Jane Austen Festival

last updated on May 3, 2008

PROGRAM

JANE AUSTEN BALL

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ACCOMMODATION

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CUSTOM MADE DRESSES

HIRE DRESSES

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Thank you for attending the 2008 Jane Austen Festival.
We had a marvellous time, and will be putting photos up soon.
The next Jane Austen Festival will be 17-19 April 2009.
We have a Pride & Prejudice Ball planned for 18 October 2008.

 

See our blogspot for more information and invitation to participate.

 

Major Sponsers

Regency Reproductions: regency gowns, regency dresses, Jane Austen ball gowns
Bordonian Heritage Dancers and the Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy
   
   

 

For your pleasure, here is the 2008 festival program.

Make your own regency bonnet

Portrait of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra, 1804
Madelaine in Regency Bonnet
reticule made by Aylwen

 

Welcoming Candlelit Soiree
Bring a potluck contribution for the candlit supper and meet everyone.
Listen to music and see snippets of favourite Jane Austen movies.
Wear your regency gowns and spencers!
7.30pm – 10.30pm

Potluck Regency Candlit Soiree

Dance Workshops for the Jane Austen Ball
9am-11:30am Learn dances from the Jane Austen movies
11:30-1:30pm Regency-period dances not in movies



Then promenade in costume to a picnic in Commonwealth Park
(bring your own picnic & rug)

 

Jane Austen Ball
regency dance
7:30-11:30pm
Please bring potluck supper contribution for the 10pm Supper table.


Regency Candlelit Dinner
Regency Buffet Menu
(French Pottage, Mock Turtle Soup, Bread, A Receipt for Curry after the Indian Manner,
Pease Soup, Forcemeat Balls, Petit Pasties, Herb Pudding, Trifle, Pound Cake,
Gingerbeer, Gingerbread, Ratafia Biscuits )

regency dinner jane austen recipes. Photo by H. Vear


Brunch with costumes and dance & costume book show and tell
11:30-2pm

Late-Regency dancing at 'Dancing on the Lake'
3:30pm-6:00pm

Regency Gentleman

 

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ACCOMMODATION

There is a large selection of accommodation in Canberra. Some closer to the venue than others. There is certainly more than what I have provided here. This is merely somewhere for you to start. Having your own car will make it easier to get around, otherwise let us know if we can help out with a lift.

Last-minute Accommodation Discounts

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Crowne Plaza (02) 6247 8999
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/hd/CBRBS?&
1 Binara Street, Canberra City (just around the corner)
No apartments
Maximum per room is 2 adults and 2 children or 3 adults
Not rated but would be between 4 and 4.5 stars.

Waldorf Apartment Hotel Freecall 1800 188 388 or 6229 1234
www.waldorfcanberra.com.au
2 Akuna Street, Canberra City (just around the corner)
Hotel studio rooms as well as 1 and 2 bedroom apartments
The BEST bit - children under 12 are free!!!
4.5 star rating


Canberra City Accommodation Freecall 1800 300 488
www.canberracityaccommodation.com.au
7 Akuna Street, Canberra City (just around the corner)
No apartments
Dormitory, one bed or twin bedroom rooms, ensuite rooms that sleep up to six.
Provides a shared, fully equipped kitchen where you can cook meals. Kitchen must be left as found.
4.5 star backpacker rating.

Quest Canberra (02) 6243 2222
Melbourne Building, 28 West Row, Canberra City
4.5 star rating

Rydges Lakeside (02) 6247 6244
London Circuit, Canberra City
4.5 star rating

Pacific International Apartments - Canberra City (02) 6247 0759
2 Marcus Clarke St, Canberra City
4.5 star rating

Hyatt Hotel Canberra (02) 6270 1234
Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla
5 star

Saville Park Suites (02) 6243 2500
84 Northbourne Avenue, Braddon
4.5 star

The Chifley on Northbourne (02) 6249 1411
102 Northbourne Avenue, Braddon
4.5 star

The Olims Hotel (Managed by Mecure) (02) 6248 5511
Crn Ainslie & Limestone Avenue, Braddon
3.5 star

Canberra Rex Hotel (02) 6248 5311
150 Northbourne Avenue, Braddon
3.5 star

Rydges Capital Hill (02) 6295 3144
Cnr Canberra Avenue & National Circuit, Forrest
4.5 star

Pinnicle Apartments (02) 6239 9799
11 Ovens Street, Kingston
4 star

The Griffin Apartment Hotel (02) 6234 8000
15 Tench Street, Kingston
4.5 star

The York Canberra (02) 6295 2333
31 Giles Street, Kingston
4.5 star

Kingston Court Serviced Apartments (02) 6295 2244
4 Tench Street, Kingston
4.5 star

Kingston Terrace Serviced Apartments (02) 6239 9499
16 Eyre Street, Kingston
4.5 star

Manuka Park Serviced Apartments (02) 6239 0000
Cnr Manuka Circle and Oxley St, Manuka
4 star

Argyle Executive Apartments (02) 6275 0800
Cnr Currong & Boolee Streets, Reid
4 star

Quality Hotel Diplomat (02) 6295 2277
Cnr Canberra Avenue and Hely Street, Griffith
4.5 star


All taking place at a variety of venues in and around Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

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If your event would benefit from having live professional musicians and display dancers together with some audience participation if you so desire, please give us a call on (02) 62811098 or email us. We can provide colour and movement to attract and entertain your audience. Our professional musicians play period instruments that are suited to both stage settings, wandering minstrels or indoors.

