#rainbowlights

[aestheticalias]

[takemehomefromnarnia]

This day in TMHFN history: 2 Nov 2018 - Harry wins Gay Times Honour for LGBTQ Advocate - “The Rainbow Project” mentioned.

On November 2nd 2018, Gay Times announces Harry the winner of the LGBTQ Advocate award, because he promotes a message of inclusivity and equality for a young audience.

Indeed, Harry has been vocal in his support of LGBTQ+ rights from as early as 2013 when he wished concert goers a “good equal time” at the One Direction show, and many times after. While as fans we had all known this, that support became a lot more visible to the larger public when he first picked up one of our participants’ rainbow flags at the OTRA Vancouver show on 18 July 2015, and continued doing that during many of the remaining shows that tour, and at almost every single one of his solo shows since. Gay Times thanks Harry for using his platform in this way to make sure his LGBTQ fans feel accepted and noticed. 

We agree so hard on that one! 

Harry is not at the ceremony, but the Gay Times speech also gives an honourable mention to the fans’ “Rainbow Project” that turned one of the arena’s into a sea of rainbow lights. It doesn’t mention which one, so we’re just going to share a video of our favorite one:

And mention all the #rainbowlights projects that Rainbow Direction knows happened during Harry’s 2018 tour: 

13 March Paris, France

27 March Munich, Germany

28 March Oberhausen, Germany

2 April Milan, Italy

4 April Bologna, Italy

11-12 April London UK

25 May Santiago, Chile

27 May Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

9 June Sunrise, Florida

16 June Toronto, Canada

Thank you so much to all the organizers for their hard work and dedication to make LGBTQ+ fans feel supported and included. 

[neweresth]

23/March 2021

In between the feeling of under the weather and in the mood for life and laugh I’ve thought to myself, maybe one day - I want to watch ‘Weathering with you’. And the one day, was today. I didn’t know what to expect, the story was fine, I cried (I wonder why, was is that sad, or was it beautiful?) What made me emotional more than the story were colours of the sunlight. And I love the sound of rain pitter-pattering.

These days I’ve been wondering about a lot of things. I wouldn’t want to live a life of someone else. I want to find my own path. Rememeber. No matter how long the life is, I have all the time I have - to live and learn about it. No matter the result, it’s always in progress.

22/March 2021

Time.

I admire people who are able to work 9-to-5 jobs. These days, I take every job I’ve ever did as a lesson, to learn more about people. How and why people act in these environments, how people treat you, how do I. (Do you want to be treated the way you treat others?) Like I don’t understand, others may don’t understand it either.

Sometimes I get to the point, when it’s unebarable to be where I am. And I feel like I want to escape the moment. I’m sure these feelings work as indicators, that it’s enough, and it’s time for a change - perspective, attitude, place, whatever the reason is.

One of the things I love to do in the morning is opening windows everywhere I possibly can, haha. (It’s much colder in the kitchen,) and I love when it’s windy.

I feel like I don’t really have dreams. And I’m fascinated by people who have dreams, people who have something they want to achieve in their lives. Maybe I’ll be able to remember what my dreams are. Until then, I dream for the sake of dreaming, not for the sake of living. Sometimes I feel like I’m lacking passion. Ain’t it always something that fascinates us - something we don’t have, we don’t experience, we have no idea about. (I think, I’m just curious, and I ask a lot of questions.)

I feel like I’m doing what I’ve always wanted to do. The situation is not perfect, but I’m grateful. I believe that, if there’s something in your life, you want to do, or you just want - if it’s somehow meant to be a part of your life, at any time - it’ll be a part of your time here. I wouldn’t call it a destiny, it’s just the life you live.

Will tell.

[poetry-for-pessemists]

Hey @kingfallsam I found a patch with the rainbow lights on.

[erinfirepixie]

#mermaidGlimmer glowing in the deeps. Photo by @chriscrumley at #dosojoscenote #hireamermaid #mermaidforhire #arduino #underwaterphotography #underwatermodel #rainbowlights #glowinthedark #electricmermaid #glimmer #chriscrumley #freedivingphotography #cavediving #makersofinstagram #cosplay #ooak #extremecostumes (at Cenote Dos Ojos)

[kindaaestheticlittlechica-blog]

Legends only

[takemehomefromnarnia]

Hi! Is there a project for the Berlin show yet? I know the venue and it wouldn’t be that easy so maybe there could just be flags? If there isn’t a project already I’m considering doing it to heal my queer little heart :)

Do you have any advice for me?

Nothing so far... :-( Germany is usually fantastic with the rainbow projects.

