Spectacular Vivid Sydney Cruises

Vivid Lights 2019 is best enjoyed from a luxury Vivid Sydney dinner cruise! When you go on board a unique paddlewheeler with dinner, drinks and show, you can’t ask for more on a Vivid harbour cruise! See all light installations that make the harbour city spectacular and cruise in complete luxury!

Sydney lights up at the same time for two weeks during its world-renowned festival of lights, music and ideas, every year. A rage that is incomparable to any other event in Sydney, or even Australia, Vivid witnesses people from all over the world coming down to marvel the art and technology.

Sydney Harbour and its Vivid Sydney cruises have always been a part of the festival right from the start. With the crowd numbers climbing up each year, Vivid dinner cruises have also turned into sought-after venues that offer unobstructed views to all attractions and illuminations, away from the crowds. With choices as varying as possible and set to suit all budgets, Vivid harbour cruises have become an inseparable element of the whole festival, noted to be one of the most happening events in the harbour city.

With everything from Vivid Sydney dinner cruises to Opera House ticketed events becoming a must-do for all, let's take a quick walk through the journey of this event and learn how it shaped up.

2009, the year when it all began, saw the first-ever Vivid Sydney event. The legendary lighting of the Opera House sails was kicked off this very same year by Brian Eno. Now a key attraction, sails of Opera House light up every year with patterns and images that talk of a theme unique to that particular year.

What's more, soon the festival of lights shaped up into more. Vivid Music came into picture and started to add an entirely different crowd of attendees to the event. Vivid 2012 witnessed American R’n’B singer Janelle Monae deliver one of Vivid's most memorable performances in Concert Hall. The following year saw an evolution of both lights and music come together to create a gigantic audio-visual effect on one an all. Noted amongst these were performances by Electro pioneers Kraftwerk, who had everyone on their feet while performing eight of their most famous albums in a mind-blowing, effects-laden show!

Then began the generation of interactive displays that had the audience participating in the effects. A hit with all ages right from kids to old, interactive sound and light installations led to more social media mentions and the event became even more popular. Out of the many, sculptures like 'Screaming Rapture' in First Fleet Park, where the audience had to scream loud to activate the lights and effects are talked about till date.

Soon, just Lights and Music wasn't enough. Not different to the human nature of evolving in to bigger and better things, the festival also began to grow into an entirely new platform, one of Vivid Ideas. With art and technology already in place, all that the event needed was a platform to share innovative and powerful ideas transforming it into a magnet for the intellectuals. From global warming to equal human rights to the change in art scene, every topic of significance found a platform where it can be addressed to great detail and effect. The themes of the festival also started to get attuned to the ideas that held the power to transform the world.
With its platform being open to everything new and life-changing, Vivid promises to add more vibrance to our lives every passing years. Come and brighten your life up with Vivid Lights, this 2019.