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Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed to curate Vivid LIVE

Little is yet known of what’s in store for Vivid Sydney 2010 — Sydney’s so-branded festival of ‘music, light and ideas’ aimed at getting us through the winter — but we’ve been given enough to get excited about by today’s announcement of curators for the Vivid LIVE (previously, Luminous) portion of proceedings: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.

New York’s premier rock royalty (and super-cute marrieds) will be compiling the programme of events — promising music, dance, film, theatre and comedy totalling a music festival with a difference — and, out of sheer hunger to attain their level of enlightenment, we will no doubt devour the whole thing.

Everything is still TBA, but Anderson suggests that the people she has in mind are very “eclectic”, and she’s drawn to the spirit of collaboration, improvisation, and “things that can only be done live”.

Word is that Creative Sydney, Fire Water, and the bit with all the pretty lights will be back as part of greater Vivid this year, too. The festival runs May 27 to June 11. Keep an eye on http://vividsydney.com/.

By Rima Sabina Aouf