Join the Rocky Mountain Arts Association and all four of the association's member choruses: the Denver Gay Men's Chorus, the Denver Women's Chorus, Out Loud: The Colorado Springs Men's Chorus, and Mosaic Youth Chorus for a FREE community concert on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at 3 PM at Park Hill United Methodist Church.

"Our Community, Our Strength" will feature over 300 singers in a moving tribute to local and national PFLAG and civil rights leader Elinor Kirby Lewallen. As part of the event, the association will present Elinor with the "Robert Moore Community Award."

Elinor has been a passionate advocate for social justice for over 70 years. She started her civil rights work in the early 1940s assisting with integration efforts in the Methodist Youth Fellowship. A member of Park Hill United Methodist Church since 1953, she led the first ever official church discussions on race relations - and continued her advocacy work over the next six decades. She first joined PFLAG in 1980, serving as Board Member of Denver PFLAG, Regional Director of PFLAG and then President of the National Board of PFLAG in 1987-88. In 2008, she received the Lifetime Peacemaker Award from the Rocky Mountain Conference of the UMC for her ongoing leadership.

During the concert, the association will recognize Elinor's heroic life journey with a mix of story and song, and a special donation will be collected to establish the "Elinor Kirby Lewallen" GALA Scholarship Fund. A reception will follow hosted by the members of Park Hill United Methodist Church.

Park Hill United Methodist Church is located at 5209 Montview Boulevard in the Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. There is no admission charge for this concert, and all members of the public are invited to attend.

GALA Choruses Festival 2012

GALA Choruses Festival 2012 will be in Denver! The Festival is July 7 - 11, 2012. Click on the link for more information: http://www.galachoruses.org/events/festival2012/index.php

Our Mission

Rocky Mountain Arts Association exists to build community through music.

Our Purpose

The members of Rocky Mountain Arts Association have joined together as an organization for the purpose of making an artistic statement: our performers provide educational, cultural and social enrichment for our audiences and ourselves, and we identify as an organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people and supporters that is actively making a positive impact in the entire community.

Our Programs

Rocky Mountain Arts Association builds community through music through our five programs: the Denver Gay Men's Chorus, Denver Women's Chorus, Out Loud: The Colorado Springs Men's Chorus, and Mosaic Youth Chorus.

The Denver Gay Men's Chorus is proud to be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2012. Founded in 1982 by Robert "Melba" Moore, the chorus today is made up of over 100 volunteer singers from primarily the Denver metropolitan area. The chorus produces three concert series each season. In addition, the chorus sings at over 10 community outreach events each year.

The Denver Women's Chorus was founded in 1984. Its first director, Carol White, was inspired to return to choral conducting by the festival chorus formed to sing at the national PFLAG conference held in Denver that year. Since that time, the DWC has continued to meet and sing, striving to achieve the goal of its mission statement, "building community through music."

Out Loud: The Colorado Springs Men's Chorus celebrated its second anniversary in 2007. Premiering in April, 2006, the chorus was founded by Guy McPherson and is made up of over 40 volunteer singers from primarily the Colorado Springs metropolitan area. Out Loud is the first gay men's chorus in the Pikes Peak region, and produces two concert series each season. In addition, the chorus sings at over 10 community outreach events each year.

Mosaic Youth Chorus was conceived in the fall of 2005 and premiered in August, 2007. One of only seven choruses of its kind in North America, Mosaic is a chorus for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth and their straight friends, ages 14 to 20. Mosaic provides a safe space for these youth to be themselves, while raising awareness of what it means to be a GLBTQQS youth in today's society.