Around a thousand people seated on blankets and cushions in a red-rock desert amphitheater at dusk, facing a wide screen of luminous gold sacred geometry, candle bowls between them.

Harmonia · Experiential Arts & Learning

Beauty is not decoration. It is how a heart remembers itself.

We build immersive works of music, image and light — and stage them in the most extraordinary places on earth, for people who will never forget the night they sat there.

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Concept visualization · Harmonia productions are staged in natural amphitheaters, cathedrals, domes and desert sites worldwide

A young person sitting alone on the floor of a large sparse apartment at dusk, lit by a phone and by city light through a wide window.

The moment we are in

The most connected generation in history is also the loneliest.

Screens everywhere, and a famine of the sacred. Mental health in crisis. Artificial intelligence about to reshape what culture even means.

Art is how we remember what we are — not art as ornament, but art as medicine. Beauty that makes a room full of strangers feel like family.

That work will not be built by an algorithm. It gets built by people who decide it matters.

Who we are

Harmonia Experiential Arts & Learning, Inc.

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit production house, building sacred art at world scale

We work at the frontier of immersive production and aim all of it at something the technology industry rarely does: a room of people having the most elevated hour of their lives, together.

This is not a small charity asking for help. It is a production house that answers to a mission instead of a market, and everything it makes is built to do one thing: move a person from fear to love.

  • Immersive Art

    Large-scale audio-visual installations and virtual reality — wonder you can walk inside.

  • Sacred Music

    Original composition and traditional sacred music. André Ripa’s work has been streamed over 1.5 million times.

  • Live Performance

    Musicians, voice and image in one room — closer to communion than to entertainment.

  • Experiential Learning

    Programs for youth and adults. In year three, this work goes into classrooms.

  • Retreats

    Small groups, deep work — art and music integrated into genuine inner change.

The productions

Two works. One touring the world. One waiting to be finished.

A candlelit church filled with an audience and a live orchestra, facing a large screen showing Friar Alessandro singing before a waterfall.
Status
Complete · touring · booking now
Formats
Five-screen 270° immersion · full live concert · architectural projection · VR
Next
October 2026 — the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis, in San Francisco and Assisi

Touring now

The Canticle

An 800-year-old hymn, remade as light and sound.

Saint Francis’s hymn to creation as family — Brother Sun, Sister Moon, wind, fire, water — moved through verse by verse. The voice of Franciscan tenor Alessandro Brustenghi, an original score by André Ripa, visuals by Daring House, Rome.

It premiered in Assisi in 2024, and it is built to travel: one screen or five, a church or a dome, in four languages.

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People reclining on blankets inside a large dome at night, looking up at a soft gold and indigo projection of light and stars across the curved ceiling.
Status
In production — completion funding open
Built for
Dome and full-surround projection, with live musicians
Your role
Underwrite a phase, or fund the premiere outright

In production · seeking completion funding

Dream

The next work — and the one that needs you most.

Where The Canticle looks outward at creation, Dream turns inward. It is Harmonia’s next full-scale immersive work: original score, moving image and light built for the dome — an enveloping experience designed to be laid down over an audience rather than shown in front of them.

The score is written. The visual language is designed. What remains is the work that costs money: finishing the film, building the projection system, and getting it in front of its first audience.

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The vision

This work belongs in the places that already feel holy.

A red-rock amphitheater at dusk. A desert wall under stars. A terrace above the clouds. Harmonia is built to travel — and the room is half the work.

About a thousand people seated on rugs on desert sand at night, facing a soft gold projection across an ancient limestone wall beneath a sky full of stars.
Desert Egypt
Several hundred people wrapped in woven blankets seated on ancient Andean stone terraces at dawn, cloud filling the valley below, facing a soft gold screen.
High terraces The Andes
Several hundred people seated on woven mats among misty terraced rice fields at dawn, facing a soft gold screen mirrored in the still water.
River valley Asia

Concept visualizations. Bringing one of these to life is exactly what a patron makes possible.

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André and Gianna Ripa standing together outdoors in white linen, beneath an olive tree.
André & Gianna Ripa · Founders

The people behind it

Decades of practice came before the first production.

