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By: Reclaim Shakespeare Company
Date: Fri, 12/06/2015 - 6:00pm

A BP-sponsored performance at the Royal Opera House was hit by two simultaneous protests this Wednesday: a singing action inside the Opera House itself, and a banner invasion of the live broadcast in Trafalgar Square. Two young composers were ejected from the Opera House after unveiling a banner reading "BP: Fuelling Tragedy" and receiving warm applause from the audience; meanwhile, out in

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 19/05/2015 - 12:25pm

On 2nd May 2015, New York-based singing activists Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir joined forces with UK-based oil sponsorship campaigners BP or not BP? to recreate the BP Deepwater Horizon spill inside the British Museum. The unsanctioned performance filled the Great Court with singing, dancing, a giant

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 19/05/2015 - 12:14pm

On 21st April the official media launch of the British Museum’s new BP-sponsored exhibition, “Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation”, was interrupted by an unexpected theatrical protest. A group of “actorvists” from BP or not BP?, dressed as robbers in striped T-