BIAW Light Ups 2025

To mark Brain Injury Awareness Week 2025, landmarks across Australia will be lighting up purple and gold, a powerful visual reminder that invisible disabilities deserve visible change.

From bridges to city halls, each light-up is a beacon of awareness, solidarity, and advocacy for the over 450,000 Australians living with a brain injury.

Why Purple and Gold?

Purple and gold were chosen as the official colors of Brain Injury Awareness Week to symbolise both the strength of those living with brain injury and the hope and visibility we are working to create.

Purple represents resilience, courage, and recognition of invisible disabilities. It reflects the emotional strength required to live with, and support those with, brain injury.

Gold symbolises hope, visibility, and the value of every person affected, illuminating the path toward change, support, and understanding.

Illuminating landmarks across Australia sparks discussions and raises awareness about brain injury. When more landmarks shine in purple and gold, it turns the invisible visible and educates the public.

Join us in spreading awareness by visiting a lit-up location near you, taking photos, and sharing them on social media using #LightUpBIAW and tag Synapse_au. Additionally, participate in our photography competition for a chance to win exciting prizes.

Locations

These landmarks, buildings and bridges are lighting up purple and gold together, or purple only where single colours are only possible. Please note these sites are subject to change (i.e. if another event is booked for the venue).

Photography competition

Capture the light and share the message 

We invite you to take a photo of any of the lights across Australia that are illuminated for Brain Injury Awareness Week. Enter our photography competition for a chance to have your image featured on our website and the opportunity to win a prize. 

How to enter: 

  1. To enter, take a photo of a participating landmark Australia lit up in purple and/or gold during Brain Injury Awareness Week 2025 (BIAW).  
  2. Submit your photo(s) in one of the following ways:  
  3. Post to your public social media account (Instagram or Facebook) with the hashtag #BIAW2025 and tag @Synapse_aus.  
  4. If you do not use social media, email your entry to marketing@synapse.org.au with your name and the location of the photo.  
  5. You may submit multiple entries, but each entrant is only eligible to win one prize.  
  6. All eligible entries will be judged based on creativity, visual impact, and alignment with the BIAW theme. 
  7. The top three entries chosen will each receive a $100 voucher (choice of Bunnings or Harvey Norman at Synapse’s discretion). There is also an extra prize for ‘Best of Brisbane’ –  two tickets to the Brisbane Powerhouse Museum.
  8. Winners will be notified via direct message or email by Friday 29 August 2025. 

Find the full Terms and Conditions HERE. 

Let’s make the invisible visible, one photo at a time.  

This competition is made possible thanks to our Prize sponsors:

Thank you

Synapse would like to thank the generosity of the following, for changing the colours of their landmarks and buildings, free of charge, to help raise awareness about brain injury awareness week. 

101 Collins  Adelaide Oval   ACT Government  
Australian Academy of Science Brisbane City Council   Bundaberg Regional Council  
City of Bunbury   City of Ipswich   City of Melbourne 
City of Newcastle   City of Palmerston City of Parramatta 
City of Perth   CBRE Australia  Devonport City Council  
Fraser Coast Regional Council  Logan City Council Mackay Regional Council 
Main Roads Western Australia   National Museum of Australia  Northern Beaches Council  
The Old Treasury Building Melbourne     Parliament of South Australia Queensland Parliament  
Suncorp Stadium Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA)     The Bell Tower  
Townsville City Council   Transurban   Wrest Point