Jane Austen Festival Australia 14-17 APRIL, 2011THURSDAY

ROBERTSON ROOM

6:00-7:00pm Welcome and Registration

7:00-9:30pm Drawing Room Concert. Snacks and wassail will be served.

FRIDAYDANCE HALL ROBERTSON ROOM UPSTAIRS OUTSIDE

9:00-9:15 WELCOME TEA & COFFEE

9:15-10:30 Dances from Jane Austen Movies Could you be related to JaneAusten?

Chemisette Workshop(Part 1)

10:30-11:00 Morning Tea

11:00-12:15 Cotillions from Jane Austen's DayPoltergeists, Petticoats &Pineapples -- Behind theScenes of Northanger Abbey

Chemisette Workshop(Part 2) Lace Making

12:15-1:30 Lunch - Selection of sandwiches and Parsonage Pease Soup.[1]

1:30-2:45 Reels and other ‘late-evening’ partydances in Jane Austen's Day Food for Thought Customising Regency

Gowns

2:45-3:15 Afternoon Tea

3:15-4:30 Group allemandes, minuets & waltzes inJane Austen's Day Regency Spicing Feathers, Feathers,

Feathers

4:30-5:00 Clothing Makes the Man: Dressing theMale Civilian

Who are the Fools inNorthanger Abbey? Transitional Stays

5:00-7:30 Break

Free Seating from7.15pm, Dinnerserved at 7.30pm.Finishes at 10.30pm

Official Jane Austen Festival Dinner,followed by theatre: Pride & Prejudice in10 Minutes Flat; After Dinner Dancing

Enjoy a traditional English Roast Dinner with roast beef & lamb, vegetables anddesserts. "Small beer" will be served as refreshment (ginger beer). [2]

SATURDAYDANCE HALL ROBERTSON ROOM UPSTAIRS OUTSIDE

9:00-9:15 WELCOME TEA & COFFEE

9:15-10:30 More dances from Jane Austen Movies Jane Austen in Performance How to get more FamilyTree time

10:30-11:00 Morning Tea

11:00-12:15 More Country Dances from Jane Austen'sDay

Gothic Novels of the 18thCentury Regency hair styling

12:15-1:30 Lunch - Selection of sandwiches and Homemade Pumpkin Soup.

1:30-2:45 Quadrille Dances from Jane Austen's Day We must have a wedding!Jane Lives! Fan fictionusing Jane Austen'scharacters

Picnic Games

2:45-3:15 Afternoon Tea

3:15-4:30 Menuet de la Cour - the show dance ofJane Austen's Day

Vauxhall and other PleasureGardens Regency Makeup Rehearsed Reading

Plus

4:30-5:00 The British Army in the NapoleonicPeriod

Communications in theBallroom

Regency Era RibbonTrims

5:00-7:30 Break

7:30-11:30Grand Jane Austen Festival Ball withlight regency supper served at 10pm

A light supper will be served at 10pm, and will include Syllabub. [3]

SUNDAY

10:30-11:00 Meet at the chess board in Commonwealth Park for a costumed promenade and picnic.

11:00-12:15 The Chess Dance' followed by 'Rehearsed Reading Plus' Performance

12:15-1:30 Picnic Lunch (please bring your own and feel free to share as in past years)

2:00-3:00 The Sweets of May: Jane Austen's Music in the Garden (Special Church Concert)

3:00-3:15 Devonshire Tea on the lawns (inside main hall if inclement weather)

3:15-5:00 Afternoon Assembly in the Regency Manner (farewell dance - dancer's choice)

[1] "Mr. Lyford was here yesterday; he came while we were at dinner, and partook of our elegant entertainment. I was not ashamed at asking him to sitdown to table, for we had some pease-soup, a sparerib, and a pudding."Jane Austen to CassandraDecember 1, 1798 [2] "I had once determined to go with Frank to-morrow and take my chance, &c., but they dissuaded me from so rash a step, as I really think onconsideration it would have been; for if the Pearsons were not at home, I should inevitably fall a sacrifice to the arts of some fat woman who wouldmake me drunk with small beer."Jane Austen to Cassandra, 1796 [3] "His heart, which (to use your favourite comparison) was as delicate as sweet and as tender as a Whipt-syllabub, could not resist her attractions"Lesley Castle, Jane Austen, 1792

