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 JASNA-NJ on December 19th at 2pm to celebrate the birthday of Jane Austen and the holidays. The event will include the opportunity to have Charles Burns create your silhouette via Zoom, as well as the region's traditional annual book Pollyanna. In addition, Charles Burns will give a short talk on silhouettes and his process, […]
Live stream virtual performances of this soon-to-be holiday classic by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, directed by Erin Riley. A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, Miss Bennet continues the story, only this time with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Upcoming performances: December 17, 18, 19, 20.
Regency romance is back for the holidays with Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley—a companion piece to the duo’s delightful Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley—both continuations of Jane Austen’s popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. Each performance (Dec 18, 19, and 20) will be a live staged reading via Zoom.
Live stream virtual performances of this soon-to-be holiday classic by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, directed by Erin Riley. A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, Miss Bennet continues the story, only this time with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Upcoming performances: December 17, 18, 19, 20.
Regency romance is back for the holidays with Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley—a companion piece to the duo’s delightful Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley—both continuations of Jane Austen’s popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. Each performance (Dec 18, 19, and 20) will be a live staged reading via Zoom.
See off the cold of winter with a cosy night in by the virtual fireside and a chilling festive tale, "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell. Videos can be accessed from December 21 through December 28 with individual bookings.
San Jose Stage Company presents a virtual revival of its 2013 World Premiere of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Razor sharp and laced with irony and wit, Austen’s passionate characters must negotiate a complex code of conduct to survive and ultimately achieve their ends. Persuasion, adapted by Jennifer Le Blanc, deeply reflects Jane Austen’s talent for observation […]
A recording of the US premier of the orchestrated version of the opera Mansfield Park based upon Jane Austen’s third and most controversial novel. Composed by Jonathan Dove with libretto by Alasdair Middletonk, this premiere performance was featured as part of the January 2020 Modesto Jane Con. The recording will be available through January 31st with purchase […]
Margaret Christmann will lead a discussion of "The Clergy in Jane Austen's Novels." Email the organizers to register or for more information: jasna.orswwa@gmail.com
In her most recent book, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, Kerri Andrews provides intimate and incisive portraits of some of the women who have, over the past 300 years, found walking essential to their sense of themselves as women, writers and people, despite social restrictions, assumptions about what women could do, and a failure […]
Join JASNA SW for a free Zoom presentation by Professor Jason Solinger on "The Anti-Historical Austen: From 'The History of England' to Northanger Abbey and Beyond." The talk is a live extension of his 2020 Virtual AGM breakout session, followed by a Q&A session. The presentation will be recorded.
Topic: "I hope white hands": Abolition and the Female Consumer A talk by University of Buffalo Scholar in Residence Tricia Matthew. Enjoy birthday cake and/or popovers at home. Don't forget to have a suitable beverage on hand for the birthday toast! Pre-registration is required; see the event link for info.
Explore the world of fabric in the Regency Era. Learn what fabrics are discussed in Austen's works, what sort of materials would have been available to her characters and how we can recreate/interpret them in our modern costuming. You will for sure be the envy of everyone when we next gather in-person, wearing your newest […]