What's Up in Wells

Festin de Noël - a French-Canadian Feast
2025-12-12 15:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | 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

Make an ornament with IMA
2025-12-12 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.

Wells Community Christmas Revelry
2025-12-12 14:30 - 17:00
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.

Pickleball at the Hall
2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-30 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-27 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-23 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

Karaoke Night
2025-12-06 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-29 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-15 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-08 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-01 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-10-25 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-10-18 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-10-11 21:00 - 23:30 and 3 more dates | Jack O’ Club Restaurant & Pub, 12383 Hwy 27 E., Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Every Saturday from 9 pm to late

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

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.

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.

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!

The Screech Owls
2025-11-01 21:00 - 23:30 | Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
After gracing the stage in 2023 for the Treeplanter’s Ball, The Screech Owls are returning to the Wells Community Hall stage to deliver for an unforgettable night of music. This five-piece band hailing from Williams Lake is bringing rock, country and blues to the people, plus a few lasers and smoke machines…Be sure to bring your dancing shoes!
Door open at 8pm. Music starts at 9pm.
This show is ages 19+. Tickets available by pre-sale only. No tickets will be available at the door.
This show is part of a Purfect Murder: An All-Inclusive Weekend Murder Mystery at the Wells Hotel. All Purfect Murder guests automatically receive a ticket to the show. Stand-alone concert tickets are available for purchase by the general public.

A Purfect Murder Works: An All-Inclusive Weekend Murder Mystery at the Wells Hotel
2025-10-31 19:00 - 2025-11-02 11:00 | The Wells Hotel, 2341 Pooley St., Wells, BC, V0k2R0, Canada
The once peaceful cat colony of Whiskerville is under attack! A gang of feral felines has infiltrated the village and is shredding friendly kitties to bits. It’s a cat-astrophe! Can the friendlies sleuth out and identify all of the murderous ferals without being targeted for murder themselves? Or will the ferals prevail in concealing their true identities and make off with the village catnip? It’s all up to you, brave kitty!
Join us for a Halloween weekend all-inclusive event of murder mystery and social purr-suasion. Compete to be one of the last cats standing to win the weekend’s grand prizes.
Tickets available online at wellshotel.com or by phone at 250-994-3427
Please note: this event is for ages 19+.
How A Purfect Murder Works:
Each guest will be assigned a kitty character, with a true identity, friendly or feral, known only to them. Friendlies must banish the ferals and make them hiss-tory while also avoiding murder. Ferals must work in secret together to scratch the friendlies out of existence and remain undetected. Expects twists, challenges, and clues along the way!
At the end of the game, if the last kitties standing are all friendlies, they split the grand prize. If there is even one feral remaining at the end of the game, they take home the grand prize.
Other activities:
Arrive on Halloween night to a spooky reception with cocktails/mocktails and charcuterie. Meet one-on-one with your host to learn your fate as a feral or a friendly.
After an all-day game on Saturday, we’ll turn the mew-sic up and get the paw-ty started on Saturday night with rocking country dance band, the Screech Owls.*
* Stand-alone tickets to the concert are available to the general public. Purchase online at wellshotel.com
The Food:
We’re excited to put together a beautiful menu that is fresh, fun, and delicious. All meals will include vegetarian and gluten free choices, and accommodations for all registered dietary restrictions.
Your ticket includes:

Friday & Saturday Night Accommodation at the Wells Hotel or the Nest by IMA (tickets without accommodation also available)
Friday night welcome reception with snacks and entertainment
Saturday meals, including continental breakfast, hot luncheon, and buffet dinner
A full day of murder mystery on Saturday
A Saturday night country-rock dance concert with the Screech Owls
Sunday morning breakfast buffet
A chance to win prizes, including $1,000 in gift cards to the Wells Hotel

Cancellation Policy:

Tickets are fully refundable minus payment transaction fees up until October 10.
Cancellations October 10 – 20 would be eligible for a 50% refund
Cancellations after October 20 would not be eligible for a refund.
Organizers have the ability to waive cancellation fees if they are able to re-sell cancelled tickets to a wait list.

