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Vivid festival allure dims with big drop in visitors

The shine has come off Sydney's Vivid Festival with a big drop in visitor figures from the previous year and some blaming prices for its decline in popularity.

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Vivid Sydney Punters Are Slamming The Fkd Price Of Its Sausage Sizzle On Reddit: ‘UnAustralian’

“Almost triple the price of Bunnings.”

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Vivid needs better crowd management, Chris Minns says after bottlenecks cause ‘near miss’

People attending drone show at Sydney’s winter light festival feared crush and were left feeling trapped and panicked

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Concerns over crowd control at Sydney's Vivid Festival

Additional police will be on duty after larger than expected crowds prompted security concerns around Sydney Harbour after a drone show at the Vivid festival.

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Footage Of The Crowds At Vivid Sydney Are Doing The Rounds On TikTok & It’s Making Me Nauseous

"I would much rather take a dump in my hands and clap than be amongst this!"

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Vivid Sydney’s future seems bright if it can balance spectacle with subtlety – but challenges abound

It’s the year 2008, and some members of the International Association of Lighting Designers are gathered in a boardroom in North Sydney, myself included. My colleagues Mary-Anne Kyriakou (who would later be Vivid’s inaugural festival director) and Michael Day are sharing a vision of what’s almost unthinkable at the time.

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Sydney Opera House illuminated with art for Vivid

Animated projections of Julia Gutman's art will feature on the Sydney Opera House, with the sails illuminated each night of the Vivid festival until June 15.

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Vivid Sydney a budget option for switched-on families

Nearly 3.5 million came to Vivid Sydney in 2023, but organisers are optimistic a fresh record could be set in the festival's latest edition.

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Have you ever broken a bone? The law? A heart? How an encounter with a stranger changed me

A moving, unsettling social experiment staged as part of Vivid festival brings people together, two at a time

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Stock of the Week Under $10: Vivid Seats (SEAT)

It’s not headline news anymore, because we saw it constantly in 2023, the concert market…aka Taylor Swift…is strong and shows no signs of weakening. As inflation eases and consumers find themselves with a little more disposable income, this market should continue to see a bright future. One company that is…

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Sydney music scene 'better than ever' but needs a stage

A revival of underground music in Sydney, particularly across the west, has the potential to take on the globe if the right infrastructure is in place.

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“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

Guitar World

“I still have the strings I used on that session in a Ziploc bag”: Listen to Muzz Skillings' isolated bassline on Cult of Personality

Muzz Skillings kept things fresh on this heavy, riff-based smash from Living Colour's debut album

Guitar World

Top Videos: Kazoo record broken as NZ explodes

Jennifer Coolidge offered some life advice while in Sydney and there was a Melania Trump mix-up while her husband appeared in court.

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Vivid Sydney outraged many by charging for the botanic garden. But is the show worth it?

The festival has been called ‘obscene’ and ‘mean’ for ticketing a previously free space. We send a family of four to find out if the anger is justified

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7 Things Worth Checking Out At Vivid Sydney, From Someone Who’s Actually Been To Them

For both people who have $$$ and those who would rather just do the free shit.

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Vivid festival director Gill Minervini wants people to have fun — and think a little along the way

Festival director Gill Minervini is experienced in running big events, but the large scale of Sydney Vivid is something else for the self-confessed "festival junkie".

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Sydney lights up with Vivid Festival

The switch has been flicked for Sydney's annual Vivid Festival, marking the start of three weeks of lit-up visual displays, music, ideas and food.

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Sydney’s abandoned tram tunnels transformed into light spectacle for Vivid

Hidden platforms and connecting tunnels are having their lights turned back on for Dark Spectrum

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Warning Vivid Fans, The URL You’d Think Is For The Lights Fest Is Actually An Adults Only Link

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‘Hey Australia’: The White Lotus’s Jennifer Coolidge and Mike White to appear at Sydney’s Vivid festival

Star and creator of show that’s taken the world by storm will discuss their careers at 2023 Vivid festival event

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Boost your Mac's brightness with this essential app — now cheaper than ever before

I've been using Vivid since its launch in April 2022, and its birthday deal is a fine excuse to buy it for your Mac too.

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Sydney’s Vivid Festival heads underground

A series of deserted railway tunnels running beneath Sydney's CBD will soon transform into an electronic dance music and light extravaganza. The

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‘I’m not humble’: Artist Ken Done delivers colourful speech as 2022 Australian fashion laureate

The painter known for his vivacious Australiana prints accepted the award with a 10-minute speech that elicited laughter and some uncomfortable silences

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Inside the 'true story' of Kim Kardashian's sex tape leak, according to Ray J

Kim Kardashian shot to fame after a sex tape she made with her previous boyfriend Ray J from 2002 was leaked in 2007, which the singer has since claimed Kris Jenner orchestrated

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