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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
VIVID SYDNEY 2015
Vivid Sydney is an annual
outdoor lighting festival with immersive light installations and projections.
Part of the lighting festival also includes the performances from local and
international musicians and an ideas exchange forum featuring public talks and
debates from leading creative thinkers.
www.vividsydney.com
ABOUT VIVID SYDNEY
Vivid Sydney is an 18-day festival of light, music and ideas. Vivid
Sydney features many of the world's most important creative industry forums, a
mesmerising free public exhibition of outdoor lighting sculptures and
installations and a cutting-edge contemporary music program.
Vivid Sydney is where art, technology and commerce intersect.
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art'
sculptures, innovative light installations and grand-scale projections for all
to enjoy - for free. It is a magical celebration of light-design excellence and
the world's largest outdoor 'art-gallery': a unique Vivid Sydney experience.
Vivid Light engages lighting artists, designers and manufacturers from
around Australia and the world to illuminate, interpret and transform Sydney’s
urban spaces for 18 nights through their creative vision.
Vivid Music presents a
cutting-edge contemporary music program.
From
local and international acts performing at the iconic Sydney Opera House, to
other large venues and small bars, Vivid Sydney 2015 will host a lively and
eclectic range of live performances and ground-breaking musical collaborations.
At the
heart of Vivid Music is Vivid LIVE, a program of cutting-edge music which takes
place at the Sydney Opera House, Australia’s most famous building.
Vivid Ideas is the Asia Pacific's
annual celebration of innovation, creativity and community, building audiences
and markets for the creative industries, and offering professional development
opportunities across the sector.
Over the
Festival’s 18 days, Vivid Ideas brings together business and creative leaders
for professional development, information updates on their industries, market
opportunities and innovation: gathering all the conversations, conventions and
big announcements in Sydney.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Dockside Group
IATG recommends the Dockside
Group
Take advantage of many special offers from the Dockside Group. Click on the link below to find special deals at many of the restaurants featured below. Deals will not be valid during VIVID festival 2014.
Venues
Offering the best delivering more. The ultimate Sydney function venue
Dockside is ideally positioned within Cockle Bay Wharf.
Sydney s most enviable location high above the bustling IMAX theatre
complex with sweeping 180 degree water views of Darling Harbour
Restaurants
Boasting awe-inspiring views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the
world-famous Opera House Waterfront offers guests the finest harbour front
dining position in Sydney
Nestled in an original sandstone storehouse at Campbell's Cove in the
historic Rocks precinct Wolfies offers unrivalled views of Sydney's iconic
Opera House.
Boasting Sydney s most spectacular views of the iconic Opera House and
Harbour Bridge Italian Village offers an extensive international menu.
We LOVE EATing PIZZA. We LOVE cooking PIZZA. Located below the Imax
Theatre Complex in Darling Harbour.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Jack Mundey honoured by IATG
Jack Mundey is known as the Father of The Rocks. Forty years ago he led an extraordinary conservation campaign to save many of Sydney's beautiful historic precincts. The Green Bans as they were known, were a well known feature of the Builders Labourers Federation which he led, and we have Jack to thank for saving some of Sydney's most treasured attractions.
In honour of Jack Mundey the IATG committee organised a special event where Jack addressed guides and dignitaries alike right in the heart of the Historic Rocks precinct which he helped to save.
We want to thank Jack for his time and wisdom and we would also like to thank the many special representatives from government and tourist organisations, who came to support our wonderful day.
IATG guides provide the highest standard in professional guiding services and pride ourselves in learning from special people involved in the shaping of this great city.
In honour of Jack Mundey the IATG committee organised a special event where Jack addressed guides and dignitaries alike right in the heart of the Historic Rocks precinct which he helped to save.
We want to thank Jack for his time and wisdom and we would also like to thank the many special representatives from government and tourist organisations, who came to support our wonderful day.
IATG guides provide the highest standard in professional guiding services and pride ourselves in learning from special people involved in the shaping of this great city.
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| Desiree Nahoum IATG Event Coordinator with Jack Mundey |
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| The Hon. Helen Westwood AM MLC with Jack Mundey |
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| Jack Mundey in front of the Wall Sculpture at The Rocks which pays tribute to his achievements. |
Monday, November 14, 2011
A Fine Tour Guide
DIY apps and Googling will never
replace a fine tour leader, writes Kate Humble.
You can buy a guidebook to almost any place in the world, from
Antarctica to Zambia, and find it full of ideas of places to go and people to
organise it for you. The internet will enable you to book everything from your
bus ticket to a tree house and help you find the best places to eat. Are we
travelling in an age in which a tour guide is surplus to requirements?
Well, no amount of Google searching or guidebook trawling beats a person
with local knowledge and know-how. But however knowledgeable that person, is he
or she someone with whom you really want to spend all or part of your eagerly
anticipated holiday? A good guide will undoubtedly make your trip a rich and
rewarding experience; a bad one could make you cut up your passport and never
leave home again. So what is it that makes a good guide?
It is a difficult question to answer, because every traveller has his or
her own idea of a guide's role. Some people seem to require more nannying than
guiding; others will be happy with a city tour on an open-top bus with someone
who can tell a few jokes.
I certainly don't want nannying. Nor do I want to listen to the bored
drone of someone leading his fourth group of the day.
For me, the perfect guide, whether with me for an hour or a fortnight,
gives me an insight and some understanding of where I am that I wouldn't get
from a guidebook or Wikipedia.
I was working recently in Ecuador. In a rare hour off I went with our
guide, Paul, for a walk in the rainforest where we were filming. Tropical
rainforests have among the greatest biodiversity of species of any habitat on
the planet but they can seem curiously devoid of life, especially if you're
unfamiliar with them.
Paul spotted and caught several species of frog, so tiny and camouflaged
that I would have missed them. He identified birds and insects hidden in the
canopy from their calls and was able to describe what they looked like and
explain why they lived on particular trees and how they fitted into the
amazingly complex jigsaw that is the rainforest.
I had endless queries about why the trees were so shallow-rooted, why
the soil was considered poor when it was bursting with life, why there was a
need for such diversity among plants and animals when, with year-round sun and
rain, there seemed little need for a species to adapt to survive. All these he
answered as enthusiastically as if he had never been asked before. He brought
the forest to life and taught me more in that hour than a month of reading.
You might think a crucial attribute would be a guide's ability to speak
your language. But probably the greatest guide I have ever had was a man who
spoke not a single word of English.
Amin Beg is an Afghan from the Wakhan Corridor, a spectacular,
mountainous finger of land in the far north-east of Afghanistan. In 2009 I went
there with a group undertaking a two-week trek in an area rarely visited.
The walking was tough, much of it at about 3000 metres, and the ability
and fitness of the group wildly mixed. Amin Beg, despite never having worked
with tourists before and having no linguistic or cultural references in common
with us, appeared from the outset to read everyone's mind. He knew exactly who
was tired and would carry that person's pack. He would spot nerves at a river
crossing and help, or even carry, the nervous one across. He would bounce ahead
in his plastic shoes and jaunty turban, removing rocks from the path so no one
would trip. When he and I were first to reach the highest point of our trek, we
celebrated with a snowball fight at 4800 metres. Rarely have I met anyone with
such a capacity for kindness and consideration, and such an infectious grin.
But perhaps what makes a good guide is also what makes a good friend:
someone whose company you enjoy, who can surprise and delight you, whose advice
and comfort you can seek but who also knows when to leave you in peace.
Kate Humble was one of the judges in
the World Guide Awards 2011.
- Telegraph, London
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