Sydney CBD and Surrounds
Vivid Sydney transforms the CBD and Surrounds with its Music, Minds and Food programming.
Hunter St
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
Vivid Music can be heard across Sydney's most iconic live music venues, including the Oxford Art Factory, City Recital Hall and Metro Theatre, alongside Tumbalong Nights and Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House. The party pushes into Sydney’s inner west with arts precinct Carriageworks’s programming of global stars such as Lil’ Kim and UK R&B star Ella Mai, plus powerhouse dance acts Alison Wonderland, Porter Robinson and more.
For the first time, Vivid Music heads to White Bay Power Station, in collaboration with the Biennale of Sydney as part of their Art After Dark series.
Vivid Minds’s thought-provoking events and talks centre in Sydney’s CBD. Headlining series Creative Trailblazers span the State Theatre, Sydney Town Hall and City Recital Hall, while Midweek Minds takes over the State Library of NSW each Wednesday night. Other Minds locations include the UTS Data Centre and Mary's Underground.
Meanwhile, Vivid Food’s culinary journey covers acclaimed restaurants and bars across Sydney’s CBD & Surrounds, as well as innovative dining events in unlikely spaces, including the Long Table Dinner at The Strand Arcade, An Evening at Parliament House and Dream Feast at The Mint.
Surry Hills comes alive too, with dining series Our Shared Future and Hollywood Quarter Live!, a free-to-enter street festival of food, art and music.
Music Events
Purelink | Art After Dark
Acclaimed Brooklyn ambient techno trio Purelink transform the industrial White Bay Power Station into a world of experimental electronica. Part of Biennale...
Clara La San
Renowned for her richly personalised, effortless style of hook-rich songcraft, British artist Clara La San is one of the most magnetic names shaping the...
Soft Centre: Gabber Eleganza, Violent Magic Orchestra
Soft Centre returns to Vivid Sydney on June 5th with a full-scale takeover of the City Recital Hall. A night of Hardcore hyperbole, tracing the ritualised...
Daniel Avery (Live)
English producer and composer Daniel Avery has spent more than a decade reshaping what dance music can be.Touring his most ambitious album to date, Tremor...
RUBII
One of the UK's breakout alt-R&B stars of the 2020s heads to Vivid Sydney, set to transfix Oxford Art Factory with her soulful sounds.Raised in Birmingham...
Kae Tempest
A vital voice in contemporary music and literature, English rapper and poet Kae Tempest will return to Sydney this June for two special nights.The shows...
Saint Levant
All shows sold out.Heartthrob Saint Levant brings his trilingual love songs to Sydney for the first time, serenading audiences at City Recital Hall.First...
Chanel Beads
Mysterious and alluring, New York's Chanel Beads plays Australia for the first time, bringing his dreamy swirl of spectral electronica, indie-pop and post-punk...
Biennale of Sydney Closing Night Party | Art After Dark
A free party sending off Biennale of Sydney's Art After Dark, with innovative, left-of-centre music from across the globe at the awe-inspiring White Bay...
Anaiis | Art After Dark
Resisting easy categorisation, experimental R&B French-Senegalese musician anaiis offers a night of sonic grace and introspection at the White Bay...
Minds Events
Jerry Saltz: In Conversation
Insightful, outspoken and refreshingly unpretentious Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz brings his trademark irreverence and razor-sharp wit...
Dungeons & Damper: Inside the D20
Inspired by tabletop roleplaying games, and informed by First Nations lore and cultural ideology, this immersive, free adventure at the UTS Data Arena...
Sean Baker: In Conversation
Join Sean Baker, the multi-Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind Best Picture winner Anora for an exclusive conversation with Alexei Toliopoulos at Sydney...
Midweek Minds: Legally Bonded
How do artists own their own work and voice, under the forces of algorithmic recommendations, AI-generated content and the shifting terms of fair use...
Chloé Zhao: In Conversation
Join Academy Award–winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao for her first appearance in Australia, following the global acclaim of Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and...
State Library Unplugged
Tune out of the noise and recharge with State Library Unplugged, a relaxing night of acoustic music, vinyl DJs, soundscapes, talks, games and crafts.Celebrating...
Creative Machines: Rethinking Design in the Age of AI
Cut through the noise surrounding AI’s impact on creativity with design and innovation expert and Professor Joshua Vermillion, in a provocative keynote...
Designing What Matters: How Creativity Shapes a Life
Exclusive to Vivid Sydney, American designer Debbie Millman unpacks the life-shifting insights into creativity, success and connection she’s unearthed...
Roxane Gay: In Conversation
Join prolific American author and cultural critic Roxane Gay at City Recital Hall for an exclusive conversation with Whadjuk Noongar journalist, author...
Midweek Minds: The Engagement Generation
Can we have your attention? In an age of on-demand streaming, snackable content and 24/7 audience engagement and TikTok remixes, how can publishers and...
Food Events
Regional Dinner Series: The Tweed with Ben Devlin & Lennox Hastie
Named on the revered global 2025 Best Chef List, Ben Devlin is the executive chef and co-owner of Pipit Restaurant in Pottsville on the Tweed. For...
Our Shared Future: Junda Khoo
Join Ho Jiak chef Junda Khoo and OzHarvest for a four-course dinner at Refettorio OzHarvest Sydney, all made using up to 95% beautiful, fresh and rescued...
Long Table Dinner at The Strand Arcade: NSW Icons of Land & Sea
NSW's landmark food and wine producers come together in a never-before dining experience, underneath the gorgeous tinted-glass ceiling of the heritage-listed...
Cult & Classic | A NSW Food & Wine Party
A massive NSW food and wine party transforms The Wine Bar at The International into the CBD's ultimate urban cellar door this June long weekend. Presented...
Our Shared Future: Jean-Paul El Tom
Join Baba’s Place chef Jean-Paul El Tom and OzHarvest for a four-course dinner at Refettorio OzHarvest Sydney, all made using up to 95% beautiful, fresh...
Dream Feast
A feast for the senses, where music, moving image, history and a multi-course dinner come together in the atmospheric surrounds of The Mint.In partnership...
A Taste of HQ: Street Eats Edition
A Taste of HQ: Street Eats Edition takes over Surry Hills's Foster and Hunt streets for a free-to-enter alfresco day-to-night festival of live music, roaming...
Our Shared Future: Lauren Eldridge
Join pastry chef Lauren Eldridge and OzHarvest for a four-course dinner at Refettorio OzHarvest Sydney, all made using up to 95% beautiful, fresh and rescued...
Our Shared Future: Racha Abou Alchamat
Join Racha’s Syrian Kitchen founder Racha Abou Alchamat and OzHarvest for a four-course dinner at Refettorio OzHarvest Sydney, all made using up to 95...
A Shared Table With Yotam Ottolenghi
Renowned chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi presents A Shared Table. An exclusive dinner and lunch, it's a rare chance to step into Ottolenghi’s...
