Vivid Sydney announces line-up
Last week, the NSW Government and Destination NSW, with Vivid Sydney’s creative director and curators, announced the Vivid Sydney 2016 line-up.
This year’s program is the longest yet, illuminating Sydney and hosting vibrant music performances and big ideas talks for 23 nights from Friday 27 May to Saturday 18 June.
Key highlights include:
– Expansion into Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Taronga Zoo
– Over 80 light installations and projections
– Björk, New Order and Bon Iver for Vivid Music
– Superstar storytellers Spike Jonze, Jenji Kohan, Beau Willimon for Vivid Ideas
Destination NSW Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer-Vivid Sydney, Sandra Chipchase said, “This year Vivid Sydney is back with an incredible program where art, creativity and innovation meet, and are celebrated by local and international visitors.”
“Vivid Sydney delivers the world’s leading light artists in Vivid Light, cutting-edge musicians in Vivid Music, and creative innovators in Vivid Ideas. In 2015 the festival attracted a record 1.7 million attendees, and this year visitors to Vivid Sydney will have longer to experience the wonder of Vivid Sydney, and enjoy our biggest year yet.”
In a Vivid Sydney first, the sails of the world-heritage listed Sydney Opera House will celebrate the rich and diverse work of Australia’s Indigenous artists through the projection, Songlines. This exceptional work of art is directed by Sydney Opera House Head of Indigenous Programming, Rhoda Roberts of the Bundjalung Nation of NSW, and brings together six Indigenous artists whose work illustrates the extraordinary connections between Indigenous astronomy and the natural world – the celestial and terrestrial Songlines that weave through time and distance, earth and sky.
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