Lights On
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
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Vivid Sydney bares the soul of our city through creativity, curiosity and change. For 23 days, 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
Temple of Joy
Once, heading out to meet friends and dance was a normal fun part of our nightlife. Sydney was the epicentre of Australia’s rave, techno and house music...
Celestial
We are one people, on one planet. As a highly polished planetary sphere reflects its surroundings, you are taken into its orbit. Inspiring ideas of unity...
Nura
Immerse yourself in a soul-warming glow. This mass installation of 150 colour-changing light pillars in Barangaroo Reserve presents a contemporary imagining...
We Dream the City
Enter a collective dreamscape of city-making. Filmic encounters with the city’s past are woven into one of Sydney’s most iconic corridors, The...
Smash
Daring… Beguiling… Unrelenting… Our gaze is captivated by a dancer’s feet. Tightly strapped in bejewelled stilettos, they stomp and splash in puddles...
Ideas
Gretchen Carlson and Lisa Wilkinson on Speaking Out
Join New York Times bestselling author, speaker and internationally recognised trailblazer for women’s rights in the workplace Gretchen Carlson in conversation...
Truth-Telling & Documentary
It's time for truth-telling. First Nations voices have been excluded from our national dialogue for too long. Understanding the soul of our nation means...
The Business of Baz
“It takes a certain audacity for an Australian director to make a film about an American idol. Then along comes Baz Luhrmann.” (Good Weekend, Sydney...
Troye Sivan on Beauty, Art and Fluidity
Global style icon, singer-songwriter, actor, and arts lover Troye Sivan reveals his take on beauty, creativity, fluidity, and queer politics...
Semi Permanent 2022
Semi Permanent returns to its hometown of Sydney for the 20th anniversary of what is the biggest and longest-running creativity and design festival in...
Music
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...
Spiritualized
*Aus Mainland Exclusive* With special guests Party Dozen Legendary British space-rock act Spiritualized is back in orbit, spreading the swirling...
Mahalia Barnes | Vivid Sydney Supper Club
With special guests Jackie Loeb, Brendan de la Hay, Kelly Ann Doll and the Vivid Sydney Supper Club House Band. Round out your Light...
Annie Hamilton | National Art School
Musician, visual artist, and designer Annie Hamilton performs an intimate and immersive live show to launch her long-awaited debut album, The Future Is...
Hermitude | Vivid LIVE
Get ready to cut loose for a night of massive dancefloor bangers as Australia’s premier party rocking duo Hermitude rock the Northern Broadwalk for their...
