VIVID Sydney 2015 program shines

Now the world's largest festival of light, music and ideas, this year VIVID expands to three new precincts.
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Transcendence pop-up bar and new media art installation by Joseph Crossley. Render by Ample Projects. Image: supplied

For 18 nights, from 22 May – 8 June, Vivid will engulf Sydney’s harbour, its foreshore and its urban precincts.

This week, the festival program was launched by Premier Mike Baird and Destination NSW Chief Executive Officer Sandra Chipchase. Chipchase said that 1.43 million attended the festival in 2014, making it the largest festival of its kind in the world.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina