JASNA NorCal

JASNA Central California Presents Discussion of Selected Austen Juvenilia
2024-09-14 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Summer reading program Fresno Area Public Library TBA

JASNA NorCal Presents The Love and Lore of the Seaside in Jane Austen’s Time (Zoom)
2024-09-15 13:00 - 14:30
Award-winning novelist Julie Klassen will present highlights from her research into English seaside resorts and bathing customs of the Regency era. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6391064

JASNA Greater Sacramento Region Presents Gretna Green Presentation with Madeline Yanov
2024-09-22 14:00 - 16:00
Members are invited to attend our Quarterly Meeting. Genealogist Madeline Yanov will be our guest speaker, presenting on Gretna Green and the English Marriage Act. Her discussion will also cover societal constraints faced by young single women, as well as English engagements and elopements, themes prevalent in Jane Austen’s novels.

Zoom details will be provided to members closer to the event date.

JASNA Greater Sacramento Region Book Sale
2024-09-28 10:00 - 16:00
260 items including annotated versions of Austen’s 6 novels, the Juvenilia, and also her books completed by others. Contact jasna.grsac@gmail.com for inquiries and location of private home.

JASNA NorCal Virtual Book Group
2024-10-08 18:30 - 20:00
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch, Melinda Taub

JASNA Annual General Meeting: Austen, Annotated: Jane Austen’s Literary, Political, and Cultural Origins
2024-10-18 08:00 - 2024-10-20 17:00
Cleveland, Ohio

https://jasna.org/conferences-events/agms

JASNA Central California presents Autumn Meeting - Emma
2024-11-09 01:00 - 02:30
2026 Calendar of Events

JASNA NorCal Virtual Book Group
2024-11-12 18:30 - 20:00
Good Fortune (2023), C. K. Chau

JASNA NorCal Birthday Gala
2024-12-14 14:00
Miss Bennett Christmas at Pemberley, a play by Lauren Gunderson and Margo MelconJoin us for the play, post-discussion. More to come!

JASNA Central California Presents Jane Austen Birthday
2024-12-15 10:00 - 12:00
No Host BrunchCDT Cocina, Fresno https://jasnacentralcalifornia.wordpress.com/calendar-of-events/

JASNA NorCal Virtual Reading Group - Miss Austen by Gill Horby
2025-01-16 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-08 18:30 - 20:00
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Rare Books San Francisco Celebrates Jane Austen
2025-02-01 10:00 - 2025-02-02 18:00
Rare Books LA and SF celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane’s birth at Fort Mason. 10-6 Saturday, 11-4 Sunday. Purchase tickets through website. https://rarebooksla.com/rare-books-san-francisco-2025/ Stop by the JASNA NorCal table and say hello!

Jane Austen's Bookshelf Lecture by Rebecca Romney
2025-02-01 11:00 - 12:30
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.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jane-austens-bookshelf-tickets-1105044871959?aff=website

JASNA Norcal Virtual Valentine Event - Food and Love in the Regency: A Jane Austen Valentine's Celebration
2025-02-11 18:30 - 20:00
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 a short presentation on culinary culture and romantic traditions in the Regency.

This will be followed by an open discussion of food and romance in Jane Austen’s novels. Of course, this topic will be a springboard, not a constraint, to a lively discussion!

Register at jasnanorcal.org for this zoom event.

JASNA NorCal Virtual Reading Group - Natalie Tyler, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
2025-03-11 18:30 - 20:00

JASNA NorCal presents“The Forgotten Tale of Doctor Syntax, the Regency’s Most Popular Fictional Character” - In person and virtual event
2025-04-05 13:30 - 15:30
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 three of his students, co-winners of the 2024 JASNA New Voices Award, will share key insights from their semester-long project on Doctor Syntax. Register at https://www.jasnanorcal.org/

Pulp & Prejudice: A Defense of Romance Novels
2025-04-19 19:00 - 21:00
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 particular inspire. Why is the genre vilified and beloved in equal measure? This comedic exploration of this complicated topic covers the origins of the author’s own obsessions, romance novels as social barometer, and larger questions about why we love what we love. All proceeds from this event will directly support Chapter 510’s free writing programs for Black, brown, and queer youth in Oakland. Tickets are available on a sliding scale. The Dept. of Make / Believe546 9th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607United States https://www.chapter510.org/events/chapter-pulp-andprejudice-event

JASNA Southwest A Star Is Born: A Truth Universally Acknowledged
2025-05-03 08:30 - 2025-05-04 17:00
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 Ehle and Colin Firth, and the 20th anniversary of the Keira Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen version.

To celebrate these milestones, our Southwest Region is planning a multi-day Gala the first weekend in May 2025. The theme is “A Star is Born: A Truth Universally Acknowledged.” https://jasnasw.com/events/upcoming-events/

Old Friends and New Francies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen; Rudyard Kipling, “The Janeites”; Rudyard Kipling, “Jane’s Marriage”; Active 19th Century Lady of Distinction, The Mirror of the Graces by Sybil Brinton
2025-05-13 18:30 - 20:00

The Family Fortune by Laurie Horowitz
2025-06-10 18:30 - 20:00

JASNA NorCal Virtual Reading Group -Persuasions articles (TBD)
2025-07-08 18:30 - 20:00

Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner
2025-08-12 18:30 - 20:00
The book comes out May 6. https://jasnanorcal.org/

Emma by Kate Hamill, Silicon Valley Shakespeare
2025-08-16 17:30 - 21:00
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

Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage by Caroline Jane Knight with Special Guest Caroline Knight in Attendance
2025-09-09 18:30 - 20:00

JASNA AGM Austen at 250 - Baltimore, MD
2025-10-10 08:00 - 2025-10-12 17:00
Austen at 250: “No check to my Genius from beginning to end”

2025 will be a milestone year as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, with Baltimore welcoming JASNA back for its first AGM since 1980. We are planning a diverse and unique celebration of her life and literary genius, as well as an opportunity for attendees to connect with the rich history of Maryland and “Charm City.” Attendees must find themselves agreeing that “a very strange [Janeite] it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of [Baltimore], to make him wish to know it better.”

https://jasna.org/agms/baltimore2025/home.php

Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price
2025-10-21 18:30 - 20:00

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney
2025-11-11 18:30 - 20:00

JASNA NorCal Annual Jane Austen Birthday Gala Tea
2025-12-13 11:00 - 13:00
Trinity Lutheran Church at 1295 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Details and registration coming soon on our website.
