The New Year's Eve firework celebration will start with an acknowledgement of the traditional owners of the land ceremony projected onto the Opera House as well as the Harbour Bridge and its pylons.
The performance will feature Aboriginal dancers from the Tribal Warriors Association who will perform a cleansing ceremony on a fleet of small boats beneath the bridge led by Uncle Max Eulo. During the ceremony there will be an animation beamed onto the pylons and Opera House sails.
The invite-only Lord Mayor's party at the Opera House has featured an acknowledgement address for years, but this will be the first time it is incorporated into the fireworks and lightshow event.
"We have a more formal and elaborate acknowledgement ceremony this year," event producer Mr Coffey said. "I don't want to give away too many spoilers but we're really excited it's centre stage finally."
The celebrations will be viewed from 70 official locations, many of which are on land of the Gadigal, Gamaragal, Wangal and Kuring-gai people.
The ritual and projection will be followed by more than 100,000 fireworks launched by 45 people and 12 computers.
City of Sydney council are preparing for more than 1.6 million people to attend the firework displays. Sydney's celebrations draw larger crowds than New York (1 million), Berlin (1 million) and London's (700,000).
