NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University and the Tyler Independent School District Head Start program will launch their new partnership with a celebration at 11 a.m. Oct. 10 at the St. Louis Early Childhood Center, located at 2800 Walton Road in Tyler. This celebration is open to the public.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University Wind Ensemble will perform its first concert of the semester when the student ensemble presents “The Music of Viet Cuong” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.

Described as “alluring” and “wildly inventive” by The New York Times, composer Cuong’s music has been performed on six continents, according to Dr. David Campo, director of SFA bands and the Wind Ensemble. Cuong is a visiting composer in the SFA School of Music.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – “Young Talent” is the program theme when guest artist Blake Birmingham performs a euphonium recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, in Cole Concert Hall on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

Featuring Birmingham performing pieces from the 2018 and 2019 Leonard Falcone Euphonium and Tuba Competition, the program will also showcase the talents of Hyun Ji Oh, piano accompanist at SFA, and Dr. Danny Chapa, low brass faculty in the School of Music.

Hoping to continue providing the campus community with an outlet for open discussion in such trying times, the Office of Multicultural Affairs staff members have transitioned the remainder of the OMA’s spring semester events to virtual and online formats.

“We had already begun discussing adjusting some of our programs and events to be tailored to an online format,” said Jalon Berry, OMA assistant director. “Although this transition came sooner than expected, we are glad we are able to promote diversity and inclusion digitally.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Amid new city and county stay-at-home orders to help slow the spread of COVID-19, Stephen F. Austin State University student teachers are still helping children in the Nacogdoches Independent School District learn.

Student teachers in SFA’s Community Responsiveness and Engaged Advocacy in Teacher Education program, or C.R.E.A.T.E., have planned live activity lessons from 2 to 3 p.m. CDT on Mondays and 10 to 11 a.m. CDT on Wednesdays via Zoom through May 6.

Students and their families can register for these free Zoom sessions at the following links:

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Tennessee Hill, a recent Stephen F. Austin State University graduate, was recognized for her poem, “Stripling’s Florist Pharmacy,” in “Best New Poets of 2018,” an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers published by the University of Virginia Press.

The poem was included in Hill’s senior thesis for her Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing. It was inspired by the Nacogdoches floral shop she passed daily on her way to class.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Agriculture received a $3,000 student recruiting grant from the U.S. Poultry Foundation during the 2018 International Poultry Expo held in Atlanta, Georgia.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Guest artists Miraslov Hristov and Chih-Long Hu will present a violin and piano recital at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in Cole Concert Hall at Stephen F. Austin State University.

The performance is part of the SFA Friends of Music Concert Series and will showcase some of the great standard chamber works for violin and piano, including pieces from the Classical, Romantic, and 20th century periods, according to Jennifer Dalmas, associate professor of violin and viola in the SFA School of Music.

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 the documentary “Cuba and the Cameraman” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Working late night and weekend hours is predictable for theatre students for several weeks weeks leading up to presenting a play.

But the tiring work is also rewarding for students in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre, especially when presenting a play like Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat.”