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2008 SUMMER EVENTS

Art Exhibitions
School of Theatre Summer Repertory Season
Chamber Music in the Pines Festival

ART EXHIBITIONS

Nacogdoches Art League 38th Annual Juried Exhibition
The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House June 8 - July 27, 2008 Gallery hours: Tue. - Sun., 12:30 - 5 p.m. For more info: (936) 468-1131.	(Click on photo to enlarge)
	2007 NAL Juried Exhibition

Nacogdoches Photographic Association Juried Exhibititon
(Click on photo to enlarge)	The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House June 14 - July 27, 2008 Gallery hours: Tue. - Sun., 12:30 - 5 p.m. For more info: (936) 468-1131.
Stephen Lias photograph 2007 NPA Juried Exhibition

Watercolor East Texas Juried Exhibition
The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House August 5 - September 5, 2008 Gallery hours: Tue. - Sun., 12:30 - 5 p.m. For more info: (936) 468-1131.		(Photo Coming Soon!)

Maki Hajikano: Recent Works
(Photo Coming Soon!)		The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House August 8 - September 12, 2008 Gallery hours: Tue. - Sun., 12:30 - 5 p.m. For more info: (936) 468-1131.


TICKET PRICES Season Tickets: $24 Adult, $12 Senior/Student/Youth Single Tickets: $12 Adult, $6 Senior/Student/Youth
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry Featuring guest artist and SFA alumnus Darrell D. Grant June 20-21; July 2, 3 & 8 7:30 p.m. in W.M. Turner Auditorium	Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, this delightfully funny and deeply moving play traces the changing times in the American South and a 25-year relationship built between a strong-willed Jewish widow and her good-natured African-American chauffer. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS

This uproarious celebration of family and life reunites the three MaGrath sisters after the youngest, Babe, shoots her husband because she "just didn't like his stinking looks." A hit on Broadway and at the movies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama balances gentle heartbreak with outrageous Southern Gothic humor. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS	Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley June 24-25, 28; July 1, 11 & 12 7:30 p.m. in Downstage Theatre Recommended for mature audiences

Androcles and the Lion by Aurand Harris Children's Theatre with kid-friendly show times! June 27, July 9-10 at 7:00 p.m. June 28 & 30 at 2:00 p.m. All performances in W.M. Turner Auditorium Produced by special arrangement with Anchorage Plays, Louisville, KY, USA.	This musical adaptation of Aesop's fable about the friendship spawned when a Roman slave, Androcles, pulls a thorn from a wild lion's paw will delight audiences of all ages! The slapstick humor that is a part of the Commedia dell'arte style will bring laughter, while the story will teach lessons of loyalty and gratitude. Produced by special arrangement with Anchorage Plays, Louisville, KY, USA. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS

Chamber Music in the Pines Festival A Musical Tour of Europe Travel with SFA music faculty members and guest artists through multiple centuries and musical eras asthey make four stops on a virtual tour of Europe to celebrate the chamber music from or associated with Seville, Spain; Vienna, Austria; Paris, France; and London, England.

The festival's opening concert features piano trios by Spanish composerTurina, a virtuoso piece for two violins by Sarasate and Scott and Kimberly LaGraff performing selections from Carmen and Don Giovanni. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS	*A Night in Seville* Saturday, July 12 - 7:30 p.m Cole Concert Hall

An Evening in Vienna Tuesday, July 15 - 7:30 p.m. Cole Concert Hall	A fitting tribute to Vienna's place as a major musical center of Europe, the concert's program includes chamber string works such as Haydn's "Joke" quartet, Mozart's Quintet in G minor and Schubert's "Rosamunde" quartet. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS

Featuring a wide range of musical periods, the concert includes a Paris quartet by Baroque composer Telemann, a flute sonata by 20th century composer Poulenc and from the Romantic period, the first Faure Piano Quartet. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS	Un Soir à Paris Friday, July 18 - 7:30 p.m. Cole Concert Hall

An Afternoon in London Sunday, July 20 - 2:30 p.m. Cole Concert Hall	The festival's concluding concert features SFA woodwind and brass faculty presenting one of Haydn's "London" trios, a set of Bagatelles by Finzi, a sonata by Rubbra and a trio for horn, violin and piano by Berkeley. Purchase Tickets On-line! or call the Box Office: (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS