FULL GUIDE to EPCOT’s 2025 Festival of the Arts in Disney World

FULL GUIDE to EPCOT’s 2025 Festival of the Arts in Disney World

EPCOT’s first festival of the year is the Festival of the Arts, which celebrates all things art! We’re here to go over everything there is to know about this festival so you can have an amazing visit!

2025 Festival of the Arts

2025 Festival of the Arts

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Dates

The 2025 Festival of the Arts lasts from January 17 to February 24, 2025.

Location & Hours

The Festival of the Arts takes place at EPCOT, and no additional ticket beyond general park admission is required. If you are an Annual Passholder or do not have a date-based ticket, you will also need to schedule a park reservation. 

2025 Festival of the Arts

2025 Festival of the Arts

EPCOT is generally open from 9AM to 9PM, with Early Theme Park Entry eligibility beginning at 8:30AM. Make sure you check EPCOT’s hours on a daily basis during your visit in the event of any changes to the schedule. 

Festival Passport

One of the first things you want to do at an EPCOT festival is collect the free festival passport, a full guide that includes everything there is to know about the festival. It also makes a great souvenir!

Festival Passport

Festival Passport

Inside the Festival Passport is information about the Food Studios (aka food booths), entertainment, merchandise, locations, and more. You can find it at food booths and various kiosks around EPCOT.

Food Studios

NEW! Opening Bites Menu  

Location: CommuniCore Plaza 

Food Items:  

  • Soft Shell Crab Slider: Green papaya slaw and mango ketchup on toasted brioche (New) — $7.50
  • Cheddar and Chive Scone with smoked salmon salad topped with crème fraîche and caviar (New) — $7.50
  • 🎨 Enchanted Rose: Milk chocolate rose with raspberry and rose center (New) — $6.50

Beverages: 

  • Parish Brewing Co. SIPS Candy Paint Berliner Weisse (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • von Trapp Brewing Bohemian Pilsner (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Crooked Can Brewing Company Fantasia Fusion IPA (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Beer Flight — $10.25
  • Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve Champagne — $12
  • Piper-Heidsieck Rosé Sauvage Champagne — $12
  • Katherine Goldschmidt Cabernet Sauvignon — $15
  • Martin Ray Chardonnay — $7

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Opening Bites

Connections Eatery Menu  

Food Item: 

  • Figment’s Liege Waffle with ube filling (New) — $5.79

Beverage: 

  • Imagination Lemonade: Minute Maid Premium Lemonade topped with butterfly pea tea and lavender (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $5.79 (Spirited version available with vodka for $15.50)  

NEW! Fictional Victuals Menu  

Location: Near Refreshment Station  

Food Items: 

  • Squid Ink Pasta with lump crab, truffle cream, and shaved truffle (New) — $7.75
  • Charred Octopus with crushed fingerling potatoes, kalamata olives, capers, and romesco sauce (New) — $7.75
  • Black Cocoa Brownie with ube ice cream, coral tuile, and sponge cake (New) — $6.50 

Beverages: 

  • Butterscotch Milk Shake with Chocolate Garnish (New) — $5
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Barrel Aged Cognac Porter (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Boyd & Blair Outis Fathom: Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Juniper, and Boyd & Blair Vodka (New) — $12

fictional victuals festival arts

The Deconstructed Dish Menu  

Location: Near Refreshment Station Hosted by Coca-Cola 

Food Items:  

  • Deconstructed BLT: Pork belly, soft-poached egg, onion bread pudding, watercress espuma, and tomato jam — $7.25
  • 🎨 Deconstructed Key Lime Pie: Flexible Key lime curd, “Key lime” mousse, graham cracker cake, and meringues — $6.50  

Beverages: 

  • Deconstructed Strawberry Mint Julep: Frozen mint and simple syrup blend with strawberry purée (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $4.75
  • Wicked Weed Brewing Blank Canvas Belgian Blonde Witbier — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Deconstructed Strawberry Mint Julep with Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon — $12

Deconstructed Dish spread

Figment’s Inspiration Station Menu  

Location: The Odyssey  

Food Items: 

