Announcing Our Next JASNA-NYM Regional Meeting
LIGHT BRIGHT AND SPARKLING: A PARTY FOR JANE AUSTEN’S BIRTHDAY
It’s our big celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, featuring special guest speakers Dr. Devoney Looser and Dr. Janine Barchas!
Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In Person Gathering at Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st St, NYC, in the Commons & the Regina Peruggi Room
Join your fellow Janeites at Marymount Manhattan on the afternoon of Saturday, December 6th, 2025 for a once-in-a-lifetime semiquincentennial celebration.
Marymount is located at 221 East 71st Street, between Second and Third Avenues on the Upper East Side. This time we’ll be using both the Regina Peruggi Room on the second floor and The Commons on the third floor. The building is equipped with elevators and both spaces are fully ADA-accessible.
Do you have Austen-related books or tchotchkes that you’re no longer using? Please feel free to bring them! As per our December tradition, there will be a giveaway table, where guests can take or leave things as they wish.
Like a majority of our regional meetings, this one is open to JASNA members and non-members alike. If you are not yet a JASNA member, however, we encourage you to join! Learn more on our “about” page here.
And as always, please feel free to email us at jasnany@yahoo.com with any questions or suggestions. We look forward to gathering with you soon!
Jane About Town
NOVEMBER 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
SELECTED SHORTS: A TRIBUTE TO JANE AUSTEN
Selected Shorts, the long-running performance series and syndicated public radio program, offers a program to celebrate our novelist’s 250th anniversary: “an entertaining evening of fiction & letters inspired by or written by the witty, the romantic, the incomparable Jane.” Hosted by honest-to-goodness movie star Hugh Dancy (The Jane Austen Book Club)! Use code JASNA for 20% all tickets, both in-person and livestream. Click here for more.
(JASNA-NYM Partner event, open to everyone.)
Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
JANE AUSTEN PANEL DISCUSSION AT THE RIPPED BODICE
Join us for a live event at Brooklyn’s beloved all-romance bookstore, The Ripped Bodice, featuring authors from the forthcoming anthology Ladies in Waiting, which spotlights Austen’s secondary characters. JASNA’s own Sarah Rose Kearns moderates; bestselling authors Audrey Bellezza, Eloisa James, Elinor Lipman, Sarah MacLean will speak about their work. Click here for more.
(JASNA Partner event, open to everyone.)
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
GRAMERCY JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB: “THE AUSTEN GIRLS”
JASNA’s own Elise Pallay organizes this monthly book club through Meetup.com. Each month’s selection is either an Austen novel or contemporary spin-off. Members meet to chat over a meal at Gramercy Kitchen, a classic New York diner on Third Avenue and 17th Street. Newbies welcome! Just make sure to RSVP early, as the spots tend to fill. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
JASNA-NYM ONLINE MONTHLY DISCUSSION GROUP
On the third Thursday of every month, members gather via Zoom for a discussion of some aspect of Jane Austen’s work or her life and times. This month’s subject for discussion is The Female Quixote, a 1752 novel by Charlotte Lennox that Austen admired and was influenced by. Topics and questions to ponder are sent out in advance. Please email us here if you’d like to be added to our Discussion Group mailing list!
(JASNA-NYM event, open to all JASNA members.)
DECEMBER 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 8:00 PM EST
MANYDOWN: VIRTUAL PLAY READING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Join JASNA’s own Sarah Rose Kearns and Prerna Ramachandra for a live, online performance of Rose’s play Manydown, which imagines one important night in the lives of Jane and Cassandra Austen. This Zoom event occurs on the *actual* 223rd anniversary of historical incident depicted in the play — and it features Gloria Bangiola and Kelly Gabrielle Murphy, the stars of Prerna’s new film adaptation of Manydown. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
LIGHT, BRIGHT, AND SPARKLING: JASNA-NYM REGIONAL MEETING
It’s our big celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, featuring special guest speakers Dr. Devoney Looser and Dr. Janine Barchas, and tickets are going quickly! Please click here and register to join us on December 6th.(JASNA-NYM event, open to everyone.)
Monday, December 8, 2025 | 6:00 PM EST
LIVE RECORDING OF “PERSON, PLACE, THING WITH RANDY COHEN” FEATURING THE CURATORS OF “PAPER JANE”
The Grolier Club hosts this free, live event to kick off their exhibition “Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen.” Exhibition co-curators (and JASNA’s own!) Mary Crawford and Dr. Janine Barchas will sit down with podcaster Randy Cohen for a far-ranging discussion of Austen’s material legacy. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
JANE AUSTEN TEA PARTY AT THE STRAND
On the big day itself, iconic indie bookstore The Strand hosts a Jane Austen-themed tea party with authors Adelle Waldman, Brandon Taylor, and Jennifer Egan — each of whom has recently written the introduction to one of Austen’s novels for Penguin Vintage Classics. Ticket includes a copy of one of the books. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Do you have an Austen event coming up? Drop us a line and let us know! In these listings, we tend to prioritize in-person gatherings in and near New York City, as well as online events that involve our local JASNA members. (Click here to become a member of JASNA New York Metro.)
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