The Chimney Swallows
2025-10-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Join us Saturday, October 25th @ 8PM at The Sunset Theatre!
The Chimney Swallows are a unique folk music duo and microtheatre troupe composed of songwriters Raghu Lokanathan and Corwin Fox. Playing music together casually, while working for (& picketing at) the Victoria Public Library the friends discovered they had a mutual affinity for long conversations, song games and the stories of random strangers, & so began The Chimney Swallows.
This is a spontaneous opportunity to enjoy a special performance by this unique duo as Raghu now resides in Prince George and Corwin on Vancouver Island, so it is rare to see them together, much like the avian phenomenon after which they are named.
To create ‘Cut Down’ Raghu and Corwin memorized actual conversations they had with their elderly neighbours and used them to create a new conversation between two old men who never met in real life. ‘Cut Down’ is an exploration of aging and change, and gently touches upon the universal suffering and hilarity inherent to both. Please be advised there is some strong language.
‘Has There Been a Time Since?’ is a short spoken experience that leads the audience through a weekend at a music festival from the perspective of a veteran performer who is observing the experience they are having while they are in the throes of it.
Tickets are $25.00

Sunset Theatre Grand October Wardrobe Sale
2025-10-01 15:00 - 20:00 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Autumn is arriving, and that means warmer clothing, autumnal themed hot drinks… and Hallowe’en!
With an embarrassment of riches in terms of donations, we need to make some space: and what better way than to offer it to our community? So join us on the first day of October for some fun finds, either to enhance your wardrobe or perhaps even to find pieces for your costume for the end of the month! Prices will be set so shopping will be easy peasy (shirts $5, pants $10 etc) – and you will also be able to enjoy the services at the concession while you shop (will there be fancy hot chocolate? Mayyyyybeeee… will there be autumnal coffees and perhaps even cocktails? It is most possible! – It depends on who shows up and what the vibe is!)
We look forward to providing some amazing deals for you, whether you’re looking for glamour, goth, grotesque, ghoulish, classy, crass (y?) and anything in-between: come on over to discover your treasures and snap up your deals! We can assure you that there is nothing like a theatre wardrobe sale for ‘you’ll never believe what I found!’ Stay tuned for some sneak peeks at some of the things that will be waiting for you!
Wednesday, October 1 st, 3:00-8:00 (and maybe late 😜 )

Let's Talk Tourism Growth
2025-09-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Wells Community Hall, 4269 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, V0K2R0, Canada
Dear Tourism Operators,
The Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism Marketing Team would like to invite you to attend our upcoming MRDT Roadshow — a valuable opportunity to learn how the Municipal & Regional District Tax (MRDT) program supports tourism growth in our region.
Whether you’re an accommodator, tour provider, business owner, or community partner, this session will help you understand how MRDT works, how funds are invested, and how you can get involved in shaping the future of tourism in the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast.
What You’ll Learn:

What the MRDT is and how it’s collected
How MRDT funding supports destination marketing
The role of tourism operators in the MRDT process
The role that CCCT plays and how the MRDT dollars are being leveraged
Regional marketing plans, programs, and upcoming opportunities
Open Q&A with Your local DEM and the CCCT Marketing team

Locations: Wells Community Hall
Dates: Sept 29th Time: 1 pm to 3 pm
RSVP / Registration:
Wells Tourism MRDT Meeting Sept 29th
This is your chance to ask questions, share ideas, and help shape how tourism dollars are invested in the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast region.
We hope to see you there!

Wells Disc Golf League Game
2025-09-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-17 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!

Osisko Cariboo Gold
2025-09-16 17:30 - 19:30 | Sunset Theatre, 2357 Pooley St., Wells, BC, v0k2r0, Canada
Osisko Development and the Cariboo Gold Project are happy to announce the date of our next Wells Community Update Meeting.
We look forward to seeing everyone then.
