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We host four regional meetings annually that feature a wide range of speakers and presentations, offer numerous local reading and game groups, sponsor a Young Filmmakers Contest and maintain a comprehensive guide to Austen Adaptations.Learn more about the benefits of joining JASNA and JASNA Southwest on our membership page.We hope you enjoy exploring our site and we hope to see you soon!Left: Glamified version of the iconic portrait of Austen by her sister, Cassandra, circa 1810Austen’s original writing desk, which was returned to the Jane Austen’s House in Chawton in 1957Chawton Cottage, England SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR NEXT IN-PERSON MEETINGDecember 3, 2022Join us at The Grand in Long Beach, CAfor our Winter 2022 In-Person Regional MeetingJane Austen and the Musical ArtsThe Grand, 4101 E. Willow Street, Long Beach 9:00 AM – 3:00 PMWe know our Jane loved music and dancing. Start your holiday season with us for a full day immersed in the music and dance enjoyed by Jane Austen and in film adaptations to be held in the beautiful event center The Grand in Long Beach. In the morning, after a continental breakfast, we will learn about the music performed in four film adaptations of Emma and be treated to a musical performance by a flutist and a pianist. After lunch, we will learn about dancing in Austen’s time. The afternoon program will conclude with lessons in English Country Dancing. This will be a beginner level dancing class.Featured Presentations: “Taking Music Seriously: Scenes of Musical Performance in Four Film Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma,”presented by Dr. Colleen Reardon “In The Music Room With Jane Austen,” Musical Performance by Flutist Ann Erwin and Pianist Edith Orloff “Dancing with Jane Austen’” presented by Dancing Master Cara King English Country Dancing led by Cara KingRegistration will begin in October, look for the email soon!All events are open to JASNA-SW members as well as non-members.COVID Restrictions will continue to be in effect for our in-person meetings until May 2023. Our board made the decision to follow the CDC guidelines once we reopened our in-person events beginning in May 2022. We require vaccination and updated booster shots for those in attendance to our events. Some people are more likely than others to get very sick if they get COVID-19. This includes people who are older, are immunocompromised, have certain disabilities, or have underlying health conditions. We have board members, speakers, and JASNA members who are included in the above list. We seek to promote good health to all who wish to gather with us in our shared admiration of Jane Austen. DETAILS FOR EVENT: Continental Breakfast will be served at 9:00 AM. Lunch will be served at 12 noon. More details, including a menu, will be shared soon.Edith Oloff, PianistA versatile performer, pianist Edith Orloff is acclaimed as recitalist, chamber musician, andconcerto soloist, whose music-making is praised at home and abroad for interpretive vitalityand perceptive musicianship. Her concerts have taken her across the United States as well asto Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Italy, Canada, and Mexico. “Herpassagework purled, delicacy or crunch emerged to order from her rapid playing, chords hada cushion of authority, articulation illuminated melody.” (Los Angeles Times) She is afounding member of the Los Angeles-based Pacific Trio, with violinist Roger Wilkie andcellist John Walz, which has toured the U.S. and Europe. The trio has served as ensemble-in-residence at Idyllwild Arts summer festival, where Ms. Orloff has taught piano and chambermusic since 1976. She has recorded for the Yarlung, Marsyas, Capriccio, and Encora labels.Her solo CD, “Personal Touch”, featuring varied works for solo piano by old masters andcontemporary composers, has garnered high praise in reviews by American Record Guideand Germany’s PianoNews. Ms. Orloff holds two degrees from California Institute of the Arts,where she studied piano with Earle Voorhies and chamber music with Cesare Pascarella.Other influential teachers were Reginald Stewart, Jerome Lowenthal, Rosina Lhevinne, DanielPollack, Hellmut Hidegheti, and Roberto Eyzaguirre.Ann Erwin, FlutistFlutist Ann Erwin holds music degrees from the University of Southern California andUC San Diego, and was awarded Annette Kade and Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowshipsto study the flute in Paris, where her teachers were Michel Debost and Ida Ribera. InSouthern California she studied with Roger Stevens, Anne Diener Zentner, and DamianBursill-Hall. She also studied chamber music at the Yale Summer School in Norfolk,Connecticut. Ann has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Opera Orchestras,New Hampshire Music Festival, Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra, VenturaSymphony Orchestra, Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival, Strauss Symphony ofAmerica, and many other organizations. She has served as an Assistant Professor