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NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Works on paper by four internationally known Siberian artists are included in "Message from Siberia," which will open at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.

The exhibition is the second half of an exchange developed by Charles Jones, retired ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ professor of art, and Andrey Martynov, a previous curator for the Novosibirsk State Art Museum, and current director of the Moscow Bienale. Both men will speak during the opening reception.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Tickets are still available for "A Piney Woods Home Companion: The Sequel," a scholarship fund-raiser being held by the Stephen F. Austin State University Music Preparatory Division on Saturday, Oct. 9.

Headliners for the event that is patterned after Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" are pianist John Dickson, ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ alumnus and music composer of the TV series "Burn Notice," and emcee Brad Maule, ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ faculty member who is best known for his role as Dr. Tony Jones of "General Hospital."

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Assistant Professor of Art Lauren McAdams' "Transportable Dialogue" will be included in an exhibition runs Oct. 8 through Nov. 7 in the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at the University of Dallas.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Two Nacogdoches artists will be featured in "Metal Heart: Selected Works of Elizabeth Akamatsu and Lauren McAdams," an exhibition in the Beatrice M. Haggerty Art Gallery at the University of Dallas from Friday, Oct.

Cellist Evgeni Raychev will present a faculty recital as a part of the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ School of Music's Cole Performing Arts Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in Cole Concert Hall.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present "Celliloquy," a faculty cello recital by Dr. Evgeni Raychev, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in Cole Concert Hall on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.

Houston businessman Herman Wright Jr., a documentary filmmaker and founder of an African-American history project gaining widespread attention in East Texas, recently was awarded a research fellowship through Stephen F. Austin State University's Center for Regional Heritage Research.

Wright's investigation into his own family's history led him to create The Long Black Line, an organization devoted to telling the stories of African Americans in East Texas through the preservation of schools, churches, cemeteries and farms that formed the nucleus of community life.

Cast members from the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ School of Theatre's upcoming production of John Cariani's "Almost, Maine" rehearse a scene in which a couple struggles to locate the same star on which to make a wish. Pictured here are Dallas senior Margaret Lewis and Houston sophomore Kurt Bilanoski. The play will be presented in W.M. Turner Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, through Saturday, Oct. 9.

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NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a one-night screening of "The Take," a documentary about Argentinean workers, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.

In the 87-minute film, director Avi Lewis and writer Naomi Klein champion a radical economic movement in which unemployed factory workers illegally occupy the closed factories in an effort to restart production on their own and reclaim their jobs.

Guest pianist Ning An will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto during the Orchestra of the Pines' concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in Cole Concert Hall.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Guest pianist Ning An will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto during the season-opening concert of the Stephen F. Austin State University's Orchestra of the Pines at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in Cole Concert Hall on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.

Pianist John Noel Roberts

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Pianist John Noel Roberts, director of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music, will perform Modeste Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" during his faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, in Cole Concert Hall on the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ campus.