  • 🎨 Raspberry Pastry Tart: Sugar cookie with raspberry and lemon cream cheese filling (New) — $5
  • Rainbow Cake topped with SKITTLES POP’d Freeze Dried Candy — $5.25

Beverages: 

  • Figment Imagination Lemonade with choice of flavor (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $5
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Black Cherry Hard Cider — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Blood Orange Hard Cider — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Pineapple Hard Cider — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Hard Cider Flight — $10.25
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Green with Envy Blonde Ale — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Blue Butterfly Lager, Tampa — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Make All Things Purple Ale (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Beer Flight — $10.25

Figment's Inspiration Station -

Novelty:  

Figment Popcorn Bucket 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts

The Craftsman’s Courtyard Menu 

Location: Near Refreshment Station  

Food Items: 

  • Beef Wellington-inspired Croissant Supreme with creamed spinach croissant pinwheel, mushroom-gorgonzola ragout, mustard-grilled flank steak, red wine sauce, and pickled mustard seeds (New) — $8.50
  • Cast Iron-roasted P.E.I. Mussels with sautéed tomatoes, garlic, and fresh herbs — $8
  • Roasted Bone Marrow with onion marmalade, pickled mushrooms, and petite lettuce — $10.75

Beverages: 

  • BrewDog Black Heart Nitro Oatmeal Stout — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Coffee Old Fashioned Cocktail: Joffrey’s Coffee Cold Brew, simple syrup, orange bitters, and Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon — $11.50

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Craftsmans Courtyard Beef Wellington Inspired Croissant Supreme

El Artista Hambriento Menu 

Location: Mexico 

Food Items: 

  • Carne Asada: Ancho-marinated beef sirloin with pasilla chile sauce, grilled queso fresco, nopales salad, and chicharron dust (New) — $10.75
  • Croqueta: Chipotle chicken and chorizo croquette in chipotle salsa with chipotle aioli, avocado mousse, and truffle oil (New) — $8
  • Natilla de Maiz: Creamy corn custard with caramelized sugar (New) — $6.50

Beverages: 

  • Mexican Craft Beer — $6 for 6 oz. / $11 for 12 oz.
  • Floridita: Centinela Blanco Tequila, citrus juice, orange liqueur, and grapefruit soda with a hint of Aperol (New) — $16.50
  • Strawberry Fields Margarita: Tromba Blanco Tequila, Dos Hombres Mezcal, strawberry purée, and blackcurrant liqueur — $15.50 
El Artista Hambriento

El Artista Hambriento

The Painted Panda Menu  

Location: China  

Food Items: 

  • General Tso’s Chicken Shumai: Dumplings filled with chicken, potato, onion, and water chestnut topped with General Tso’s sauce — $10.75
  • Har Gow: Shrimp dumplings with pumpkin purée and drizzle of chili oil (New) — $10.75
  • Egg Tart: Hong Kong-style egg custard tart (New) — $5.50

Beverages

  • Strawberry Bubble Milk Tea (Non-alcoholic beverage) (New) — $8.75
  • Dragon Fruit Lager — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $10 for 12 oz.
  • Silk River Hard Lemonade with vodka, lavender-coconut syrup, and lemonade — $14
  • Butterfly Blue: Butterfly pea flower-infused cocktail with vodka, light rum, lychee syrup, and magic boba pearls — $13.75 

The Painted Panda

Refreshment Outpost Menu  

Food Item: 

  • Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie — $5.75

Beverages: 

  • Parish Brewing Co. Blueberry Mochi Berliner Weisse — $12
  • Brewlando Liquid Art Pilsner (New) — $12
  • Ology Brewing Co. Rainbow Colored Glasses Rainbow Sherbet Berliner (New) — $12

Refreshment Outpost

Pastoral Palate Menu   

Location: Germany  

Food Items: 

  • Pork and White Bean Cassoulet with Regensburger Sausage and crispy pork rinds (New) — $7
  • Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib with parsnip purée, broccolini, baby tomatoes, and balsamic glaze — $8.75
  • Black Forest Cake: Chocolate mousse with morello cherries and chantilly cream — $5

Beverages: 

