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The Age
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
We asked Nigella Lawson where she'd eat in Sydney if she had a day to roam
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger international fan of Sydney's and Australia's food scenes than British cookbook and TV personality Nigella Lawson. You just need to look at her Instagram account to see her enthuse about the restaurants she has visited here over the years. It's why Vivid's creative director, Gill Minervini, invited Lawson to host three dinners as part of this year's festival. Just before the 280 guests arrived for her three-course curated dinner in the reimagined Muru Giligu Tunnel in Martin Place, Good Food snared 10 minutes of her time to talk about her favourite topic: eating. You're a big advocate of Sydney's food scene. Why? I haven't eaten in every city in the world, but the reason why I love eating in Sydney is that I think the food is extraordinarily good. There are chefs who are really inspirational for me, but it's done in an informal setting. I don't mean Sydney itself, but at restaurants. What interests me is really exquisite food but [done] in a rather relaxed, unpretentious setting so it feels very inclusive … Obviously, the variety of food in Sydney is enormous, and I think that's partly because, like all port cities, there are people from so many different cultures, and that feeds into the food culture. But there's a particular sort of attitude, an Australian attitude, which is perhaps less bound by tradition so it'll allow itself to drink in and absorb many cultures, and then somehow will spin them and merge them and come up with something that is very direct, very unpretentious, very Australian, and that's fascinating.
Sydney Morning Herald
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
We asked Nigella Lawson where she'd eat in Sydney if she had a day to roam
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger international fan of Sydney's and Australia's food scenes than British cookbook and TV personality Nigella Lawson. You just need to look at her Instagram account to see her enthuse about the restaurants she has visited here over the years. It's why Vivid's creative director, Gill Minervini, invited Lawson to host three dinners as part of this year's festival. Just before the 280 guests arrived for her three-course curated dinner in the reimagined Muru Giligu Tunnel in Martin Place, Good Food snared 10 minutes of her time to talk about her favourite topic: eating. You're a big advocate of Sydney's food scene. Why? I haven't eaten in every city in the world, but the reason why I love eating in Sydney is that I think the food is extraordinarily good. There are chefs who are really inspirational for me, but it's done in an informal setting. I don't mean Sydney itself, but at restaurants. What interests me is really exquisite food but [done] in a rather relaxed, unpretentious setting so it feels very inclusive … Obviously, the variety of food in Sydney is enormous, and I think that's partly because, like all port cities, there are people from so many different cultures, and that feeds into the food culture. But there's a particular sort of attitude, an Australian attitude, which is perhaps less bound by tradition so it'll allow itself to drink in and absorb many cultures, and then somehow will spin them and merge them and come up with something that is very direct, very unpretentious, very Australian, and that's fascinating.
Sky News AU
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Vivid decides to make most attractions free due to cost of living crisis
Vivid Festival Director Gill Minervini says the decision to make 80 per cent of Vivid's attractions free is because 'the cost-of-living crisis is very real for all of us'. 'The crowds have been great, the response has been really good,' Ms Minervini said. More than a million people have attended the light festival already, with attendance being up 10 per cent from last year.
Sydney Morning Herald
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The must-see installations and projections at this year's Vivid Light festival
It's a week out from the 15th edition of the Vivid Light festival and Sydney is looking like a bare Christmas tree before it is dressed with baubles – but that process is well under way. Along the harbour foreshore, and in the open spaces around it, eight kilometres of fibre-optic cable have been laid to bring to life 44 light installations and projections around the theme of 'dream' for the 23-night festival, kicking off May 23. The 2025 program has increased the number of standalone projections and installations by almost 50 per cent, compared with 2024. This year, the entire Vivid Light Walk from Central Station to Circular Quay is free. 'What visitors see is artistic brilliance but behind the scenes is a remarkable feat of logistics and teamwork,' says Gill Minervini, in her final year as Vivid festival director. 'We're talking 12 kilometres of temporary fencing, nearly 9000 square metres of event flooring and eight kilometres of fibre-optic cable bringing the installations and projections to life. 'Our team co-ordinates 72 different event management plans, 280 traffic plans and deploys approximately 3500 operational staff and volunteers across all agencies and suppliers. 'It truly takes a village to create and execute Australia's biggest event and as soon as the festival ends we essentially begin planning for the following year.' The Bangkok-based ONGA group is behind Lumina Dream, six teardrop-shaped steel structures at Barangaroo that were still being installed on a wet Friday. Three stand six metres tall, another three are four metres, all covered by a special blue dichroic film. Prefabricated in Thailand before being shipped to Sydney, they are to be installed with sensors that can measure wind direction and speed, temperature and humidity.
The Age
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The must-see installations and projections at this year's Vivid Light festival
It's a week out from the 15th edition of the Vivid Light festival and Sydney is looking like a bare Christmas tree before it is dressed with baubles – but that process is well under way. Along the harbour foreshore, and in the open spaces around it, eight kilometres of fibre-optic cable have been laid to bring to life 44 light installations and projections around the theme of 'dream' for the 23-night festival, kicking off May 23. The 2025 program has increased the number of standalone projections and installations by almost 50 per cent, compared with 2024. This year, the entire Vivid Light Walk from Central Station to Circular Quay is free. 'What visitors see is artistic brilliance but behind the scenes is a remarkable feat of logistics and teamwork,' says Gill Minervini, in her final year as Vivid festival director. 'We're talking 12 kilometres of temporary fencing, nearly 9000 square metres of event flooring and eight kilometres of fibre-optic cable bringing the installations and projections to life. 'Our team co-ordinates 72 different event management plans, 280 traffic plans and deploys approximately 3500 operational staff and volunteers across all agencies and suppliers. 'It truly takes a village to create and execute Australia's biggest event and as soon as the festival ends we essentially begin planning for the following year.' The Bangkok-based ONGA group is behind Lumina Dream, six teardrop-shaped steel structures at Barangaroo that were still being installed on a wet Friday. Three stand six metres tall, another three are four metres, all covered by a special blue dichroic film. Prefabricated in Thailand before being shipped to Sydney, they are to be installed with sensors that can measure wind direction and speed, temperature and humidity.
