VIVID SYDNEY 2013 LIGHTS UP HARBOUR CITY WITH BIGGEST PROGRAM YET

Vivid Sydney is back for its fifth year, from 24 May to 10 June, with an expanded program that will transform the city at night into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas as it becomes a playground for the world’s creative industries.

The festival’s centrepiece, the world famous lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails, will be designed by Australian creative innovators, The Spinifex Group, and showcase a newly commissioned artwork that will transport audiences through a playfully projected journey celebrating Vivid Sydney in an immersive new way.


Owned and managed by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency, Vivid Sydney is the largest light and music festival in the Southern Hemisphere and is a ‘must see’ global event, highly anticipated by Sydneysiders and visitors alike.

Destination NSW CEO Sandra Chipchase said year-on-year increase in festival attendance was testament to Vivid Sydney’s success and popularity with local and international audiences, reinforcing Sydney’s position as Australia’s global tourism and major events city.

“With more than 45,000 people from interstate and overseas at last year’s event, Vivid Sydney has proven itself as a major drawcard for creative industry practitioners, visitors both young and old, and families who immerse themselves in the 18-day festival,” said Ms Chipchase.

In 2013, Vivid Light returns with the longest ever Light Walk along the city’s foreshore, illuminating crowd-favourites Circular Quay and the Rocks nightly from 6:00pm to midnight, and featuring more light installations from Campbell’s Cove to Walsh Bay and, for the first time, Fort Denison.

From 24 May to 2 June, Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House will welcome some of the most ambitious and innovative local and international artists for a ten-day celebration of music on the nation's most iconic stages.

Vivid Ideas welcomes a number of new collaborations including the Australian International Design Festival, The Digital Playground by IDEA Australia, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2013, Sydney Writer’s Festival and Reportage Photography Festival, joining SPARC International Lighting Event, Sydney Film Festival, Semi-Permanent, X|Media|Lab, Mumbrella360, Head On Festival, AMPlify and CeBIT Australia.

The full Vivid Sydney 2013 program is available at vividsydney.com