NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Jazz Doctors of Stephen F. Austin State University will join The Swingin’ Aces jazz band for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in Cole Concert Hall, Wright Music Building, on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Seven student groups and individuals from Stephen F. Austin State University and Tyler Junior College were named top scholars for their research, which they will present during the 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference from 4 to 7 p.m. April 9 in the Baker Pattillo Student Center theater. The conference is free and open to the public.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — A Zulu nation queen traveled to Nacogdoches in March to thank graduate students in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business for helping an orphanage in her home country of South Africa that houses children who have lost their parents to AIDS.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s James I. Perkins College of Education’s hospitality program will host the sixth annual Kentucky Derby dinner and auction at 6 p.m. April 19 at the Fredonia Hotel.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –The Swingin’ Axes jazz band and The Jazz Jacks student combo at Stephen F. Austin State University will present their spring “Swingin’ at the Brewery” fundraiser from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at Fredonia Brewery in downtown Nacogdoches.

The concert continues the jazz bands’ tradition of taking student performances out into the community, according to Dr. J.D. Salas, director of the Swingin’ Axes jazz ensemble.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art will host the annual Texas National Competition and Exhibition April 12 through June 30 at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Nacogdoches Symphony Club and the Nacogdoches Music Teachers Association will mark milestones in each organization’s history by presenting “A Brick Street Serenade,” a concert and scholarship fundraiser, Saturday, April 20.

Beginning at 7 p.m. at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches, the event is designed to raise funds for the Baumgartner Memorial Award and the Mamie Middlebrook Scholarship, both of which are awarded to deserving music students attending Stephen F. Austin State University.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – “Street Scene,” an American opera by Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice, is this year’s opera theater production presented by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play of the same name by Rice, “Street Scene” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 11 through 13, in W.M. Turner Auditorium in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s horticulture program and Horticulture Club will host their sixth annual Spring Plant Fair from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at the SFA Plantery located at 1924 Wilson Drive.

Plants available for purchase include a variety of summer annuals like coleus, vinca, sweet potato, summer snapdragon, wishbone flower and more. Students also will have a selection of native plants like blue-eyed grass, winecups and asters for sale. All plants sold will grow well in the East Texas area.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.

Dr. Yan Chen, professor in medicinal plant physiology with the Louisiana State University School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, will present “Everything You Wanted to Know about Crapemyrtle Bark Scale but Were Afraid to Ask.”