JANE AUSTEN WINTER FESTIVAL

LOUIS JOEL ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, ALTONA, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

20th - 31st July 2019

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The Jane Austen Winter Festival celebrates the life and times of Jane Austen and raises money for the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation.  Join Caroline Jane Knight, the last Austen descendant to grow up at Chawton House (in the South of England) on the ancestral estate where Jane herself lived and wrote.

Our world class speakers will explore Austen’s writing, the fashion of the era and the 18th Century laws that governed Jane’s life and the characters in her novels. Join the workshops in Regency style cooking and crafts and hear about the traditions Jane and her family enjoyed at Christmas.

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How you can help us support literacy, in honour of Jane

Currently raising funds for e-readers and e-libraries for a school in Ghana and remote Indigenous children. Help us change the lives of these children and this community.

Currently raising funds for e-readers and e-libraries for a school in Ghana and remote Indigenous children.

Help us change the lives of these children and this community.

Giving children around the world the encouragement, constructive feedback and motivation to write. All it takes is two hours a month online from the comfort of your own home.

Giving children around the world the encouragement, constructive feedback and motivation to write.

All it takes is two hours a month online from the comfort of your own home.

Advocating for literacy, Jane Austen Literacy Foundation programs and fundraising for e-libraries Become one of the many Janeites around the world promoting literacy.

Advocating for literacy, Jane Austen Literacy Foundation programs and fundraising for e-libraries

Become one of the many Janeites around the world promoting literacy.

 

JANE, LITERACY AND LIBRARIES

Libraries are as important for literacy today as they were for Jane Austen two hundred years ago. 

 
 

supporting literacy skills for all

We engage the Jane Austen and book loving community in volunteering for literacy and funding e-libraries as centres of literacy.

Inspired by Jane Austen's passion for reading and writing, and the importance of libraries to Jane's own learning and literacy development, we are not for profit organisation run entirely by volunteers who give their time and literacy skills to mentor children online and raise funds to provide e-libraries for developing communities.  100% of donations received are spent on literacy resources.

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LITERACY MATTERS

Being able to read and write is a necessity

EDUCATION

Education is the key to self improvement and unlocking one's potential. Literacy is the gateway to pride and possibilities.

EMPOWERMENT

Literacy increases empathy, imagination and creativity. It is an essential skill for those who want to understand, enjoy and influence the world around them.

ENJOYMENT

The simple pleasure of reading a book is universal. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading" - Jane Austen.

 

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