Dance Program, Main Hall with John Gardiner-Garden

FRIDAY 9:15-10:30 Dances from Jane Austen Movies Hole in the Wall Emma TV& BJ Jack's Maggot Emma TV Jacob Hall’s Jig –BJ-diff.tune Juice of Barley Emma TV Mr Beveridge's Maggot P&P TV & Emma movie Mr Isaac's Maggot Emma TV Tythe Pig P&P Movie A Trip to Paris - Becoming Jane A Trip to Highgate P&P TV 11:00-12:15 Cotillions from Jane Austen's Day Le Jeu des quatre coins La Folie ou la gout de siecle La Mignonette La Voltaire La Franklein 1:30-2:45 Reels and other ‘late-evening’ party dances in Jane Austen's Day The Cushion Dance La Boulangère Scotch Reel. Sir Roger de Coverley Soldier’s Joy The Triumph Macaroni Downfall of Paris School for Scandal Butter’d Peas (1) and (2) 3:15-4:30 Group allemandes, minuets & waltzes in Jane Austen's Day La Pouvoir de la Beauté La Riswic – allemand hold. Le Strassbourgeois (1) Le Prince de Galles Les Quatre Saisons The Duke of Kent Waltz La Triolet EVENING DINNER DANCE Dances from Friday workshops

SATURDAY 9:15-10:30 More Dances from Jane Austen movies Auretti’s Dutch Skipper Emma movie- The Bishop-P&P Movie The Comical Fellow P&P TV Lasses of Portsmouth –P&P TV Linnen hall- PP TV tune used Shrewsbury Lasses P&P TV- F. Touchstone P&P TV- F. The Young Widow P&P Movie, Dutch Dollars P&P Movie Haste to the Wedding Emma TV 11:00-12:30 More Country Dances from Jane Austen's Day The Black Dance The Fairy Dance The Fandango The Rakes of Rochester Dutch feature: Always drunk and never sober Bonny Lass of our Town La Bouquette La Maison du Bois Wilson dance: Italian Monfrina (1) and (2) 1:30-2:45 Quadrille from Jane Austen’s Day Le Quadrille La Josephine, La Napoléon, La Vinetta Quadrille Francais 1 Lancers 1/ Strathy Lancers 3:15-4:30 Menuet de la Cour - the show dance of Jane Austen's Day- for the keen and brave. EVENING BALL Dances from Saturday workshops SUNDAY 11am-12:30 in the Chess Pit at Commonwealth Park-The famous 32 person ‘Chess dance’ and other fun dances. 3:15-5pm- In St.John’s Hall ‘An Afternoon Dance in the Regency manner’ with dancers’ requests and inventions.

PRESENTERSIN2011

Adrienne Bradney-Smith

Adrienne has given several talks at Jane Austen Society of Australia functions, and has had articles published in Sensibilities - the Society's Newsletter. She has also recently presented a paper at the Jane Austen Society UK Annual Conference in Harrogate.

Julian Clarke Julian is a member of the Dickens Fellowship in Melbourne. Though he works in IT, he is currently studying for an MA in English Literature (connected with espionage fiction). He loves dancing & reading, which makes this festival eminently suitable!

Lynne Cook Current National President of the Australian Costumers' Guild, Lynne has many years experience in drafting, and constructing, clothes and costumes for both men and women. Though her main interest is historical reproduction, she has also made costumes/clothing from Science Fiction, Fantasy and Pop Culture genres. She has studied pattern-drafting and millinery at TAFE and was taught to knit, crochet and embroider as a child.

