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Today is the day! H2O goes live at 2 pm cet here:

 

The 2025 Global Science Opera is inspired and informed by the UN International Year of Glacier Preservation.

The H2O-song is created by Runa Godø Sæter, 6th graders at Valerøy Primary School and AI. The lyrics are below:

(Verse 1)

I am water, strong and free,

I shape the land, I hold the key.

Once a glacier, tall and bright,

Now I’m rivers, lost in flight.

I carved the valleys, deep and wide,

But now I melt, I cannot hide.

The world is warming, the ice retreats,

I hear the ocean call my beats.

(Chorus)

H₂O, H₂O, I can fly, I can flow!
From the glacier to the sea,
Then I fall as rain, set free!
H₂O, H₂O, I can dance, I can glow!
I am tiny, but I give life,
Without me, the world’s not right!

Verse 2)

I drift with icebergs, lost at sea,

Once so mighty, now set free.

The polar bears, they search for land,

Their frozen home turns into sand.

The planet’s crying, can’t you see?

The earth is fighting for its dignity.

I rise in oceans, I flood the shore,

How much longer? Not much more.

(Chorus – repeat)

(Bridge)

Let’s clean the waters, clear the skies,

Save the ice before it dies.

If we work together, we can find a way,

To keep the glaciers, let them stay.

(Chorus – repeat, big and bold! 🎶)

(Outro)

I am water, strong and free,

But now I whisper – help save me.

The polar bear is waiting too,

Together we know what to do.

In April, the GSO production manager was given the opportunity for an Erasmus+ exchange visit to Romania, and what a wonderful opportunity! First stop was the Fine  arts department at Ovidiu University of Constanta. The students and teachers here got an introduction to the GSO and to eco-design, and we had several in-depth conversations about the importance of creativity and the arts. A group of sporty students embarked on an experimental co-creative design/drawing-session.

Our talented colleagues in Constanta, Alina and Razvan.

The next stop was Bucharest, where I spent several days with our alpha-contact, Felicia. She has done an amazing job in adapting the GSO-methodology to suit the Romanian school-system. They have expanded the menu of artistic contributions to include artforms as poems and essays. Hopefully we will be able to share some of these contributions soon.

As part of the visit, the Romanian Ministry of Education hosted an online workshop for teachers across Romania, who all got an introduction into the GSO methodology.