  • 3 Daughters Brewing Rosé Hard Cider — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Rosé Blonde Ale — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Frozen Rosé — $7.25
  • A Play on Rosé Flight — $11.50
  • Marietta Old Vine Rosé — $6.25

Pastoral Palate

L’Arte di Mangiare Menu 

Location: Italy 

Food Items: 

  • Tricolore: Cheese-filled ravioloni, pomodoro, cream, and pesto sauces (New)  — $8.75
  • Mozzarella Fritta: Flash-fried breaded fresh mozzarella with artist palette condiments — $9
  • Hazelnut S’more Cannoli: Cannoli shell dipped in chocolate and graham cracker, chocolate-hazelnut cannoli cream, and toasted marshmallows (New) — $5.50

Beverages: 

  • Peroni Pilsner — $6.50 for 6 oz. / $11 for 12 oz.
  • Prosecco — $11.75
  • Moscato — $12.50
  • Chianti — $12
  • Italian Red Sangria — $12
  • Italian-inspired Margarita with tequila, Triple Sec, and Fabrizia Limoncello — $12
  • Mela Spritz: Apple Schnapps, prosecco, and sparkling water (New) — $15
L'Arte di Mangiare

L’Arte di Mangiare

The Artist’s Table Menu  

Location: The American Adventure 

Food Items: 

  • Deviled Egg Trio: Pimento Cheese, Green Goddess, and BLT (New) — $6.25
  • Chicken “Pot Pie” with smoked cheddar mornay sauce, roasted vegetables, pickled mushrooms, wasabi peas, and sherry-chicken jus served open-faced on flaky pie crust (New) — $6.75
  • Hummingbird Cake: Banana and pecan cake dipped in cream cheese icing with caramel sauce and warm pineapple compote — $5

Beverages: 

  • Wicked Weed Brewing Pineapple Daydream IPA (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Swamp Head Brewery Neon Palette Lager (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Lost Coast Brewery Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • J Vineyards & Winery Pinot Gris (New) — $6.50
  • Beer Flight — $10.25

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts The Artists Table America Deviled Egg Trio

Funnel Cake Menu 

Location: Between The American Adventure and Japan  

Food Item: 

  • Cotton Candy Funnel Cake topped with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, pink and purple sugar dusting, and cotton candy crunch (New) — $12

cotton candy funnel cake

Goshiki Menu 

Location: Japan  

Food Items: 

  • Taiyaki: Crisp, flaky fish-shaped pastry filled with sweet red bean served with whipped topping and blueberry popping boba (New) — $6.75
  • Wagyu Bun: Steamed bun filled with American wagyu beef served with Japanese karashi mustard sauce and violet shiso sauce (New) — $9.75
  • Sushi Donut: Donut-shaped sushi featuring salmon, tuna, shrimp, cucumber, and sesame seed over a decorated plate of wasabi aïoli, sriracha aïoli, and eel sauce — $8.75

Beverages: 

  • Okinawa Lemonade: Lemonade mix with Shikuwasa Citrus (Non-alcoholic beverage) (New) — $6.75
  • Yuzu IPA (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Masu Sake in a traditional personalized wooden cup — $14
  • Junmai Daiginjyo Sake Flight: Plum, yuzu, hyuganatsu, and sakuranbo Cherry (New) — $16.75

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Goshiki Japan Spread

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina Menu 

Location: Morocco  

Food Item: 

  • Grilled Kebabs with carrot-chickpea salad and garlic aïoli — $6.25
    • Chermoula Chicken  
    • Moroccan-spiced Lamb  
  • Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with assorted dips (Plant-based) — $5.25
  • 🎨 Avocado-Coconut Custard Tart with pomegranate cream and henna-inspired gelée Veil (New) (Plant-based) — $5.25

Beverages: 

  • Chai Tea-Mint Fizz: Twinings Chai Tea with Sprite and Mint (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $4.75
  • Parish Brewing Co. Mango Mochi (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Rekorderlig Strawberry-Lime Hard Cider — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Keel Farms Blueberry Lavender Hard Cider, Plant City — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Chai Tea-Mint Mimosa: Twinings Chai Tea with Key Lime Sparkling Wine and mint — $12
  • Flight — $10.25

