Songs for a Burning World

The premiere of our immersive opera co -created with young leaders from twenty international countries to drive climate justice around heat and rising temperature.

In 2025 we held an online Summer School to develop climate literacy and then the young people chose to write poems about how they and their communities were affected by heat and these poems shaped collectives songs that became an immersive opera. Each young leader went out with a 360film camera man to record their storyboards and then recorded their words as either spoken word or song. The footage was edited in the UK and the final art work premieres at Real Ideas, Plymouth on 30th April.

If you are interested in the intersection between culture and climate, art and policy, do come and find out about the young people's plans for the project!

Partners:

The project was delivered by Rosetta Life with Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Academy of Contemporary Music/Metropolis, University of Plymouth and twenty international partners including Al Farah Choir of Joy, Syria, Bartholomew School, Oxfordshire, Colegio La Fontaine, Columbia, Cotswold Youth Theatre, Gloucestershire, Dream A Dream, India, Ecogenia, Greece, HerStory, Bangladesh, National Association of Social Workers, Uganda, NayWin School of English, Myanmar, PrepB UNRWA School, Occupied Territories of Palestine, Shurjodoy youth society, Bangladesh, Sunflower Hospice, South Africa, We Are Community, Greece, Vladimir Library, Romania and Yalan Dunya Films, Turkey,

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