A Citywide Celebration of Creativity, Day and Night: Vivid Sydney 2026 Program Revealed
Running from Friday 22 May to Saturday 13 June, the 23‑day program brings together the full breadth of the city’s creative identity across Vivid Light, Vivid Music, Vivid Minds and Vivid Food. More than 80 per cent of the festival remains free, including the entire Vivid Light Walk, an unbroken 6.5‑kilometre journey featuring over 43 installations and projections created by acclaimed local and international artists. Minister for Jobs and Tourism, Steve Kamper, said Vivid Sydney will be bigger and better than ever before. “No other city in the world can host Vivid, because no other city in the world has what Sydney has to offer. Vivid Sydney 2026 will redefine how…
The Woman Who Cooks from Memory: Celebrating Puan Sri Nisa Bakri
Some people cook to feed. Others cook to express. And then there are the rare few who cook to remember — to honour a lineage, to carry a culture forward, and to share something of themselves with every single person who sits at their table. Puan Sri Nisa Bakri belongs to that rare few. At the ASEAN Food & Travel Awards 2026, held at the Manhattan Ballroom of Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, she was named the AFT Personality of the Year (Culinary Excellence & Leadership) — a recognition that feels less like a surprise and more like an inevitability for anyone who has followed her remarkable journey. Spice…
