Read Around the Christmas Tree

Name: Read Around the Christmas Tree
Start: 2025-12-20T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-20T15:00:00-06:00
Location: Douglass Community Center

Schedule

Sat Dec 20 2025 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Douglass Community Center | Memphis, TN

Join us on Saturday, December 20, from 12-3 p.m. at Douglass Community Center for Read Around the Christmas Tree! Our annual event will feature local children’s book authors reading to youth around a 20-foot Christmas tree, plus:
• Giveaways
• A free youth marketplace
• Family photos with Santa
• Carriage rides through the enchanted Douglass Park
• More literacy-based fun for registered participants
Giveaway items are available while supplies last. This event is made possible thanks to our Literacy Meets Recreation program sponsors, International Paper and Literacy Mid-South, and our generous donors:
• Memphis Toast
• The Time is Now Douglass Redevelopment Corporation
• North Memphis Community Alliance
• Center for Transforming Communities
• Community Health Partners