02 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-08-09 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

Wells Disc Golf League Night
2026-07-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-04 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Wells Disc Golf Course
Hello Wells, with this beautiful weather and the snow disappearing fast Discgolf season is upon us. This Spring the course got an upgrade and we now have proper baskets courtesy of the Prince George Disc Golf Club!
Starting next Tuesday we will have League nights every Tuesday at 6pm. Everyone is welcome, no experience needed. We have lots of extra discs for anyone that wants to try it out! I hope to see you out there.

Yoga with Jen: Flow
2026-07-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Flow yoga is a dynamic practice where movements are synchronized with breath, allowing you to transition continuously between poses. It boosts strength, flexibility, and mindfulness.
Join Jen Ray for a weekly practice Tuesday at 7:00 pm in the Banquet Room of the Community Hall. Pay what you can, suggested $10.

Emerging Artist Weekend
2026-08-01 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
See tomorrow’s theatre and music luminaries, today for our second annual showcase of talented emerging artists performing brand-new works.

Short Poetry Comics Workshop
2026-08-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Island Mountain Arts, 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
About: Using found imagery and language as well as short writing and drawing exercises we will play with chance connections and see what meaning can be made at the intersection of word and image. Invitation to bring any text or imagery (on paper) you have to hand and might like to work with. No previous writing or drawing experience necessary.
Refreshments and snacks will be available, or bring your own dinner with you! Pay what you can with all proceeds going to the artist. Ages 14+⁠
About the Artist: Cathy Stonehouse is a poet, writer, teacher and visual artist who migrated as a young adult from the UK to Vancouver, BC—the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—where they still live. The author of a novel, The Causes (Pedlar Press, 2019), a collection of short fiction, Something About the Animal (Biblioasis, 2011) and two previous collections of poetry—Grace Shiver (Inanna Publications, 2011) and The Words I Know (Press Gang, 1994), Stonehouse also co-edited the ground-breaking anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008), is a previous editor of EVENT magazine, and currently teaches creative writing and interdisciplinary expressive arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Their most recent book, Dream House (Nightwood Editions), a long poem, is short listed for the 2024 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

Queenage Wasteland
2026-08-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Following up from her hit show, LARRY, award-winning comedy creator Candy Roberts presents the world premiere of QUEENAGE WASTELAND!
What if they lied? What if being a crazy cat lady is AMAZING? Like a modern-day Carol Burnett on acid, Candy Roberts spins hilarious misadventures of a Gen-X childhood survivor. From freeze, fawn & flee, to fuck-you, an autobiographical comedy about the pursuit of becoming a dangerous old woman.
With storytelling, stand-up and clown, Candy Roberts flips the “crazy cat lady” stereotype on its head and turns it into something intentional, desirable, and a little feral. She delivers true stories of trauma-response patterns with humour, relatability, and a truthful absurdity.
Let’s forget about aging out of expectations. What does radical acceptance feel like?
This presentation is recommended for adults.
“Once she gets you laughing, she will not fucking let up.”– Colin Thomas – Simply the Best of 2019

Punjabi Wabi Sabi
2026-08-06 20:30 - 21:30, 2026-08-07 20:30 - 21:30, 2026-08-08 20:30 - 21:30 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Bollywood meets Breaking Bad?
What if Saddam Hussein had a love child with Britney Spears?
Bristling with hilarious storytelling, Punjabi Wabi Sabi is an irreverant, autobiographical and moving stand-up show by Tahina Awan: a middle-aged, delinquent, perverted, first-generation Canadian Muslim woman born in small town BC in the ’70s.
Growing up GenX is hard – especially when you’re a Muslim girl, and you don’t want anyone to know! Join us as we follow our ill-behaved and sexually repressed narrator as she journeys through life trying to reconcile her identity amidst racism, self-rejection, deep trauma and raging hormones.
Oh, and the 1980s.
Part stand-up and part theatre, this is a one-woman show that gets into the nitty gritty of who we are versus who the world wants us to be. This is a story about how the human spirit rages against its cages, how we are basically all the same with different packaging, and how we are perhaps more perfect because we’re all fucked up.

