Danny Bell and His Disappointments
2025-05-18 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Wells Hotel, 2341 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
Danny Bell and His Disappointments play western-folk-psych-punk. They live on unceded Lhedli T’enneh Territory in Northern British Columbia. Exclaim! Magazine called their last full-length album an “anti capitalist, anti-elitist, anti-asshole folk record for small moments in small places.” Danny’s music is regional. It’s steeped in his affection for his home in the hinterland, a blue collar town, the stink of the pulp mill, and everyday life in Northern BC.

Dinner service 5pm – 8 pm
Music starts at 8pm
Cover by donation
First come, first served, no reservations
No minors after the end of the meal service

Pickleball at the Hall
2025-05-22 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-29 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-05 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-12 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-19 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-26 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-07-03 18:30 - 20:00 | Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Pickleball is back! Thursdays @ 6:30pm, starting in November, at the Community Hall. All you need is a pair of running shoes. Drop in fee is $3. No experience required.
Hope to see you there!

Karaoke Night
2025-05-24 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-05-31 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-06-07 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-06-14 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-06-21 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-06-28 21:00 - 23:30 | Jack O’ Club Restaurant & Pub, 12383 Hwy 27 E., Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Every Saturday from 9 pm to late

Taste of Middle Earth: a Tolkien-Inspired Feast
2025-05-25 11:00 - 13:00 | St. George Studio, 2303 Bowman Cres, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Take a culinary journey to Middle Earth with a six-course brunch menu inspired by Tolkien, matched with a three-part drink pairing by host Peter Corbett (alcoholic and non-alcoholic options available). Our host will provide a small reading of a Tolkien passage with each meal and tell the story of the Studio’s connection to Tolkien himself. Middle-Earth attire is encouraged!
This mid-day feast event at the St. George Studio in Wells is our final installment of the Spring Cariboo Culinary Collaboration series, where we traveled the Cariboo to collaborate with other small business to provided unique food and drink experiences in new venues.
The Menu:
Coming soon! Expect flavours of the Middle-Earth, including mushrooms, lamb, fish, root vegetables, potatoes, pastries, honey, apples, berries, and more.
*IMPORTANT* this is a set menu event. Substitutions and alternatives to the food menu will not be available.
When: Sunday, May 25th starting at 11:00 am
Where: The St. George Studio, 2303 Bowman Cres, Wells, BC
What’s Included: Six food courses with drink pairings
The Price: $60 + GST per person
Tickets are limited and available for purchase online or at the Wells Hotel.
Due to the advanced planning required to prepare for the event, tickets may not be available at the door.

The Interstellar Jays Season Opener
2025-05-31 20:00 - 22:00 | The Wells Hotel, 2341 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
Celebrate the start of the visitor season in Wells with a musical party that is sure to put a little spring in your step!
Local favourites the Interstellar Jays will hit the Wells Hotel stage with iridescent grooves and psychedelic takes on old tunes that are sure to make you move. Huck yourself into the air or off to a distant galaxy with the Interstellar Jays!
It’s Industry Night too! Our Season Opener offers 15% off food and drink for staff and small business owners in the culture and hospitality sectors.
Ages 19+ only after 8pm. First-come, first-served, no reserved seating. Cover by donation with 100% proceeds to the artists.

Elise Boeur and Adam Iredale-Grey - Live at the Wells Hotel
2025-06-13 08:00 - 17:00 | The Wells Hotel, 2341 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
Joyful, creative fiddle music from Canadian Folk Music Award winning musicians.
“There is an almost telepathic level of communication between the players ”
— Fatea
“Gripping and visceral”
— Folkworld
Show starts at 7:30 pm. Admission by donation. First-come, first-served. Dinner available 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

2025 Sunset Season Launch Party
2025-06-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
It has become a tradition over the last few years for us to have a Season Launch at the Sunset, and we hope you can join us on Friday, June 13th @ 8PM for our 2025 Season Launch.
We look forward to sharing a sneak peek at everything we have to offer this season!
You’ll have the chance to buy your 2025 Sunset Theatre Membership, which gives you 10% off Sunset Live Performances.
Stick around after the Key Note for some drinks and dancing and help us celebrate the Sunset’s 20th year of programming and 25th year since the Sunset Theatre Society was formed!
This is a free event for everyone!

