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This excellent (though somewhat overdue) news just in, via Culture Unstained:

BP’S 30-YEAR SPONSORSHIP OF NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY TO END

https://youtu.be/SeyG83aIKjQ

From our esteemed friends at BP or not BP:

https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2022/02/20/we-create-fake-stonehenge-drilling

The British Museum must not renew its sponsorship deal with BP:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/the-british-museum-must-not-to-r…;

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REVEALED: BRITISH MUSEUM SECRETLY NEGOTIATING NEW BP DEAL DESPITE OPPOSITION

From https://www.smartcompany.com.au/series/climate-change/sponsorships-tenn…

'Are fossil fuel sponsorships the new cigarettes? Dismayed former Wallabies player David Pocock made the claim after Santos inked

From our friends at BP or not BP:

'Today, at 11.30am, we began a surprise musical protest outside Glasgow’s Theatre Royal to challenge BP’s sponsorship of the Scottish Ballet. Around 50 performers and supporters took part in an action led jointly by BP or not

From our friends at Culture Unstained (2.10.21):

'- Former Science Museum director and respected climate scientist quits Advisory Board over museum’s ‘willingness to accept oil and gas sponsorship’

- Move marks significant shift in position by Professor Rapley, who oversaw and defended a major Shell sponsorship deal while at the helm of the museum 

- Resignation comes

Tell the Science Museum: listen to Indigenous people and drop Adani!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/science-museum-listen-to-indigenous-p…;

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https://act.350.org/sign/science-museum-adani/

From our friends at Culture Unstained (2.10.21):

'- Former Science Museum director and respected climate scientist quits Advisory Board over museum’s ‘willingness to accept oil and gas sponsorship’

- Move marks significant shift in position by Professor Rapley, who oversaw and defended a major Shell sponsorship deal while at the helm of the museum 

- Resignation comes

From our friends at Culture Unstained:

'It has emerged that New Scientist have dropped the oil giant BP both as a sponsor and as a speaker for its upcoming event on climate change, ‘Creating a sustainable future’. Billed as “a day of inspiring talks and discussion with

From our friends at Real Media:

Photo credit: Andrea Domeniconi

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'Demonstrators attach themselves to railings in reaction to museum taking funding from oil firm for Our Future Planet show':

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/29/extinction-rebellio…

From our friends at https://cultureunstained.org/bp-paralympics-coverage/

STATEMENT ON THE NEWS THAT BP IS NO LONGER SPONSORING CHANNEL 4’S PARALYMPICS COVERAGE

We are organisations and athletes that are deeply concerned about the climate breakdown we are starting to see around the world. We recognise the need

From our friends at Fossil Free Arts (Western Australia):

'At the opening night of WA Ballet’s performance of Dracula, two dancers showed that Woodside Energy’s Scarborough gas would suck the life from future generations. We call on WA Ballet to end their relationship with climate and cultural heritage destroying Woodside because of their inability to drop their addiction to fossil

From our excellent friends at Culture Unstained:

'On 19th May, the Science Museum in London opened its new climate exhibition ‘Our Future Planet‘ – sponsored by the oil giant and major polluter Shell. Since the sponsorship deal was announced back in April, a major backlash has unfolded with scientists, youth climate activists, exhibition contributors and the wider public speaking out

From our friends at BP or not BP:

'Dear friends,

We're excited to announce our next action: a disobedient tour of the British Museum on Saturday August 14th!

We'll be joined by a team of amazing speakers inside the museum, making the links between objects in the museum’s collection, the history of the British Empire, the museum's BP

Culture Unstained's response to the appointment of George Osborne as Chair of British Museum Trustees:

https://cultureunstained.org/2021/06/25/7-reasons-george-osborne-should…

Chris Garrard's letter in the FT, 28.6.21:
The British Museum will soon decide whether to renew its

Climate change activists urge @Sadlers_Wells to end sponsorship of Barclays, the largest financier of fossil fuel extraction in Europe; (FYI Sadler’s Wells board chair is also chair of Barclays, as per @Tate with BP and Lord Browne a few years back):

https://www.sadlerswells.com/about-us/people/board-of-trustees

From our friends at Culture Unstained:

https://cultureunstained.org/2021/06/21/science-museum-shuts-down-youth…

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https://www.ukscnlondon.org/science-museum-and-shell-sponsorship

Fro our friends at Fossil Free NL:

'After a long history of cultural sponsorship that started in 1931, Shell and NEMO Science Museum have quietly ended their partnership during lockdown. A cultural sector fully liberated from the fossil fuel industry is now within reach in Amsterdam. 

We celebrate the end of Shell’s current partnership with NEMO and call for a commitment to

...created by Jason Scott-Warren, @jes1003:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/587089

London, 22/5/21: student climate strikers joined by BP or not BP? in calling for the museum to drop oil giant

Shell as sponsor for its flagship climate exhibition. Petition handed to management amid calls for boycott. 

@ukscn_london

@drop_BP

Photos courtesy of Ron F (@TheWeeklyBull)

From our excellent friends at BP or not BP?:

From our friends at UKSCN:

The Science Museum's new climate exhibition, Our Future Planet, is being sponsored by one of the world's biggest polluters: oil giant Shell. This is unacceptable.

We've signed petitions and sent open letters calling on them to drop Shell, but so far there's been no reply.

But if thousands of us pledge to boycott this upcoming exhibition, it

From our friends at @ukscn_london:

'we have put pressure on the @sciencemuseum

to #dropshell’s sponsorship of their new carbon capture exhibition. their response wasn’t good enough, so we are calling for action. join us in demanding that shell’s sponsorship is dropped: 22nd may | 2pm | the science museum'

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/demand-the-science-museum-drops-…

See also: https://cultureunstained.org/oil-sponsorship-of-the-science-museum/

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/our-future-planet

Robin Ince's blog explains the reasoning behind his decision to also pull out of the event

BREAKING! Our campaign against oil sponsorship of the arts has just won 'Best Campaign' at the #CreativeGreen Awards 2020, organised and hosted by the amazing Julie's Bicycle.

This award is for everyone who has been part of this creative movement, from artists to activists, and from arts workers

From our friends at Fossil Free Culture in the Netherlands:  

'Last night was 25 years since 9 Nigerian activists were hanged for activism against Shell. Our hearts are with their families & communities. Last night we commemorated their deaths at Shell sponsored NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. 

We, & so many others, follow in their footsteps;

NEMO offers

More from our good friends at BP or not BP?:

'Today we held a protest at the British Museum, in solidarity with Indigenous Arctic communities whose sacred lands are under immediate threat from oil drilling.

The protest was part of a day of action led by Indigenous groups Native Movement and Defend the Sacred AK in Alaska, against the Trump administration’s push to open up the

Taken from: https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/amsterdams-concertgebouw-dr… 11th September 2020 'All cultural institutions on Amsterdam’s Museumplein – including the Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum and the Royal Concertgebouw – have cut ties with fossil fuel companies. The move was