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Your Ultimate Guide to Epcot’s International Festival of the Arts

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2024 is here; and that means another edition of EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts. This year, it’s looking like we’re getting a scaled down version (less food offerings), but there’s another Figment bucket on the way. Let’s take a look at the most colorful festival of the year.   

 

Dates

January 12 – February 19  

You can enjoy the 2024 International Festival of the Arts with your regular admission to EPCOT.

 

Artist Galleries

First and foremost, this is an arts festival, so you will want to check out the numerous gallery booths lining World Showcase.

Some of the major art galleries include:

ACME Archives Glimpse mesmerizing artwork inspired by the entertainment industry.

Disney Fine Art by Collectors Editions Feast your eyes on magnificent artwork inspired by timeless Disney animation.

Disney Art Festival Market Enjoy artwork featuring a variety of artistic styles and media created by Disney Cast Members and visiting artists.

James Coleman Studios See artwork created by a former Disney animator—now bringing his magic to spectacular pieces you can enjoy at home.

POP Gallery View one-of-a-kind works by innovative artists, showcasing a variety variety of styles and subject matter.

Thomas Kinkade Studios Behold enchanting paintings of classic and timeless Disney stories.

WonderGround Gallery See favorite Disney characters and themes brought to life with inventive styles.

Wyland Galleries Discover depictions of Disney and nature by world-renowned artists in a variety of distinctive styles.

Keep your eyes open for other artist galleries throughout the festival.

Dining Packages

 

Dining packages are back for this year’s festival. The participating restaurants include:

  • Arkershus Restaurant 
  • Biergarten Restaurant
  • Garden Grill Restaurant
  • Coral Reef Restaurant
  • Le Cellier
  • Spice Road Table
  • Rose & Crown Dining Room
  • Regal Eagle Smokehouse (first-come, first served)

With these packages, you get an appetizer, entree, dessert, or one full buffet, with a non-alcoholic beverage. Plus, one guaranteed seat to a Disney on Broadway Concert Series performance held on the same day.

Entertainment

 

The American Gardens Theatre is once again hosting the Disney on Broadway Concert Series. Daily performances occur at 5:30 PM, 6:45 PM, and 8:00 PM.

Caissie Levy (“Frozen”) & Patti Murin (“Frozen”)

  • Jan. 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23

Heidi Blickenstaff (“Freaky Friday” and “The Little Mermaid”) & Gavin Lee (“Mary Poppins” and “Beauty and the Beast”)

  • Jan. 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 25

Ashley Brown (“Mary Poppins” and “Beauty and the Beast”) & L. Steven Taylor (“The Lion King”)

  • Jan. 26, 28, 29, Feb. 1, 3, 5, 6

Kissy Simmons (“The Lion King”) & Josh Strickland (“Tarzan”)

  • Jan. 27, 30, 31, Feb. 2, 4, 7, 8

Mandy Gonzalez (“Aida”) & Michael James Scott (“Aladdin” and “Tarzan”)

  • Feb. 9, 11, 12, 15, 18

Bradley Gibson (“Hercules” and “The Lion King”) & Shoba Narayan (“Aladdin”)

  • Feb. 10, 13, 14, 16, 17

Special Performance – February 19, 2025

Disney shares the following special performance information for 2023: On February 20, 2023, give a standing ovation for an extended finale featuring Gonzalez, Scott, Gibson & Narayan!

Along with the Disney on Broadway Concert Series, you can enjoy other visual and performing arts throughout EPCOT.

Some of these highlights include:

  • Art Defying Gravity: Feast your eyes on thrilling acts of strength.
  • Chalk Art: Discover how chalk can turn an ordinary piece of pavement into a canvas for imaginative masterpieces!
  • Visual Art in Performance: Behold a high-energy, on-stage performance by a guest visual artist painting favorite Disney characters. In just minutes, colorful Disney images magically appear before your eyes.

Extras

The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine is the perfect way to sample the festival’s best eats. Grab your Festival Passport and use it as a guide to purchasing five specific food items. At the end of your walk, you will receive a complimentary, tasty technicolor treat at Deco Delights.

 

Figment’s Brush with the Masters invites you to hunt for very Figment-y paintings around the World Showcase. You can purchase a map and stickers for $9.99. Once you are finished, you will receive a special prize at World Travelers or Disney Traders.

Interactive Experiences

Show off your creative side during entertaining activities with an artistic twist!

Animation Academy

Head over to America Gardens Theatre and learn how to draw a Disney character from an animation artist.

Shows begin daily at 12:30 PM and 1:30 PM.

