SYDNEY NYE 2023 FIREWORKS FACTS
- Sydney New Year’s Eve attracts more than one million spectators to the Sydney Harbour foreshore and a global audience of at least 425 million.
- 2023 is the first year to feature 3 vessels in the Smoking Ceremony including the Wirawi – a decommissioned ferry which is the first 100% run Indigenous ferry in Australia.
- The 9pm Calling Country pylon projection show has been created by Indigenous Social Enterprise, We Are Warriors (WAW).
- The 9pm Calling Country fireworks are set to a soundtrack curated by 18YOMAN and Nooky. Pete Goodwin, aka THE SWEATS, has produced the soundtrack for the midnight fireworks.
- The fireworks displays are designed by Sydney’s Foti International Fireworks. NYE23 marks the 27th consecutive year, Foti International has created the show.
- It takes around 4,000 hours for Foti to design, stage and launch the fireworks. The 2023 display will include:
- 5 city rooftops used as firing platforms, framing the city for the display
- more than 8.5 tonnes of fireworks
- 36,000 shooting ground-based effects including comets, mines and crossettes
- more than 13,000 aerial shells
- 58,000 individual firing shots will feature across the 9pm and midnight shows
- 18 shipping containers of equipment that is required for the night’s displays
- 7,000 fireworks cues will shoot from 184 firing locations on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with another 9,000 cues from the fireworks barges
- The fireworks will be launched from five city rooftops: Overseas Passenger Terminal, Crown Sydney, Grosvenor Place, Four Seasons Sydney and SalesForce Tower.
- The fireworks will be digitally launched by 15 computers, requiring more than 25 kilometres of wire and cables, ensuring all the fireworks are synchronised to the specially created soundtracks.
Design theme and effects for 2023
- Saturn Ring Aerial Shells will feature throughout the midnight display.
- Serpent Aerial Shells will travel through the night sky.
- Horse Tail Willow Aerial Shells will softly cascade from above.
- At 10pm there will be a pink moment to acknowledge Sydney New Year’s Eve’s charity partner, the National Breast Cancer Foundation and their work in Australia.
- At 11pm, special pylon projections will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House.
For more event information, visit the Sydney New Year’s Eve
