Not sure what to do with those carved pumpkins on Sunday, Nov. 1?

Bring them to the Burien Interim Art Space for a celebration from 3:30 to 11 p.m.

The community is invited to a party on Sunday, Nov. 1 to celebrate the Day of the Dead and experience the last event at B/ IAS.

The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of families and friends to remember and pray for family members who have died.

The Burien Interim Art Space has been a yearlong experimental artists' "Pea Patch."

Over the past year the empty construction site next to the Burien Town Square has been filled with art loaned from local artists and created by kids at Burien elementary schools, Highline High School and Puget Sound Skills Center.

Sustainable Burien also installed real pea patches. The space also hosted many events over the summer.

The space was developed and managed by Kathy Justin and Dane Johnson, local residents who volunteered their expertise and much time to create this space for the community.

So, bring your carved pumpkin and a candle to the B/ IAS site or carve one there to fill the site with illuminated jack o' lanterns.

Bring something for the community altar, walk through the cemetery, and gather with your neighbor over food, drink and dance.

Celebrate your community, your family and friends.

All pumpkins will be composted through a gift from King County Solid Waste.

Starting at 3:30 p.m. and going until dark, there will be pumpkin carving for kids and adults. There will also be face painting, flower making, grand pumpkin games and traditional foods and vendors.

Performers will take the stage from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m.

At the Burien Library, artist Amaranta Ibarra will display sand paintings.

Tapetes de Arena or sand paintings are typically made of sand, sawdust, seeds, flower petals, and pigments.

Traditionally, a tapete is made in the home when there is a death in the family. After a period of mourning, the tapete is swept up and entombed with the body of the deceased.

Tapetes are also created all over Oaxaca for the Días de los Muertos celebration, and judged along with the ofrendas in the Concursos de Altares de Muertos.

Ibarra has collaborated with Latino artists in making sand paintings for the last 10 years at the Seattle and Tacoma art museums.

The event is sponsored by B/ IAS, City of Burien, Highline Historical Society, Burien Arts, White Center for the Arts, Ignition Northwest, Urban Partners, GGLO, Highline Community College's United Latino Association and 4-Culture.

For more information please go to www.interim-art-space.com or e-mail info@interim-art-space.com.