The 39th annual Billy Barker Days festival in Quesnel goes until Sunday and includes a parade, fireworks, rodeo, car races and free family entertainment. For more information call 250-992-1234.
Smithers' Non-Prophet Society band comes to Caf Voltaire for Friday Night Mics tonight at 8 p.m., Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue. The band offers blues-rock-funk-fusion. As always, this is a free event.
Saturday at 10 a.m. is story time at Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue, with special guest storyteller Owen Lubbers. Come browse or have a coffee and a chat while children are entertained.
Thrashing for Hope takes place at the Generator Sunday at 9 p.m. It's a fundraiser in support of the New Hope Society, advocates for at-risk women, offering support with daily living and harm reduction and workshops for long-term solutions and training. All proceeds from the $10 admission will go to Prince George New Hope.
Scrabble addicts are invited to test their skill Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue. Bring a board, if you've got one. Scrabble club will meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month.
Join the Sea to Sands Conservation Alliance (www.sea2sands.ca) Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Art Space, above Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue for a chat with Kim Slater, currently running the length of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline in order to promote dialogue about alternative energy ideas, the hazards of the pipeline and thoughts about the direction that we, as Canadians, want our economy to be going. For more information about Kim and to follow the course of her inspiring run visit www.bandtogetherbc.com.
Yvonne Harris will have a book reading at Cafe Voltaire, Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue Wednesday at 7 p.m. Her books is called Ashoona Daughter of the Winds: An Inuit Woman's Journey, which is based a true story told to the author by an Inuit Elder on Baffin Island. The book is the story of a woman who comes of age during a time of great upheaval in Canada's most remote northern regions.
The June Bugs will perform Thursday at Art Space, above Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue. They are musicians from Alberta whose voices blend in two, three, four and five part harmonies. They sing upbeat gospel and bluegrass, traditional folk and contemplative originals. Tickets are $15 at Books & Co.
