NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Musical theatre provides a unique and invaluable learning experience for students, allowing them to develop skills in acting, singing and dancing while also fostering teamwork and creativity. Stephen F. Austin State University’s presentation of "Once Upon a Mattress" offers an opportunity for SFA’s aspiring artists to put their classroom knowledge into practice and learn the importance of discipline, dedication and collaboration through a magical musical.
 

*This event has been canceled. A new date and time will be announced soon.*

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — The student-led Economics Reading Group in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business is hosting a discussion on entrepreneurship with Kevin Carr, a 1992 SFA finance graduate and owner of Community Beer Co. in Dallas, at 6 p.m. Nov. 7 in the McGee Business Building, Room 133, on the SFA campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Teresa Jill Adams Art Gallery in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, Stephen F. Austin State University campus, currently features a collection of works by ceramicist Piero Fenci. The exhibition features a combination of ceramics and ink drawings on paper. These works will be on view through Nov. 3 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s horticulture program will host its sixth annual Fall Plant Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at the SFA Plantery, located at 1924 Wilson Drive behind the Agriculture Building. 

Plants available for purchase include a variety of winter annuals, such as pansies, violas, wallflowers, sweet alyssum and snapdragons. All are winter hardy and perform well in East Texas climates. Plants will sell for $2.50 per pot. 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Percussion Ensemble at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform works by Austin Franklin, Michael Burritt, Nathan Daughtrey and other percussionists in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of “John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs,” directed by filmmaker and SFA alumnus Derek Wayne Johnson, at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Student ensembles in the Sound Recording Technology program at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 in Turner Auditorium, Griffith Fine Arts Building, on the SFA campus.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House will present “Twenty,” an exhibition featuring the work of Benjamin Muñoz, running Nov. 2 through Jan. 19 at The Cole Art Center.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Stone Fort Museum has named Rick Still and the late Frances A. Shofner as the 2023 Cum Concilio Club Heritage Preservation Award recipients.

The museum's biennial heritage preservation award was established in honor of the Cum Concilio Club's dedication to the preservation of Nacogdoches' cultural and historical landscape. The award recognizes a group or individual who has made significant contributions to the preservation of East Texas’ history and Nacogdoches' heritage. 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host its annual “Deck the Halls: Using Evergreens to Decorate for the Holidays” seminar from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 2 at the Brundrett Conservation Education Building in the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.