Getting Local With Jane: Delights Edition
Welcome to our regular Wednesday feature, Getting Local With Jane. If you’d like to meet up with some local, non-virtual Janeites, check out the listing–there might be something near you. And if you know about a local event or are organizing one, please send it in.
ETA: We just heard about this…the Colorado Springs Christian School High School in (obviously) Colorado Springs is putting on Pride & Prejudice this weekend, April 10-12 at 7 p.m.
We heard from JASNA’s Metro Kansas City Region, which is hosting a roundup discussion of PBS’ Complete Jane Austen on Sunday, April 20, “a chance to dish and dissect the latest adaptations.” The event will be at the Plaza Library in Kansas City, Missouri, 50th and Main, at 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Alert Baja Janeite sent us a link to “A Week of Georgian Delights” at the Theatre Royal in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, on April 21-26, 2008. Events will include a lecture on the “Georgian Globe,” performances of Animal Magnetism, a play by Elizabeth Inchbald (of Lovers’ Vows fame), a concert of music from Jane Austen’s music collection, and other plays, readings, lectures, and family events.
The Knit*Lit Book Club of Plantation, Florida, will read Persuasion for their May meeting. They meet on the first Thursday of each month at the West Regional Library. They seem to read books that involve knitting–we suppose Mrs. Smith’s charity projects gave Persuasion the edge.
As always, if you attend any of these events and care to write up a report to share with AustenBlog readers, we’re delighted to post it.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
For the Kansas City event- the Plaza Library is at 4801 Main, not 50th and Main. Sorry for the mistake!
Ellen
April 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Thanks for writing about our book club in Plantation! We are a group of knitters that also love to knit for charity- so Mrs. Smith is a great example to us!