Vivid Ideas

Vivid Sydney is Australia’s largest festival celebrating creativity, innovation and technology, and transforms Sydney into a kaleidoscope of colour and events when it returns in 2023 for 23 nights from Friday 26 May to Saturday 17 June. 

Australia’s largest event and the pioneer of light-based art and culture festivals will deliver the biggest and most culturally relevant program in its event history. 

This year, Vivid Sydney presents some of the world’s most innovative artists, talented music makers and thought leaders, which also recognises the significant contribution of First Nations peoples and cultures to the creative industries.

Vivid Ideas will bring together the world’s brightest minds and creative leader reflecting this year’s festival theme,‘Vivid Sydney, Naturally’. The Vivid Ideas program will include 60 intriguing talks and workshops, including the Global Storytellers, Vivid Ideas Exchange events, immersive experiences and partner events, allowing audiences to challenge the status quo, explore human nature and ask: what can we learn from nature?