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Tangierine Cafe Avocado Coconut Custard Tart

Vibrante & Vívido: Encanto Cocina Menu  

Location: Between Morrocco and France 

Food Items: 

  • 🎨 Chorizo and Potato Empanada with turmeric aïoli and annatto aïoli — $6.75
  • Spicy Ajiaco Soup with guajillo and árbol chili-spiced chicken, potato, avocado, corn, and crème fraîche — $6 
  • Passion Fruit-filled Mango Cheesecake with coconut-pineapple cake, dragon fruit gelée, and dragon fruit-strawberry sauce — $5.25

Beverages: 

  • Layered Tropical Berry Smoothie: Wild berry, piña colada, and strawberry (Non-alcoholic beverage) (New) — $5
  • Collective Arts Guava Dream Blonde Ale (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Layered Tropical Berry Smoothie with Sailor Jerry Rum (New) — $14.50

Vibrante & Vivado

L’Art de la Cuisine Française Menu 

Location: France 

Food Items: 

  • Pithiviers de Canard et Volaille, Sauce Canard: Puff pastry with duck, chicken, onions, mushrooms, cranberries, and duck sauce (New) — $9.95
  • Crème de Brie en Petit Pain: Warm creamy brie in a house-made bread bowl — $9.95
  • Escargot en Chocolat: Chocolate mousse flourless cake, citrus coulis, almond-chocolate coating, and dark chocolate decoration (New) — $9.25

Beverages: 

  • Frozen French Martini: Grey Goose Vodka, vodka, Chambord liqueur, pineapple, orange, and grape juices with lemon-lime foam — $15.25
  • Elderflower Liqueur Spritz: St-Germain Liqueur, sparkling wine, and mint — $13.25
  • Charles Lafitte, Brut Rosé Prestige, Méthode Traditionnelle Champenoise French Rosé Sparkling Wine — $9.75
  • Patient Cottat Le Grand Caillou Pinot Noir — $9.75

L'Art de la Cuisine Française

Gourmet Landscapes Menu 

Location: Canada 

Food Items: 

  • 🎨 Citrus-braised Beet Tartare with golden beet “egg yolk,” mustard vinaigrette, pickled mustard seeds, pickled mushrooms, spiced pistachios, and “feta” snow (Plant-based) (New) — $5.50
  • Wild Mushroom Risotto with aged parmesan, truffle shavings, and zinfandel reduction (Plant-based) — $9.75

Beverages: 

  • Whole Hog Brewery Raspberry Chéret Double Radler — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Schlumberger Cuvée Klimt Brut — $9
  • Meeker Winemaker’s Handprint Merlot — $11
  • Frozen Scotch Cocktail: Scotch and herbal tea garnished with a chocolate nail — $15.50

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Gourmet Landscapes Canada Wild Mushroom Risotto Citrus-braised Beet Tartare

Refreshment Port Menu 

Location: Near Canada 

Food Items: 

  • Caprese Poutine with Tuscan-spiced French fries, confit tomatoes, slivered garlic, mozzarella pearls, basil pesto, shaved pecorino, and balsamic glaze (New) — $8.50
  • Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie  — $5.75

Beverages: 

  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Italian Pilsner (New) — $12
  • Boyd & Blair Blood Orange Cosmo — $12

refreshment port

Deco Delights Menu  

Location: Near Port of Entry  

Food Item: 

  • 🎨 Almond Frangipane Cake layered with raspberry jam and Belgian chocolate — $5

Beverages: 

  • 3 Daughters Brewing Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Beer (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Keel Farms Strawberry Shortcake Hard Cider (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Left Hand Brewing Company Milk Stout with Coconut (New) — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Boyd & Blair Espresso Martini — $12
  • Beer Flight — $10.25

Swirled Showcase Menu  

Location: Near Port of Entry 

Food Items:  

