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.
Join us for a bumper Valentine’s Day celebration of all things Jane Austen! With a fun and eclectic line up of talks, readings, music and games, this special online event will give you the chance to indulge your love of Jane Austen’s life and works, and to share them with fellow fans around the world.
Got any Valentine’s Day plans? Do you enjoy bingeing on Regency-era romance? We’re joining together with our friends at South Bay Musical Theatre to bring you a special performance of the lush and lovely Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Running February 13 and 14, this “Will they or won’t they?” iconic rom-com play is […]
Jane Austen & Co. is happy to announce our second event in our 2021 series "Race and the Regency." Join us as we sit down for a chat with Ibi Zoboi, author of Pride (2018), a contemporary YA remix of Pride and Prejudice that is set to be adapted into an HBO series.
Using letter writing as the core activity of "work" for the educated and prosperous classes, art historian, curator and author Nancy Mowll Mathews will compare Austen and Cassatt's own work lives, their long-distance communications and how they represent women working from home in their art. As appropriate for our current remote work lives and use […]
Topic: Q&A on Unmarriageable with author Sonia Kamal Pre-registration is required; see the event link for info.
Join us for a Q&A session with the author of Unmarriageable, a witty modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan.
To speak to us at this event, we are delighted to welcome our member David Richardson who will give a talk on clergy in the novels of Jane Austen. David will speak about the part that clergy play in the novels written by the daughter of a parson, and sister to two others. He will […]
Did you know there is a National Valentine Collectors Association? Find out more when the Maryland Region hosts a presentation by Nancy Rosin and Michael Russo, courtesy of the Collectors Association. This will be followed by a "crafternoon" activity: making a Georgian valentine. How can you resist?To register, please visit this link: http://jasnamd.org/meetings. If you […]
In this light-hearted comedy of courtship, the knife-sharp Letitia has been betrothed to the foppish Doricourt since childhood, but she fears she is soon to be trapped in a loveless marriage. Written in 1780, Hannah Cowley’s rom-com romp is a timeless and triumphant cry for love, decency, and equality.
JASNA Hawai'i and the Jane Austen Society of New Zealand join together for the first Pacific Rim international Jane Austen event. Deborah Yaffe will talk about her book, Among the Janeites. Visit the JASNA Hawai'i web site for updates on registration.
JASNA-Greater Sac Region is pleased to welcome Sophie “Lizzie” Andrews, international author, blogger and founder of The Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society. Sophie will chat with us about her books and life experiences ‘living’ in Jane Austen’s world.
Professor Patricia A. Matthew (Montclair State University) will discuss the links between the abolition movement, sugar, and the depiction of Black women in the Regency period. This is part of the "Race and the Regency" series.
‘Without music, the world is a blank’ says Mrs. Elton. Eighteenth century musicales or parlor performances included the traditional Irish air, a song from a ballad opera, piano sonatas, or a setting of a popular dance tune. They were frequent occurrences in society and it is reflected in Austen’s personal collections and in her work. […]