Draft Program for Jane Austen Festival 2010

Please note: the program is still to be confirmed, see the Jane Austen Festival Australia Website for more information and to see the full list of presenters and topics.
Tickets go on sale from November 1, 2009 for FRIENDS OF JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL.
General sales commence on December 1, 2009.
To become a Friend of the Jane Austen Festival Australia click here.

"Regency" Exhibition of Costumes, Prints & Rare Books
Explore the fashions of Jane Austen's lifetime, with a focus on English women's style during the early 19th century. The charm and grace of this period is shown in fashion, prints and rare books. This ticket gives you access to the exhibition for the duration of the festival, so feel free to come back again.

Jane Austen Festival Get Together
An ideal opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new ones over a glass of wine and light refreshments.[limited tickets]

Regency Lady's Day
A special day for those interested in regency sewing and craft. Hand sewing, bonnet making, cooking, hair styles, crafts and fashion overviews. [limited tickets]

Jane Austen Study Day
Jane Austen offers tremendous insights into the larger historical and social world that surrounded her apparently enclosed fictions. Participate in round-table discussions, listen to selected readings from our feature-novel, Sense and Sensibility, and learn more about her novels from a fine selection of Australia's Jane Austen scholars. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided. [limited tickets]

Formal Regency Dinner & Concert
Formal regency dining experience. Vegetarian option available, inform bookings office if required. Guest Speaker followed by "Jane Austen's Music" concert and costumed regency dance display. [limited tickets]

Learn to Dance like Jane Austen
If you plan to attend the ball, then this is just for you! Some knowledge of the dances will make it easier for you to join in at the ball. Includes morning tea and lunch.
Beginners - Learn to dance like Jane Austen workshop for beginners, flat shoes advisable.
Intermediate - Learn to dance like Jane Austen workshop for those who have ‘had a go’ before.

An Afternoon Soiree with the Austens
Cards and other parlour games, music and afternoon tea - China tea, scones, preserves and delicious cake. Regency costume welcome.[limited tickets]

Jane Austen Ball
A special regency dance in the wonderful setting of St John's Church Hall. Regency-era desserts and refreshments will be served - labelled contributions welcome. Live band playing Regency-era music with a dancing master calling. Entertainments in the breaks.[limited tickets]

Regency Picnic & Promenade
Please join us for a lovely afternoon in the world of Jane Austen beside Lake Burley Griffin, where we shall be holding a picnic, followed by a promenade around the lake to the Farewell Dance venue. Our guests are invited to bring their own period-style picnic lunch and to make their picnic site look as period as possible (Please note that the event is not a potluck.)

Farewell English Country Dance
[limited tickets]

Monday 19 April
- Privately booked close-up examination of antique costumes.
- Bus Tour of Canberra, Yass and Goulburn visiting historical homes and collections dating to the Regency Era.

Exhibition of Regency Costumes, Prints and Books

Clothing to be on display so far:

1. Black silk spencer, c.1810
2. Short cream mitts c. 1810
3. Man's linen shirt, c.1800
4. Roller-printed floral cotton bodice top (skirt missing), c.1820
5. Cotton bib-front daydress, c.1810
6. Silk bib-front daydress, c.1810
7. White muslin daydress, c.1820
8. Infant's nightgown, c.1820
9. Silk Ballgown with Pelerine, c.1830
10. Men's hand embroidered polychrome floral waistcoat, c.1780
11. Lady's leather dance slippers, c. 1830
12. Embroidered silk organza shawl, whitework, extremely fine and sheer, c. 1800
13. Blue chambray cotton girls round gown with ornate sleeves, c.1820
14. Corded stays (regency corset) c. 1830
    

The exhibition will run all festival, with costume researchers encouraged to book a time for up-close costume inspection for Monday 19 or Tuesday 20 April 2010.

We welcome loans of mannequins, dummies and display cases for the staging of this exhibition. Please phone Aylwen on 0409 817 623 if you can be of assistance. Click on picture for images of some of the collection.

Jane Austen Festival Australia Logo Competition

We are holding a banner and logo competition for the Jane Austen Festival of Australia.

The prize? A season ticket to the 2010 Jane Austen Festival.

Good luck!



The fine print

The banner should be 920 pixels wide by 180 high. For quick loading, the file size of the banner should be no more than 50Ks. Note that the banner needs to identify the site.

The logo should be provided in a scalable (preferably vector based) or high quality photoshop .psd working version so it can be incorporated in any potential printed documents. Please use a popular graphics format such as jpeg or psd. If we wish to use your design we’ll be in touch and can sort out any further technical details at that point and not be subject to a file size limitation. To send large documents we recommend you use yousendit.com . Send all files to Aylwen Gardiner-Garden at garden@netspeed.com.au .

Entries need to be received by the 30 September 2009.

Whether or not you win the competition, we will take any entry as consent to have the material you submit licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Use licence Australian variant 2.5.* This entails an implied assertion by you that the work is yours and/or that you have been granted permission to use and licence it under this licence. You further licence us to use the material in the event of us wishing to display or otherwise use the design you submit.

Become a Friend of the Jane Austen Festival of Australia

Become a Friend of JAFA

For a small annual fee you will receive a tri-monthly personal posted newsletter from the Festival Director, advance mailing of the Festival Programme and priority booking for Jane Austen Festival Australia & Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy events. You will also know that your fee helps support the continuation of this wonderful festival.

Membership runs annually from 1st January to 31st December, however for those joining in 2009 membership will run to 31 December 2010. Tickets will go on sale for Friends of Jane Austen Festival on 1 November, 2009 and to the general public on 1 December, 2009.

Members also receive a certificate of membership and enrolment number for use when making bookings.