Jane Austen Festival 2025
We look forward to welcoming you to the 24th annual Jane Austen Festival.
The 2025 Jane Austen Festival will take place from
Friday 12th to Sunday 21st September 2025
On December 16th 1775 Jane Austen was born in Steventon Hampshire. 2025 marks 250 years since this remarkable author came into the world. To celebrate this momentous year in Austen history the Jane Austen Festival will be holding some extra special events throughout the 2025 year, in addition to the ten days of Jane Austen themed events which make up the September Jane Austen Festival.
The full programme of events has not yet been released. Tickets will go on sale in Spring 2025.
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Keep reading below for more details on the 2025 Festival as they become finalised.
1st December 2024
Sign up to become a 2025 Festival Friend and be the first to hear all Jane Austen Festival news!
Not only will you receive a regular newsletter, you will also get priority booking for the festival events. Many of our most popular events including balls, theatrical performances & smaller workshops sell out incredibly quickly so priority booking* will help increase your chances of securing these. Your annual Festival Friend Membership fee also helps to support the continuation of The Jane Austen Festival and you will receive various other perks and discounts announced throughout 2025.
For the special 250th anniversary year of Jane Austen's birth in 1775, we have decided to amend how our Festival Friends subscription works. For the first time we will be separating our Festival Friends into two categories, Summer Ball Friends, and then September Festival Friends. Don't worry, both friendships are equally important to us, and the same style of behind the scenes Festival sneak-peeks will still be shared with you all!
You can sign up to one or both Festival Friend memberships depending on when you are planning on joining us in Bath for events. Newsletters for the Summer Ball Friends will simply cease after the 30th June 2025.
Summer Ball Friend Membership
(Subscription runs January to June 30th 2025)
- A regular email newsletter containing behind-the-scenes updates from the Festival Team
- Advance notice of the two Jane Austen Festival Summer Ball weekend event details
- Priority booking for up to four tickets to each of our 2025 Summer Ball weekend events
September Festival Friend Membership
(Subscription runs January to December 2025)
- A regular email newsletter containing behind-the-scenes updates from the Festival Team
- Advance notice of all September Jane Austen Festival events
- Advance link to the online Jane Austen Festival full programme of events for September.
- Priority booking for September Jane Austen Festival events (up to 4 tickets per event for each Festival Friend Membership)
Go to our Festival Friends page to find out more details and become a Friend of the Jane Austen Festival for 2025
1st November 2024
While we are all dreaming of Regency dancing, some tantelising nuggets of information about the 2025 September Festival we can share with you, are that we will be holding a minimum of three dance events over the first weekend...
12th September
13th September
14th September
And we will be hosting a ball in the
Pump Rooms on Friday 19th September 2025.
Finally, we are pleased to announce that we will be holding a large-scale, outdoor, Sense & Sensibility-themed event on the evening of Sunday 14th September 2025. The contents of this one will be kept secret for a little while longer however.
18th October 2024
We are sure that many of you are desperate for more whispers of what we’re planning for 2025, the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, so we are delighted to announce our 2025 Programme cover/poster. Picked for its affinity to Jane Austen’s blue dress portrait, and the gorgeous serenity of the dancer during this year’s Assembly Rooms Ball.
You may also notice we have had a slight logo update, to tie in with the very special 250th anniversary of the year Jane Austen was born.
1st July 2024
That’s right- you’re not seeing double - for the first time ever we have not one but two Summer Balls ! In 2024, tickets were snapped up within five minutes of going on general sale. So, with 2025 being a big Austen birthday year, we have added an extra date to give more people a chance to join in the celebrations.
TICKET PRICES & ON SALE DATES ARE TO BE CONFIRMED...
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The 2025 Jane Austen Festival
Grand Regency Costumed Promanade
will take place on
Saturday 13th September 2025.
16th December 2023
On
Saturday 13th December 2025
the Jane Austen Festival will be holding a very special
Yuletide Jane Austen Birthday Ball.
An evening involving dinner, dancing, cake and general Christmassy Austen merriment, in the beautiful surroundings of the Bath Pump Room.
This event will be the culmination of our 2025 year’s worth of Jane Austen Festival events, taking place on the weekend closest to when Jane Austen was actually born on December 16th 1775.
