Returning speakers and new ones and a Masquerade Regency Ball! Don’t have a mask…we have added a workshop so you can make one to wear to the Ball. This is some exciting news! Hooray we have added a half day on Friday to enable us to have more time and space to contain the Fest.

Schedule

Friday, February 9th

Noon / Registration / Annie Donnelly Park

1:00 – 3:00 pm / Making a Regency Mask / $39/ Congregational Church – Mount Dora

2:00 – 4:00 pm / Workshop: Parlor Playlets / $39 / Community Building Lobby

4:00 pm / Spencer Jacket Silent Auction begins / Community Building Lobby

4:30 – 5:30 pm / Lecture: The Fashionable Figure: Secrets of the Regency Modiste  / FREE / Community Building Auditorium

7:00 – 9:00 pm / Soirée & Film / $39 / Community Building

Saturday, February 10th

8:00 am / Registration / Annie Donnelly Park

9:30 am / Welcome, Mayor Crissy Stile / Community Building Auditorium

10:00 – 11:00 am / Keynote Speaker: Dr. Deborah Aschkenes / Community Building Auditorium

11:30 am / 1st Tea Sitting / $35 / Donnelly House

11:30 am – 1:00 pm / Workshop: Make a Housewife / $29 / Mount Dora Center for the Arts

11:30 am – 1:00 pm / Workshop: Stained Glass Workshop / $59 / Mount Dora Center for the Arts

11:30 am – 1:00 pm / Workshop Regency Bonnet / $65 / Mount Dora Center for the Arts

11:30 am – 1:30 pm / Workshop: Jane Austen Silouettes in Acrylic / $49 / Congregational Church Fellowship Hall

1:00 pm / 2nd Tea Sitting / $35 / Donnelly House

2:00 – 4:00 pm / Workshop: Stained Glass Workshop / $59 / Mount Dora Center for the Arts

2:00 – 4:00 pm / Workshop: Regency Turban / $65 / Mount Dora Center for the Arts

2:00 – 4:00 pm / Workshop: Regency Dance Lessons / $25 / First United Methodist Church

2:00 – 4:00 pm / Workshop:Sense & Sensibility of Paper Quilling / $49 / Congregational Church Fellowship Hall

2:30 pm / 3rd Tea Sitting /  $35 / Donnelly House

4:30 – 5:30 pm / Lecture: The Prospect of the Ball was Extremely Agreeable/Community Building Auditorium

8:00 – 10:00 pm / Regency Masquerade Ball / $79 / Montessori School at Roseborough

Sunday, February 11th

7:45 – 9:30 am / Tea and Crumpets / $20 / Lawn Bowling Club

9:00 am – 1:00 pm / Regency Marketplace / Annie Donnelly Park

9:30 am / Lawn Bowling Workshop / $25 / Lawn Bowling Club

11:00 am – 1:00 pm / Dora Canal Cruise / $39 / Embarks Yacht Club Pier

2:00 – 3:00 pm / Dr. Jessica Cook / Community Building Auditorium

4:00 pm / Fond Farewell / Community Building Auditorium

Date: Feb 9 - 11, 2024

Location: Downtown in Mount Dora

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