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.
24th December 2024
We at the Jane Austen Festival wish you a very merry Christmas!
Our Christmas present to you is our Jane Austen Festival highlights reel, featuring all the best bits of the 2024 Festival. It is truly a thing of beauty, made by our wonderful Festival photographer and filmographer Sean Strange of Sean Strange Photography
A taster of events to come in the future!
As we head into the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, please know that we are working hard to bring Austen lovers more of the events they just can’t wait to attend. We are duplicating and triplicating events; we’ve got more new event partners than Wickham had names on his dance card; we’re spreading out into ever more venues across our lovely Regency home city.
We are feeling very popular with our Festival Friends memberships having already reached capacity, however don’t worry - you don’t need to be a Festival Friend in order to buy tickets.
We still have a general sale release when anyone can buy tickets… if you were thinking of making a New Year’s Resolution to do with time - keeping and organisation, then let this be your motivation to see it through! Keep your eyes peeled for our newsletter emails and your ears open ready to hear those reminders, alarms and punctual friends ringing you at the exact moment tickets go on sale.
12th November 2024
The Jane Austen Festival is now welcoming applications to join our beloved team of volunteer stewards!
Our dearest, loveliest steward team work hard all over Bath during the Jane Austen Festival to help run our events and welcome our guests. If you’d like to join our team of Austen-loving superstars, and you’re definitely available over our first weekend (12th-14th Sept) we would love to hear from you in the application form.
Read more about becoming a Volunteer Steward here, along with some testimonials from past and present stewards.
Application form can be found on our Volunteers page.
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.
