Students from Stephen F. Austin State University's AdHoc advertising club celebrate after winning the Special Judges' Award for Best Promotion at the recent American Advertising Federation student competition in Tulsa, Okla. (Photo by Peter Andrew)

Students from Stephen F.

Danny Prado

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The SFA Friends of Music will accept reservations through noon Friday, April 26, for Extravaganza 26, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music's annual gala banquet. The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, in the Grand Ballroom of SFA's Baker Pattillo Student Center.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Four original short films by Stephen F. Austin State University student filmmakers will be shown during "An Evening of Short Films" beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, April 26, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

Each graduate student will introduce his film, screen it and then take questions from the audience, according to Brad Maule, acting and directing lecturer in the SFA School of Theatre and a lecturer in the School of Art's cinematography program.

Allen Vizzutti

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Swingin' Axes and Swingin' Aces jazz bands at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform an exciting evening of music for the final joint concert of the 2012-13 season beginning at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - In celebration of the spring season, the SFA Wind Symphony will present "Soleil!" A Sun Celebration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in the Grand Ballroom of the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

"Throughout history, composers have been writing music in homage to the sun, and modern wind band composers are no different," said David W. Campo, associate director of bands at SFA and the Wind Symphony's conductor.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Students in the harp studio of Emily Mitchell, adjunct faculty in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music and harp teacher for the Music Preparatory Division, will perform in concert at 6 p.m. Monday, April 22, in the Judy B. McDonald Public Library.

"Texas National 2013" juror Peter Selz selected Le' Anne Alexander's oil on canvas titled "Unspecified Shape Blue" as the competition's first place award winner.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - During Saturday night's opening reception of "Texas National 2013" in Cole Art Center, juror Dr. Peter Selz announced the winners of the annual competition and exhibition presented by the Stephen F.

Members of the Stephen F. Austin State University Sylvans club display their Lumberjack pride and skills during the crosscut sawing competition at the 56th annual Southern Forestry Conclave in Alabama. SFA won first place overall at the competition held in March.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - A team of forestry students from the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture at Stephen F.