6-28 August 2021
Sydney Australia
VIVID SYDNEY 2021
Your festival of light, live music and new ideas. Vivid Sydney 2021 will take place from 6 August - 28 August 2021
READ MOREVivid Sydney warms the soul of our city with light artists, music makers and brilliant thinkers. Spark your sense of wonder and come out to play as Sydney transforms into a playground of the unexpected.
Not to miss
Mildlife
The demon groove kings, Mildlife are back on the road this winter, bringing their riotously loose-limbed performance to the iconic City Recital Hall. An...
Jameela Jamil: Body Politics
English-born advocate, actor, radio presenter and writer Jameela Jamil is renowned for her starring role in The Good Place, but it is her outspoken...
El Gran Mono meets the Inner West Reggae Disco Machine - A Mighty Soundsystem Experience
Join us for a special day to night dance party celebrating the sounds of Latin America, The Caribbean and the roots of soundsystem culture, beamed out...
Magda Szubanski
Magda Szubanski on the healing power of the arts and laughter Comedian Magda Szubanski AO has been making us laugh for three decades. Her comedic talents...
Jesswar
Brisbane-based hip-hop artist Jesswar’s ruthless refusal of prescribed definitions is the foundation on which she builds her music. Deeply inspired by...
Briggs & Nat's What I Reckon: Music, Mayhem and Masters of some
From recording studios in Melbourne to LA’s most esteemed comedy writing rooms, Briggs has affirmed himself as one of the country’s most talented all-rounders...
Light
Ephemeral
Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu works at the intersection of art and architecture creating large-scale site-specific works that enchant by reinventing...
Sensitive
Created by Sydney-based ANL Design, ‘Sensitive’ is an installation that explores our desire for genuine human connection and relationships in the digital...
Macula
Named after the centre of the human eye that enables us to perceive colour and fine details, Macula is an innovative immersive installation that combines...
Symbiosis
In Symbiosis, Belgian collective Dirty Monitor reveals the intimate association between humans and fauna, flora and mineral elements. Symbiosis takes you...
Beautiful life
Beautiful Life is a super-sized human-powered kaleidoscope, in which participants create art tessellations. The reflections within Beautiful Life create...
Patterns in Nature
During the summer term of 2019-2020 UTS Design ran an elective subject to enable students to produce an artwork for exhibition at Vivid Sydney 2021. The...
New York Sunday
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will be transformed into majestic cliffs of colour that will shift and morph into new combinations. This installation...
SHARD
Shard is a trio of light sculptures that acts as a platform for the stories of Baykali Ganumbarr, Yalyalwuy Gondarra and Watjarr (Marko) Garmu. Hear the...
One Big Backyard
One Big Backyard explores what it really means to be a Sydneysider today, regardless of your location or background. This extraordinary light installation...
Fall
Covering over 70% of the Earth’s surface, water is a precious resource that is vital for all forms of life. Fall is a sensory experience encouraging...
Ideas
Jameela Jamil: Body Politics
English-born advocate, actor, radio presenter and writer Jameela Jamil is renowned for her starring role in The Good Place, but it is her outspoken...
Brazen Hussies
Outrage against systemic misogyny… allegations of the mistreatment, bullying and sexual abuse of women in the workplace… a cri de coeur for women’s...
First Dog on the Moon: I TOLD YOU SO
Join Walkley Award-winning cartoonist First Dog on the Moon for a restorative evening of comedic self-care. Are you suffering from climate anxiety? Freaking...
Briggs & Nat's What I Reckon: Music, Mayhem and Masters of some
From recording studios in Melbourne to LA’s most esteemed comedy writing rooms, Briggs has affirmed himself as one of the country’s most talented all-rounders...
Whistleblowers
In an age of mixed messages and ‘alternative facts’, investigative journalists play a leading role in sorting the truth from the lies. So how do journalists...
Happy Sad Man
This session will ask how we can change the language around masculinity and mental health. Australian filmmaker Genevieve Bailey was inspired to present...
Magda Szubanski
Magda Szubanski on the healing power of the arts and laughter Comedian Magda Szubanski AO has been making us laugh for three decades. Her comedic talents...
Pushing Boundaries
Have you ever wondered what drives those people who don’t know when to stop? When Jenny Valentish wrote Woman of Substances, a book about addiction...
Sects, Lies & Cults
Cults. They bring to mind master manipulators Jim Jones, Anne Hamilton Byrne and Charles Manson. Mass suicide, child abduction, routine drug experimentation...
Let's Talk About Honeybee and Fluidity: Craig Silvey with Glace Chase
Craig Silvey’s latest work Honeybee is a much-loved novel about compassion and overcoming trauma that has been praised for its empathetic portrayal of...
Music
Akosia
Rising neo soul voice of Ghanian descent, Akosia’s debut self-titled EP received critical acclaim. “Dammnn, Akosia! Your voice is so silvery and it...
Barkaa
A rising star dubbed by Triple J as ‘one of the most exciting and powerful new rappers in Australian music’, Barkaa is a proud Malyangapa, Barkindji...
OPEN FRAME
Returning to Carriageworks for its sixth edition, Open Frame is an immersive experimental program of transgressive sound and light. Curated by Lawrence...
Betty Grumble: Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh!t
"Transformative and WILD. See Grumble" – Peaches Your lovingly local hysterical heretic and person of interest Betty Grumble is back with her new...
Mildlife
The demon groove kings, Mildlife are back on the road this winter, bringing their riotously loose-limbed performance to the iconic City Recital Hall. An...
Coastal Elite Allstars
Personal Best Records presents Sydney band Coastal Elite and their nautically-inclined cohort of guest musicians and singers including Moody Beach, Carl...
Heaps Gay QWEENS' BALL at Luna Park
Off the back of an ever growing and successful Qweens’ Ball at Sydney Town Hall, Heaps Gay moves to Luna Park for a HUGE dress up ball full of debauchery...
Vivid LIVE: G Flip
Bedroom musician turned cutting-edge indie pop star G Flip is one of Australia’s most exciting new artists, and they’re making their Sydney Opera House...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Melbourne’s most prolific bands move in and make themselves at home at Carriageworks for a career spanning residency over five nights from 22-26 August...
The Oxford Art Factory 14th Birthday
Oxford Art Factory proudly announces a HUGE 14th Birthday Party!!! Dust off your finest treads and make shapes – all night looooong! Headlining this...
