a. Aston Magna Festival

The Aston Magna festival which is run by a seperate entity (Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities)

b. Literary and Dramatic Evenings at Aston Magna

Beginning in the mid nineties, Aston Magna has been the venue for a serries of staged readings built around one writer. Such writers have included George bertnard Shaw, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingwaty, and Tennessee Williams. In each case a group od professional and ameature actors are put together by the evening's directors Dr. Herbert Gould. Proffesional actors in the past have include Marge Champion, Kittie Carlisle Hart, Kristen Linklater, George Coyne and others. Depending upon the season they are performed on the South terrace before an audiance of 80-100 people. In each case a dinner is served involving foods which rflect the basic theme of the writer whos works are being staged read.

c. Conversations at Aston Magna, symposium-type discussions on current controversial topics.

These evening are sometimes impromtu or planned ahead involving, normally,  important matters of current topical interest. They generally involve 10-15 people from various walks of life and are followed by an informal buffet dinner. Topics dicussed in the passed included abortion, the Iraq invasion of 2003, the French Response to such event, issues of the American Religous Left and Right, and others.

d.   Pre-Colombian Textile Collection