  • Bubble Gum Soft-serve in a cone (New) — $6.50
  • DOLE Whip in a cone: — $6.50
    • Lemon 
    • Lime 
    • Strawberry 
  • Imagination Cone: Bubble gum soft-serve in a lavender cone, “sparks” of imagination, and white chocolate wings (New) — $6.75
  • Candy Trio Flight: DOLE Whip Strawberry with STARBURST MINIS fruit chews, DOLE Whip Lemon with SKITTLES POP’d Freeze Dried Candy, and DOLE Whip Lime with chili-lime seasoning and LIFE SAVERS gummies (New) — $8
  • Liquid Nitrogen Minnie Cake Pop with berry sponge cake, white chocolate ganache, and colorful chocolate splats (New) — $4.75

Swirled Showcase - Imagination Cone

Pop Eats! Menu  

Location: Near Port of Entry 

Food Items: 

  • Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese — $6
  • Tomato Soup with pimento cheese, bacon, and fried green tomato grilled cheese — $6.75

Beverages: 

  • Brooklyn Brewery Pulp Art Hazy IPA — $5.75 for 6 oz. / $9.75 for 12 oz.
  • Bleu Spectrum: Blanc de Bleu Cuvée Mousseux with boba pearls — $10.50

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts - Pop Eats Tomato Soup With Grilled Cheese

Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company Menu 

Locations: Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company throughout the park 

Beverage:  

  • Color Craze Latte + Donut: Espresso, Swiss chocolate syrup, dark chocolate sauce, and milk complemented with a frosted donut and whipped cream and topped with M&M’S Milk Chocolate Minis (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $10.99 (Spirited Version available with Kahlúa Coffee Liqueur for $17.99) (New)  

joffrey's color latte festival of the arts

Kids Eats

Figment’s Inspiration Station  

  • Rainbow Cake topped with SKITTLES POP’d Freeze Dried Candy  

Swirled Showcase  

  • Imagination Cone: Bubble gum soft-serve in a lavender cone, “sparks” of imagination, and white chocolate wings (New)  

The Artist’s Table  

  • Chicken “Pot Pie” with smoked cheddar mornay sauce, roasted vegetables, pickled mushrooms, wasabi peas, and sherry-chicken jus served open-faced on flaky pie crust (New) 

L’Arte di Mangiare 

  • Mozzarella Fritta: Flash-fried breaded fresh mozzarella with artist palette condiments  

Pop Eats 

  • Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese 
2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts The Artists Table America Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken “Pot Pie”

Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine

The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine is a food scavenger hunt — all you have to do is purchase five (out of a possible seven) qualifying dishes, collecting stamps for each one. You can get five different dishes, repeat dishes, or even get all five of the same item!

Stamps are collected inside your Festival Passport. Once you collect all five stamps, visit Deco Delights to get your prize.

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Completer Prize

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  

Merchandise

Every EPCOT festival comes with a special collection of merchandise, typically including items such as ears, Loungefly backpacks, Spirit Jerseys, and more.

This year, we have seen some of the same, as well as some Annual Passholder-exclusive items.

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Merchandise Figment Ears

Festival of the Arts Ears

Click here to see all the 2025 Festival of the Arts merchandise!

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 our favorite purple dragon, Figment, hidden in pieces of famous artwork around the World Showcase.

Mona Figment

You can purchase a gameboard/map and stickers for $9.99 at Creations Shop, Disney Traders, and World Traveler. Redeem your map for a prize whether you finish the scavenger hunt or not!

You also have the option to play without purchasing a gameboard — you just won’t qualify for a prize.

Figment's Brush with the Masters

Figment’s Brush with the Masters

In 2025, you can choose one of three stencil sets as your prize! Each set comes with one character stencil plus a Spaceship Earth stencil. This year, the character options are Figment, Minnie, or Mickey.

Figment's Brush with the Masters prizes

Figment’s Brush with the Masters prizes

Chalk Full of Character

Chalk Full of Character is a self-guided tour of Disney character chalk drawings hidden around EPCOT’s World Showcase. This game doesn’t have any official prize or gameboard — it’s just for fun!

Chalk Full of Character

Artwork & Entertainment

Festival of the Arts features a variety of arts-related entertainment, 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

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.

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!

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Paint by Numbers Mural

Paint by Numbers Mural

Animation Academy

Learn to draw a Disney character straight from an animator during Animation Academy. This takes place at the America Gardens Theatre at 12:30PM and 1:30PM daily. It’s free to experience!

