Follow Along With MickeyBlog at EPCOT’s 2025 Festival of the Arts
Welcome to the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts!
Festival Passport
The first EPCOT festival of the year is all about the arts, with artfully arranged dishes, entertainment, artwork, and more. Follow along with MickeyBlog as we explore the 2025 festival!
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Festival Dates
The 2025 Festival of the Arts lasts from January 17 to February 24, which makes it one of the shorter EPCOT festivals of the year.
2025 Festival of the Arts
Still, the cooler January weather, typically lower crowd levels, and arts focus make this festival a fan-favorite — and a must-visit.
EPCOT Hours
On January 17, EPCOT will be open from 9AM to 9PM, with Early Theme Park Entry eligibility beginning at 8:30AM. (In case you didn’t know, Early Theme Park Entry applies exclusively to guests staying in qualifying Disney World hotels.)
2025 Festival of the Arts
All you need to attend the Festival of the Arts is a Disney World ticket! If you’re an Annual Passholder or do not have a date-based ticket, you do need an EPCOT park reservation — or Annual Passholders can visit the park after 2PM.
2025 Festival of the Arts
Festival Passport
Whether you need a guide for everything the festival has to offer or you just want a little souvenir from your EPCOT, look no further than the Festival Passport! This free booklet has everything you need to know about the festival, including the food, entertainment, artwork, merchandise, and more.
Good morning from the 2025 Festival of the Arts! 🎨 #ArtfulEPCOT pic.twitter.com/u0pxa9KEEd
— MickeyBlog.com (@MickeyBlog_) January 17, 2025
You can find the Festival Passport in various locations (such as food booths and kiosks) around EPCOT.
Festival Passport
Inside your free Festival Passport, you can read about food booths, entertainment, merchandise, and lots more.
Festival Passport
Click here to see more photos of the Festival Passport!
Merchandise
Creations Shop is typically home to all the new festival merchandise, and there was a line to get inside.
Line to get inside Creations Shop
Let’s start with the Figment Spirit Jersey for $79.99.
Spirit Jersey
We also spotted Festival of the Arts Minnie Ears…
Festival of the Arts Ears
…a Loungefly Mini Backpack…
Loungefly
…a Lug Crossbody Bag…
Lug Bag
…and lots more!
Click here to check out all the 2025 Festival of the Arts merchandise!
Figment Popcorn Bucket
Every year, Disney releases a new Figment popcorn bucket design — some of which have proven to be VERY popular. This year, the design features Figment sitting on a lightbulb-shaped bucket filled with rainbow popcorn!
Photo: Disney
It comes with a lanyard that features music notes, sparkles, Figment, and the festival’s logo. The popcorn is available through the back of the lightbulb. Also, if you pull the bucket’s cord, it lights up!
This year, the bucket is limited to two per person, and it’s only available via Mobile Order.
Photo: Disney
Figment fans are definitely going to want this souvenir. Look how cute it is!
Figment Popcorn Bucket
Here’s how the bucket lights up!
A quick tutorial on how the new Figment Popcorn bucket lights up! 💡 pic.twitter.com/uIDTVrRqk8
— MickeyBlog.com (@MickeyBlog_) January 17, 2025
Click here to see more photos of the Figment Popcorn Bucket!
Food & Drinks
This year, there are almost 20 Food Studios (aka booths), with each booth featuring arts-inspired cuisine. We visited lots of booths, such as Goshiki…
Goshiki spread
The Artist’s Table
Pastoral Palate
…L’Art de la Cuisine Francaise…
L’Art de la Cuisine Française
…and many more!
Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine
The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine is a fun food scavenger hunt, tasking participants with purchasing at least five designated dishes (out of a possible seven) to earn a special prize. You can get five different dishes or repeat a few (or all five!).
Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine
Here’s the full list of qualifying dishes:
- Opening Bites
- 🎨 Enchanted Rose: Milk chocolate rose with raspberry and rose center (New)
- The Deconstructed Dish
- 🎨 Deconstructed Key Lime Pie: Flexible Key lime curd, “Key lime” mousse, graham cracker cake, and meringues
- Figment’s Inspiration Station
- 🎨 Raspberry Pastry Tart: Sugar cookie with raspberry and lemon cream cheese filling (New)
- Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina
- 🎨 Avocado-Coconut Custard Tart with pomegranate cream and henna-inspired gelée Veil (New) (Plant-based)
- Vibrante & Vívido: Encanto Cocina
- 🎨 Chorizo and Potato Empanada with turmeric aïoli and annatto aïoli
- Gourmet Landscapes
- 🎨 Citrus-braised Beet Tartare with golden beet “egg yolk,” mustard vinaigrette, pickled mustard seeds, pickled mushrooms, spiced pistachios, and “feta” snow (Plant-based) (New)
- Deco Delights
- 🎨 Almond Frangipane Cake layered with raspberry jam and Belgian chocolate
All you have to do is collect stamps in your Festival Passport for each purchased dish, and once you get all five you can visit Deco Delights to collect your prize.
Festival Passport
This year, the prize is a Figment Rice Krispie Treat!
Completer Prize
Read more about the Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine prize here!
Figment’s Brush with the Masters
The official non-food scavenger hunt of the Festival of the Arts is Figment’s Brush with the Masters, which features Figment hidden in pieces of famous artwork around the World Showcase!
Figment’s Brush with the Masters
You can play this game by purchasing a gameboard in order to earn a prize, but you can play it without a gameboard too (you just won’t qualify for a prize).
Figment’s Brush with the Masters
The gameboard and stickers can be purchased for $9.99 at Creations Shop, Disney Traders, and World Traveler. You can redeem your map for a prize whether you finish the scavenger hunt or not!
The prizes are stencils this year! There are three different choices, with each pack including two stencils.
Figment’s Brush with the Masters prizes
Click here to read more about Figment’s Brush with the Masters!
Artwork & Entertainment
There’s quite a variety of arts-related entertainment throughout the Festival of the Arts, including the Paint by Numbers Mural, art displays around EPCOT, the Disney on Broadway Concert Series, Animation Academy, visual art performances, live music, chalk art, and more!
Paint by Numbers Mural
The Paint by Numbers Mural is located in the Expression section on the walkway between the World Showcase and the Imagination pavilion from 11AM to 5PM daily.
Paint by Numbers Mural
You get paint, a brush, and an assigned number, and then you can paint a few squares of the mural to help create a piece of art!
Chalk Art
Kids can draw with chalk at the bridge to the World Showcase Plaza from 11AM to 5PM daily.
Kids’ Chalk Art
And don’t forget to check out the chalk art galleries located along the bridge to the World Showcase Plaza. This one is a 3D image of the Hulk in progress!
3D Hulk Chalk Drawing in progress
Photo Ops
There are also several arts-related photo ops!
Mary Poppins Photo Op
Click here to see all the Festival of the Arts photo ops!
Disney on Broadway
The Disney on Broadway concert series features songs from Disney on Broadway musicals performed by Broadway stars.
Disney on Broadway
You can catch a show on select dates at the America Gardens Theatre at 5:30PM, 6:45PM, and 8PM.
Once Upon A Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway
In 2025, guests will be able to explore costumes and props from Disney stage musicals such as The Lion King and Aladdin in CommuniCore Hall!
We’re inside – this is a VERY cool use of the space! Check out Broadway props from some of Disney’s most well-known shows #DisneyonBroadway pic.twitter.com/fbpvwMJLk8
— MickeyBlog.com (@MickeyBlog_) January 17, 2025
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