Our calendar features a wide range of in-person and online programs, including talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more. We also highlight events of interest from the broader Jane Austen and Regency world. All event times reflect the organizers’ local time zones. JASNA regional events are additionally listed on the main JASNA web site.
To submit an event for the calendar, kindly email news@jasnanorcal.org.
A special talk by Rebecca Romney, rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars about her new book at Rare Books San Francisco event at Fort Mason. $75. Jane Austen's Bookshelf will be the featured book at JASNA Norcal's November 11 reading group.
Tuesday, February 11, 6:30–8:00 pm (PT) on Zoom You are warmly invited to a cozy Jane Austen Valentine's Day celebration. This year, the theme will be "Food and Love in the Regency." JASNA NorCal's Anne Krause, who will be taking a course on this topic offered by the Regency Academe, will start the evening off with […]
The Regency’s favorite travelling clergyman has reached the Bay Area! Join us in the Terrace Room at Margaret-Jacks Hall on Stanford Campus (or online) for a talk on what was, by some measures, the most popular poem of Austen’s day, The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1812). JASNA NorCal member Ben Wiebracht and […]
Pulp & Prejudice is a hilarious one-woman show that passionately defends romance—romance novels, that is. Written and performed by local artist Jenny Noa, Pulp & Prejudice has been described as “a tightly corseted solo show about lovers and haters.” Noa turns a wide-angle lens on the subject of romance and the intense emotions the novels in […]
2025 is the anniversary of numerous filmed adaptations of Austen’s novels: the 85th anniversary of MGM’s 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier; the 45th anniversary of the Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul production; and the 30th anniversary of Clueless, Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility, Sony Picture Classics’ Persuasion, and the beloved BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer […]
The book comes out May 6. https://jasnanorcal.org/
Members are invited to gather at picnic tables in Sanborn Skyline County Park in Saratoga, CA at 5:30. General seating at 6. Show starts 7 pm. https://www.svshakespeare.org/emma