NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Voice students at Stephen F. Austin State University rehearse a scene from Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” as part of the School of Music’s 2022 Opera Theater production. One-act operas “Gianni Schicchi” and “Gallantry: A Soap Opera” by Douglas Moore, along with the chorus scene “Stomp Your Foot” from “The Tender Land” by Aaron Copland, are the featured works to be presented at 7:30 nightly Thursday through Saturday, March 31 through April 2, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $8 for students and youth.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Works by Ivan Trevino, David Skidmore and Francisco Perez are among the program selections to be showcased when the Percussion Ensemble at Stephen F. Austin State University presents its final spring concert of 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Directed by Dr. Brad Meyer, associate professor of percussion in the SFA School of Music, the ensemble will also perform works by Dave Hall, Chad Floyd, Mark Ford, Michael Laurello and SFA’s Dr. Jamie Vilseck, percussion adjunct faculty member.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Trombone Choir at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform along with smaller ensembles, including trombone quartets and an octet, on a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Les and Theresa Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. April 14 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, located at 2900 Raguet St.
 
Dr. Mengmeng Gu, professor and ornamental extension specialist in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in College Station, will present “Do We Need to Be Scared of Crape Myrtle Bark Scale?”
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business will unveil three newly renovated and named areas on the first floor of the McGee Business Building, including two in honor of SFA donors, at 1:30 p.m. April 22.
 
In addition to the donors who made these renovations possible, members of SFA’s Board of Regents and Rusche College of Business Dean Dr. Timothy Bisping will be present to dedicate the Gerald and Candy Schlief Lobby, Jimmy D. Berry Dean’s Suite and Rusche College of Business auditorium.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — The Nacogdoches County’s Opportunity for a Better Learning Experience banquet will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, March 28, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Grand Ballroom at Stephen F. Austin State University.
 
A total of 172 high school seniors from across Nacogdoches County were invited to attend this year’s banquet, which will honor students for excellence in coursework, community service and good citizenship during their four years in high school.
 

The Sylvans, Stephen F. Austin State University’s timbersports team, claimed top honors at the 63rd annual Southern Forestry Conclave, surpassing 11 other well-known universities from across the southern United States in both technical and physical forestry competitions. The event, hosted by the University of Tennessee, comes after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Artist Adriana Corral will serve as juror for the 27th Texas National, Stephen F. Austin State University’s acclaimed art competition and exhibition, which opens April 8 and runs through June 30 in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

Art patrons and community members will have an opportunity to participate in a “juror’s chat” session with Corral at 5 p.m. Friday, April 8, to be followed by an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – A combination of bare-bones Brechtian and physical commedia styles is what theatre patrons will experience when attending the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre’s presentation of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.”

Exploring the social and economic perspectives of romantic relationships of the 17th century  laced with Shakespearian slapstick, “The Taming of the Shrew” will be presented at 7:30 nightly Tuesday through Saturday, April 5 through 9, in Kennedy Auditorium on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s James I. Perkins College of Education has partnered with Huntington Independent School District to staff three paid internships per semester.
 
Set to begin this fall, the internships, paid by HISD, will allow SFA students to benefit from paid positions as they finish their clinical teaching requirements while providing HISD with the strongest of the SFA teacher intern candidate pool.