Vivid Sydney returns for its biggest year ever in 2013, with 3D light installations, the world’s biggest musical acts and over 130 talks and events to feed your mind.

The annual celebration of lights, music and ideas returns to Sydney Harbour and the biggest arts venues, this year tripling in size to include installations at Carriageworks and the Seymour Centre for the very first time.

The spectacular ‘Light Walk’ through Circular Quay will now extend from Fort Denison to the Port Tower, with Sydney-based company Spinifex taking on the lauded role of lighting the sails of the Opera House. Their 3D neon designs will be choreographed to audio tracks that can be accessed at ‘listening posts’ around the light walk, and on an FM frequency.

Vivid Ideas brings the world’s top thinkers and creatives to Sydney with 130 events taking place from 9am to 10pm every day of the festival in the MCA. Jess Scully’s illuminating program will also take over the Powerhouse Museum, the Overseas Passenger Terminal and the Seymour Centre with noted speakers from Colors magazine, Lucky Peach magazine, Johnny Cupcakes and many more.

Other highlights include a Ryoji Ikeda sculpture at Carriageworks, the Semi-Permanent festival and partnerships with Sydney Film Festival, mUmbrella360, SPARC and more.

Vivid LIVE brings the best musical acts from today, yesterday and tomorrow into the majestic Sydney Opera House, this year featuring the Kraftwerk 8 concert retrospective in 3D, the debut album performances of Australian bands Empire of the Sun and Cloud Control, as well as Bon Iver in the celebration of Sounds of the South.

Explore the life if Indigenous icon Gurrumul in the Gurrumul Project, as well as a screening of a Sunny Boys documentary followed by a performance by the lauded Sydney band.

For the full line-up visit the Vivid Sydney website.