 

Expression Section: A Paint by Number Mural Leave your creative mark on a larger-than-life wall mural!

Where: World Nature

When: Daily 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

 

Chalk Full of Character Travel around World Showcase to find charming chalk drawings of Disney characters, like Abu and Jiminy Cricket. How many can you find?

Part of the fun at the Festival of the Art is finding those picture-perfect spots along World Showcase. Keep your eyes open for these amazing works of art:

  • International Gateway: Luncheon of the Boating Party – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • The American Adventure: Washington Crossing the Delaware – Emanuel Leutze
  • Between Italy Pavilion and Germany Pavilion: Mona Lisa – Leonardo da Vinci
  • Between Italy Pavilion and Germany Pavilion: The Scream – Edvard Munch
  • Mexico Pavilion: An Homage to Frida Kahlo
  • Bridge to World Showcase: Wish Storybook
  • Italy Pavilion Courtyard: Teatime with Penguins
  • Bridge to World Showcase: Forest Scene from Sleeping Beauty

 

Menus

Creating delicious dishes is an art form, and Epcot has perfected it. Many of your favorite booths have returned, but if you that little spark of Imagination, you will want to check out Figment’s Inspiration Station at the Odyssey: Art, Food, and Little Sparks of Magic.

The Deconstructed Dish

Food Items:

  • Deconstructed BLT: Pork belly, onion bread pudding, watercress espuma, and tomato jam
  • Deconstructed Key Lime Pie: Flexible Key Lime Curd, “Key Lime” Mousse, Graham Cracker Cake, and Meringues (The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine Item)

Beverages:

  • Deconstructed Strawberry Mint Julep (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Wicked Weed Brewing Blank Canvas Belgian Blonde Witbier
  • Deconstructed Strawberry Mint Julep with bourbon 

Cuisine Classique

Food Items:

  • Beef Wellington: Mushroom duxelles, prosciutto, and puff pastry with red wine demi-glace
  • Cast Iron-roasted P.E.I. mussels with sautéed tomatoes, garlic, and fresh herbs

Beverages:

  • Gulf Stream Brewing Company Sum of All Colors IPA (New)
  • Tesselaarsdal Pinot Noir (New)

Figment’s Inspiration Station at the Odyssey: Art, Food, and Little Sparks of Magic

Food Items:

  • Blueberry-filled Pastry Tart with purple icing (The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine Item)
  • Rainbow Cake with freeze dried SKITTLES bite sized candies
  • Figment Premium Popcorn Bucket with Rainbow Popcorn (Limit two per person, per transaction; available while supplies last.)

Beverages:

  • Grape Smoothie with freeze dried SKITTLES bite sized candies (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Black Cherry Hard Cider
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Blood Orange Hard Cider
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Passion Fruit Hard Cider
  • Rainbow Hard Cider Flight
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Green with Envy Blonde Ale
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Blue Butterfly Lager
  • Urban Artifact The Gadget Raspberry & Blackberry Midwest Fruit Tart
  • Rainbow Beer Flight

The Craftsman’s Courtyard

Food Items:

  • Grilled Pork Belly with salsa verde, broccoli rabe, pickled peppers, and raclette cheese on grilled sourdough (New)
  • Grilled Marinated Skirt Steak with caramelized onions and mushrooms, blue cheese fondue, and arugula on a grilled French roll (New)

Beverages:

  • BrewDog Jet Black Heart Nitro Oatmeal Stout
  • Coffee Old Fashioned Cocktail

Pastoral Palate

Food Items:

  • Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib with parsnip purée, broccolini, baby tomatoes, and balsamic glaze
  • Black Forest Cake: Chocolate mousse with morello cherries and chantilly cream

Beverages:

  • 3 Daughters Brewing Rosé Hard Cider
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Rosé Blonde Ale
  • Frozen Rosé
  • A Play on Rosé Flight
  • Marietta Old Vine Rosé

 

The Artist’s Table

Food Items:

  • Duck and Dumplings: Smoked duck breast, ricotta dumplings, baby vegetables, and duck jus
  • Hummingbird Cake: Banana and pecan cake dipped in cream cheese icing with caramel sauce and warm pineapple compote

Beverages:

  • Wicked Weed Pineapple Daydream IPA (New)
  • Brew Hub Jazzberry Wheat Jam Ale (New)
  • Lost Coast Brewery Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout (New)
  • Migration Pinot Noir (New)
  • Beer Flight also available

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina

Food Items:

