Sydney CBD & Surrounds
Vivid Sydney transforms the CBD & 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
Soft Centre
SOFT CENTRE returns to Vivid Sydney with a late-night takeover of City Recital Hall, transforming the grand acoustic space into a site of ecstatic, high-intensity...
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...
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...
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...
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
Heartthrob Saint Levant brings his trilingual love songs to Sydney for the first time, serenading audiences at City Recital Hall.First emerging in 2022...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Minds Events
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...
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...
Zane Lowe: In Conversation
Music industry tastemaker and broadcaster Zane Lowe dives deep into the sound of now, in a Vivid Sydney exclusive conversation with triple j Mornings host...
A Sexual History of the Internet
Deemed “the internet’s sexual historian” by the LA Times, US artist and technologist Mindy Seu brings her acclaimed participatory lecture-performance...
Midweek Minds: A New Cultural Paradigm
How can our creative industries find more equitable, ethical ways of working? And how can we ensure that a diverse range of voices aren’t squeezed out...
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...
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...
Food Events
Dream Feast
A feast for the senses, where music, moving image, history and a three-course dinner come together in the atmospheric surrounds of The Mint.In partnership...
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...
Regional Dinner Series: Tweed Coast with Christine Manfield & Sander Nooij
Culinary trailblazer Christine Manfield joins Sander Nooij, the Dutch-born head chef and co-owner of two-hatted plant-forward restaurant Yellow, celebrating...
Perspective at Infinity by Mark Best
Perspective is a multi-sensory immersive dining experience unfolding over 90 minutes, guiding guests through a rotating journey of the landscapes surrounding...
Regional Dinner Series: Riverina with Luke Piccolo & Giovanni Pilu
Luke Piccolo, chef-owner of the Riverina region’s Limone Dining, brings produce direct from his own Piccolo Family Farm for two collaborative dinners...
Our Shared Future: Khanh Nguyen
Join King Clarence executive chef Khanh Nguyen and OzHarvest for a four-course dinner at Refettorio OzHarvest Sydney, all made using up to 95% beautiful...
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...
Regional Dinner Series: Hunter Valley with Troy Rhoades-Brown & Nicholas Hill
Celebrating the Hunter Valley, Muse Restaurant chef Troy Rhoades-Brown teams up with Porcine Bisto co-owner and chef Nik Hill, as part of Vivid Food’s...
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...
An Evening at Parliament House
Australia's oldest Parliament opens its doors for a feast, celebrating NSW's political history, renowned food and wine culture and ongoing First Nations...
