Circular Quay and The Rocks
The dazzling harbourside home to Sydney’s most iconic landmarks, transformed.
Circular Quay
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
Getting there
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Walk | 14 mins from Martin Place, 19 mins from Barangaroo via Argyle St |
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Train | Circular Quay Station (weekdays) or Wynyard Station |
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Bus | Elizabeth St and Bridge St |
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Ferry | Ferries run regularly to and from Circular Quay |
The dazzling harbourside home to Sydney’s most iconic landmarks, transformed.
This year, Lighting of the Sails at the Sydney Opera House is Opera Mundi, an ode to nature and the Sails’s designer John Utzon by French artist Yann Nguema. Revered Samoan artist Angela Tiatia transforms the Museum of Contemporary Art with Vaiola, a projection exploring her culture’s relationship to water. Customs House will play dramatically with your sense of perception with the ever-shifting geometric designs of The Fringe of Infinity by Spanish visual artist Javier Riera.
Equally gorgeous under the sun or stars, Circular Quay is also the home of Vivid Sydney’s first-ever daytime artworks, including dynamic day and night Light installations and two extraordinary large-scale public sculptures, Manawan and THERE, NOW, HERE.
Lose yourself to the music at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House, and explore the building’s iconic architecture with Saltbush & Starlight, a guided tour followed with a show-stopping dinner from Mark Olive at TIDE, an exclusive dining venue. And indulge in world-class dining experiences paired with picture-perfect surrounds with From Saigon to Sydney with Luke Nguyen at Botanic House.
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Light Events
Dear You
A message in a bottle rides the waves of Campbells Cove, waiting for you. Its neon scrawl on an ancient piece of parchment can be read from the shore...
As Water Falls
Mysterious and majestic, a waterfall unlike any other flows day and night over a monolithic cube at First Fleet Park. Glitchy code cascades down the...
REFLECT
Make waves (or just a gentle ripple) with REFLECT, an interactive water and light installation where your splashes and taps are mirrored in real time via...
Invisible Cities
What is a city? You can’t just build skyscrapers, landmarks and roads and call it a day. It’s the people who make a city like Sydney, as millions of...
Our Connected City
It’s your turn to light up Sydney Harbour's world-famous skyline - even the Sydney Harbour Bridge! Each year, Sydney Harbour’s iconic landmarks...
Glyph
Like luminous symbols conjured from a dream, Glyph illuminates your path from one Vivid Sydney activation to the next.Lighting the way across the five...
Deep Time
Dive back 4.54 billion years with a surreal 3D-projection that travels through Earth’s ecological growth. Named after the scientific term for the vast...
Optik
Spin out day or night with Optik, an interactive series of ten gyroscopic sculptures generating cascades of colour and music with each rotation - and it’s...
Koro Loko
Feel the love night or day with Koro Loko, a crystalline sculpture of an iridescent heart. Covered with dichroic tiles, this gigantic 11-foot-tall...
Vaiola
Sāmoan-Australian artist Angela Tiatia presents Vaiola, a new large-scale light projection on the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia...
Minds Events
Cristal Palace
An open-air extravaganza of aerial acrobatics, dance and unbelievable circus feats arrives to the Sydney Opera House Forecourt direct from France. Free...
MCA Light Nights
MCA Light Nights is an epic, after-dark experience that transforms the building into an immersive destination for sound, light and moving image.Extending...
Manawan
An ode to Bardi Jawi Country in Western Australia’s Kimberley Region, Manawan brings the region’s towering, tropical gum trees (also known as woolybutts...
Food Mahjong Club
Fierce competition, lychee martinis and classic Chinese-inspired snacks meet at Food Mahjong Club, a popular Manhattan tournament run by Food architect...
THERE, NOW, HERE
Travel through Sydney past and present with this colourful, interactive sculptural playground in the heart of Circular Quay.Standing 7-metres-tall, THERE...
Food Events
Wet, Cold + Delicious, The Tuna Dinner
Southern bluefin tuna – a premium tuna with a marbled, melt-in-your-mouth texture – takes centre stage, in a five-course dinner at Shell House dedicated...
MCA Dining and Cocktails with Vivid Sydney Views
Perfectly placed on the Warrane/Sydney Harbour foreshore, there’s nowhere better to take in the excitement of Vivid Sydney than the Museum of Contemporary...
Aster: The Golden Age
1920s Hollywood glamour meets an unforgettable view at Intercontinental Sydney's rooftop Aster Bar, overlooking Sydney Harbour transformed in a synchronised...
Salt & Pepper Squiz - The Vivid Sydney Exclusive Premiere
Jennifer Wong debuts her new comedy show at Mary’s Underground, in a night of funny food stories with bar snacks and cocktails inspired by her book Chopsticks...
From Saigon to Sydney
Vietnamese flavours, culture and art shine bright in Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden, in a sensory dining experience shaped by chef Luke Nguyen's culinary...
Oysters in the House
Oysters in the House is a one-day spectacular at Shell House celebrating two of New South Wales’ most iconic culinary heroes: The Sydney Rock Oyster...
