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
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