Lights On - 6pm until 11pm every night
27 May - 18 June 2022
Sydney Australia
VIVID SYDNEY 2022
Your festival of light, live music and new ideas. Vivid Sydney 2021 will take place from 27 May - 18 June 2022
READ MORELights On from 6pm - 11pm nightly!
Vivid Sydney bares the soul of our city through creativity, curiosity and change. Until 18 June, the festival will connect our city to light artists, music makers, brilliant thinkers and all creatives. Seek change. Spark a new idea. Shine with Vivid Sydney.
Light
Equilateral
This futuristic installation at the Overseas Passenger Terminal features a canopy of kinetic equilateral triangles. In unison, they create an amazing...
Floating World
Curated by Stephen Ferris. Be entranced by shimmering worlds that evoke the wonder of imaginary places. Here, renowned local musicians team up with...
Night Flight
Look up – in awe and wonder! For one night only over Sydney’s magnificent harbour, Vivid Sydney teams with Paramount+ to present the largest drone...
Earth Deities
Artist: Ramesh Nithiyendran (Australia) Collaborators: Mark Dyson - Lighting Designer - DarkHouse (Australia) Zoe Robinson-Kennedy...
Convergence
Tunnels are portals to other worlds. We venture into the darkness never entirely sure what we'll encounter and often never knowing what awaits on the other...
Ideas
Squarespace presents: Making it in the Creator Economy
In today’s creator economy, building a personal brand and a business is one and the same. How do you navigate what you truly believe in and what sells...
STAGES Live Show
For the first time in Sydney, join us for LIVE recording sessions of the STAGES podcast hosted by Peter Eyers. Come and hear from some of Sydney’s leading...
Audible Live: Stories Made To Be Heard
Join us for a series of LIVE events that introduce you to Audible Original creators who are exploring all sorts of topics from autonomous sensory...
The Art of Deep Looking – Cultivating Creativity
Join experiential sensing labs at the MCA, Botanic Gardens and iconic architectural spaces that will change your perceptions to amplify your creativity...
Fashion’s Flash: Back to the Future
See the catwalk transformed by a vibrant fashion parade showcasing upcycled vintage garments illuminated with contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Stylist...
Music
HAPPENINGS : An Electronic, Classical, Ambient Social
Over three big nights, Happenings transform the jewel in the Royal Botanic Garden’s Sydney crown, The Calyx with their curatorial blend of cutting-edge...
Sound On Sound
This special party celebrates the sounds of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the roots of soundsystem culture – all beamed out through two of the most...
ACO Underground: Back to Reality
Expect a heady mix of dangerous realism, experimentation, and dreamy relief when the Australian Chamber Orchestra teams up with contemporary voices and...
GODTET Future.Ancient.Strings. | National Art School
After making cosmic waves across the world, multi-instrumentalist Godriguez and his psychedelic jazz explorers return with two audio visual performance...
Paul Kelly and his band - Time and Tide: Four Decades of Song with special guest Thelma Plum | Vivid LIVE
"We kill time, we waste time, we do time, we use time, we find time, we lose time, we race time, we hate time. Time keeps ticking - a heartbeat, a bomb...