ofFlute at the University of Wyoming and the University of Tennessee, and has alsotaught at the University of New Hampshire and Cerritos College. Currently PrincipalFlute of San Diego’s Classics Philharmonic and a member of the Channel IslandsChamber Orchestra, Ann maintains a private flute studio and is an active fluteadjudicator. She often performs recitals of music by women composers, and chairs thestudent Women Composers Festival for the Conejo Valley Branch of the MusicTeachers Association of California. Ann is a lifelong Jane Austen fan. She attended herfirst JASNA AGM in 2021 and loved it.Cara King, English Country Dance CallerCara King is a freelance researcher, caller, and teacher of historical dance, with a focus on English Country Dance and the social dancing of Jane Austen’s England. She has taught online classes on the subject for Regency Fiction Writers, lectured on it for the Historical Tea & Dance Society, and twice been Dance Mistress at the annual ball for The Beau Monde (the Regency chapter of the Romance Writers of America). Cara regularly calls with the Historical Tea & Dance Society and Monrovia English Country Dance.LA Times Festival of Books 2022 — Saturday, April 23 & Sunday, April 24, 2022We were back at the Festival of Books this year! The Jane Austen Society of North America was in Booth #917. Thank you to all of our volunteers who set up and manned the booth for the weekend. Welcome to all new Austen fans who found our group! We hope to see you at one of our events or at a reading group near you. *~* Upcoming Free Zoom Events *~*All of our online Zoom events are open to JASNA members as well as non-members. Invite your friends!(See our in-person events in next section)January 28, 2023College Students Take On Jane AustenZoom Presentation by students of Dr. Jason Solinger, 18th Century scholar, University of Mississippi11:00 AM-12:30 PM PacificMarch 4, 2023Coverture and Marriage Law in Early AmericaZoom Presentation by Dr. Catherine Allgor, President, Massachusetts Historical Society11:00 AM-12:30 PM PacificIN-PERSON EVENTS 2023 February 11, 2023 9:00 am – 12:45 pm In-Person Half-Day Event Location: TBD Featured Presentations: Regency Noir: Romance, Race, and the Rise of ’The Woman of Colour’ presented by Dr. Leigh-Michil George The Bennets are Asian American: Asian Diaspora and the Regency Period presented by Dr. Lillian LuMay 6, 2023MISS AUSTEN GOES TO WASHINGTON: JANE AUSTEN AND POLITICSIn-Person Full-Day Event concluding with an optional tour: Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, RiversideFeatured speakers: Congressman Mark Takano (D-Riverside), former high school English teacher who launched a Jane Austen reading group on Capitol Hill; Dr. Danielle Spratt, Professor at Cal State Northridge on “Austen and the Politics of Resistance”; and Susan Straight, acclaimed author and Riverside native.Follow UsFollowFollowFollowFollowFollowReading, Film and Game GroupsFor the upcoming schedule for each of our reading, film and game groups, visit the groups page.ReadImmerse yourself in an Austen novel, participate in a reading or game group or catch up on the latest JASNA Southwest news.JoinExplore the benefits of becoming a JASNA and JASNA Southwest member, or join or renew your membership now!AttendDiscover our wide range of events or scroll through our archive for recaps, video and audio from past meetings.CelebrateJoin other Jane Austen fans from around Southern California by attending one of our regional meetings.VolunteerGreet visitors at our Festival of Books booth, organize a new reading group or assist with events and more as a valued volunteer.GiveSupport JASNA’s Southwest region with a tax-deductible donation in any amount. Your gift truly makes a meaningful difference in all we do!LearnDiscover a treasure trove of resources, including our comprehensive guide to film adaptations as well as books Austen herself admired.ConnectEmail jasnasw or visit our contact page to direct your query on a specific topic or to a board member. We look forward to hearing from you.Join Our Mailing ListSign up today to receive our monthly e-newsletter, event invitations and occasional news, such as free Austen-related film screenings. We never (ever) share your information with anyone. Period.Sign Up Today“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” —Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s Letters “For my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” —Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility“It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” —Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility “It is such a happiness when good people get together, and they always do.” —Jane Austen, Emma“I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “My idea of good company … is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation.” “That is not good company, that is the best.” —Jane Austen, Persuasion“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey “We all have our best guides 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