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Sydney in Winter Featuring Vivid Sydney 2014 Love Every Second YOUR GUIDE TO SYDNEY IN WINTER FEATURING VIVID SYDNEY 2014 LOVE EVERY SECOND PLAN YOUR MAKE THE MOST GREAT SHORT TRIP TO VIVID OF SYDNEY THIS BREAKS TO SYDNEY 2014! WINTER REGIONAL NSW THE BEST OF SYDNEY AND NSW IN WINTER There’s a very special feeling in the air in Sydney during the Winter period. From April right through to August, the city comes alive day and night with a packed line-up of world-class events, including Vivid Sydney, awarded Australian Event of the Year for 2013. Start planning your very own Sydney in Winter experience right now. Whether you’re here for the school holidays with your kids, on a short break to enjoy the many Vivid Sydney events, or attending a sports match, musical or film festival, you’ll find Sydney in Winter has something for everyone. CONNECT WITH VIVID SYDNEY CONTENTS facebook.com/vividsydney The Best of Sydney & NSW in Winter 3 Plan Your Trip 19 twitter.com/vividsydney Vivid 2014 Highlights 4 Acknowledgements 20 VIVID SYDNEY 2014 IT'S ON IN NSW @vividsydney FOOD & WINE Vivid is now in its sixth year! It’s time to Sydney and NSW come alive in Winter Sydney’s dining scene is dynamic. #vividsydney Lighting the Sails 5 Sydney Operas & Musicals 21 - 23 start planning your very own Vivid Sydney with an action-packed calendar of Whether you’re travelling solo, with plus.google.com/+vividsydney Vivid Light Walk 6 - 7 Sydney Sports 24 - 25 experience so you don't miss out on the world-class festivals, operas, musicals friends or with family, you will find highlights. Find out what’s on, where and championship sports events. Start a city that has the full spectrum of youtube.com/vividsydney Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 8 Sydney 2014 Event Highlights 26 - 27 to book tickets and where to go for planning your own events calendar for dining options to suit all budgets. facebook.com/vividideas Customs House & Martin Place 9 It's ON! in 2015 28 more information. the year ahead! twitter.com/vivid_ideas Sydney Harbour Bridge 10 Nature & Outdoors 29 vividsydney.com Harbour Lights & North Sydney 11 Food & Wine 30 CONNECT WITH SYDNEY Darling Harbour 12 - 13 Shopping & Culture 31 facebook.com/seesydney The Star 13 Family Fun 32 twitter.com/sydney_sider Vivid Music 14 - 15 Regional NSW Short Breaks 34 - 36 @sydney Vivid Ideas 16 Regional NSW Events 37 #ilovesydney During Vivid 17 Regional NSW 2014 Event Highlights 38 plus.google.com/+sydney Vivid 2014 Map 18 sydney.com CONNECT WITH REGIONAL NSW Proudly Presented by SHOPPING & CULTURE FAMILY FUN REGIONAL SHORT BREAKS facebook.com/visitnsw You will love every second of shopping Planning a fun holiday in Sydney with the Why not stay a bit longer and head out twitter.com/nswtips in Sydney. With the best malls and kids is easy. There are plenty of family- to one of the beautiful regions that are department stores, markets, boutiques friendly attractions and activities that can within three hours of Sydney. There’s @ visitnsw and pop-up stores, there's plenty to be as action-packed or as chilled-out as a world of amazing nature experiences #newsouthwales choose from. Shopping close to the city you like. Accommodation options are to enjoy in many stunning locations. Cover image: Vivid Sydney 2013. Image of The Spinifex Group projection. Image used under licence from the Sydney includes Bondi, Paddington, Surry Hills, many and varied, while eating out with Start planning your short break now! plus.google.com/+visitnsw Opera House Trust. Photo: James Horan Newtown, Balmain, Mosman and Manly. the kids is affordable and fun. Destination NSW acknowledges and appreciates all the images supplied by photographers and event owners for use in this visitnsw.com magazine. Events and other information are subject to change without notice. For full disclaimer, please see back cover. VIVID 2014 HIGHLIGHTS LIGHTING THE SAILS More than 50 spectacular light installations and sculptures, 3D-mapped building projections, the Lighting of the Sails of the Sydney Opera House… Vivid Sydney is back in 2014 for 18 days and nights to light up Sydney in Winter. SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CIRCULAR QUAY See the stunning Lighting This colourful precinct is of the Sails, book tickets to part of the Light Walk and a Vivid LIVE show from the has good access to ferries extraordinary contemporary and Customs House, plus music line-up, join a many harbourside cafés, backstage tour and visit the bars and restaurants. pop-up restaurant and bar. MARTIN PLACE THE ROCKS Vivid’s new precinct comes Follow the amazing Light alive with spectacular light Walk and discover the installations. Head to a cosy lighting installations bar or restaurant located in around the precinct. See or near Martin Place before 3D-mapped projections checking out more of onto the MCA, and chill out Vivid Sydney. at a cool bar or restaurant. WALSH