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At this year’s Unison Choruses Festival in Vancouver, two members of Rainbow Harmony Project were honoured with national awards recognizing their impact on the 2SLGBTQIA+ choral community. We are proud to share that Sally Papso received the Legacy Award, and Brittany Mielnichuk received the Innovation Award. The Unison Awards celebrate individuals whose work strengthens queer choral communities across Canada. Honourees are recognized in three categories, Legacy, Innovation, a

This spring, the Rainbow Harmony Project Youth Choir travelled to Vancouver for the 2026 Unison Choruses Festival — and made history as the first queer youth choir ever to perform at Unison. For many of our singers, this was their first national festival and their first time stepping into a space filled with hundreds of 2SLGBTQIA+ singers from across the country. From the moment they arrived, the Youth Choir was met with warmth, excitement, and genuine celebration. Choirs fro

Rainbow Harmony Project is excited to share a project that has been many years in the making! Throughout the pandemic shutdowns, RHP members continued to meet online and were thrilled to work with local singer‑songwriter Raine Hamilton. Raine led our members through songwriting workshops, and when we were finally able to gather in person again, they joined us at rehearsals to help us write a song together as a group. We knew we wanted to create a piece that told the story of

We are so excited to announce that our Artistic Director, Brittany Mielnichuk has returned from parental leave to begin her new role as Executive Director with RHP. Thanks to substantial funding from The Winnipeg Foundation, RHP is able to welcome Brittany as our first permanent employee and we couldn't be happier about this appointment! Brittany joined the RHP family back in 2017 as our Assistant Director, and became our Artistic Director in 2018. Since then she has lead RHP

Rainbow Harmony Project is excited to welcome Katy and Emma this season!

Rainbow Harmony Project (RHP) is excited to start off the 2024-25 season this coming Monday, September 9, 2024. Registration is now open!

Rainbow Harmony Project is excited to welcome Peter Steur (he/him) as our Youth Choir Collaborative Pianist! Peter is a collaborative...

Rainbow Harmony Project is excited to announce new additions to our team! Get to know four new members of the RHP family: Caleb Rondeau...

Robert Bruce Lindey, known to us as Rob, was a co-founder of Rainbow Harmony Project. He was the first and remained our primary...

Rainbow Harmony Project is thrilled to announce the launch of our new brand identity, logo and completely redesigned website! To develop...

Ken Delisle, a member of Rainbow Harmony Project since 2001 is the 2023 recipient of the Craig Chaplin Award from the Montreal Diocesan...

Check out the article below by Armande Martine about our Artistic Director, Brittany’s award nomination! Free Press Article

Ken DeLisle celebrated his 70th birthday by renting the Park Theatre and hosting a fundraiser for the Rainbow Harmony Project. It was a...

Everything shifted in 2012. Personally, it was a transformational year. I came out as a lesbian at 53 years of age. It was positive and...

It was sometime around 1994. Paul Sherwood, a thirty-something French-Canadian Winnipegger, had come home from playing volleyball with...