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.
September Jane Austen Festival events which have been released to the general public so far can be found listed below by date:
*we do not yet have a release date for the whole programme of events & tickets are not yet on sale.
Friday 21st February 2025
The 2025 Jane Austen Festival fashion themes have arrived!
As this week is London Fashion Week, it seems like a good time to announce our own fashion themes for the 2025 festival. If you are planning or sewing your festival wardrobe, don't forget to tag us. We would love to see your updates!
Remember that all the themes are just for fun- join in as much or as little as you like!
- Friday 12th > Floral Friday
In line with our two Emma-themed balls on this day, take your inspiration from the gardens of Donwell Abbey. - Saturday 13th > Spectator Saturday
To see and be seen! On our busiest day, wear the outfit that you would most like to be admired in. - Sunday 14th > Sporting Sunday
“Why sporting Sunday?” we hear you cry! Subscribe to the monthly festival newsletter to find out why…
- Monday 15th > Muslin Monday
We expect to see lots of Matilda dresses gracing the streets of Bath on this day! - Tuesday 16th > Tassel Tuesday
Add a single tassel or deck out your full outfit in them. - Wednesday 17th > "On Wednesdays, we wear pink"
....it's a classic!
- Thursday 18th > Thrifty Thursday
Today is the day to show off a piece of clothing that you have reworked, resewn, rescued or otherwise given a new life to. - Friday 19th > Fashion Friday
Take inspiration from your favourite Regency-era fashion plate. - Saturday 20th > Stripey Saturday
Don your finest stripes! - Sunday 21st > Blue Sunday
Take your inspiration from Cassandra’s watercolour of Jane Austen and wear your most beautiful blue on this day. The perfect way to off-set feeling blue because of the end of the Festival…
Friday 14th February 2025
On Saturday 13th December 2025 the Jane Austen Festival will be holding a very special Yuletide Jane Austen Birthday Ball.
The Yuletide Birthday Ball is the finale of the Jane Austen Festival's 250th anniversary celebrations. Taking place on Saturday 13th December 2025 we will celebrate Jane Austen's Birthday a few days prior to her actual birthday on the 16th December. Join us in Bath for this extra special Regency Ball celebration. Tickets will include a welcome drink, followed by a 2-course sit-down dinner.
Full details about this event and information on what to have prepared ready for booking can be found here.
*these ticket sales does not include any tickets for September events, we still do not have a release date for those.
31st January 2025
Tickets to both our Summer Balls went on general sale at 13:00 GMT on Friday 7th February 2025... and SOLD OUT by 13:10 GMT > These ticket sales do not include any September events
Saturday 31st May Events
- 10:00 - 11:30 Singing with Jane Austen - Persuasion Style!
- 12:15 - 13:15 "Sea Sick" - Care of the Sick and Hurt in the age of Sail
14:00 - 15:30 Pre - Ball Dance Workshop19:00 - 23:00 Persuasion Nautical - Themed Summer Ball
Saturday 28th June Events
- 11:30 - 12:30 Costuming Sanditon
14:00 - 15:30 Pre - Ball Dance Workshop19:00 - 23:00 Sanditon Nautical - Themed Summer Ball
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.
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.
The 2025 Jane Austen Festival
Grand Regency Costumed Promenade
will take place on
Saturday 13th September 2025.