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There are plenty of festivities coming up around Douglas County to do your holiday shopping and support local artists and makers. Here’s a guide to events happening this weekend and in coming weeks.
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Festival of Trees, with its evergreens bedecked with everything from candy canes to Jayhawks to Christmas movie DVDs, will bring its quirky holiday spirit back to downtown Lawrence this week to benefit The O’Connell Children’s Shelter.
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Limited works by the late Lawrence artist Louis Copt are for sale at a pop-up gallery, and smaller prints will be available at this month’s Final Friday event.
The Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade has been canceled this year because of an outbreak of equine herpesvirus affecting horses in multiple states, according to parade organizers.
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Recipients of the city’s 2025 Phoenix Awards for service, creativity and dedication to the arts in Lawrence are a local blacksmith, an advocate for Indigenous arts, a volunteer and three others.
Lawrence Lights, a drive-thru holiday light extravaganza benefiting local nonprofits, will open this week.
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A Douglas County-wide study on Indigenous food systems will launch this weekend to inform culturally aware policy and food action plans for the county and the City of Lawrence.
Friends of Lawrence Area Trails on Wednesday will host a public meeting to share details about Cameron’s Bluff, a new trail system, park and open space in development in Lawrence.
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The community is invited to a Celebration Tour Cabaret featuring work by Louise ImMasche, a beloved local theatre performer who died in October. The event will help birth a fund at Theatre Lawrence to support striving artists.
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Check two boxes off your list this holiday season by shopping local and getting some one-of-a-kind gifts for your loved ones with this guide to 20 upcoming vendor fairs and art markets, starting this weekend in Lawrence.
