Community Calendar

SAVE THE DATE! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH - 329 E Main, Downtown Nacogdoches - Cole Art Center @ the Old Opera House
SFA Friends of the Visual Arts (FVA) hosts their largest annual fundraiser - The 12x12 - each year in support of student scholarships and grants. All funds raised go toward assisting students currently enrolled in the School of Art on the SFASU campus in Nacogdoches, Texas. The 2026 - 12x12 is our 17th annual event. Please join us, Saturday, November 7th, in downtown Nacogdoches for an evening of silent auctioning of 120 original art works by professional artists, graduate and undergraduate SFA art majors as well as local artists. This is a wonderful way to collect original art while supporting students.
Food and beverages will be served during the event.
Doors open at 6pm. Bidding ends at 7:30pm.

Join Shreveport Opera for its 78th season of world-class music and theatre in the Ark-la-tex. The 2026-27 season begins with a family favorite - Hansel and Gretel on November 7th at The RiverView Theater. Discounts available for active military, first responders, teachers, students, and children under 12! Call us at 318-227-9503 or visit shreveportopera.org.

Narrated by Emmy® Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), America the Beautiful is a new cinematic experience premiering Veteran’s Day (November 11) at IMAX® and Giant Screen theaters.
Featuring breathtaking large-format cinematography, the immersive theatrical experience celebrates the extraordinary beauty of America as it celebrates 250 years, and the importance of preserving it for future generations.
America the Beautiful is directed by Emmy and Critic’s Choice nominated Jennifer Casey (“Extreme Weather,” “The Last Wright”). Mission Partners Entertainment Group, in association with the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, produced the film funded by America The Beautiful Foundation. Chris Dorsey and Charlie Potter serve as executive producers.
Tickets are available for purchase here. More information is available at https://americathebeautifulmovie.com/.

The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival is presented annually in the East Texas cities of Kilgore and Longview and other cities including Shreveport, Louisiana. The festival was founded to honor the life and work of Roy Perry, a designer, finisher, and sales representative of the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company in the post-World War II era. This year’s organists performing on the 1959 Aeolian-Skinner at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Shreveport on Thursday, November 12 are Jeremy Filsell (at 10:30 am), Clive Driskill-Smith (at 1:30 pm), and Huw Lewis (at 3 pm). Jeremy Filsell’s program is from 20th Century American composers George Baker, Charles Callahan, Gerre Hancock, Gerald Near, Richard Purvis and Leo Sowerby. Clive Driskill-Smith will perform music by French organist Marcel Dupré and his students Demessieux, Langlais and Messiaen. Huw Lewis will perform music by Alain, Bach, Fedak, and Young. All three programs include works which were dedicated to William Teague, the organist at St. Mark's for many years. The entire 2026 festival runs from Sunday, November 8 through Thursday, November 12 at venues in Longview TX (First Baptist Church, Trinity Episcopal Church), Kilgore TX (First Presbyterian Church, St. Luke's Methodist Church) as well as Shreveport LA (St. Mark's Cathedral). More information may be found at www.royperryfoundation.org.

Narrated by Emmy® Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), America the Beautiful is a new cinematic experience premiering Veteran’s Day (November 11) at IMAX® and Giant Screen theaters.
Featuring breathtaking large-format cinematography, the immersive theatrical experience celebrates the extraordinary beauty of America as it celebrates 250 years, and the importance of preserving it for future generations.
America the Beautiful is directed by Emmy and Critic’s Choice nominated Jennifer Casey (“Extreme Weather,” “The Last Wright”). Mission Partners Entertainment Group, in association with the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, produced the film funded by America The Beautiful Foundation. Chris Dorsey and Charlie Potter serve as executive producers.
Tickets are available for purchase here. More information is available at https://americathebeautifulmovie.com/.

SFA Gardens’ monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series will feature a presentation by Kadin Bieberich, head propagator and retail sales manager at Sunshine Nursery in Clinton, Oklahoma, at 7 p.m. November 12th in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center. Kadin will present, “Trees you need, but you don’t know it yet.”

Kadin Bieberich is a fourth-generation nurseryman from Clinton, Oklahoma, who developed his passion for horticulture working alongside his father and grandfather at Sunshine Nursery. His primary focus is plant propagation, particularly evaluating rootstock suitability for the dry, alkaline soils of the Southern Great Plains.The Sunshine Nursery Arboretum represents over 50 years of real-world observations of tree species and provenances exposed to the challenging climate of western Oklahoma.

The Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series is held on the second Thursday of each month and includes a plant raffle after the program. The lecture is free and open to the public; however, donations to the lecture series fund are always appreciated.

Parking is available at the PNPC, 2900 Raguet St., or Raguet Elementary School, 2708 Raguet St.

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

Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody reimagines Everyman, the quintessential medieval morality play – a religious allegory about death and salvation.

As the play unfolds, the audience encounters hilariously ridiculous pre-recorded voiceovers that depict Everybody’s friends comforting them at their deathbed, unexpected twists, and a clever reinventing of classic text to contemporary comedy. Though the narrative is focused on death, the result is absurdly fun. Everybody turns the biggest question of all—what happens when we die?—into a theatrical experience full of laughter, heart, and surprising insight.

“A play about love- or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love- and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way.” - The New Yorker

Narrated by Emmy® Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), America the Beautiful is a new cinematic experience premiering Veteran’s Day (November 11) at IMAX® and Giant Screen theaters.
Featuring breathtaking large-format cinematography, the immersive theatrical experience celebrates the extraordinary beauty of America as it celebrates 250 years, and the importance of preserving it for future generations.
America the Beautiful is directed by Emmy and Critic’s Choice nominated Jennifer Casey (“Extreme Weather,” “The Last Wright”). Mission Partners Entertainment Group, in association with the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, produced the film funded by America The Beautiful Foundation. Chris Dorsey and Charlie Potter serve as executive producers.
Tickets are available for purchase here. More information is available at https://americathebeautifulmovie.com/.

Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody reimagines Everyman, the quintessential medieval morality play – a religious allegory about death and salvation.

As the play unfolds, the audience encounters hilariously ridiculous pre-recorded voiceovers that depict Everybody’s friends comforting them at their deathbed, unexpected twists, and a clever reinventing of classic text to contemporary comedy. Though the narrative is focused on death, the result is absurdly fun. Everybody turns the biggest question of all—what happens when we die?—into a theatrical experience full of laughter, heart, and surprising insight.

“A play about love- or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love- and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way.” - The New Yorker

Narrated by Emmy® Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), America the Beautiful is a new cinematic experience premiering Veteran’s Day (November 11) at IMAX® and Giant Screen theaters.
Featuring breathtaking large-format cinematography, the immersive theatrical experience celebrates the extraordinary beauty of America as it celebrates 250 years, and the importance of preserving it for future generations.
America the Beautiful is directed by Emmy and Critic’s Choice nominated Jennifer Casey (“Extreme Weather,” “The Last Wright”). Mission Partners Entertainment Group, in association with the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, produced the film funded by America The Beautiful Foundation. Chris Dorsey and Charlie Potter serve as executive producers.
Tickets are available for purchase here. More information is available at https://americathebeautifulmovie.com/.