Say My Name: The Humanity of Names – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: University of Technology Sydney, The Great Hall, Level 5, Building 1 (UTS Tower), 15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007 Dates: 5 June, 2024 6PM – 7:30PM Get Tickets: Register Don’t pass up this chance to hear directly from two of Australian football’s most significant and inspirational people. Say my name, please. Say Hibaq Farah, Niamh … Read more

Champions of Change: Mackenzie Arnold & Tony Gustavsson – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: Sydney Town Hall, 483 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 10 June, 2024 5PM – 6:30PM Buy Tickets: From $89 Join Mackenzie Arnold, the renowned goalkeeper and captain of West Ham United for the CommBank Matildas, and Tony Gustavsson, the head coach of the team that brought Australia together in 2023, for this thought-provoking … Read more

Golden Age of Humanity Film Festival – Vivid Sydney

Location: Golden Age Cinema & Bar, 80 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Dates: From 25 May, 2024 Buy Tickets: From $24 Nine great Australians, nine outstanding films, and nine evenings at Surry Hills’ renowned Golden Age Cinema. Nine renowned Australians have been chosen for their personal connection to Vivid Sydney’s 2024 topic of humanity, … Read more

After The Fact – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: Rekodo, Barangaroo House, Level 1/35 Barangaroo Ave, Barangaroo NSW 2000 Dates: From 27 May, 2024 6PM – 7PM React in real time, go past the clickbait headlines, and gain a greater understanding of the world. Every weeknight during Vivid Sydney, sit back with a drink and watch the finest minds discuss and debate the … Read more

Fred’s x Max Coen | Vivid Chef Series – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: Fred’s,  380 Oxford St, Paddington NSW 2021 Dates: 26 – 29 MAY, 2024 5:30PM – 11PM Fred’s cosy, rustic setting combines the allure of flame-cooking, seasonal produce, and London cool with a Sydney farm-to-table favourite. Max Coen of Dorian, a Notting Hill hotspot, collaborates with Ben Greeno, executive chef of Paddington icon Fred’s, for … Read more

AALIA x Ivan Brehm | Vivid Chef Series – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: AALIA, 25 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 11 – 12 June, 2024 5:30PM – 11PM Aalia x Ivan Brehm Vivid Chef Series Composite AALIA’s pleasant, sophisticated ambiance brings together modern European “crossroads cooking” with the depth and range of Middle Eastern food. Gaze out over Martin Place as you tour the globe and … Read more

The Charles x Sally Abé | Vivid Chef Series – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: The Charles, 66 King Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Buy Tickets: Price From $85.00* Dates: 28 – 30 May, 2024  12AM – 11PM Settle into a plush leather booth for this Chef Series match that combines robust but polished British nostalgia with traditional French luxury. Sally Abé of The Pem, a London fine-dining establishment, will join … Read more

Lighting of the Sails: Echo by Julia Gutman – Vivid Sydney 2024

Dates: 24 May – 15 June 2024, 6PM – 11PM Location: Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000 Commissioned for Vivid LIVE 2024 by Destination NSW and the Sydney Opera House. As we are taken into the murky realm of Narcissus, denim, hessian, and a sewn and bundled patchwork of leftover material all become our reality. Here, we are left to ponder what it means to really see oneself as we navigate the textural folds of the narrative. Witness the Sydney Opera House’s renowned sails being covered in large sections of Julia Gutman’s textured artwork for Lighting of the Sails: Retell and reimagine the fable of Narcissus by Roman poet Ovid. This is not just a reimagining of an old tale, but also a clash between antiquated methods and cutting-edge technology. Donated fabrics have been turned into an animated, timely epic by Julia and Pleasant Company through the digitization of centuries-old fabric production skills. Our protagonist appears to us in a fantasia of materials. A girl with a face sewed from an old hessian bag, hair created from her mother’s scarf, and a striped t-shirt. She finds herself pulled into a metaphorical pool by her own reflection. She is thrust into the unknown and has to make her way through perilous denim rivers and stony satin subsoils. Echo uses dance, music, and puppetry to portray a tale of courage, wonder, and vulnerability. It unites the dark and the light, the imagined and the actual, the public and the private. Echo is a reminder to examine ourselves and confront our shadows. You’ll be thinking about its beauty and weirdness long after the lights go off and the fabric has fallen away.

Tekno Train by Paul Mac – Vivid Sydney 2024

Location: Central Station Grand Concourse, Railway Collonade Dr, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 Buy Tickets: From $19 With a vacation unlike any other, “it’s the journey, not the destination” will take on new meaning. All aboard this unique auditory experience, as an ordinary commuter train transforms into an incredible voyage. … Read more