Fall semester ticket sales for both SFA’s Lumberjack Express mobile food lab and Culinary Café will open at 8 a.m. tomorrow.

The Lumberjack Express, a hospitality administration lab that provides transformational learning experiences for students while offering culinary delights for campus and local patrons, will begin service at 11:15 a.m. Oct. 1 in the Education Annex Parking Lot No. 15 on campus. Service will continue at the same time each Tuesday and Thursday.

Lumberjack Express food sales will be handled through the online ticket system for pre-sold meals with walkup orders available until meals are sold out. Each meal is $8, and only 60 meals will be sold each day.

The Culinary Café, a reservation-only learning laboratory featuring various weekly cuisine themes, is open for lunch at noon each Tuesday and Thursday and is located inside the Perkins College of Education Annex.

Tickets for either event can be purchased online by visiting sfasu.edu/lumberjackexpress or sfasu.edu/culinarycafe.

For more information, call (936) 468-4502.

The next SFA Faculty and Staff Breakfast is planned for 7 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, in the East College Dining Hall.

For a discounted price of $3, SFA faculty and staff are invited to enjoy an all-you-care-to-eat breakfast while catching up with colleagues and making new campus contacts.

Help spread the word about this event, and invite SFA colleagues to join.

This event is brought to you by the SFA Social Events Team in the spirit of our SFA Envisioned strategic plan, which includes fostering a culture of engagement within our campus community.

To stay informed about future SFA social events, “like” the SFA Faculty/Staff Lounge on Facebook.

Those interested in learning about intellectual property can engage with intellectual property attorneys and representatives from the United States Patent and Trademark Office at a workshop from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 12 in the Cole STEM Building, Room 401.

Hosted by SFA’s College of Sciences and Mathematics, the workshop will provide information and advice on how securing trademarks and patents on inventions or creative ideas can strengthen businesses. Participants may ask questions and meet with the experts individually to receive advice tailored to a specific project, idea or business plan.

Cost is $10, and lunch is included. Register by Thursday, Sept. 5, at sfasu.edu/IPWorkshop.

For more information, contact cosm@sfasu.edu.

Cross-country:

The men's and women's cross-country teams took top spots at SFA's home opener. To see results, click here.

Football:

SFA - 17 vs. Baylor University - 56

Soccer:

SFA - 6 vs. Southern University - 0

Volleyball:

SFA - 3 vs. The University of Texas at San Antonio - 1

SFA - 3 vs. Bradley University - 0

SFA - 3 vs. Southern Methodist University - 2

SFA’s School of Art will open “The Color of Grief ” exhibition tomorrow in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

“The Color of Grief” features art created by children attending a youth grief camp through Hospice in the Pines.

“This exhibit showcases the existential and spiritual reality children experience in the loss of a loved one, such as a parent or sibling,” according to John Handley, director of SFA art galleries. “Through the expression of art, the inner truth, layers and stages of grief are revealed.”

These small paintings on canvas were created by children ages 4 through 16.

A reception for “The Color of Grief” is planned for 3 p.m. tomorrow at Cole Art Center. For more information, call (936) 468-1131.

SFA’s Friends of Music Concert Series opens its 2019-20 season with a faculty piano recital presented by Dr. Thomas Nixon, staff accompanist in the SFA School of Music, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, in Cole Concert Hall.

“Since I spend most of my time as a collaborative pianist, I wanted to show a different side of me and give a solo piano recital,” Nixon said. “Although the program is fairly traditional, I wanted to showcase some of my favorite works and composers.”

Among his program selections is "Barcarolle, Op. 60" by Frederic Chopin, "Sonata No. 5, Op. 53" by Alexander Scriabin and “La valse” by Maurice Ravel.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407, or visit finearts.sfasu.edu.

Fans of comedy geniuses John Belushi, Bill Murray and Steve Carell or Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Amy Poehler will not want to miss a Nacogdoches performance of the newest improv stars of The Second City, Chicago’s renowned comedy club.

SFA’s College of Fine Arts will open its 2019-20 University Series with a performance by The Second City at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in Turner Auditorium.

“The Second City is truly the epicenter of the comedy world,” said Scott Shattuck, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts and director of the University Series, “having given us most of the casts of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘SCTV,’ ‘The Daily Show’ and more."

Prior to the SFA performance, Jackie Rosenfeld, lecturer in SFA’s School of Theatre, will present an informative talk at 7 p.m. in Griffith Gallery.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit finearts.sfasu.edu, stop by the box office in Room 211 of the Griffith Fine Arts Building, or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.

SFA’s Friends of Music Concert Series will present guest artist Dennis Jesse performing a voice recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in Cole Concert Hall. Jesse will be accompanied by Dr. Ron Petti, professor and director of collaborative piano for SFA’s School of Music.

Jesse, who is now associate professor of voice at Louisiana State University, and Petti were classmates in the opera program at Bowling Green State University in the early 1990s. Jesse sang the well-known aria “Largo al factotum” from Gioachino Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” on Petti’s master’s degree recital.

Jesse and Petti will perform a recital of treasured songs and arias by Johannes Brahms, Henri Duparc, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Georges Bizet, Samuel Barber and Giuseppe Verdi.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407, or visit finearts.sfasu.edu.

Ryo and Hiromi Yamazaki bring a new meaning to “the cat in the hat.”

The couple uses their cats’ shed hair to create purr-fect accessories, which the felines happily model.

To view more photos, click here, or visit @rojiman on Instagram.