EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

Holiday Kitchens

Here is a list of the usual holiday kitchens at Epcot’s International Festival of the Holidays.

Select festival items will also be available at Refreshment Port, Funnel Cake, Connections Café, Connections Eatery, Sunshine Seasons, and Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company.

Holiday Cookie Stroll

If you consider yourself a cookie aficionado, you’ll be eager to learn about the Holiday Cookie Stroll. Each year, select holiday kitchens offer a unique cookie. After purchasing five of the ones listed on the stroll, you can pick up a complimentary cookie at a designated kitchen. You must get your Festival Passport stamped for proof of purchase each time you buy a cookie. Make sure to pick up a passport when you enter the park.

Entertainment

During the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays, you’ll find a variety of entertainment offerings. However, the most popular is Epcot’s Candlelight Processional.

Candlelight Processional

Each night of the International Festival of the Holidays, guests can hear the stirring story of Christmas retold in the American Gardens Theater of the American Adventure. The performance includes a celebrity narrator, a massed choir, a 50-piece orchestra, herald trumpets, and the Voices of Liberty.

Joyful

Joyful, a rhythm and blues choir, performs a tribute to Christmas and Kwanza during the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays. They are incredibly entertaining and worth seeing. Joyful will perform at a new location on the CommuniCore Plaza stage this holiday season, offering four daily showtimes. Those times will be listed in the entertainment section of the My Disney Experience app on the day of your visit.

Holiday Storytellers

Many countries in the World Showcase offer a holiday storyteller at select times throughout the day. The times for each performance are listed in the entertainment section of the My Disney Experience app. We’ve listed each storyteller below:

• Mexico Pavilion: Las Posadas Celebration (Dancers, Piñatas and the music of Mariachi Cobre)

• Norway Pavilion: A Mischievous Magical Barn Santa (Celebrate the season with laughter as a mischievous Barn Santa visits Sigrid, an unsuspecting Christmas storyteller.)

• China Pavilion: Chinese Lion Dancer (Catch a glimpse of a colorful performance that brings good fortune and happiness in the Lunar New Year.)

• Italy Pavilion: La Befana (Hear the tale of La Befana, the kind-hearted witch who visits sleeping young children on the Eve of the Epiphany.)

• Japan Pavilion: Daruma Storyteller (Hear the fascinating story of the Daruma doll and the Japanese customs of the New Year!)

• Between the Morocco and France Pavilions: Hanukkah Storyteller (Witness a storyteller recount traveling abroad to explore Hanukkah’s diverse music and traditions worldwide.)

• France Pavilion: Pere Noel (Visit with Père Noël and rediscover the magic of Christmas through the letter of a delightful child.)

• United Kingdom Pavilion: Father Christmas (Join Father Christmas as he rings in the season, sharing the traditions of the United Kingdom with good cheer.)

• Canada Pavilion: Canadian Holiday Voyageurs (Explore holiday customs from the various regions of Canada on a musical tour of the Great White North with the Canadian Holiday Voyageurs.)

Voices of Liberty

The Voices of Liberty perform daily throughout the year in Epcot’s American Pavilion. They wear colonial seasonal attire and sing historical Christmas melodies during the holiday. Times for each performance are listed in the My Disney Experience app. The Voices of Liberty also participate in the Candlelight Processional.

Gingerbread Displays

Formerly, the American Adventure was home to gingerbread displays of historical monuments and a replica of the pavilion inside the colonial mansion. However, this year, a new gingerbread display featuring Spaceship Earth will debut at Epcot’s Communicore Hall. The display is expected to be 8′ tall! We have a separate article with more details about the geodesic sphere display.