VIVID SYDNEY 2024
Your festival of light, live music and new ideas. Vivid Sydney 2024 will take place from 24 May - 25 June 2024
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AALIA x Ivan Brehm | Vivid Chef Series
Modern European "crossroads cooking" meets the depth and breadth of Middle Eastern cuisine in the warm, elegant ambiance of AALIA.Gaze out on Martin Place...
The Charles x Sally Abé | Vivid Chef Series
Slide into a lush leather booth for this Chef Series pairing that fuses bold but refined British nostalgia with classic French decadence. Sally Abé...
Fred's x Max Coen | Vivid Chef Series
The allure of flame-cooking, seasonal produce and London cool meets a Sydney farm-to-table favourite in the cosy, rustic setting of Fred’s.Max Coen of...
Plates with Purpose - A Taste of Ukraine
Break bread (pampushka, a fluffy and crispy garlic roll, to be exact), immerse yourself in Ukrainian culture and pay your meal forward two-fold.A specially...
Orazio D'Elia | Our Shared Humanity
Experience the warmth of Neapolitan cuisine and hospitality with a special evening with Orazio D'Elia. Born and raised in Naples, Italy, Orazio is renowned...
Alex Prichard | Our Shared Humanity
Discover a new respect for native products and small growers with Alex Prichard, head chef of the iconic Iceberg's Dining Room & Bar. Alex's vegetarian...
LIGHT WALK HIGHLIGHTS
Lighting of the Sails: Echo by Julia Gutman
Commissioned by Sydney Opera House and Destination NSW for Vivid LIVE 2024.Denim, hessian, a stitched and bunched patchwork of scrap material – fabric...
Neolithic
A blaze of lights above. A reverberating beat. A structure both ancient and modern. Welcome to Neolithic. It’s time to dance to the music from nearby...
Connection
Step into a canopy thick with countless LED ropes and connect to our shared humanity.As individuals, we are connected by countless invisible threads —...
Embrace
Embrace is a verb. To hold. To accept. To include or contain. Step inside the circle of this interactive installation and actively embrace the joy of human...
Humanity / Humility
A large, red neon word, Humanity, punctuates the darkness of night at The Goods Line.The sign flickers as if broken, but upon closer inspection we see...
Hika Rakuyo
Reflective dark water, brilliant lasers and projections, Japanese philosophy – see Cockle Bay in a new light. This spectacular artwork is a celebration...
Migrating Light
Travel through time as you connect with the rich human history of our harbour city.A series of holograms featuring migrants from our past appear before...
FREE EVENTS
Teenage Joans + Lola Scott | Tumbalong Nights
A riotous night of all-female punk and pop energy awaits with energetic Adelaide two-piece Teenage Joans and indie-pop Sydneysider Lola Scott.Teenage Joans...
After The Fact
React in real time, delve beyond click-bait headlines and understand the world better. Every weeknight of Vivid Sydney, kick back with a drink and watch...
K-Indie Music Fest feat. Silica Gel + sunwoojunga | Tumbalong Nights
Immerse yourself in the captivating sounds of Korea's most exciting K-Indie acts, sunwoojunga and Silica Gel. This Australian exclusive performance, brought...
Window Dressing
Who is the stranger? The one who looks or the one who is looked at? Is our curiosity to peek into the intimate lives of others always a bad thing?Crypto-scopo-philia...
Nowhere To Be
31 cinematographers. 21 countries. 1 global pandemic. Nowhere To Be is an intimate documentary and invitation to see the COVID-19 pandemic with fresh eyes...
WILDFIRE MANWURRK + Battlesnake | Tumbalong Nights
Do not miss this powerful night of rock with Arnhem Land's WILDFIRE MANWURRK and Australia's own glam metal sensation, Battlesnake.WILDFIRE MANWURRK is...
Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House
Fever Ray | Vivid LIVE
From the spectral synth beats of The Knife to the shapeshifting pop soundscapes of their solo work, Swedish avant garde alchemist Karin Dreijer – aka...
Jlin | Vivid LIVE
A visionary electronic artist and composer whose percussion-driven, polyrhythmic work has reshaped the sound of dance music, American artist Jerrilynn...
Jonti presents The Moonblades | Vivid LIVE
When Jonti last performed at Vivid LIVE in 2017, he drove a sold-out Sydney Opera House crowd into a frenzy with his delirious recreation of The Avalanches’...
Sky Ferreira | Vivid LIVE
More than a decade after releasing her critically acclaimed, widely beloved debut album Night Time, My Time, American singer-songwriter Sky Ferreira has...
Studio Party: Mala (DMZ / Digital Mystikz), Alec Sander (DUNJ) & Jungist presented by Astral People | Vivid LIVE
Proving their mettle as one of Australia’s most innovative music companies, tastemaking label Astral People deliver a Studio Party led by a bona fide...
Tasman Keith, Flewnt & Inkabee | Vivid LIVE
Making their Vivid LIVE debut, rappers Tasman Keith, Flewnt and Inkabee come together for to celebrate hip-hop community – and spit some of the fiercest...
Explosions In The Sky, Aldous Harding & The Middle East - Spunk Records 25 Finale | Vivid LIVE
What better way to celebrate the end of an era than with a performance from one of the loudest, most cathartic bands on the planet, playing their masterpiece...
Sid Sriram, Priya Ragu, Raf-Saperra with Munasib & Rakish - Astral People present Spice Trail | Vivid LIVE
Returning to Vivid LIVE after their huge birthday bash in 2022, tastemakers Astral People bring us the musical riches of the Spice Trail, with a buzzy...