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.
Did you make an outfit or accessory this summer? Did you get started and not have time to finish? Maybe you just finally mended something. Whatever it may be, please join us for a "sew-and-tell." JASNA members: check your email for an invitation.
An online celebration sponsored by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, exploring the world of Jane Austen and her Writing in a Week of Live Talks, Videos, Music, Dance, Readings and Even a Quiz!
Introducing a new monthly series to programs on the Austen House Youtube channel, this event features author Rachel Cohen (Austen Years, A Memoir in Five Novels) in conversation with Jane Austen’s House Director, Lizzie Dunford.
Beverly shares her considerable knowledge on the must-know customs of English country dancing in Austen's time, along with a few choice reflections on dancing in the film adaptations.
Please join us for an original play reading as part of the "Heathside Reading Series" with Theater 20/20! Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace is a comic exploration of the day Jane Austen was invited to the Royal Palace by Prince Regent for tour hosted by his overly admiring Royal Librarian, James Stanier Clarke. Despite her distaste […]
Jane Austen's Juvenilia: Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution Join us in our virtual conference center, where top Austen scholars and your JASNA friends will be waiting for you! This year’s Annual General Meeting will be a long-overdue exploration and celebration of Jane Austen’s youthful writings, including her epistolary novel Lady Susan. Complementing the juvenilia content will be […]
The classical elegance of the Regency period in England is considered one of the most sophisticated and refined moments in design history. Throughout the twentieth century, designers took elements of the Regency vocabulary and restyled them to meld with the reigning aesthetic of the day. The effects proved extraordinary. Ms. Eerdmans will begin with an […]
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 Austen was invited to the Royal Palace by Prince Regent for tour hosted by his overly admiring Royal Librarian, James Stanier Clarke. Despite her distaste […]
JASNA Hawai'i invites members from other JASNA regions to join this Zoom discussion of Jenner's recent novel. Contact the organizers for more details.
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 Mary Bennet trying to gain some importance by applying herself more assiduously than her prettier sisters. Join discussion leaders Elizabeth Paquette and Patti Woodall to […]
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 follow.
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 the discussion about this book, which blends aspects of Pride and Prejudice with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Twelve years after the end of Austen's tale, Mary […]
JASNA members: Check email for an invitation to this casual get-together.