Kimberley McGregor and the Brain Porter live music
2026-08-09 15:00 - 17:00 | SARRAS, 2338 Bowman Cres, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
The Brain Porter:
Strapped with an upright bass, a 40-gallon suitcase on one foot, a pile of antler bones on the other, and enough FX pedals to kill a bear, The Brain Porter conjures a sound that baffles anyone devoted to “tradition” — and frankly, a few people who aren’t. The story starts at age nine with an upright bass that was nearly as tall as he was.
From there he moved through jazz groups where he learned to listen harder than he played, orchestras where discipline met reverence, folk circles where a song’s only job was to tell the truth, and rock bands where the truth got turned up to eleven. Each world left its fingerprints. None of them could fully contain him. Years working as a sound and lighting technician taught him how rooms hear, how light moves bodies before brains can object, and how to run cable in the dark without swearing too loudly. That hard-won expertise now powers a light show that isn’t bolted onto the performance — it is the performance, co-conspirator to whatever chaos is unfolding onstage.
The instrument list raises eyebrows. Upright bass remains the anchor. Surrounding it: theremin, harmonica, guitar, a homemade stompbox built from actual antler bones (the hardware store options were deemed insufficiently weird), and a suitcase that serves as percussion, luggage, and occasional conversation piece. It’s not a gimmick. It’s load-bearing infrastructure. Influences include Beck, Tom Waits, Ween, Beefheart, and Zappa — artists who collectively never once agreed to pick a lane. The songs reflect that lineage. Humor is treated with surgical seriousness. Serious subjects get enough salt to scorch the original flavor.
The Brain Porter occupies a singular frequency: strange enough to stop a conversation, just barely accessible enough to start a new one. He could make Prine chuckle. He could make Primus headbang. Both Saturday-night festival crowds and intimate houseconcert audiences stumble into a musical void they didn’t know they were missing.
Kim MacGregor:
A reformed bank manager, Kimberley realized she was doing a successful job of living someone else’s life—and a poor job living her own. In 2013, she launched her original songs into the world and took centre stage.
She has since released three full-length albums, and was awarded Female Artist of the Year at both the 2015 and 2016 Edmonton Music Awards. In 2022, she relocated to Vancouver Island, residing in Qualicum Beach.
She lovingly crafts and passionately performs songs that will move your heart, change your mind and stomp your feet. Weaving seamlessly between blues, folk and rock, her common threads are strength, vulnerability and badassery, always sizzling with soul.

Kelsey Schmode in Concert
2026-08-09 20:00 - 21:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Local singer-songwriter Kelsey Schmode returns to the Sunset for an evening of fecund fun, fellowship, and humorous folk.

40th Anniversary Harp School Instructor's Concert
2026-08-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Join us for some beautiful harp playing at the 40th annual Harp School instructor concert featuring: Sharlene Wallace, Tristan Le Govic and Sunita Staneslow!
Instructors Info: https://support-imarts.com/events/2026harpschool
Where: The Sunset Theatre. Wells, BC – Lhtako Dene Territory – Dakelh and Secwépemc traditional-use area
Who: Sunita Staneslow, Sharlene Wallace , Tristan Le Govic
When: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026. 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM Doors open at 7:30 PM
How Much: Pay what you can. Suggested minimum $10
Get your tickets here: https://islandmountainarts.tickit.ca/events/36058-instructors-concert-40th-annual-harp-school

Jake's Gift
2026-08-13 20:00 - 21:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Celebrating 20 years
In June 2004, Julia Mackey travelled to Normandy, France, for the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. She attended many ceremonies, walked the coastline and interviewed dozens of veterans who had returned for the occasion. The experiences of the veterans, her own discoveries, and a life long interest in Remembrance Day, led to the development of the play in August of 2006 at The Sunset Theatre in Wells, BC.
THE PLAY
Jake’s Gift is a multi-award winning Canadian play about a World War II veteran’s reluctant return to Normandy, France, for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. While revisiting the shores of Juno beach, Jake encounters Isabelle, a precocious 10-year-old from the local village. Isabelle’s inquisitive nature and charm challenge the old soldier to confront some long-ignored ghosts – most notably the war-time death of his eldest brother, Chester, a once promising young musician. At its heart, Jake’s Gift is about the legacy of remembrance and makes personal the story behind one soldier’s grave.
Since 2007, Jake’s Gift has gone on to play at festivals and theatres in over 250 communities across Canada, including International stops to Washington State, the UK and Normandy, France, for the 70th & 73rd Anniversary of D-Day. In June 2019, the company returned to Normandy for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. They presented performances in both French and English at the Juno Beach Centre and La Salle de la Mer in Bernières sur Mer as well as other communities and venues in Normandy.
In December 2025, Julia received the Governor General Meritorious Service Cross Award for her work on Jake’s Gift.

40th Anniversary Harp School Potluck and Ceilidh
2026-08-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Wells-Barkerville Community School, Wells, BC, Canada
Not joining us for classes? Want to hear some amazing harp playing and taste some delicious food? Stop by for these events that are open to everyone!
The instructor concert featuring Sunita Staneslow, Sharlene Wallace and Tristan Le Govic at The Sunset Theatre, August 11th, 8PM
The Community Potluck and Ceilidh at the Wells-Barkerville School, August 14th, 6PM. Bring a dish to share and we’ll see you there to wrap up this special week!
For more information visit www.imarts.com/events
