Lufkin Creative's Heritage Festival, titled "Bites & Beats — A Celebration of Heritage Around the World," is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Cotton Square Park and Lufkin Avenue in downtown Lufkin. The streets in and around Cotton Square Park will be closed to traffic during the event.
Food trucks on site will include La Cultura Taqueria, Danny's Taqueria, A&W Creations, Reed's Fish & More, Liz Rolling Dough, the Grimes Squeeze, Smash and Pass Burgers, Caffeine Clinic and Bizzy Bees Bakery. Entertainment will include Grupo de Danza Folklórica Mexicana Ketzaly, traditional dancing by the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Slack Elementary dancers, drummer and percussionist Casey Muze and B.D. Williams Entertainment.
The festival will also have a Kids Passport to Adventure area, sponsored by Hijinx Trampoline Park. A Texas Cultural District Proclamation is scheduled for 2 p.m., and Gary Gibbs, executive director of the Texas Commission on the Arts, will be on hand to make the presentation.