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Explore the magic of Vivid Sydney 2025 at Tumbalong Park
Set in the heart of Darling Harbour, Tumbalong Park transforms into a glowing playground of Light, Music and Food across all 23 nights of Vivid Sydney. Whether you're here for the dazzling installations, the electric live music or the late-night eats, there’s magic around every corner – perfect for families, first dates or a night out with friends. Here’s your guide to what’s lighting up the park this winter.
Spectacular views: where to stay to make the most of Vivid Sydney
Vivid Sydney is a spectacular annual festival of Light, Music, Ideas and Food. Every year, visitors from around the world converge on Sydney for 23 nights of culture, technology and creativity. Whether you’re planning a holiday or just looking for the ultimate staycation, here’s our guide to the best hotels to experience Vivid Sydney.
Transform your Vivid Sydney 2025 experience by viewing the world’s most spectacular light displays from all sorts of different angles. Climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge or cruise the harbour, devour the glittering views from harbourside bars and restaurants or discover arresting vistas from lesser-known landmarks – here are some of the many ways you can enjoy a new perspective on Sydney’s annual festival of light.
As the lights switch on for Vivid Sydney 2025, the cameras come out. With surreal light installations, epic harbour backdrops and retro-futuristic roller rinks, this year’s festival is a dream for photographers of all persuasions.
Make the most of your King’s Birthday long weekend – Friday, 6 June to Monday, 9 June – by joining in Vivid Sydney celebrations. From the free Light Walk across five connecting zones to culinary journeys and joyous concerts, there are plenty of free and unmissable events to enjoy over these four dazzling nights.
From strobe-lit dancefloors and nights of vogueing and queer expression to left-of-field variety shows, there’s a great excuse for anyone and everyone looking to stay up late.
This year, the brilliant Vivid Sydney Supper Club is back. The famed Studio Party series for Vivid LIVE will have you dancing the night away at the Sydney Opera House, plus there’s a slew of vibey parties across the festival footprint.
It’s time to forget the clock and experience the best late-night events below.
With genre-defying street parties, legacy-making performances and free outdoor gigs, Vivid Music 2025 is our most diverse and dynamic program yet.
Vivid Music’s curator and producer, Julian Ramundi, has scoured the globe (and Sydney’s own backyard) to create a line-up that celebrates diversity and excellence in sound – the result is a dream program that spans genres, cultures and communities.
At Vivid Sydney 2025, dreams take many forms and engage all our senses, including taste. Now in its third year, Vivid Food is a celebration of creativity, culture and connection.
Whether you're up for flame-cooked feasts, sky-high fine dining, precinct-wide parties or dishes that tell a deeper story, there’s a dream meal waiting to be discovered below.
This year, Vivid Sydney invites you to dream – to leave what you know behind and enter a city transformed by Light, Music, Ideas and Food.
For Vivid Sydney festival director Gill Minervini, that invitation is personal.
“Everything starts with a dream,” she says. “A wish, a spark, an idea. Dreams are borderless, ageless, and endless – and this year’s program is full of experiences that tap into that universal magic.”
This year, Vivid Sydney welcomes brilliant new Ideas and Special Events Curator, Mitchell Oakley Smith.
A dream fit for our 2025 theme, Mitchell brings his extensive experience as the former Executive Creative Director of creativity and design festival Semi Permanent and Editor-in-Chief of Esquire magazine to reimagine how we experience ideas at Vivid Sydney.
Under his curatorial vision, the 2025 Vivid Ideas program will move beyond lecture theatres, exploring new frontiers of performance, immersive screenings, exhibitions and more.
Now that Vivid Sydney 2025 is on the horizon, get ready for the most imaginative, thought-provoking and visually stunning festival yet. From 23 May to 14 June, Sydney will transform into a dreamscape of surreal experiences and captivating events, as we explore this year’s theme: ‘Dream’.
