Last night (April 23rd), we occupied four rooms inside the British Museum after hours in protest against the museum’s controversial sponsor, the oil giant BP. Our performers smuggled in a huge, 10-metre version of the oil company’s logo, made from wood and fabric, which we dramatically “dismantled” in a hundreds-strong performance in the museum’s Great Court at 4pm.

From our friends over at Fossil Free Culture NL:

From BP or not BP?:

Terrific news from our doughty friends at Culture Unstained:

by Alice Proctor

'Speaking at the festival, the author took aim at the event’s "embarrassing" financial arrangements that come "straight out of the big tobacco playbook"':

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/28/it-makes-us-chumps-tim-…

[Photo: BP or not BP? protest against Scottish Ballet, November 12, 202]

Image: London Rising Tide outside the NPG, June 2003.

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

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

February 22, 2022

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…;

See also

REVEALED: BRITISH MUSEUM SECRETLY NEGOTIATING NEW BP DEAL DESPITE OPPOSITION

https://cultureunstained.org/bm-seekingnewbpdeal/

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