Vivid Sydney: Harry Siedler’s Mushroom Building is a Light Walk essential

The CTA Building lit up for Vivid Sydney 2025

The bygone charms of Sydney’s iconic Harry Siedler-designed Commercial Travellers’ Association (CTA) building have been welcomed back into the fold for Vivid Sydney. For the first time since 2018, Martin Place has been activated as one of the five major zones included along the 8km Vivid Light Walk. And this divisive mushroom-shaped building is the

Vivid Sydney: ‘House of Romance’ is a true spectacle

House of Romance at Customs House

Romance Was Born plays with size, scale and colour in Vivid Sydney’s first-ever high-profile fashion collaboration. The famously innovative label is in charge of the Customs House projection, House of Romance: Dream Collide, at Vivid Sydney this year, presenting a captivating riot of Ice Vovo-inspired frocks, crochet collages, underwater reefs and decorative carousels. The Customs

Vivid Sydney: Vincent Namatjira turns the MCA into a subversive rock concert

King Dingo at Vivid Sydney 2025

There are many moments of pure, tongue-in-cheek brilliance during King Dingo, a large-scale projection conceived by one of this country’s most important artists, Vincent Namatjira, for Vivid Sydney. This year’s annual Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition has turned the symmetrical sandstone building into a symbolic rock concert, led by animated iterations of Australia’s treasured dingo,

Vivid Sydney 2025 Program: From Nigella Lawson to Stranger Things

Sydney all lit up for Vivid Sydney

For the first time in its 15-year history, the iconic Vivid Sydney will connect Sydney like never before, leaning heavily on the fresh-faced Sydney Metro system to connect five zones, each with events from all four of the festival’s pillars: Light, Music, Ideas and Food from Friday, May 23 to Saturday, June 14. The Vivid

Sydney Opera House has curated its own Vivid Sydney food kitchen

A Cuban sandwich

Vivid Sydney’s fourth pillar, “Food,” was only added as a central focus for the multi-factor festival in recent years. And there’s plenty of room to grow it as one of Vivid’s defining features alongside light, music and ideas. That’s why there’s been such a substantial boost in the number of food-focused events making up Vivid’s

Vivid Sydney 2025 Lineup: Sigur Ros, Portishead and More

The Vivid LIVE 2025 lineup has been revealed

Vivid Music, one of the four pillars of Vivid Sydney 2025, has today announced an extensive program of live music for the world-renowned festival. And once again, we’re looking at big international acts and a diverse roster of homegrown talents filing into Sydney’s best concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House, Carriageworks, and the first

Carriageworks announces free First Nations festival for Vivid Sydney

Carriageworks music program for vivid sydney

Powerful, diverse, on-the-pulse. Since it opened in 2007, Carriageworks has always cut through with trend-setting curation. So it’s no surprise to see their Vivid Sydney music program full of experimental sounds, diverse tastes and a few genre-specific legends. Released today, the full Carriageworks Vivid Music lineup adds to an already exciting stack of artists, which

Two of London’s best Michelin-starred chefs are coming to Vivid Sydney

Fine dining food in Sydney

Two of Sydney’s best restaurants, the long-established Ester and the fresh-faced Eleven Barrack, are handing over their respective kitchens to two of the world’s finest chefs this winter, as the Vivid Food program continues to grow ahead of Vivid Sydney. As per the previous three years, Vivid Food has grown to become a central part