Join the Baroque Artists of Shreveport for "Baroque by Candlelight," featuring a chamber orchestra playing Handel's Water Music Suite in F major, Telemann's Concerto for 3 horns, 2 oboes, and solo violin, and Barriere's sonata for 2 cellos, a Bach flute sonata. Stay for Wassail & Cookies in the Church Parlor after the concert.

Centenary College Choir in Concert

The internationally renowned Centenary College Choir will present a special concert at First United Methodist Church of Bossier City on Wednesday, January 7 at 7:00 PM.

Founded in 1941, the Centenary Choir has performed in more than 35 countries and at venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Sydney Opera House. The program features a wide-ranging repertoire—from sacred hymnody and spirituals to beloved choral classics and musical theater selections.

The concert also includes the continued premiere of Labor Omnia Vincit, a bicentennial anthem celebrating Centenary College’s 200th anniversary.

Free and open to the public.

The North Louisiana Seed Preservation Program will host the second annual Statewide Seed Swap & Sale on Saturday, February 7th, 2026, at the Southern Forest Heritage Museum, just south of Forest Hill, Louisiana. Heirloom seeds from across the Gulf Region will be available for trade and purchase. Guest speaker will be Angela Joan, speaking about preserving heirloom mirlitons in South Louisiana. The event is free and open to the public. We may ask you to fill out a survey before you leave.

SFA Gardens Lecture to Feature Maples

SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 pm on January 8 in the Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 Raguet Street, Nacogdoches. Jennifer Tucker, owner of Jensfarm Maples, will discuss “Everything You Wanted to Know about Maples, But Were Afraid to Ask.”

Tucker has been the sole owner and operator of Jensfarm Maples in Middle Tennessee since 2001. Growing three hundred different varieties on the property, Jensfarm has become widely known as a highly reliable source of Japanese Maples in the Southeast region of the United States. Tucker has over twenty years of self-taught horticulture and gardening, and she continues to thrive while seeking to both educate and learn from other growers.

In 2001, Jensfarm propagated, grew, and sold a variety of landscape shrubs locally while also actively volunteering and speaking in the Tennessee Master Gardener Program. As one of the first graduates of the Tennessee Master Nursery Program in 2012, Tucker has honed her craft growing staples such as boxwoods, junipers, hydrangeas, and more including Japanese Maples. She is also a member of the International Plant Propagator Society. While propagating her variety of shrubs in-house, Jennifer has also developed her grafting technique for the last ten years.

Tucker has exclusively built an innovative nursery on five acres with eight greenhouses. Now, she has narrowed her focus to her passion of grafting and growing Japanese Maples, and she is always eager to find new and rare maples to add to her collection. Focusing on wholesale buyers, Tucker has had the pleasure of raising a quality product to share with the world. She is honored to serve The Maple Society as a Committee member and hopes to continue to serve the industry as a source of knowledge.

The Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series is held the second Thursday of each month and includes a plant raffle after the program. Attendance is free and open to the public, and donations to the lecture series fund are always appreciated. Parking is available at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center or next door at Raguet Elementary School, 2708 Raguet St.

For more information, call (936) 468-4129 or email sfagardens@sfasu.edu.