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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Reserve tickets and general admission passes are now available for the 2011 installment of the Archie McDonald Speaker Series at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Guest musician Tracy Thornton will perform with the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Steel Band during the group's annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Cole Concert Hall on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Acclaimed musician Tracy Thornton will join the Stephen F. Austin State University's Steel Band for its annual concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Cole Concert Hall.

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NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present Sarah Frisof in a guest flute recital at 6 p.m. Friday, April 1, in Cole Concert Hall on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus. The recital is free and open to the public.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - As part of its monthly independent film series, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free screening of "A Man Named Pearl" at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University Pineywoods Native Plant Center will host a two-part garden seminar, "How to Identify and Attract Backyard Birds," from 6:30 to 8 p.m. March 25 and from 8 to 11 a.m. March 26.

Participants will enjoy a Friday evening lecture with Cliff Shackelford, ornithologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, regarding identification of common local birds. On Saturday, Shackelford will lead a birding stroll through the plant center property and to the nearby Shackelford home to visit the family's backyard made "for the birds."

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Gardens at Stephen F. Austin State University will host its monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in Room 110 of the Agriculture Building located at 1924 Wilson Drive. Dr. Alice Le Duc will present a lecture on pre-Columbian horticulture.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Original Cast, a musical cabaret troupe from the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre, will present four performances of "Blowin' in the Wind: Poets of the Folk Song Era" Thursday, March 24, through Saturday, March 26, in the Downstage Theatre of the Griffith Fine Arts Building on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - An enjoyable evening of light comedy, beautiful music and powerful voices is in store for anyone attending Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music's upcoming production of "Die Fledermaus," according to Dr. Deborah Dalton, ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ associate professor of music and the operetta's stage director.

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ vocal and orchestral students will present Johann Strauss II's operetta at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31, through Saturday, April 2, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - A collaborative project between Stephen F. Austin State University student poets and artists will culminate in the opening of the "Third Annual Pen & Pigment Show" at 6 p.m. Friday, March 25, in Griffith Gallery, located in Griffith Fine Arts Building, Room 208.

For the project, advanced poetry students each wrote a poem that was inspired by a partner-student's digital print, and the typography students each created a digital print that was inspired by a partner-student's poem.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Frank B. Wickes, director emeritus of bands at Louisiana State University, will guest conduct the Stephen F. Austin State University Wind Ensemble during its concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, in Cole Concert Hall on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.

Under Wicke's baton, the ensemble will present Percy Grainger's "Irish Tune from the County Derry." "Audiences will recognize this as the song 'Danny Boy,'" said Fred J. Allen, ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ director of bands.