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Celebrate Creativity at the 2025 Festival of the Arts at Walt Disney World Resort

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The 2025 Festival of the Arts at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, is a vibrant celebration of creativity, art, and culinary delights. Held from January 17 to February 24, 2025, this festival offers a unique blend of artistic displays, interactive activities, and mouth-watering food options. Beautiful Art Displays The festival features a wide array of art displays, including stunning chalk art that transforms the park into a living canvas. You'll find charming chalk drawings of beloved Disney characters around the World Showcase, from Abu to Jiminy Cricket. You'll even find opportunities to put yourself into  the art throughout the park for fun photo ops! The festival is a great place to find unique art pieces and souvenirs to bring home. From limited edition prints by artists like Dave Avanzino to vibrant companion pieces inspired by Disney characters, there's something for every art lover. Interactive Activities Learn to draw a Disney character or embark on a ...

Review: More of Epcot's International Festival of the Arts

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Happy Thursday, Disney Guys and Gals!      You've almost made it to another weekend! Woo-hoo! And another weekend means another chance to hit up Epcot's newest festival, the International Festival of the Arts!  I have already posted a detailed review of my first visit to the festival, on opening week. You can check that out by clicking  HERE . This past Monday, I got to go back and try some of the food items that we missed the first time around.      This time, just The Hubs and I escaped for a couple of hours, while the kids were at school. (I know, we are super spoiled to have the luxury of doing this.) Since we had experienced horrible storms and even tornado warnings the night before, it was still pretty cool and windy out, so the park wasn't overwhelmingly busy. I mean, for a Monday it was hopping , but not nearly as bad as it had been on opening day. First we headed toward the Festival Showplace, in the Odyssey building, since ...

Review: Epcot's International Festival of the Arts

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Our passport for the day Well hello there, Disney Fans!      As you probably know, the brand new, Epcot International Festival of the Arts officially kicked off Friday. This event is a weekend-only event, running Friday through Monday, until February 20th . I was lucky enough to be there to check it all out! Me and about a zillion of my closest friends. It was packed , right from the time the gate opened. Epcot's festivals have grown to have a cult following, especially now that Disney has added food booths into all of the events. Think of this particular festival as Flower and Garden Festival meets the old Festival of the Masters from the old Downtown Disney, with some Food and Wine Festival mixed in. In fact, Disney may have found the PERFECT recipe to make Festival of the Arts the new fan favorite. Take a gorgeous park, add in a rainbow of gorgeous art and displays, stir in some fantastic Broadway performers in concert, and then take the food and drink booths and...