Third Annual Día de los Muertos Fiesta Expected to Draw Large Crowds

Face painting is a popular activity each year at the Día de los Muertos Fiesta, which is slated this year for 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches. (Photo) The Chikawa Aztec Dancers will return to Nacogdoches for the third annual Día de los Muertos Fiesta Saturday night, Nov.</body></html>

SFA Elementary Education Majors Bring the Past to Life with Annual Pioneer Days

From left: Stephen F. Austin State University elementary education majors Brinisha Shaw and Holly Franz experience life as a teacher in the 1900s as they teach third graders a reading lesson in a one-room schoolhouse at Millard’s Crossing Historic Village.</body></html>

Double, Double Toil and Trouble: SFA School of Theatre to present ‘Macbeth’

October 27, 2015 - Nearly 410 years after it was written, William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” presented by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre, brings its story to Turner Auditorium in a way that will entertain and educate audiences in a big way.

SFA’s First Friday Film Series to feature ‘Tomato Republic’

September 3, 2015 - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of “Tomato Republic” at 7 p.m. Friday, September 11, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

In this hour-long film, documentarians Jenna Jackson, Anthony Jackson and Whitney Graham Carter delve into the thoughts and feelings of rural East Texas residents during a heated mayoral race in Jacksonville, Texas, home of the annual Tomato Festival.

Three Opportunities to Ride the SFA Fan Bus

August 20, 2015 - The Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association will provide buses to transport SFA alumni and fans from the Tracie D. Pearman Alumni Center in Nacogdoches to three away football games this fall.

The first SFA alumni fan bus will travel to Amon G. Carter Stadium at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, September 12th. Tickets will be $50 per person and include round-trip transportation.

SFA New Food for Thought Campus Food Pantry Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting

March 6, 2015 - The Stephen F. Austin State University Student Government Association and Hunger Jacks, along with the Office of Academic Affairs, hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the new Food for Thought campus food pantry, located in the Baker Pattillo Student Center on SFA’s campus.

The pantry will serve as a resource to help alleviate food insecurity among SFA student on campus.

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