LASC Day of the Dead

The Living Arts & Science Center will host the 12th annual Day of the Dead Festival on Thursdfay, Nov. 1 to celebrate the rich traditions of the holiday.

This family-friendly event, from 5 to 9 p.m., includes hands-on crafts such as decorating sugar skulls, tin ornaments and traditional headdresses; a community altar for photographs of loved ones; traditional music, dance and food; art exhibitions; and a candlelight parade from the LASC to the Old Episcopal Burying Ground at the corner of E. 3rd Street and Elm Tree Lane. Activities take place 362 N. Martin Luther King Blvd., rain or shine. A donation of $2 per person is suggested, sugar skulls are $2 each.

Info: (859) 252-5222 or www.laslex.org.