Animation Academy

Animation Academy

Chalk Art

Kids can draw with chalk at the bridge to the World Showcase Plaza from 11AM to 5PM daily. 

And don’t forget to check out the chalk art galleries located along the bridge to the World Showcase Plaza!

Artist Appearances

Artists make appearances for performances, signings, and demonstrations throughout the Festival of the Arts. Some of the artists you can see in 2025 include the following:

  • Greg McCullough, who will do a live painting inspired by the festival logo
  • Ann Shen and Ashley Taylor, who collaborated on vibrant companion pieces—an image of Anna and one of Elsa—for this year’s event 
  • Josey Tsao, an artist and illustrator presenting delightful Disney artwork, including a Moana-themed design
  • Darren Wilson, a Disney Cast Member and artist whose collection includes a piece that celebrates Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas 
  • Larissa Brown, an artist who creates magical moments with bold, expressive colors
  • Rob Kaz, an oil painter whose work was chosen for this year’s festival poster

Click here for a PDF of the full schedule of artists appearing throughout the festival.

Music

Live musical performances can be found in the World Showcase Plaza daily. You can check the My Disney Experience app for showtimes!

Photo Ops

There are several arts-related photo ops!

Step into artfully displayed frames in the following locations around the World Showcase:

  • International Gateway: Luncheon of the Boating Party – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • The American Adventure Pavilion: Washington Crossing the Delaware – Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
  • Between Italy Pavilion and Germany Pavilion: Mona Lisa – Leonardo da Vinci
  • Bridge to World Showcase: Mary Poppins
  • Bridge to World Showcase: Sleeping Beauty
  • Near Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana: Moana
Mary Poppins Photo Op

Mary Poppins Photo Op

Disney on Broadway

The Disney on Broadway concert series features live performances of Disney on Broadway musicals performed by Broadway stars.

You can catch a show on select dates at the America Gardens Theatre at 5:30PM, 6:45PM, and 8PM. 

Disney on Broadway

Disney on Broadway

The Disney on Broadway schedule is as follows:

  • Patti Murin (“Frozen”) and John Riddle (“Frozen”) – NEW!
    • January 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28
  • Caissie Levy (“Frozen”) and Jelani Remy (“The Lion King”) – NEW!
    • January 18, 21, 22, 24, 26, 29, 30
  • Adam Jacobs (“Aladdin”) and Josh Strickland (“Tarzan”)
    • January 31
    • February 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11
  • Ashley Brown (“Mary Poppins”) and Alton Fitzgerald White (“The Lion King”)
    • February 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13
  • Michael James Scott (“Aladdin”) and Kissy Simmons (“The Lion King”)
    • February 14, 16, 17, 20, 23
  • Rodney Ingram (“Aladdin”) – NEW! and Kara Lindsay (“Newsies”)
    • February 15, 18, 19, 21, 22
  • Special Final Performance: Rodney Ingram, Kara Lindsay, Michael James Scott & Kissy Simmons
    • February 24

Dining packages are also available to secure both a meal and guaranteed seating in the theater. Here’s how they break down:

  • At Spice Road Table: 2 small plates, a shared tagine, a shared dessert platter, and a nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)
  • At Other Participating Restaurants: An entrée and dessert, or one full buffet (where applicable)—as well as a nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)

Check out a full list of qualifying restaurants and pricing below:

Festival of the Arts Dining Packages

Photo: Disney

Once Upon A Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway

This year, guests will be able to explore costumes and props from Disney stage musicals such as The Lion King and Aladdin in CommuniCore Hall!

Check out the full Once Upon A Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway exhibit here!

Spaceship Earth Shows

During the festival, catch a Figment-themed light show on Spaceship Earth!

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Figment Rainbow Connection Spaceship Earth Show

Right after the Figment show, there is a special performance of “Rainbow Connection” from The Muppets.

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Figment Rainbow Connection Spaceship Earth Show

The shows start when it gets dark outside and happen periodically throughout the night.

2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts Figment Rainbow Connection Spaceship Earth Show

Stay tuned for more Disney World news and updates!

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