Wednesday 29 June 2016

Sydney Opera House, Vivid Sydney, Songlines

The Sydney Opera House was illuminated for the Vivid Sydney Festival which ran from 22 May to 18 June 2016. Vivid Sydney is a festival of light, music and ideas now in its eighth year and the biggest festival of its type in the world. This year's "Lighting the Sails" display is called "Songlines", featuring contemporary indigenous artworks by Karla Dickens, Djon Mundine, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Reko Rennie, Donny Woolagoodja, and the late Gulumbu Yunupingu.

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful. Your second to last shot is my favourite of these.

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  2. That is so very cool. We only get a pink lit Capitol building from time to time.

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  3. Amazing sights.
    Thank you for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/06/lovely-san-juan.html

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    1. Irene, it's an annual event so you should come and see it. :)

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  5. Do they have a contest on which designs would appear here?

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    1. I think they commission someone different every year to create the designs and they engage the artists to create them.

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  6. Great, it's even more impressive than normal.

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  7. The Opera house did look gorgeous... Lovely captures.

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