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VIBE Live!

Enjoy a brush with greatness as you meet over 150 award-winning national and local fine artists while admiring their diverse creations displayed on Downtown Disney® West Side.

This festival for all ages includes live music and entertainment*, chalk art sidewalk displays at Downtown Disney® Marketplace and a children's activity area where kids can create their own masterpieces. Discover the artist within you as you enjoy all the Festival of the Masters has to offer.

Hours for Festival of the Masters are 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. daily. Admission and parking are complimentary.

Other Festival Highlights:

House of Blues Folk Art Festival – 10th annual "Where the Art Meets the Soul" festival, featuring local and national folk artists, great music and captivating children's activities.

Central Florida Chalk Artists Association – Watch as over 6,000 square feet of sidewalk at Downtown Disney® Marketplace are turned into a giant canvas for talented chalk artists to showcase their masterpieces. And kids can create their own works of art in a special chalk-art area just for them!

Children's Activities – Show your children the world of art as they're taught by experts how to draw some of their favorite Disney characters outside DisneyQuest® Indoor Interactive Theme Park. Kids can boogie at a special DJ Dance Party at the Dock Stage every afternoon.

Meet the performers from Cirque du Soleil® La Nouba™ as well as face painting and balloons outside Cirque du Soleil®.

Gloria from Miami's Review, 11/03: The art work was absolutely beautiful (at least, most of it)!

There were some things I wouldn't have touched with a ten foot pole, but they were still interesting. If you like art shows, you really should think about scheduling a vacation during this time.

After we did the art part of the festival we walked through PI and over to the Marketplace where the chalk artists were doing their thing on the sidewalks. This type of art totally amazes me! ...so much work to be washed away by the first rain!