André Ripa — composer, producer, healer. A practiced healer across several traditions, he has spent his life guiding people to reserves of self-healing they did not know they had: one to one, in groups, with children facing terminal illness, and with men and women whose trauma had kept them from living fully. His original work has been streamed over 1.5 million times. He originated and produced The Canticle.

Gianna Ripa — wellness, education, philanthropy. She has practiced traditional healing arts, including Ayurvedic medicine, for more than twenty years, has served as a high school administrator focused on adolescent mental health, has raised funding for education and the arts, and currently leads a community healthcare foundation.

Together they have offered therapeutic programs and transformative retreats since 2007, and have drawn together the community of artists and musicians who make this work.

What we build on

Sixteen values. One center.

The Harmonia constellation: sixteen core values arranged as gold petals around a central medallion — Love, Joy, Beauty, Peace, Goodness, Harmony, Authenticity, Honesty, Integrity, Care, Compassion, Gratitude, Creativity, Humility, Interconnectedness and Transformation.

Love · Joy · Beauty · Peace · Goodness · Harmony · Authenticity · Honesty · Integrity · Care · Compassion · Gratitude · Creativity · Humility · Interconnectedness · Transformation

Close detail of musicians' hands at night — a cello and bow, a hand-drum and a brass singing bowl lit in warm gold.

Everything you have just seen exists because someone decided to pay for beauty.

The Sistine Chapel had a patron. So did the Messiah, the Duomo, and every cathedral you have ever stood inside and felt something you couldn’t explain. None of it was funded because it was practical — it was funded because someone with the means understood that a civilization is remembered by what it made when it was reaching for the highest thing it could imagine.

That is the work in front of us.
There are three ways to be part of it.

How to be part of it

Three ways in.

Host

Bring an experience to your city

You have a community, a congregation, a venue, a museum, a festival or a foundation — and you want the people you care about to have this experience where they live.

We bring the full production. You bring the room and the people. Churches, cathedrals, universities, museums, domes and outdoor architectural projections, in four languages.

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Co-create

Build something new with us

You have a vision of your own, and the means to realize it. We have composers, filmmakers, visual artists and two decades of experience turning inner work into work that moves thousands of people at once.

Bring us the idea. We will build it with you — a new production, an installation, a curriculum, a retreat, or a piece of music for a place or a cause that matters to you.

Bring us your vision

Sustain

Become a patron

Productions of this caliber are not funded by ticket sales. They are funded the way they have always been funded — by a small number of people who decide the work should exist. Recurring support is what turns a series of events into an institution.

  • Give onceAny amount, at any time
  • Give monthlyRecurring support at a level you choose
  • Underwrite a productionNamed partnership in a work, with an invitation to the premiere
  • Endow a placeFund a location, a season, or a work outright
Become a patron

Gifts are tax-deductible. Anonymity is available at every level — let’s talk.

Your support, specifically

Four things your gift pays for.

  • Production & technology

    Multi-screen and dome projection, immersive audio, equipment, maintenance and crew.

  • Artists & creation

    Composers, performers, filmmakers — the people who make the work exist.

  • Access & inclusion

    Additional languages, captions, assistive listening, and free community showings for people who could never buy a ticket.

  • Outreach & touring

    Bringing this work to schools, churches, hospices and new cities.

Harmonia Experiential Arts & Learning, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3). All gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

Where this goes

A humanity of illumined minds and compassionate hearts.

That is the whole of it. Not a slogan and not a quotation — it is what we are actually trying to do, and what your support actually builds toward.

We believe experiential art and learning are healing tools. We believe beauty can move a person from fear to love. And we believe that if enough people encounter something genuinely sacred, the world gets gentler.

We would be glad to know you.

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An audience filling the nave of a great gothic cathedral at night, facing an enormous projection of luminous gold geometry across the vaulting and the east window, hundreds of candles along the aisle.

Contact

Tell us what you have in mind.

Whether you want to bring an experience to your community, build something with us, or simply understand the work better — we read every message and we answer personally.

Harmonia Experiential Arts & Learning, Inc.
PO Box 418, Linden, CA 95236 · Federal Tax ID 39-2828940