Events

This events calendar is meant to socially enrich our DJABC community wherever members may find themselves. We will gladly share any Jane Austen related event here. We may also share events that may appeal to darker interests as we see fit.

*Any events where times were not specifically listed are shown to be all-day; however, this is only a default setting.

Please, contact us with information you would like to see at least two weeks in advance.

Sep
22
Sat
Northwest Bookfest 2012 @ Peter Kirk Park
Sep 22 @ 2:00 pm – Sep 23 @ 10:00 pm

 

Austenesque authors: Laurel Ann Nattress, Shannon Winslow, Susan Mason-Milks and Jenni James will have a booth to meet readers and sell books.

For more information see the Northwest Bookfest 2012 website.

Oct
13
Sat
Jane Austen Mini-Conference @ Cameron Village Regional Library
Oct 13 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Dr. Celia Easton will talk about “Why on Earth is Sir Charles Grandison Jane Austen’s ‘Favorite’ Novel?”. Dr. Inger Brodey will discuss “The Entertainment Value of Suffering: Jane Austen and the ‘Luxuries of Distress'” 

Please call to register. Sponsored by the Jane Austen Society.

To be held at the Cameron Village Regional Library.

Nov
3
Sat
Greensboro Zombie Run @ Downtown Greensboro, NC
Nov 3 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Be a runner or a zombie in the Greensboro Zombie Run. The course will be a surprise, and therefore no maps are available.

Dec
27
Fri
Death Comes to Pemberley on BBC One @ BBC One
Dec 27 @ 1:15 am – 2:15 am

BBC One will be airing Death Comes to Pemberley staring Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Rhys as a three part murder mystery.

Oct
23
Fri
Suffragette in Theaters (USA)
Oct 23 all-day

suffragette-2015-movie-posterWritten by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron, Suffragette is a British drama film about the British women’s suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.

In late 19th and early 20th century, the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal state in the quest for equal rights.

Suffragette trailer

Staring: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, and Meryl Streep.

Check your local listings for showing times and prices.