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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Hika Rakuyo
Reflective dark water, brilliant lasers and projections, Japanese philosophy – see Cockle Bay in a new light. This spectacular artwork is a celebration...
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...
Global Rainbow
Global Rainbow is a beacon of hope and inclusivity and a guiding light above the Vivid Sydney festivities.A spectrum of light reaches out from the Sydney...
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 —...
Poem Booth
Poetry plays with language. Illuminates. It speaks to being human in a way nothing else can, but do you need to be human to write it?Prepare to engage...
Omnivisu
A building that looks back at you. The otherwise faceless silhouette of our city is given a human touch with this playful, interactive art installation...
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
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...
Club Broadway + The Carpenters from Kempsey | Tumbalong Nights
Get ready for an unforgettable night of theatrics, singalongs, and laughter with show-stopping musical theatre nightclub Club Broadway and NSW’s silliest...
A New Normal
Convert an old petrol car into a solar-powered 'forever car', see how leftover food can heat a sauna, or use furniture made from rubbish. This immersive...
Sounds of Afrobeats | Tumbalong Nights
A big night of rhythm, dance and colour with Sounds of Afrobeats. Get swept up in this colourful and rhythmic night of African culture and music with larger-than-life...
Spirits of the Hoey
If the beer splashed and guitar-riff-soaked walls of the Hoey could speak, they’d have quite the story to tell. Come and hear these tales as you relive...
Forest Claudette + THE BLSSM | Tumbalong Nights
Two stars firmly on the rise, Forest Claudette and THE BLSSM, are set to ignite the Tumbalong Park stage with catchy beats, aerial vocals and hip-hop hooks.Forest...
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...
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: mad miran (NL), Piezo (IT), Kate Miller b2b Emelyne presented by dstreet
Since their modest beginnings in an inner-west share-house during the depths of the pandemic, Sydney/Eora music collective dstreet. have emerged with a...
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...
Studio Party: Radioactive Man (UK), Mark N, au4r33y & Magda Bytnerowicz by Barney Kato presents Alien | Vivid LIVE
Barney Kato needs no introduction to local club heads. For more than 20 years the Sydney selector has electrified dance floors across the nation, from...
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...
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...
Arca | Vivid LIVE
Few voices have defined the modern avant garde pop landscape like the Venezuela-born, Barcelona-based singer, producer and conceptual artist. Arca’s...