  • Grilled Kebabs with carrot-chickpea salad and garlic aïoli
    • Chermoula Chicken
    • Moroccan-spiced Lamb
  • Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with hummus, chermoula, and zhoug dips (Plant-based Item)
  • Chocolate Cake with pomegranate mousse and pomegranate whipped cream (New)

Beverages:

  • Twinings Chai Tea with Sprite and mint (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Blake’s Hard Cider Co. Grizzly Pear Hard Cider (New)
  • Rekorderlig Strawberry-Lime Hard Cider (New)
  • Keel Farms Blueberry Lavender Hard Cider (New)
  • Chai Tea Mint Mimosa: Twinings Chai Tea with Key lime sparkling wine and mint (New)
  • Hard Cider Flight

Vibrante & Vívido: Encanto Cocina

Food Items:

  • Chorizo and Potato Empanada with turmeric aïoli and annatto aïoli (The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine Item)
  • Passion Fruit-filled Mango Cheesecake with coconut-pineapple cake, dragon fruit gelée, and dragon fruit-strawberry sauce (New)  

Beverages:

  • Coconut and Passion Fruit Smoothie (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Frozen Piña Colada
  • Passion Fruit Daiquiri

Gourmet Landscapes

Food Items:

  • Verjus-roasted Beets with goat cheese, petite lettuce, blackberry gastrique, and spiced pecans (New) (The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine Item)
  • Roasted Bone Marrow with onion marmalade, pickled mushrooms, and petite lettuce
  • Wild Mushroom Risotto with truffle shavings and zinfandel reduction (Plant-based Item)

Beverages:

  • Whole Hog Brewery Raspberry Chéret Double Radler
  • Schlumberger Cuvée Klimt Brut
  • The Meeker Vineyard Winemaker’s Handprint Merlot
  • Frozen Scotch Cocktail: Scotch and herbal tea garnished with a chocolate nail

Refreshment Port

Food Items:

  • Gnocchi Poutine with red wine-braised beef, cheese curds, basil, and burrata
  • Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie

Beverages:

  • Blood Orange Cosmo: Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka with blood orange, cranberry, and lime
  • Boulevard Brewing Co. Quirk Blueberry Lemon & Lavender Hard Seltzer

Deco Delights

Food Item:

  • Neapolitan Dessert Trio: Chocolate tart, vanilla bean cheesecake, and strawberry mousse (New) (The Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine Item)

Beverages:

  • 3 Daughters Brewing Strawberry Blonde Nitro
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Vanilla Porter
  • Playalinda Brewing Co. Milk Stout
  • Espresso Martini featuring Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka
  • Beer Flight

Pop Eats

Food Items:

  • Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese
  • Tomato Soup with pimento cheese, bacon, and fried green tomato grilled cheese
  • Rock the Dots White Chocolate and Orange Mousse with vanilla bean chiffon cake (New)

Beverages:

  • Brooklyn Brewery Pulp Art Hazy IPA
  • Blanc de Bleu Cuvée Mousseux with boba pearls

Refreshment Station

  • Frozen Slushy: Coca-Cola, dragon fruit, or watermelon

Connections Eatery

Beverage:

  • Orange-Lemonade Cocktail: Three Olives Blueberry Vodka, lemonade, and orange juice with cotton candy
 

L’Art de la Cuisine Française

Food Items:

  • Crème de Brie en Petit Pain: Warm creamy brie in a house-made bread bowl
  • Saumon Fumé Mousse et Aspic, Blini et Fromage de Chevre: Salmon mousse, smoked salmon, dill, and flaxseed biscuit, served cold (New)
  • Vol-au-Vent de Saumon et Epinards, Sauce Chardonnay: Puff pastry with salmon and spinach and a chardonnay-shallot sauce, served warm (New)
  • Duo de Saumon Hot and Cold: Enjoy both of the salmon offerings (New)
  • Moelleux aux Noisettes, Croustillant Noisettes, Coulis Framboise et Mangue: Molten Valrhona chocolate cake, hazelnut crunch, and mango-raspberry coulis (New)

Beverages:

  • Frozen French Martini: Grey Goose Vodka, Chambord liqueur, pineapple, orange, and grape juices with lemon-lime foam
  • Elderflower Liqueur Cocktail: St. Germain Liqueur, sparkling wine, and mint (New)
  • Charles Lafitte, Brut Rosé Prestige, Méthode Traditionnel Champenoise French Rosé Sparkling Wine
  • Pinot Noir J. de Villebois (New)

El Artista Hambriento

Food Items:

  • Carne Asada: Chipotle-marinated beef sirloin, grilled queso fresco, Nopales salad with queso fresco foam and chicharron dust

