Creative Sydney turns to ad industry for creative collaboration as part of Vivid Sydney in May/June

Sydney’s advertising industry has once again been asked to put its best creative foot forward and collaborate with the city’s most creative minds for this year’s Creative Sydney, a week-long mix of discussions, presentations and performances held in June as part of Vivid Sydney (27 May-21 June).

Creative Sydney celebrates Sydney’s diverse talents in an inspiring series of events, bringing together local and global leaders to explore the potential of our creative industries.

“We want to collaborate with the advertising industry’s brightest andmost creative people to present a memorable and inspiring event thathelps build Sydney’s international presence as a creative hub,” saidCreative Sydney artistic director Jess Scully. “It’s an incredibleopportunity to connect with your peers across the creative industriesand to showcase the industry’s creativity to a wide audience.”

CreativeSydney is developing cross-discipline events, discussion panels andperformances from key creative industries – advertising, architecture,broadcasting and publishing, design, events, fashion, film, gaming,music, performance, photography, technology, and visual communications.

The program is part of Vivid Sydney the city’s annual festival oflight, music and ideas and the largest festival of its kind inAustralia and Southern Hemisphere.  Last year was the first year VividSydney was held, and the Creative Sydney program attracted around 9,000people.

“This year is a concentrated program of just one weekand we will have an incredible pop-up venue at Circular Quay which willbe a destination in itself. The program will include a combination ofprofessional development events and large-scale entertainment for thepublic,” said Scully.

Anyone in the advertising industry interested in participating should visit www.creativesydney.com.au.