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Sydney New Year's Eve Fireworks Live
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New Year's Eve is an annual
multi-tiered event held every New
Year's Eve over Sydney Harbour,
centering on the Harbour Bridge. Its
main features are the two
pyrotechnic displays, the 9pm Family
Fireworks and the Midnight
Fireworks, both of which are
televised nationally by current
broadcaster the Nine Network. The
- Sydney New Year's Eve
Theme is "time to dream", the
reasons given as "Australia was
built upon dreams. From the dreamings of past millennia to the
dreams of recent settlers. Whether
day or night-time, dreams are our
minds in free-flow, uninhibited and
reflecting what we truly aspire to.
From little babies to old people, we
all dream. New Year’s Eve is when
fantasy and aspirations flow. A
vision for the coming year, with
designs on a better life. The
moonstruck and lovestruck may dream
of fulfilment. The stargazers dream
of the worlds beyond ours"
Each
year the event takes on a new theme
and is regularly viewed by more than
one million people at the harbour
and one billion worldwide for the
televised Midnight Fireworks. For
the 2010–11 event, 1.5 million and
1.1 billion watched respectively
The celebrations at The Rocks and
Darling Harbour, and the Harbour
Bridge fireworks for
promise to be some of the
biggest and most spectacular yet.
For NYE , the creative direction
was handed over to Marc Newson and
Imagination Australia. They have
already announced a new 'After
Midnight' initiative to promote
businesses that are open after
Midnight on New Year's Eve.
The
main feature of the event are the
two fireworks shows, the "9pm Family
Fireworks" and the "Midnight
Fireworks". The first pyrotechnic
display however is apart of the
"Indigenous Smoking Ceremony"
segment held at 8:00pm where white
smoke is fired from four barges. At
8:40 PM, red 'Falling Angels' are
fired off four barges as well as the
lighting of a line of red flare
pyrotechnics off the catwalk of the
Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the
'Acknowledgement Of Country'. The
famous 9 PM Family Fireworks occur
after this featuring four barges,
city buildings and the catwalk of
the Sydney Harbour Bridge all
synchronised to a soundtrack. Only
short segments occur on the Sydney
Harbour Bridge with the latest being
a 'Red and White Checkerboard
Waterfall'. These segments occur
about three-quarters the way through
the display.
Then
at Midnight, the world famous
Midnight Fireworks begin.
Synchronised to a soundtrack, the
fireworks explode off the arches,
catwalk and roadway of the Sydney
Harbour Bridge, the city buildings
and all seven Barges. The show opens
with an opening sequence on the
Sydney Harbour Bridge, city
buildings and one barge. The
majority of the show features six
barges with the Sydney Harbour
Bridge doing sequences of varying
lengths throughout the show. The
barge in front of the Sydney Harbour
Bridge also features occasionally
during the show to synchronise with
the Sydney Harbour Bridge fireworks
or to attract attention as the
Sydney Harbour Bridge is about to do
something spectacular (like Bridge
Effect unveiling and Sydney Harbour
Bridge fireworks finale). The
closing sequence of the show
features the Sydney Harbour Bridge
before all firing points explode in
an 'all-white' finale.
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