Beverages:

  • Mexican Craft Beer
  • Rubí Delicioso Margarita: Tromba Blanco Tequila, Lejay Blackcurrant Liqueur, citrus, mint, spicy agave, and beet juice
  • Smokey Banana Bliss Margarita: Ten to One Rum, Ilegal Mezcal Joven, banana purée, and lime juice

 

Goshiki

Food Items:

  • Wagyu Bun: Steamed bun filled with American wagyu beef served with green shiso sauce
  • 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
  • Ichigo Mochi – Daifuku: Daifuku mochi filled with fresh strawberry, sweet azuki bean paste, and white chocolate served with strawberry cream

Beverages:

  • Murasaki Blueberry Drink: Sweet blueberry and cream (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Mikan Orange IPA
  • Masu Sake in a traditional personalized wooden cup
  • Blueberry Cocktail: Nigori sake with sweet blueberry, cream, and yuzu

The Painted Panda

Food Items:

  • General Tso’s Chicken Shumai
  • Char Siu Pork Bun
  • Sesame Balls with red bean paste

Beverages:

  • Black and White Bubble Tea with black tea, milk, chocolate, and black & white boba pearls (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Lucky Foo Pale Ale
  • Silk River Hard Lemonade with vodka, lavender-coconut syrup, and lemonade
  • Butterfly Blue: Butterfly pea flower-infused cocktail with vodka, light rum, lychee syrup, and magic boba pearls

 

L’Arte di Mangiare

Food Items:

  • Mozzarella Fritta: Flash-fried breaded fresh mozzarella with artist palette condiments
  • Conchiglie Ripiene: Baked stuffed conchiglie pasta with beef, ricotta, peas, pomodoro, and creamy sauce
  • Torta Ricotta di Cioccolata: Chocolate cheesecake and whipped cream

Beverages:

  • Peroni Pilsner
  • Langhe Nebbiolo
  • Prosecco
  • Italian Sangria (Red or White)
  • Italian Margarita with tequila and limoncello
  • Elderflower Sparkling Cocktail: Mint-infused elderflower liqueur, prosecco, and sparkling blood orange

Swirled Showcase

Food Items:

  • Soft-serve in a Waffle Cone
    • Vanilla
    • Chocolate
    • Cupcake (New)
  • Cream Soda Float with Vanilla Soft-serve
  • Strawberry Fanta Float with cupcake soft-serve (New)

 

Funnel Cake

  • Crazy Chocolate Funnel Cake Sandwich: Mini funnel cake sandwich with vanilla ice cream, rainbow whipped cream, strawberry sauce, powdered sugar, and sprinkles (New)

Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company

World Discovery (Near Mission: SPACE)

  • Pistachio Palette Cold Brew: A flavorful masterpiece featuring Joffrey’s Shakin’ JamaicanCold Brew, pistachio syrup, and milk topped with whipped cream and colorful sprinkles (Alcoholic version available with Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur)

Near Canada

  • Realism Roseberry Cold Brew:  A lively swirl of flavors featuring Joffrey’s Shakin’ JamaicanCold Brew, strawberry rose syrup, and milk topped with whipped cream and colorful sprinkles (Alcoholic version available with Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur)

Showcase Plaza (Near Disney Traders)

  • Brushstroke Berry Bliss: A vibrant combination of frozen lemon, Minute Maid Lemonade, raspberry syrup, and iced tea garnished with lemon (Alcoholic version available with Grey Goose Vodka)

The American Adventure

  • Pastel Pineberry Frost: A pastel work of art featuring frozen lemon, Minute Maid Lemonade, and pineberry syrup garnished with lemon (Alcoholic version available with Grey Goose Vodka)
 

Merchandise

Along with the food and arts, don’t forget to grab some Festival merchandise and Passholder exclusives. All hands on board: there’s a new Figment popcorn bucket this year (that lights up). Unlike the fiasco from a few years ago, you can mobile order it for $30 and pick up at Figment’s Imagination Station.

 

 

 
 

That’s your ultimate guide for this year’s International Festival of the Arts. What you are looking forward to seeing or eating at this fest? Do you love this time of year at EPCOT? Let us know in the comments.

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Theresa has been a life-long Disney fan since she first visited the Magic Kingdom in 1985 at the age of 3. According to her mother, she squealed with excitement when she saw Winnie the Pooh and Chip n' Dale for the first time. That love for Disney has not waned as she grew up. She continues to be fascinated with the history of EPCOT Center and maintains the radio station, Kungaloosh Radio.