BAY NORTH SYDNEY Explore the western branch Use a touchscreen to of the Light Walk, enjoy light up the bridge before a drink in a harbourside walking across (or catching bar or restaurant, or check a ferry) to the city, see the out what’s on at Sydney Lighting of the Sails from Theatre and Wharf Theatre. afar and enjoy plenty of FESTIVAL FAVOURITE casual dining options. The Lighting of the Sydney Opera House Sails tells the world that Vivid Sydney is on, and thrills residents and visitors alike. This year, Vivid LIVE has commissioned HARBOUR LIGHTS DARLING HARBOUR award-winning international artists, Travel around Sydney This is the home of Vivid 59 Productions, to create a new projection Harbour aboard one of its Aquatique Water Theatre artwork for the sails. Lauded for developing newest and most colourful as well as the Australian 'the most sophisticated use of film in attractions. Selected ferries National Maritime the theatre to date' (Metro) and creating and cruise vessels depart Museum’s rooftop 'an entirely new art form' (The Guardian, from Circular Quay and King projections, bars, cafés UK), 59 Productions now takes the iconic Street Wharf. and restaurants. building on a dramatic journey through time – from the birth of architecture and civilisation through to the pinnacle of human and technological achievement. SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE THE STAR CARRIAGEWORKS During Vivid the Sydney Opera Kitchen, where you can indulge in the The Star joins Vivid Sydney Modular and Carriageworks When: Every night from 6pm to midnight, House offers an exciting range of food of celebrated chefs and sushi as the entire facade of the takes over the main stage 23 May – 9 June, 2014 entertainment and experiences. artists. Pre-theatre dining and drinks Astral Tower, The Darling during Vivid Music. Three Where: Sydney Opera House, are available at Bistro Mozart, or enjoy hotel and the Sky Terrace days of music, installations It’s home to Vivid-inspired menus, Western Facade. bubbles, cocktails and snacks at one of rooftop are transformed and ideas in a funky late-night live music, Winter’s best pop-up bar and café scene, as well as the many Theatre Bars before a Vivid into a light show. inner-city venue with LIVE show. You can also sample the fare fabulous bars and food. backstage guided tours. Best places to eat include Opera Bar – the ultimate from Sydney’s best food trucks on the Sydney dining destination – and Opera Opera House Forecourt. Nearby, Clapiconia loves to perform and is set to become one of the most popular interactive light sculptures this year. Create your own clapping rhythm and you’ll be rewarded with a playful sound VIVID LIGHT WALK and light show in response. If you’ve ever fancied yourself as a plate-spinner, you will really enjoy Circus of Light. Glowing plates suspended mid-air whirl and change colour in a mesmerising display. Terra Incognita brings to life the diaries and sketches of Douglas Mawson’s expedition to Antarctica in 1911. Located inside the Cleland Bond building, the show is designed for both fully sighted and visually impaired visitors. Brush up your ‘green’ knowledge while having some fun at Evolution, located the Vivid Light Walk and commemorates in Campbells Cove. Use a touchscreen one of the earliest ‘collaborations’ VIVID PHOTOGRAPHY to compare light sources from old- between the original custodians of the land and the new settlers. fashioned tungsten filaments to cool Looking for helpful hints to capture LED lights. You’ll also get an update Continue around to Walsh Bay and the colours of Vivid Sydney? on power consumption, luminance discover Sydney’s newest art precinct, Representatives from Canon and colour temperature. where there are more amazing Australia will be in the Light Walk A comforting white globe appears in installations. If you’ve ever wondered what precinct to help you get the best the darkness, encouraging you to reach fishing in the dark is like, Lunar Net gives results. For useful camera tips go out and touch it. Create your own sparks you a taste of the experience with a ghostly to canon.com.au/imagespectrum light sculpture that’s suspended beneath of light by connecting with this lovely Vantage points for photographers historic wharves. The nets gleam in the sculpture known as Sphera. After you are located around the harbour night light, voices travel across the water, walk beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge from North Sydney and Luna Park and light is reflected everywhere. Hang pylon to Walsh Bay, a projection calls to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, out with LOL, located on the waters of the to you from the living rock. The Spirit Dawes Point, Cockle Bay and bay, for possibly the most rewarding laugh Vivid Sydney’s dazzling Light Walk takes you on a magical journey through more of Patyegarang commemorates the Pyrmont Bridge.
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