Jane Austen Festival in Bath, 18th – 27th September ’09
The Jane Austen Festival will be making its annual return to the city of Bath this September, attracting people from around the world to celebrate the popular author’s writing, life in Bath and all things Regency. With all kinds of events taking place the highlights for the 2009 festival include a Guinness World Record attempt and a real-life Regency marriage!
One of the most popular events to feature every year is the Grand Regency Promenade – a spectacular costumed walk through the centre of Bath. This year’s Promenade will take place on Saturday the 19th September at 11am and will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed in Regency costumes.
It promises to be a fascinating sight starting at the Roman Baths and finishing at Queen Square. Organisers hope to see over 200 people taking part to smash the current record. The Promenade is open to anyone to join and tickets can be purchased from the festival’s website – the only criteria being that all participants must dress in Regency style!
A rather unusual addition to this year’s festival programme is a real-life wedding. After months of preparation a couple will be tying the knot at their dream Regency Wedding on the 19th September. The ceremony will take place at 4pm and the couple are inviting people along to help celebrate their big day. All guests will be required to dress in Regency costume.
The festival will run from the 18th to the 27th September with a packed programme of 44 events. If you ever wanted to learn how to dance, read, write, sew, bathe, dress or indeed eat like Jane Austen then there are lots of entertaining ways to find out – join a walking tour, take a dance lesson, or listen to some music. The Jane Austen Festival is a popular event that attracts Jane Austen fans from all four corners of the globe.
Yet the allure of Jane Austen doesn’t just end at the Festival, and visitors can make the most of the Festival by staying for a few days and enjoying everything that our wonderful Georgian city has to offer: download a free audio tour and discover all the places that inspired Jane Austen to write. The tour explores highlights of the city and includes extracts from Jane Austen’s novels and letters, which brilliantly describe Bath as it would have been in its Georgian heyday.
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