"Sydney Opera House"

Harbour Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Harbour Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

The 2017 Vivid Light Walk is a journey that takes you through streets, byways and secret places, by harbour coves, garden parklands and new parts of the city.

There are over 65 works on show, many are thought-provoking, ingenious, magical, witty, hilarious, awe-inspiring and stunningly beautiful

The busiest stretch of installations at Vivid Sydney 2017 is the Vivid Light Walk which trails around the foreshore from the expanded Royal Botanic Gardens, past the Sydney Opera House, through Circular Quay passing the Museum of Contemporary Art. Then onto Cadman’s Cottage and the lanes and backstreets of The Rocks, through to Campbell’s Cove and onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Dreamscape @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Dreamscape @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Dreamscape, the world’s largest interactive lighting display links the entire Quay precinct from the Sydney Opera House to the Sydney Harbour Bridge into one cohesive canvas of light.

Key features of the installation are its accessibility and interactivity, enabling participants to control the colour, texture and pattern of lighting along the entire precinct.

Sydney Opera House – Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Sydney Opera House – Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Sydney creative Director Ash Bolland gives life to a modern Micrographia at this years Sydney Opera House Lighting the Sails – a key part of Vivid 2017

“ I always see the Opera House as shells. People call them sails but I don’t see sails at all. To me it looks like a very organic, repetitive structure. That’s what I love about nature, the repetition, by repeating the same thing something simple becomes really complex.” ……………………. Ash Bolland

Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2015

Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2015

This year, Vivid Live has commissioned multi-disciplinary design collective Universal Everything to create a new projected artwork for the sails of Sydney Opera House ( Vivid Live’s most public event.)

Founded 11 years ago by creative director Matt Pyke in Sheffield, England, the bold colour-friendly group thread their playful sense of discovery, anthropomorphic creation and digitally-crafted landscapes through each project.

Pyke and his globally-based team continue to play with new technologies to invent new forms of design and movement – all conceived from the same back garden shed where Universal Everything began.

Vivid Music @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Music @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Sydney, 2014 delivered a significantly expanded program featuring a diverse range of cutting edge music, an incredible line-up of contemporary performances and talent from a multitude of genres creating the biggest Vivid Music program seen to date.

During Vivid Sydney, music fans were again spoilt for choice with an expanded Vivid Music line-up – featuring more than 80 shows and more styles of music, in even more venues around the city.

Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Sydney is a unique annual event of light, music and ideas, featuring many of the world’s most important creative industry forums, a mesmerising free public exhibition of outdoor lighting sculptures and installations, a cutting-edge contemporary music program and the spectacular illumination of Sydney’s iconic architecture including the sails of Sydney Opera House.

This year, projected artwork, created by award-winning international artists 59 Productions, presented a journey through time on the sails of the iconic building.

Sydney Opera House – “Autopsy on a Dream”

Sydney Opera House – “Autopsy on a Dream”

Autopsy On a Dream, a controversial and provocative BBC film about the building of the Sydney Opera House, directed by John Weiley in 1968 and thought to be lost for 45 years, will have its first Australian television screening on Sunday 20th October, 9.25pm

Vivid Live 2013 ( updated)

Vivid Live 2013 ( updated)

Vivid Sydney is the largest light and music festival in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 500,000 people attending in 2012.

Now in its fifth year, Vivid Sydney will showcase its largest program to date, featuring more than 60 vibrant lighting installations around Sydney Harbour, over 100 creative industry workshops and seminars, and live music performances at Sydney Opera House