It’s January — and you know what that means. We’re getting ready for one of our all-time favorite EPCOT festivals, the EPCOT Festival of the Arts.

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We are so ready to enter our artsy era of the year and see all the amazing artists the festival brings, as well as eat ALL the food at the food booths (and, honestly, this festival brings SO many unique food offerings). We’re also excited about the Disney on Broadway concert series, which will be coming to the America Gardens Theatre. But there’s also something NEW coming to the EPCOT Festival of the Arts — and the park is already preparing for it.

So, as you may know the new-ish CommuniCore Hall in EPCOT was pretty much built to be festival space — and we’ve seen it used for that most recently with the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays, where the hall held a gingerbread display of Spaceship Earth (with a lighting show and everything!).

Gingerbread Spaceship Earth

Well, if you were hoping to check out CommuniCore Hall NOW, you’re going to be disappointed. That’s because the space is currently closed. But that’s because it IS solely intended to be a festival space. Now, the EPCOT Festival of the Arts starts on January 17th (which is SOON), and the hall is closed to be transformed for that festival. A Cast Member explained that this is because the space is devoted to EPCOT festivals and we’re between festivals right now.

However, CommuniCore Hall will reopen with the EPCOT Festival of the Arts, where it will have a Disney On Broadway exhibit highlighting Disney’s Broadway shows (to coincide with the Disney on Broadway concert series during the festival). So that should be pretty cool, right?

Disney on Broadway Concert Series

So, if you’re visiting EPCOT between festivals, you should probably expect this space to be closed. However, we’ll be at the EPCOT Festival of the Arts on Day One, covering EVERYTHING, including the new exhibit inside CommuniCore Hall. So stay tuned to DFB for more.

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What do you think? Do you think Disney is using CommuniCore Hall in the best way possible, or would you like to see something else in that space? Let us know in the comments!