Vivid Sydney

So some of you readers may have heard that we have been going to Vivid Sydney. Here is a description of this from the Vivid Sydney website.

"Vivid Sydney is a 23-day festival of light, music and ideas. Vivid Sydney features many of the world's most important creative industry forums, a mesmerising free public exhibition of outdoor lighting sculptures and installations and a cutting-edge contemporary music program.

Vivid Sydney is where art, technology and commerce intersect."

"Vivid Sydney, now in its ninth year, is Australia's major event in winter and is recognised as the largest event of its kind in the world combining light, music and ideas. Vivid Sydney is owned, managed and produced by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency.

Vivid Sydney is where art, technology and commerce intersect.  The program features large scale light installations and projections (Vivid Light); music performances and collaborations (Vivid Music including Vivid LIVE at the Sydney Opera House); and creative ideas, discussion and debate (Vivid Ideas). All three celebrate Sydney as a creative hub of the Asia-Pacific.

Vivid Sydney was recently recognised by the International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA) and received 12 accolades at the 2016 IFEA Pinnacle Awards, winning Gold in the Grand Pinnacle Category. Vivid Sydney was also voted Australia’s Best Event in 2013 and Best Tourism Event in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Here is a link of more on the light, music and ideas aspect. https://www.vividsydney.com/about-vivid-sydney

 Needless to say this is a pretty big deal.  Here are a bunch of photos from Vivid Sydney 2017.  We took the ferry over and they slow down and stop for a brief amount of time by the Opera House and the Bridge to take photos.  Pretty darn cool.  

Interactive Hopscotch

So you wore these headphones and were able to listen to 3 different types of music
and look and video at the screens below.

Aram went to the end to get his face in the photo...other people were laughing.

Exhibit called "Bird Dip" and it dipped into a water pond...See Kristine!!!

Reflection in water

So you can see this is pretty amazing.  Sorry for some of the blurry pictures.  Still working on the night photos with my new camera.  Vivid Sydney ends on Saturday and Aram and I both said it's going to be weird seeing the Bridge and the Opera House just normally lit up.  We really like the interactive designs and colors.

Hope all is well!  Miss everyone!

xoxo, Ann & Aram