Event Listing Alert: Vivid Sydney 2015

Event Listing Alert: Vivid Sydney 2015

SYDNEY, Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivid Sydney, the largest light, music and ideas event in the Southern Hemisphere, is set to impress once again when it returns toSydney in 2015. The 18 day event, named Best Tourism Event at the Australian Event Awards in 2014, is on from22 May to 8 June in 2015, which is also the International Year of Light.

<http://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20141210/8521407414-b> Vivid Sydney 2014 Lighting the Sails Sydney Opera House James Horan Destination NSW Owned and managed by Destination New South Wales, the State Government's Tourism and Major Events agency, Vivid Sydney attracted more than 1.43 million people in 2014.

Destination NSW CEO Sandra Chipchase said, "Vivid Sydney dazzles visitors with its creative and entertaining line-up of performances, light displays and installations. As it continues to become more popular every year, I encourage visitors to start planning their trips to Vivid Sydney now."

Heading into its seventh year, Vivid Sydney celebrates the creative industries. Much of the festival is free and includes large scale light installations and projections as part ofVivid Light; music performances and collaborations as part ofVivid Music; and creative ideas, discussion and debate as part ofVivid Ideas.

Event listing alert to add to your diaries now:

What:

Vivid Sydney 2015

The largest light, music and ideas event in the Southern Hemisphere, Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries.

Vivid Sydney includes:

Vivid Light:

 

Free, outdoors and amazing art installations transform Sydney's architecture and open spaces

Vivid Music:

 

Music collaborations and performances to entertain and intrigue including Vivid LIVE at the Sydney Opera House

Vivid Ideas:

 

Creative ideas, public talks, industry seminars, conferences, workshops and debates

 

When:

22 May – 8 June 2015

Where:

Sydney, Australia

Locations across the CBD including lighting projections along the harbour foreshore spectacularly transforming Sydney Opera House, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Customs House, First Fleet Park and many more

More:

For images of and media releases of Vivid Sydney 2014 go to www.vividsydney.com/media-centre/ <http://www.vividsydney.com/media-centre/>

Full program for Vivid Sydney 2015 to be announced over the coming months.

Note to editors about Vivid Sydney:

Vivid Light expanded into more precincts than ever before in 2014, taking the event to a new level. For the first time in 2014, the harbour joined in with Harbour Lights lighting up ferries and vessels, the new CBD precinctMartin Place impressed audiences with giant light installations, and new Vivid programming at Carriageworks, the Seymour Centre,Sydney University and The Basement provided ongoing enjoyment for festival goers.

Long-term favourites including the Lighting the Sails of the Sydney Opera House, the sandstone facades of Customs House and the Museum of Contemporary Art, the lighting of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Darling Harbour and the foreshore running from East Circular Quay right around to Campbell's Cove andWalsh Bay once again hypnotised audiences with their impressive light projections and installations.

Vivid Music also expanded into new precincts and venues around the city in 2014 with a bigger and better program than ever before and an exciting line-up of performances. Offering more than 50 musical events at theSydney Opera House, Carriageworks, the Seymour Centre and the Basement, Vivid Music sold more than 15,000 tickets and Vivid LIVE, the core of Vivid Music at theSydney Opera House, sold more than 37,000 tickets.  

Vivid Ideas brings together the best and brightest creative minds from Australia and overseas and in 2014 it attracted more than 34,000 people. In 2014 there were 200 creative industry events as part of Vivid Ideas, with over 550 speakers. Vivid Ideas will have plenty to inform and inspire audiences in 2015, including the Australian premiere of Here Lies Love at Barangaroo inSydney.

Media enquiries:To request a famil to Vivid Sydney or for more information for your event listings or Vivid Sydney stories, please contact:

Melissa Wilson, Melissa.wilson@dnsw.com.au <mailto:Melissa.wilson@dnsw.com.au> / +61-2-9931-1156Corinne Cowlishaw, Corinne.cowlishaw@dnsw.com.au <mailto:Corinne.cowlishaw@dnsw.com.au> / +61-2-9931-1462

<http://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20141210/8521407414-a> Vivid Sydney 2014 PlayMe Customs House Brett Hemmings Destination NSW Photo - http://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20141210/8521407414-b <http://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20141210/8521407414-b> Photo - http://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20141210/8521407414-a <http://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20141210/8521407414-a>



SOURCE Destination NSW

Destination NSW

Web Site: http://www.vividsydney.com


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