On Saturday, April 14, 2012, 120 Janeites and friends were treated to a pre-release showing of the new film, "Scents and Sensibility" at the Phoenix Art Museum.

  The first meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America Greater Phoenix Region was held Saturday, March 24, 2012, at the Church of the Epiphany, Phoenix. Mary Lydon Simonsen was the facilitator.