Vivacity Event Categories
As part of Vivacity, the intensely colourful works of world-renouned artist Olafur Eliason set the tone for a vibrant month of cultural experience. Prepare to be immersed in multi-dimensional works, for your sense of place to be shifted and to see the world through a different lens.
And with a rich program of dance, theatre and visual arts Vivacity invites you to a different New Year in Sydney experience. The streets and alleyways will come alive with a host of performances big and small transforming the city landscape into a remarkable summer playground.
Take Your Time : Olafur Eliasson
Dates:
10 December 2009 - 11 April 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
Vivacity features one of the New Year’s hottest cultural events, the must-see contemporary art exhibition, Take your time: Olafur Eliasson at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). From the artist behind the hugely successful Weather Project ins ...
Lynette Wallworth Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
7 - 24 January 2010
Venue:
CarriageWorks
Sydney artist Lynette Wallworth's three installations are intense, immersive experiences. Wallworth makes skillful use of video and responsive technologies to create deeply emotional and human experiences. Acclaimed around the world as individual pi ...
19th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival & National Tour
Dates:
8 - 17 January 2010
Venue:
Bondi Pavilion
Flickerfest kicks off our summer cinema season under the stars at Bondi Beach, screening the best short films from Australia and the world in a unique and relaxed summer environment. For 2010, Flickerfest received over 1500 entries from aroun ...
Festival First Night Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
9 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney city streets and parks
Sydney’s city centre is transformed into an epic theatre of music, spectacle and surprise with Sydney Festival’s opening event – Festival First Night. Start in the afternoon with family-friendly entertainment in Hyde Park, headline ...
Hamlet Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
10 January 2010, 8 January 2010, 12 January 2010, 14 - 16 January 2010, 11 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Theatre
'Hamlet rages and blows across the stage, a Gollum on ecstasy, a mama’s boy, spoiled brat, an exploding nerd, who takes his feigned madness so far that it becomes his undoing.' - Süddeutsche Zeitung If you think you've seen Hamlet ...
Optimism Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
11 January 2010, 8 - 9 January 2010, 13 January - 14 February 2010
Venue:
Sydney Opera House
'A rollicking good night.' - The Glasgow Herald Turning a quizzical eye to the woes of the heart, and reeking with scandal and scurrilous vice, this production transforms Voltaire’s classic satire of enlightened insanity, Candide, into ...
The Arrival Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
13 January 2010, 15 January 2010, 15 January 2010, 10 January 2010, 16 January 2010, 11 January 2010, 17 January 2010, 14 January 2010, 13 January 2010
Venue:
CarriageWorks
'From the beginning, The Arrival held its audience in a state of rapture and curiosity.' - The Herald (NZ) What drives so many people to leave behind everything they know to journey alone to a land where the future is unknown? This question ...
A.R. Rahman Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
16 January 2010
Venue:
Parramatta Park
Sydney is transformed into Bollywood for a night like no other, when Indian superstar A.R. Rahman takes to the stage for this free outdoor spectacular. Rahman, two-time Oscar winner for his work as composer and songwriter on the film Slumdog ...
Edge of Elsewhere Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
16 January - 7 March 2010
Venue:
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Edge of Elsewhere is a major three-year project that brings together some of the most exciting contemporary artists from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific to develop new artworks in partnership with Sydney communities. Sydney is one of Australi ...
Giselle Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
20 January 2010, 22 January 2010, 26 January 2010, 24 January 2010, 23 January 2010, 25 January 2010
Venue:
CarriageWorks
'Brazenly and triumphantly new.' - The Guardian In the small town of Ballyfeeny where the cloud hangs low and people keep secrets for good reasons, a lonely Giselle McCreedy cares for her abusive brother. The town’s inhabitants are qui ...
Dark Matters Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
24 January 2010, 19 - 23 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Theatre
'Think William Forsythe with a woman’s touch, drawn more to beauty than its opposite.' - The Independent Dark Matters is a haunting portrait of the unknown, a performance that pulls itself apart in an attempt to discover what it’s made o ...
Happy as Larry Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
27 - 30 January 2010, 30 January 2010
Venue:
Seymour Centre
'Shaun Parker is a creative force to be reckoned with.' - The Advertiser What makes us happy? Nine remarkable performers with nine very distinctive personalities explore the elusive nature of human happiness in Shaun Parker’s latest d ...
Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
30 January 2010, 28 January 2010, 29 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Opera House
‘A potent theatrical experience.’ - The New Yorker By Igor Stravinsky With the Sydney Symphony and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Conductor Joana Carneiro, Director Peter Sellars With Rodrick Dixon, Ryan McKinny, Yvonne Kenny, Dan ...
Six Characters in Search of an Author Sydney Festival 2010
Dates:
30 January 2010, 26 - 30 January 2010, 27 January 2010, 19 - 20 January 2010, 22 - 24 January 2010, 23 - 24 January 2010, 31 January 2010
Venue:
Seymour Centre
'Madly ingenious... brilliant... breathtaking.' - The Independent Following its critically acclaimed run on London's West End, Headlong's radical re-imagining of this celebrated satire comes to Sydney Festival. Six strangers arrive unannoun ...
SAFETY AT EVENTS
Be sun safe
Eat well and drink plenty of water.
No BYO alcohol
and NO glass applies to many event sites. Be sure to familiarise yourself with where the restrictions apply by visiting the relevant event website.
It´s all about you
If you do drink, do it responsibly and look after yourself, your mates and your city.
Leave glass at home
and use recycled reusable containers instead.
Do not drink and drive
Plan your transport to and from events.
