Events Calendar

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.

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  • Play: Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace (Part 2)

    Please join us for an original play reading as part of the "Hearthside Reading Series" with Theater 20/20!  Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace is a comic exploration of the day Jane […]

  • Is Piano Your Forte?

    Why did Austen make music, especially when played upon the pianoforte, a star in so many scenes? Think of Jane Fairfax receiving an expensive instrument from a secret admirer, or […]

  • Reading with Jane Austen

    Susan Allen Ford (Delta State University) will talk to us about the books that Jane read and loved, as well as reading practices in the Regency period. A Q&A will […]

  • Mary Bennet’s Surprising New Friend

    Online: Zoom

    Just in time for the spooky season, share in a book discussion of Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel. RC Jeanne Talbot of the JASNA San Diego region will lead […]

  • Frankenstein: A Life Zoom Performance

    Online: Zoom

    Right in time for Halloween, join Kentucky Shakespeare as they bring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to life in a live Zoom reading of this classic tale. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote and […]

    $10 – $15

  • Tales of Terror! Gothic Stories by the Virtual Fireside

    We begin our Gothic retellings with Hannah More’s poem Bishop Bonner’s Ghost whose ghoulish apparition passes judgment beyond the grave. The night continues with The Midnight Bell, described as one […]

    £5

  • Tales of Terror! Gothic Stories by the Virtual Fireside

    Night two is dedicated to Anne Radcliffe, the most significant Gothic writer of the eighteenth century. Far from being a horror writer, Radcliffe wished to terrify her readers and make […]

    £5

  • Elections in Jane Austen’s Time

    Talk by James F. Nagle, JASNA Puget Sound region. As we approach our 2020 national election, we should consider what elections were like in Jane Austen's time: who could vote, […]

  • Tales of Terror! Gothic Tales by the Virtual Fireside

    Online

    The final night is a dramatic reading of Mary Shelley’s little-known novella Mathilda. Although written between August 1819 and February 1820, the subject matter was so controversial that it was […]

    £5

  • Gardening with Jane Austen

    Kim Wilson (author of In the Garden with Jane Austen) will speak about gardens and growing in the Regency period.