Obs the DJ Dance Party
2025-06-13 21:00 - 23:00, 2025-06-14 21:00 - 23:00 | Jack O’ Club Restaurant & Pub, 12383 Hwy 27 E., Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
🎶🔥 Wells, are you READY to DANCE?! 🔥🎶
This Friday & Saturday night, we’re turning up the energy with Obs the DJ spinning LIVE at the pub! 🎧💥 His Dance/Electric/EDM sets will have the place jumping — and it all kicks off at 9PM sharp! 💃⚡️🕺
Get a taste of what’s to come at this year’s ArtsWells Festival, where Obs will also be dropping beats on our stage! 🎪🎶
Tell your crew, bring your dancing shoes, and we’ll see you on the floor!

Wells Disc Golf League Game
2025-06-18 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-25 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-07-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Wells Disc Golf Course
Hello Wells, the weather is getting nice and we would like to get our discgolf league started again! We are planning to play Wednesday afternoon/evenings starting at 5:00. We will have a fire going at the shelter and there are extra discs for anyone wanting to try it out.
No experience needed, and I hope to see you out there!

The Little Hiking Festival
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-23 | BC
Join us for the second annual Little Hiking Festival – June 20th – 22nd, 2025. This year will be set in beautiful Wells B.C.A community of like minded humans gathering around our love for nature & movement in the mountains.

Sugarcane
2025-06-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Join us this weekend as we kick of the Summer Solstice and National Indigenous People’s Day with the Oscar Nominated Documentary, Sugarcane at 7PM tonight, Saturday, June 21st
A stunning tribute to the resilience of Indigenous people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature and Oscar-nominated documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, SUGARCANE illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.
“Stunning in every sense of the word, the new documentary film explores the lasting pain caused by a culture of silence in the Catholic church.”
– Rohan Naahar, The Indian Express
“Sugarcane is as harrowing as it is vital. It’s a remarkably explicit consideration of intergenerational trauma that manages to center specific suffering without forgoing any aspects of the conditions that birthed such violence.”
– Kyle Logan, Chicago Reader

Fatamorgana
2025-06-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
ABOUT THE PLAY:
FATAMORGANA is an oneiric tale for adults, spoken in the language of children. Shadow puppetry and object theatre performance, visual art experiment, analog projection. Using flashlights, prisms, recycled objects, paper marionettes, and performers’ bodies, the piece mirrors the mirage—ephemeral visions hovering between reality and imagination. Conjuring a silent, hypnotic narrative about creation, destruction, and fragile beauty of life, it takes the spectators on a journey through the birth and unraveling of worlds, from the fusion of first atoms to the fragmentation of modern existence and back.
ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Fatamorgana is an independent theatre collective, a group of Ukrainian and Polish itinerant artists, culture animators and managers. Our project, inspired by the need for beauty in theatre, began seven years ago in Poland. It is the result of long-standing friendship, years of creative collaboration, and a shared curiosity. We explore drama, puppetry, shadow puppets and visual art, object theatre and up-cycle theatre, producing exclusively original performances. Our work is rooted in the alternative and independent theatre traditions of Poland. We believe that theatre is a form of social commentary, and can be a catalyst for social transformation, sparking dialogue and connection. We create not to entertain only but to provoke thought, to offer moments of reflection, to inspire change, to inspire action.
CAST:
Oleh Nesterov, Nikon Miedviediev, Paula Mac

ArtsWells 2025
2025-06-27 - 2025-06-30 | BC
📣🎉We are very excited to announce that we are going ahead with ArtsWells 2025!
This year, the festival will take place on June 27 – 29.
We had worked hard to “bring back” the festival last year, presenting a new iteration that we had carefully built and curated.
However, the postponement of ArtsWells 2024 due to fire strengthened our resolve to continue. We believe this community and this region deserve an event like ArtsWells, something that celebrates the unique local spirit while inviting artists and listeners to our little town. We’re getting back on the horse and making it happen!
We believe these new dates will allow the festival to take place at time when the weather is comfortable in Wells. We would like to extend our gratitude to all the businesses and fellow NFPs in Wells and Barkerville that have helped us make this switch a reality.

