See the city transformed. Discover new artforms. Ride soundwaves. Spark new ideas and ignite conversations. Let your imagination take flight.
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Vivid Light

Lighting of the Sails
Sydney Opera House
Vivid Lights kicks off every evening with the inaugural Lighting of the Sails. Watch as the Sydney Opera House comes to life with large-scale projections and music. <o:p></o:p>
This year, award-winning Los Angeles-based Andrew Thomas Huang is the torch-bearer entrusted with the Lighting of the Sails at the Sydney Opera House. Huang’s installation is called ‘Austral Flora Ballet’ and is a tribute to Australia’s native plants such as the New South Wales waratah, kangaroo paws and red beard orchids.<o:p></o:p>
This year, award-winning Los Angeles-based Andrew Thomas Huang is the torch-bearer entrusted with the Lighting of the Sails at the Sydney Opera House. Huang’s installation is called ‘Austral Flora Ballet’ and is a tribute to Australia’s native plants such as the New South Wales waratah, kangaroo paws and red beard orchids.<o:p></o:p>

Vivid Light Walk
Vivid’s famous Light Walk showcases 50 of the best outdoor light installations stretching over 3 kilometres. Starting at The Rocks, this outdoor gallery winds around Circular Quay to the Sydney Opera House and into the Royal Botanic Gardens. Taking you past the city’s biggest light installations on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and Customs House, Vivid Light Walk makes sure you catch a glimpse of all the draw cards. <o:p></o:p>
More of a ‘choose your own adventure’ rather than a prescribed trail, Vivid Light Walk is packed full of break-away spaces for you to sit, enjoy, and soak up the atmosphere and installations throughout the evening. Eateries and drinking holes also line this trail, providing plenty of comfy, warm places to rest your feet. <o:p></o:p>
Nature, childhood daydreams and retro-futures are the major themes running through this year’s festival. From those on a monstrous scale to others which beckon creativity, asking visitors to move through, around and under – this year’s Vivid Light Walk showcases a whole range of installations. Download Vivid Sydney's 2019 Lightwalk map for 2019 to plan your visit.
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This Year’s Major Installations
Vivid Sydney Precincts
For Vivid Sydney 2019, Darling Harbour has a space-age reboot with Light, Music and Ideas to entertain and inspire visitors of all ages and abilities.
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During Thursday to Sunday evening performances, (Marri Dyin) invites audiences to join in the practice of hunting and gathering before kneeling down so children can share a magical moment with her.
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Food at Vivid

Vivid Sydney Cruises

Vivid LIVE
This year's Vivid Live has been a genuine pleasure to program ….it's a selection of ambitious outsider artists who've spectacularly succeeded on their own rigorous terms (and) a celebration of the cultural landscape's blurring genres, subcultures and artistic practices…”
- Vivid LIVE Curator, Ben Marshall

Vivid Ideas
Enjoy a handpicked selection of future-facing talks, hands-on workshops and industry-shaping forums at this year’s Vivid Ideas. Spike Lee and Esther Peral challenge assumptions on race and relationships. Mark Colvin asks audiences of the inevitable price of our constant digital distraction in his talk “Mark Colvin Conversation: Net Worth”.
Stay back a little later for Vivid Art After Hours. Join in on art activities, listen to live music and free talks or even take a mindfulness class.
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