http://blog.platformlondon.org/content/coming-soon-tate-tate-audio-tour
29 July 2011 - For Immediate release
Ending oil industry sponsorship of the arts
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http://blog.platformlondon.org/content/coming-soon-tate-tate-audio-tour
29 July 2011 - For Immediate release
All photos by Peter Marshall: http://mylondondiary.co.uk
Spotted on the London Underground recently...
Spotted in a caff somewhere in London recently...
Three ballet dancers interrupted BP’s third and final Summer Screen in Trafalgar Square[1], 30 minutes before the scheduled broadcast of the opera Cinderella began. The disturbance took the form of a short piece of dance based on Swan Lake [2], with the classic tale used as analogy for BP’s controversial investment in the Canadian tar sands [3],[4].
'On 14 June, guests and judges arriving for the BP Portrait Award ceremony came face to face with portraits of people affected by BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon caused the deaths of 11 oil workers and untold, ongoing damage to the people and the environment of the Gulf Coast.
On the first anniversary of BP's oil disaster, Climate Rush held a party and art show to protest outside Tate Britain. As they point out, disasters such as this oil spill are only a part of the enormous damage BP causes to the planet.
For immediate release: Thursday 21st April 2011
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