VIVID SYDNEY 2024
Your festival of light, live music and new ideas. Vivid Sydney 2024 will take place from 24 May - 25 June 2024
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Vivid Residence
Chef Manoella Buffara, a true trailblazer of sustainable dining and Latin America's Best Female Chef 2022, brings her culinary artistry to Sydney’s shores...
DIVAS LIVE | Vivid Sydney Supper Club
Strap on your heels and strap in for a fabulous and fitting tribute to the most iconic divas in music history, hosted by fellow diva worshippers’ comedy...
Shifting Perspectives
Step into Shifting Perspective, an all-ages, all-abilities, immersive dance performance. This thought-provoking dance and light installation invites you...
Lightscape
Re-imagined for 2024, this globally renowned multisensory phenomenon of light, colour and sound changes every year.Experience the Royal Botanic Garden...
The Huxleys present Personality Crisis
Prepare for a night of extravagance, liberation, and queer celebration with Melbourne performance-art duo The Huxleys and their self-described “disco...
The Charles x Sally Abé | Vivid Chef Series
Slide into a lush leather booth for this Chef Series pairing that fuses bold but refined British nostalgia with classic French decadence. Sally Abé...
No Fixed Address
With special guests: Stray BlacksPrepare for an extraordinary night of resilience, culture and electric music at Machine Hall Precinct, with legendary...
VIVID SYDNEY LIGHT WALK
Gumscape with Road and Creatures
The classic Aussie road trip turned on its head. Delve into this wild and surreal world as you journey from the familiar to the micro world of bacterial...
"SYNTHETIC HUM(AI)NITY"
We are standing at a literal, and figurative, crossroads. Looming in front of us is the ASN Clocktower, with its three facades illuminated. Humanity is...
Sea, Sand and Stars
Breathe-taking. Whimsical. Profound. Plunge into Guan Wei’s visionary world at the MCA, as his signature iconography illuminates the night. This is the...
HORIZON
Enter the Horizon for a hypnotic, full-body experience. Here, trance-like sound and strobing lights play with your spatial perception and offer a glimpse...
Neuron
Peek inside the most mysterious, powerful, and wonderous structure in the world – your very own brain.Neuron is a motion-triggered light installation...
Hika Rakuyo
Reflective dark water, brilliant lasers and projections, Japanese philosophy – see Cockle Bay in a new light. This spectacular artwork is a celebration...
Migrating Light
Travel through time as you connect with the rich human history of our harbour city.A series of holograms featuring migrants from our past appear before...
THE BEST FREE MUSIC
Teenage Joans + Lola Scott | Tumbalong Nights
A riotous night of all-female punk and pop energy awaits with energetic Adelaide two-piece Teenage Joans and indie-pop Sydneysider Lola Scott.Teenage Joans...
3% presents 'Kill the Dead' Album Launch | Tumbalong Nights
Join us for an extraordinary celebration of First Nations stories and sound, as the innovative rap powerhouse 3% takes centre stage with a live performance...
Jalbu Muna | Tumbalong Nights
Join us for Jalbu Muna, a unique night of multi-generational First Nations storytelling through music. It’s time for an unbridled and uplifting celebration...
K-Indie Music Fest feat. Silica Gel + sunwoojunga | Tumbalong Nights
Immerse yourself in the captivating sounds of Korea's most exciting K-Indie acts, sunwoojunga and Silica Gel. This Australian exclusive performance, brought...
Mallrat + Tiffi | Tumbalong Nights
Kick off Tumbalong Nights in style and immerse yourself in a night of indie-pop and intimate lyricism from internationally adored Brisbane export Mallrat...
Club Broadway + The Carpenters from Kempsey | Tumbalong Nights
Get ready for an unforgettable night of theatrics, singalongs, and laughter with show-stopping musical theatre nightclub Club Broadway and NSW’s silliest...
Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House
Fever Ray | Vivid LIVE
From the spectral synth beats of The Knife to the shapeshifting pop soundscapes of their solo work, Swedish avant garde alchemist Karin Dreijer – aka...
Explosions In The Sky, Aldous Harding & The Middle East - Spunk Records 25 Finale | Vivid LIVE
What better way to celebrate the end of an era than with a performance from one of the loudest, most cathartic bands on the planet, playing their masterpiece...
Jlin | Vivid LIVE
A visionary electronic artist and composer whose percussion-driven, polyrhythmic work has reshaped the sound of dance music, American artist Jerrilynn...
South Summit | Vivid LIVE
Blending sounds and cultures with a heartfelt sense of unity, Perth five-piece South Summit have quickly become one of Western Australia’s most exciting...
Tasman Keith, Flewnt & Inkabee | Vivid LIVE
Making their Vivid LIVE debut, rappers Tasman Keith, Flewnt and Inkabee come together for to celebrate hip-hop community – and spit some of the fiercest...
Sid Sriram, Priya Ragu, Raf-Saperra with Munasib & Rakish - Astral People present Spice Trail | Vivid LIVE
Returning to Vivid LIVE after their huge birthday bash in 2022, tastemakers Astral People bring us the musical riches of the Spice Trail, with a buzzy...
Jonti presents The Moonblades | Vivid LIVE
When Jonti last performed at Vivid LIVE in 2017, he drove a sold-out Sydney Opera House crowd into a frenzy with his delirious recreation of The Avalanches’...
Studio Party: Mala (DMZ / Digital Mystikz), Alec Sander (DUNJ) & Jungist presented by Astral People | Vivid LIVE
Proving their mettle as one of Australia’s most innovative music companies, tastemaking label Astral People deliver a Studio Party led by a bona fide...