Barkerville's Dominion Day Celebration
2025-07-01 - 2025-07-02 | Barkerville Historic Town & Park, 14301 Hwy 26 E., Barkerville, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
157th Annual Dominion Day Celebrations
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Parade, games, live theatre and music and dancing at the House Hotel Saloon!
Special Activities
PARADE
11:50am
Begins at the St. Saviour’s Church and finishes at the games clearing by the Chinatown Arch
Games
12:00pm
Games occur in consecutive order:

Broad Jump
Ladies’ Nail Driving
Funny Face
Men’s Hammer Toss
Ladies’ Egg & Spoon
Egg Toss
Greasy Pole Climb
Tug O’ War

FESTIVITIES AT THE HOUSE HOTEL SALOON
7:00pm
Join us at the House Hotel Saloon for an evening of live music and dancing featuring the Interstellar Jays!
Theatre Royal
Dominion Day
4:00PM
An hour of music, comedy, and fun for the entire family!
Tickets sold separately. Available at the Welcome Centre. Box office is open 1pm-2pm daily.

Toni Onley Artist's Project
2025-07-05 - 2025-07-16 | Island Mountain Arts Studios, Mildred Ave, Wells, V0K 2R0
The Toni Onley Artist Projects (TOAP), which focuses on the exploration and development of visual artists, will have a maximum of 12 spaces available.
This year’s mentors are Cindy Mochizuki and Sandeep Johal!
Saturday, July 5th – Sunday, July 13th, 2025 at Wells, BC
Learn more about TOAP and its history – click here!~

About The Mentors

Sandeep Johal, Photo Credit Rachel Pick

Sandeep Johal
Sandeep Johal is a Punjabi Canadian visual artist, advocate, and leader whose practice engages drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. Through her Indo-folk feminine aesthetic, she confronts themes of bleakness, despair and ugliness with their dissonant opposites: brightness, hope and beauty. Johal’s work typically centers around the stories of women and while she highlights female suffering in its many forms, these are ultimately stories of resistance and resilience.
Johal has worked on a number of notable site-specific commissions including a series of banners on Granville Street in partnership with Downtown Vancouver BIA (2024), a mural for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s inaugural #SpotlightVanArtRental project (2022), a digital projection mapping for Facade Festival produced by Burrard Arts Foundation (2019), and a 4,000 sf collaborative mural project for Vancouver Mural Festival, which centred around the Komagata Maru Episode and involved the de-naming of the federal building it was painted on (2019). Her work was part of the group exhibition In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site through the McClure Gallery and Visual Arts Centre in Montreal in partnership with the IMPACTS Project (2019).
Johal’s clients include Apple, the Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Estée Lauder Canada, Holt Renfrew, Lululemon, and Earls Restaurant Group as well as the University of British Columbia’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. She has been an artist-in-residence at Burrard Arts Foundation (2021) and Indian Summer Festival (2018) and is the 2019 recipient of the Darpan Magazine Artistic Visionary Award. Johal’s work is held in numerous collections, including the TD Art Collection, the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection Program (Canadian Embassy, San Salvador), and Surrey Art Gallery.
Johal holds a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours) from Langara College (2007) and a Degree in Education from the University of British Columbia (2002). She lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Visit Sandeep’s Website

Cindy Mochizuki

Image of Cindy Mochizuki, submitted by artist

Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installation, animation, drawing, audio fiction, performance, public artwork, and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited her work in Canada, US, Australia, and Japan.
Recent exhibitions include the Art Gallery at Evergreen, Kamloops Art Gallery, Prince Takamado Gallery, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Burrard Arts Foundation, Frye Art Museum, and Yonago City Museum.
Her artistic projects integrate archival research, oral histories and memory work and consider methodologies of gathering and re-telling stories that are often invisible, excluded, or undocumented. A large body of her multi-media work explore the experiences of Japanese Canadians who were interned from the west coast of British Columbia during the second world war. Many of her animated films explore the lives of these first and second generations (isei and nisei) and their labour in the natural resource and food industries prior to their internment.
She received the Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020). She has designed scenography, illustration and animation for performing arts companies including Little Onion Puppet Co., Veronique West, Rumble Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Dream Walker Dance Company, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Theatre Calgary and the Arts Club Theatre. She received her MFA from the School for Contemporary Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Sunset Game Night!
2025-07-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Calling all game fanatics!
We’re hosting a FREE Game Night TONIGHT, Saturday July 5 at 8PM!
We’ll have giant bowling, giant connect four and lots of board games to go around.
Plus the concession will be open! Bring your favourite game, some friends and join us for this fun and competitive night!
See you at the Sunset!
