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JASNA Oregon & SW Washington Region

Book reading by regional member on May 15

5/10/2016

Regional member and author Collins Hemingway will doing another lecture in our area, at the Cornelius Public Library for a lecture and reading on Sunday, May 15, at 2 p.m. He will be reading from his new novel, The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen.

Click the link below for more info:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-collins-hemingway-reading-of-the-marriage-of-miss-jane-austen-tickets-24848708155

Two deadlines coming up for Jane Austen events

4/30/2016

A couple of deadlines coming up for local Jane Austen events:

Sunday, May 1: Send an email to our JASNA ORSWWA Regional coordinator, Margaret Christmann at jasna.orswwa@gmail.com, if you are interested in sitting with other regional members to attend the play, Emma, that will be put on at the Bag and Baggage Theater in Hillsboro. Member Pauline Beard will be doing a talk before the performances on Friday, May 20th and 27th. If you want to sit with other members of our group, send Margaret an e-mail by May 1st and note which day you want to attend. Margaret will then buy tickets together for the shows.

Friday, May 6: The registration deadline for our annual spring tea on May 14. Feel free to invite a friend to join us. Our speaker has an interesting topic in Lending Libraries, and you can find out more about the program and the speaker here on our 2016 Events page.

Annual spring tea + program invitation

3/20/2016

Photo of tea cup

The annual spring tea and luncheon will be held on May 14, 2016, with speaker Claire Bellanti. Costumes welcome but not required. A Raffle will be held to benefit our Tribute Grant fund ~ delightful books, tea, & treats!

Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016
Time: 1 p.m.
Location: Holy Names Heritage Center, 17425 Holy Names Drive, Lake Oswego, OR 97034
Program: You Can Get a Parasol at Whitby’s: Circulating Libraries in Jane Austen’s Time
Speaker: Ms. Claire Bellanti, JASNA National President
Reservations: Reservations are required for this event. Please note that the date to register is May 6. Registration fee is $15.00 per person. Students may attend for free, but must make a reservation. (Send a copy of student ID in lieu of registration fee.)
Contact: To register or for more information, please email jasna.orswwa@gmail.com

Claire Bellanti Bio - PDF format

Spring Tea Invitation Flyer - PDF format

Jane Austen Day in Philadelphia - Emma: 200 Years of Perfection

3/5/2016

Registration is now open for “Jane Austen Day 2016” in Philadelphia. ‘Emma: 200 Years of Perfection” will take place on Saturday, April 16, 2016. Join the JASNA Eastern Pennsylvania Region or a day celebrating the bicentenary of the publication of Emma in Philadelphia, the city that first published Emma in the United States.

All the details, program of events, and registration info can be found online here at http://www.jasnaeastpa.org/jaday.html

Jane Austen Day - Emma graphic

Jane Austen Goes to Vassar

2/21/2016

From the JASNA New York Metropolitan Region:

Jane Austen may not have visited the learned halls of Vassar College (founded in 1861), but we may now do so in her honor. Famous Vassar College alumni include such luminaries as Jean Webster (author of Daddy-Long-Legs and great-niece of Samuel Clemens), poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, actresses Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Lisa Kudrow, and Anne Hathaway, as well as "Carney Sibley" of Maud Hart Lovelace's Carney's House Party.

While we won't be garnering daisy chains (one of Vassar's oldest traditions), we will be visiting Vassar's Taylor Hall Auditorium and its Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center on Saturday, April 9, 2016.

Our program will include:

Program Chair Kathryn Shanks Libin, JASNA member and Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College;
Susan Zlotnick, Professor of English and current Dean of Freshmen at Vassar College ("Jane Austen and the Gothic");
Marilyn Francus, Professor of English at West Virginia University, JASNA's 2015 International Visitor and Chair of the International Visitor's Program ("Austen and Young Writers");
Performances by the Vassar Women's Chorus conducted by Vassar's choir director, Christine Howlett. Selections will include the U.S. Premiere of "From the Three Prayers of Jane Austen" by Amanda Jacobs, co-author of the book, music and lyrics of "Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Musical". We will also hear an encore performance of the Eleanor Daley pieces written for, and performed at, JASNA's 2012 AGM;
Guided tour of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center's "American Stories 1800-1950" exhibition which features key works of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries housed in the Art Center's vault. Among the artists included are John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Sanford Gifford, George Inness, William Merritt Chase, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur B. Davies, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ben Shahn.

You can read more about costs, travel, and more online at http://www.jasnany.org/pdf/Vassar%20Info.pdf and at the JASNA New York Metropolitan Region website at http://www.jasnany.org/.

JASNA New York Metropolitan Region banner image

Jane Austen Summer Program 2016 - "Mansfield Park and Its Afterlives"

2/14/2016

The Jane Austen Summer Program is excited to announce its 2016 symposium, "Mansfield Park and Its Afterlives", co-directed by UNC's James Thompson and Inger Brody.

The fourth annual event will take place June 16-19, 2016, in Carrboro and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

For more information about the program, please visit http://janeaustensummer.org.

RSVP for Jan. 10 meeting

1/3/2016

Our first meeting of the year will be held at Alexandra Guerra's house on Sunday January 10, 2016. The topic will be the Pleasures and Dangers of Bath, presented by Margaret Harshbarger. Hope to see you there!

~ Margaret Christmann, Regional Coordinator

RSVP for Nov. 8 Reading Discussion Group

10/24/2015

Our November meeting will be held on Sunday, November 8, at 1:00 pm at the Hillsboro Main Library. Please R.S.V.P. to host Marva and let her know if you can bring a treat. Contact us if you need to get in touch with the host.

The reading group theme for November 8 will be "Jane Austen’s Comments to Women," and we will also be selecting themes for the 2016 reading group meetings.

Women in Regency costume

Photos from Spring 2015 event

4/19/2015

For a lovely array of photos from our 2015 event, "Undressing Mr. Darcy," please visit our Facebook page and photo album of the event!

Screenshot of Facebook album

For more info about the program event and speakers, please visit our 2015 Events page. If you have more photos to contribute to the Facebook album, please contact Jennifer Snoek-Brown, the region's website manager.

Register now for our spring program!

3/29/2015

RSVP illustration

Don't forget to register for the JASNA spring program on Saturday, April 18th! Come join us as we "Undress Mr. Darcy" and learn about Regency fashion. RSVP with our Regional Coordinator Kim Higgins, who is the registrar for this program; email her at the jasna.orswwa@gmail.com email address.

More details can be found on our 2015 Events page. Carpooling info can be found on our Carpooling page.

We hope to see you there!