Events & Meetings

The Jane Austen Project, founded in October 2009 as Oxford's first and only Jane Austen Society for years, is intended for anyone interested in Austen and her work, to hold meetings to discuss her life and times. In particular, we want to research and perform her music - the corpus of materials which she brought together from libraries, collections and borrowings, and adapted for household use.

• Albion Bookshop event in February 2012
  There will be a Jane Austen Soiree at the Albion Book Shop, Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford on Sunday February 12 from 4 pm. Admission £5. There will be Food, Wine, Music, Song and Dance and readings from Jane Austen and Regency Poets etc. We are promised a Promenade, and Fortune Telling. Period Costume is entirely optional but very welcome!
  Albion Beatnik
  34 Walton Street
  Jericho
  Oxford
  OX2 6AA
  Tel: (01865) 511345


• An Oxford Soiree, Walton Street, Oxford
  A soiree on Sunday, 16th October at The Albion Beatnick Bookshop in Oxford featured Austentation' amongst many other attractions - note that there is a £5 entrance fee, for which you get a full evening of fine entertainment, tea and buffet! If you are on Facebook, you can find further details here.
  


• An Oxford soiree
  A couple of days of very fine weather inspired an impromptu soiree in north Oxford on saturday 1st October; food, drink, music and dancing on the local green by the Oxford canal, to the apparent delight of curious local onlookers - further images here.
• The Jane Austen Festival, Bath 2011
  A number of members of the Project foregathered at the Jane Austen Festival in september - the duo 'Austentation' were performing at a number of events, and other members congregated to take part in the plethora of balls, soirees, dinners and lectures - a thoroughly good week in Bath, as always.
• Brighton Pavilion
  In June, Frank and Gillie performed together as 'Austentation' at the Brighton Pavilion, by special invitation; the concert was very well received and was professionally recorded on sound and video by the Brighton and Hove Museums people, and segments are now available on YouTube - go and have a look!
• Austentation at Chawton
  The duo 'Austentation' played at Chawton on Thursday 2nd June at around 12:30-1pm.
• Regency Music in Oxford
  The 'Scope' charity shop in Summertown, Oxford asked Frank Underwood, the chair of the Group, together with Gillie Tunley of the Woodley Light Operatic Society to give a musical performance on their premises on Sunday 22nd May, at lunchtime.
  This followed up on a very well received evening at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, on Saturday 14th, at which Frank played guitar to accompany Gillie - which has prompted immediate invitations for a return performance.
  Prior to the musical event, there was a costumed photo session in Oxford city centre, between the appropriately styled venue of the Ashmolean Museum frontage at 11am, Beaumont Street and St John's Street, laid out in the 1820s at the end of the Regency period - these photos are being prepared for publication.
  They have now decided to call themselves 'Austentation', and under that name are starting to gather invitations to perform at various period venues and events!
  
• May 14th, Bath
  The Jane Austen Centre is holding a sort of preview event for the September Festival - 'Fashion, Food and Frolics' - to which the Society has been invited. There will be games, food and dancing of the Regency period. Just £5, and costumes are optional.
• April 21st
  Again with Lady Georgianna, we went to Chawton in Hampshire on Thursday 21st April
to do a musical event in Austens' cottage museum, which went down very well indeed, with an excellent crowd both in the house and in its beautiful gardens.
• April 19th
  There was a costumed event at the Bate Collection of Oxford University, on Tuesday 19th April, with our friends of Lady Georgianna.
• March 2011
  We had a bit of a photo shoot in Oxford, to show off some of the costumes the club now owns (and can lend out) and the musical instruments which we own which were characteristic of the Regency period.
• Saturday 18th December
  There was a Period Ball on Saturday 18th December in Cirencester, with our friends in the group Lady Giorgianna.
• Saturday 13th November
  There was a Regency Dance workshop at the Headington Community Centre, Oxford with the Oxford Historical Dance Society.
• Sunday 7th November
  There was a very successful Regency Soiree at the Albion Bookshop at 34 Walton St in Jericho, Oxford from 5pm - 7pm - we went along to join in with the music, recitations and festivities!
• September 2010
  - The Jane Austen Festival in Bath was a great success, as always - a few photographs on the Festival page.

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