Historical garments are chosen to suit your occasion - whether they be Victorian ballgowns and top hats & tails or 18th century/Regency gowns or Baroque gowns, frockcoats & breeches or elaborate Elizabethan Renaissance gowns. Our program is chosen to suit your occasion, audience and space provided. We have performed in the past at festivals, fairs, weddings, parties, conventions, schools and balls.

PLAYFORD BALL ideas

with such late 17th and early 18th century delights as:
Gathering Peascods, The Fair Quaker of Deal, The Fine Companion, Goddesses, Mr Isaac’s Maggot, Nonesuch, Parson’s Farewell,
Portsmouth, Trip to Paris, The Bonny Grey-Eyed Morn, Upon a Summer’s Day and Yellow Stockings (and many others as well).


PRIDE & PREJUDICE REGENCY BALL ideas...

with dances that featured in the BBC production of Pride & Prejudice:
Mr Beveridge’s Maggot, The Comical Fellow, The Lasses of Portsmouth, The Shrewsbury Lasses, Touchstone and Trip to Highgate – and other 18th and early 19th century delights such as Prince William, Zephrus and Flora, Duke of Kent’s Waltz, a Minuet and a Waltz.
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We are very pleased to offer the following books for sale on our web site.
Click on the book cover for more information or to order.


What People Wore: 1,800 Illustrations from Ancient Times to the Early Twentieth Century   Ancient European Costume and Fashion   Medieval Costume and Fashion   Medieval Costume in England and France   Tudor Costume and Fashion   Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154 Color Plates from the 'Trachtenbuch'
The Art of Dress: Clothes & Society 1500 to 1914   Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries   Costume in Detail 1730-1930   Costume Close Up: Clothing Construction & Pattern 1750 to 1790   The Art of Dress: Fashion in England & France 1750 to 1820   Everyday Dress of Rural America 1783 to 1800   Textiles for Colonial Clothing
18th-Century French Fashion Plates   Dress in France in the 18th Century   Ackermann's Costume Plates: Women's Fashions in England 1818 to 1828   French Fashion Plates of the Romantic Era 1830 to 1834   Fashions and Costumes from Godey's Lady's Book   80 Godey's Full-Color Fashion Plates 1838 to 1880
The Way They Wore: Doll Costumes & Accessories, 1850-1935   Who Wore What? Women's Wear 1861 to 1865   Paris Fashions of the 1890s   Full-Colored Victorian Fashions   Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazaar, 1867 to 1898   American Dress Pattern Catalog 1873 to 1909   Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from La Mode Illustree   La Mode Illustree Fashion Plates in Full Color   Women's Fashions of the Early 1900s   Victorian to Vamp: Women's Clothing 1900 to 1929   Men's Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century   The Home Pattern Company 1914 Fashions Catalog
Everyday Fashions 1909 to 1920 as Pictured in Sears Catalog   Everyday Fashions of the Twenties as Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs   Everyday Fasions of the Thirties as Pictured in Sears Catalog   Everyday Fashions of the Forties as Pictured in Sears Catalog
The History of Underclothes   Corsets and Crinolines


59 Authentic Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns   Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: Complete Lady's Wardrobe   Turn-Of-The-Century Fashion Patterns and Tailoring Techniques   The Voice of Fashion: 79 Turn-Of-The Century Patterns With Instructions and Fashion Plates   The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930   The Edwardian Modiste: 85 Authentic Patterns With Instructions, Fashion Plates, and Period Sewing Techniques
Patterns for Theatrical Costumes : Garments, Trims, and Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915   Pattern of Fashion 1: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860   Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction c.1860-1940   Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women: c.1560-1620


Victorian Fashions 1880-1890   The Paris Collection   Sewing Victorian Doll Clothes  
Sewing for 20th Century Dolls   Knitting & Crocheting for Antique Dolls   The Dolls' Dressmaker   A Closetful of Doll Clothes   Two-Hour Dolls' Clothes  
Authentic Shirley Temple Patters   Fabulous Fashion Doll Clothing   Knits for Barbie   Period & Contemporary: Patterns for Fashion Dolls  
Making & Dressing Dolls' House Dolls   The Wish Booklet: Fashions 1831-1835   The Wish Booklet: Fashions 1871-1875   The Wish Booklet: Fashions 1900   The Wish Booklet: Fashioning Miniatures  
The Essential Wardrobe for 18-inch Dolls   Sew the International Wardrobe for 18-inch Dolls   Sew the Contemporary Wardrobe for 18-inch Dolls   Sew the Storybook Wardrobe for 18-inch Dolls   Best Doll Clothes Book  
Hats in Miniature   Creating Heavenly Hats for Discriminating Dolls  Make Doll Shoes!
  
Creating Fabulous Footwear for Fantastic Dolls

 

Patterns of Fashion: 1660-1860 by Janet Arnold (76 pp., 1977).

 

 

The Evolution of Fashion: Pattern and Cut from 1066 to 1930...

by Margot Hamilton Hill, Peter A. Bucknell (240 pp.).

Period Costume for Stage & Screen by Jean Hunnisett

"I have a copy of this book and recommend it for drafting up your own patterns. In fact, it lives beside my bed and lately I've been reading it almost daily!" Aylwen
The Costume Technician's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Technicians by Rosemary Ingham, Liz Covey, Elizabeth Covey (rev. 1995).
Stage Costume Step-By-Step: The Complete Guide to Designing and Making Stage Costumes for All Major Drama Periods and Genres from Classical Through through 20th Century by Mary T. Kidd (1996, hardcover).
Patterns for Theatrical Costumes: Garments, Trims, and Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915 by Katherine Strand Holkeboer (350 pp, 1984).
Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930 by Nancy Bradfield (400 pp.).
The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh
From the Neck Up: An Illustrated Guide to Hatmaking by Denise Dreher (1981).

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind
--Jane Austen, Emma

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