The Sydney Festival is an annual arts event held each January. It features all sorts of performing and visual arts events, talks and film.
We attended a show at the Parramatta Riverside theatre.
These cute stencils were along the footpaths, and I thought the diving swimmer one was rather appropriate for me.
The Sydney Opera House was illuminated for the Vivid Sydney festival which ran from the 27th May to the 13th June. The “Lighting the Sails” animations were created by a team from France called Superbien.
This artwork was hung above a walkway at Circular Quay during the Vivid Sydney festival. The spatial installation takes the theme of this yea’s festival “Let there be Light” to hark back to the beginning of time, before city light pollution dimmed our view of scattered stars. “Crystallized” was created by Andrew Daly and Katharine Fife from 4000 edge-lit acrylic, recyclable rods like a canopy of glittering stalactites in a cave. The programmed LEDs gave a fluctuating colourful abstraction of a starry night sky that you could wander beneath.
The Sydney Opera House is illuminated every year for the Vivid Sydney festival. This year’s “Lighting the Sails” was created by a team from France called Superbien. These designs were rather more difficult to photograph than in previous years because they were so animated.
This heritage building lit up for the Vivid Sydney festival was the Officers House in colonial days. The “Officers House” design was created by Vessi Ivanova and Thomas Stevens from Australia. The building was painted with dynamic light colours inside and outside, which constantly changed.
This row of heritage terrace houses in George Street at The Rocks was lit up for the Vivid Sydney festival. “The Georges” was a design by Gordon Watson, using waves of colour to highlight both the diversity of the residents who lived here over the years and the ever changing population as older residents move on and new dwellers arrive.
The Garrison Church at Millers Point is one of many buildings that has been lit up around the city for the third annual Vivid Sydney festival which this year runs from 27th May to 13th June.