In a small venue (capacity of 3500 standing) handing out #miniprideflags can be very visible- we're not sure if the floor is numbered seats or general admission/standing for this gig - probably the latter and if so, handing out small flags is probably the most effective thing you can do. Your only other option for general admission/Standing is scattered rainbow colors, everyone does a different colour, whatever they choose - can also be very fun. Several of the venues did that during the US leg (Kansas City, Orem, Cincinnati come to mind)

For the balcony #rainbowlights are definitely an option! To get you going on that, here's the seating chart for the venue -

And then we have a post full of useful tips on how to organize a #rainbowlights project. which we've pinned to our profile again as well.

Let us know when you have the layout plan, make a post, share it with us on here and on Twitter and Insta and we will make some noise for you and put it on our website of rainbow projects.

Good luck! Viel Erfolg!

[takemehomefromnarnia]

Hi! I want to organize something like a rainbow lights project for one of Harry's shows maybe, but I've barely seen anyone on tumblr who's going, and I'm afraid it might not reach a lot of people and will ultimately flop. I assume I'm not the only one in this case, sooo... Any ideas? Should I try Twitter? Oh and thank you so much for what you do! 🌈✨

Aaaaah, rainbow lights projects - not the easiest thing in the world to make them succeed! But that’s exactly why they are so wonderful.

You can’t be succesful if you’re not willing to take the risk of failure.

In terms of tips and tricks, here are a few -  we are working on a full length HOW TO post (anyone has tips, feel free to share and we’ll put them in):

When to/when not to:

- solo shows are better than festival type shows, it’s difficult when half of the audience is not there for the same artist - you’re good there

- time to prepare is needed - you can’t do this on a whim/in a week - harry’s tour is not for ages

- venue with majority seated tickets (otherwise people don’t know which section they should be in)

How to:

- step 1: look for a map of the venue - in the layout for that particular concert (this is crucial) - divide it up in colours - stick to existing sections - the clearer the better

(this one’s for Louis’ Poptopia by the way!!!) - Also make sure you know what to do with the general admission/floor - as you can’t easily divide that up - in Milan they did miniprideflags on the floor instead of lights, in Bologna they did flowers - really beautiful both. 

- step 2: pick a moment in the show when you want to do this (first song  or a particular song that you know is going to be on the setlist) - ideally pick a song that’s linked to rainbow projects - like SoTT for Harry ( like the people in Paris & Oberhausen did) - if you don’t pick SoTT, be aware that during HSLOT 2018, Harry would always ask people to turn up the flashlights for SoTT so people would usually do the rainbow again then. 

- step 3: make it known to everyone who wants to listen that you are organising this and this is the layout, this is the song - the sooner people know and the louder you are - the less chances of “competition” for a different colour schedule or a different project during the same song - we’ve seen it happen - it usually kills both projects a bit - for maximum loudness: use us, use update accounts (the Paris rainbow, the first one that was successful, was organised by an update account), use big accounts, ask everyone for help, use existing tags ( #rainbowlights, and #rainbowdirection ) and create your own (#turnforestrainbow was very successful with that, little followers but the tag went wild) - be on tumblr AND twitter, and IG if you can. create a new account for the project if needs be. (examples: https://twitter.com/NHforestrainbow   @RainbowHProject @msg_rainbow)  that makes it easy for people to find all information easily. tweet often, search people out to rope them in, ask them for help to retweet and reblog and spread the word. search the tags for your show regularly. talk to everyone who is going to that show. talk to everyone who is or ever has organised a rainbow lights project, that will help too

Oh, and it helps to have 1 single picture with all the information on it - so everyone just needs to retweet reblog regram or share that (include your blog your twitter your Ig your FB, your every handle on there

- step 4: little pieces of paper or little stickers work best - so get moving with producing as many little pieces of coloured paper as you will need to hand one to every person in the venue - people have tried with the colour app - you can promote that - but it doesn’t work as well. People don’t download an app on the spot - while holding a piece of paper they’ve been given on the spot in front of their phone flashlight is easy. so you are going to need to bring all those pieces, and hand them out 

- step 5: get in some help preparing the pieces of paper, because you cannot do that by yourself. reach out to people early - you can ask us for help in finding other rainbowminded people going to your concert - but for this you don’t strictly need people going to the concert rope in your friends and family - you’ll be cutting pieces of paper for a lot of your evenings. What has worked wel is little pieces of paper with the instructions on them - or stuck to them.

- step 6: hand out the pieces of paper on the day - there are several ways in which you can make this work - contacting the venue beforehand is always a good idea - they can allow you access between sections  if you cannot find enough people who are going to the concert who are in different sections of the venue. you’ll need to arrive way too early to hand out pieces of paper to everyone separately so it helps if you put the pieces of paper in plastic bags per row and ask the first person to take one and pass it on to the rest of their row. 

You cannot start too early because a lot of people will not yet be there, and so on, and so on... What we’ve also seen that works are posters on poles along the way from public transport/parking to the venue and on the walls at the venue (again something you may be discussing with them beforehand) with the explanation of the project and pieces of paper/stickers  that people can take

Best of luck and ENJOY THE RESULT!!!!