Sharon Doig Sharon Doig has been making lace for over five years. Having first learned Torchon Lace, Sharon has branched out into plaited laces of the Elizabethan era. She has an interest in Medieval, Elizabethan, Regency and Victorian costuming. Visit her blog at www.rosiesstuffnsew.blogspot.com

Gillian Dooley

Gillian Dooley is Honorary Research Fellow at Flinders University, and has been presenting Jane Austen's Music programs since 2007. In 2010 she sang Jane Austen's music in Chawton, Bath and Harrogate.

Julia Ermert Julia Ermert is a member of the Jane Austen Society of Aust. and lectures on Jane Austen for U3A and for the library system. She agrees with her favourite author that 'to be fond of dancing is a certain step towards falling in love', and is delighted to find a conference that combines both pleasures.

Charlotte Fletcher

Charlotte is a biological sciences student, currently based in Sydney, with a passion for all things Austen and all associated topics. She has been involved with the music side of the festival since its beginnings four years ago.

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden

Aylwen is an events coordinator and self-stitched costume historian, seamstress and dancer. She is a member of the Australian Costumers Guild, American Costume Society and is the Director of Jane Austen Festival Australia. In 2009 & 2011 she travelled overseas to study historical clothing construction in the UK and US. Aylwen has cooked many of the regency delights you are sampling during the festival.

Dr John Gardiner-Garden

John is a dance teacher, researcher, choreographer and musician with 20 years experience teaching, leading and playing for Regency (and other) era dancing, and with many dance books and recordings to his credit. He is the artistic director of Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy and leader of the band Earthly Delights.

Megan Gibson

Megan worked as a Freelance Researcher on some episodes of the hit Australian genealogy TV series 'Who Do You Think You Are?', is a columnist and feature writer for Inside History magazine, and is the author of the popular book 'How to Get More Family Tree Time - Tips for the Time Poor'. Megan established Family Tree Time to offer research, writing and family tree coaching services for genealogy and family history fans, where her passion is to help people start or progress with their family tree research ...before it's too late. www.familytreetime.com.au

Melanie Green

Melanie Green is an Arts/Laws student at the Australian National University and is a member of the Earthly Delights Dance Academy.

Donna Lane An accomplished seamstress of over thirty years, Donna has been costuming seriously for the past four years.

Rosemary Lohmann

Rosemary Lohmann is a singer and singing teacher who has appeared in many shows in Canberra and Queanbeyan.

Rachel McGrath-Kerr

Rachel McGrath-Kerr is a graduate of the Australian National University and taught English, Drama and Music in high schools before working in the APS and at the ANU. Rachel has attended previous festivals and presented the ‘literary mash-up’ panel in 2010, featuring ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ and “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”.

Deborah Mulhall

Deborah Mulhall has directed over 20 plays and written 8 major plays - all of which have been performed several times to box office and critical success. She has post graduate qualifications, taught English literature and drama and been an examiner for both areas for the NSW Department of Education and Training. She has trained applicants for acting schools all over the world - all have been accepted with high entrance marks.

Jacqueline Newling

Jacqui is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu Masters in Gastronomy (Uni Adelaide). She works with the Historic Houses Trust NSW as a museum guide where she runs a series of Colonial Gastronomy programs, and hosts Spice Appreciation classes at Herbie's Spices Sydney store.

John Potter John is an amateur military historian and keen re-enactor of several periods including the Napoleonic Wars.

Joanne Van Raaphorst

Self taught costumer who enjoys picnics and has recently taken an interest in the Jane Austen / Regency era. Joanne owns "Costumes n Things" Fancy Dress Hire in Penrith NSW and is a member of the Australian Costumers Guild.

James Scott Canberra Academy of Dramatic Art (CADA) is Canberra's leading drama school and is committed to the development of local talent for stage and screen. We run classes for children, teens and adults throughout Canberra. More info at www.cada.net.au. We're very pleased to be involved with the Jane Austen Festival for 2011.

Melissa Stevens

Melissa is a freelance Makeup Artist with a love of dressing up. Costumes are her passion, which has led to her involvement in re-enacting.

Wendy Wildermoth

A sewing enthusiast for many years, who credits the internet for bringing armchair costume dreams to reality. Wendy has studied custom shoe-making and fashion production at NSW TAFE.