Walt Disney World Resort is celebrating Women’s History Month this month. All month long there will be special activities, treats and merchandise on hand.

Art and Music

Unique photo-silhouette backdrops are one way to celebrate. These backdrops will feature strong female Disney characters and can be found across Disney property – from Disney Springs to more than 20 Disney Resorts. Guests are encourages to snap a photo and use the tag #CelebrateHERStory.

At Disney Springs, Friday and Saturday evenings will feature a female DJ leading a Disney sing-along for families on the AdventHealth Waterside Stage. The playlist will feature songs from some of Disney’s most beloved female characters. A varies of female performers will also be featured throughout the month.

At EPCOT, Garden Rock Concert Series as part of the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival will feature several female artists including:

• Skillzmatic – March 2, 3, 29, 30, 31 
• Melina León – March 11,12
• CeCe Winans – March 13, 14
• Hello Sister – March 15, 16, 17
• Glass Ceiling – March 22, 23, 24

Food and Beverage

Magic Kingdom will join in the celebration with special sweet treats paying tribute to female Disney Imagineers who influenced and impacted Walt Disney World:

• At Liberty Square Market, discover the Madame Leota Cupcake inspired by Leota Toombs: Chocolate-cherry cake filled with black cherry-lime cream finished with blackberry buttercream
• At Friar’s Nook, enjoy the “it’s a small world” Cupcake inspired by Mary Blair: Lemon funfetti cake, blue raspberry buttercream, and vanilla-lemon buttercream
• And, at select outdoor food and beverage carts on Main Street, U.S.A., you will find the Cinderella Castle Mosaic Cupcake inspired by Dorothea Redmond: Champagne-flavored cake filled with fresh raspberry champagne compote, finished with gold champagne buttercream, mosaic tile sprinkles and chocolate garnish

Select Disney Resort Hotels will kick off offerings beginning March 8th for International Women’s Day. Two Disney Resort hotels will offer specialties inspired by the women of the Disney animated feature film, “Encanto.”

At Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort and Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, discover: 

• Chorizo Arepas: Cheese arepas topped with chorizo, red pepper and onion-egg scramble, arugula, and sliced avocado
• Mirabel Cupcake: Cinnamon cupcake filled with custard and topped with coconut buttercream, toasted coconut, and Mirabel-inspired fondant garnishes

Also at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort, you can enjoy: 

• Luisa Push-Up Cake Pop: Layers of vanilla cake and tres leches pastry cream topped with a doughnut hole ‘boulder’
• Encanto Cholado: Crushed ice topped with sliced fresh fruit, sweetened condensed milk and shredded coconut

Disney Springs will also have several food and beverage offerings for guests to celebrate the occasion.

Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar will showcase inspired dishes created by female chefs: 

• Nona’s Home-Style Meatballs presented by Sous Chef Lori Tiritilli: Italian meatballs with Sunday gravy, basil pesto, and scratch-made lemon ricotta, grilled focaccia crostini, grated pecorino cheese 
• Carne Frita con Tostones presented by Sous Chef Natalie Floyd: Crispy pork shoulder tostones, pickled onions, citrus aioli 

Amorette’s Patisserie will offer: 

• “The Passion of My Life” Dessert presented by Pastry Chef Yoly Lazo Colon: Pineapple, mango and toasted coconut mousse, coconut chiffon cake, white chocolate crisp pearls and infused passion fruit glacage

Visit The Ganachery to find a special treat inspired by a special Star Wars female: 

• Lady Tano Pop, a concept by Chocolatier Katie Dodge presented by Chef Chocolatier Amanda Lauder: Plant-based coconut and blueberry swirled ganache topped with dark 65% chocolate

Stories and Heroines

Also as part of this special month, the Play Disney Parks App will feature “Women of Imagineering” trivia highlighting current and former female Disney Imagineers. Disney MobileMagic Service will also include new designs with favorite female characters like Edna Mode, Mrs. Incredible, Minnie Mouse and more.

EPCOT will feature two exhibits highlighting female trailblazers:

• “Rally of the Gazelles (Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du Maroc)” is an immersive vignette found in the Morocco pavilion. It highlights the country’s all-female off-road race, where navigation skills, determination and teamwork mean the difference between getting ahead and going off-course.
• “Creating Tradition: Innovation and Change in American Indian Art” is an exhibit found in the American Adventure pavilion. It showcases authentic, historical Native artifacts alongside contemporary works of American Indian art, demonstrating examples of cultural traditions which have been handed down through generations. Among the featured artists with works on display are fashion designer Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo), noted doll-maker Glenda McKay (Ingalik-Athabascan) and Juanita Growing Thunder (Assiniboine Sioux) from the Growing Thunder family of Montana.

Merchandise

It wouldn’t be a Disney celebration without merchandise! Specialty items will be available at various Walt Disney World vacations all month long with select items coming to shopDisney.