From our friends at https://bp-or-not-bp.org/troy/ MASS ACTION against the climate crisis and colonialism – let’s kick BP out of the British Museum! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH 2020 (exact times tbc) Want to join the largest protest the British Museum has ever seen? The British Museum is launching a major new exhibition, sponsored by the oil giant BP. We are in the middle of a climate emergency. The British Museum claims to agree – its Chair of Trustees recently called climate change “the great issue of our time”.

November 20, 2019 by bpornotbp: 'Last night, the private VIP launch of the BP-sponsored ‘Troy: Myth and reality’ exhibition faced serious disruption after we occupied the 5 main entrances to the exhibition gallery inside the British Museum.

https://www.zoelafferty.com/open-letter?fbclid=IwAR2J1Gee2_Z5EM35kmS3-u… 18th November 2019 ​ Dear Hartwig Fischer and Trustees of the British Museum, ​As one of the performers and the director of the groundbreaking play ‘Queens of Syria’, we were initially thrilled to discover that a film of our work would be included in your upcoming exhibition ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’.

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/announcement… Statement from the National Galleries of Scotland, 11 November 2019: "At the National Galleries of Scotland we recognise that we have a responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency.

Second major cultural institution in a week to stand by its state its commitment to its statement of cultural emergency: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49936748 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/oct/04/national-theatre-to-end-s…

Art Not Oil is delighted that the the RSC is showing ethical leadership and will no longer clean up BP's tarnished brand • BP remains 97% invested in fossil fuels • Iit spends $millions lobbying against climate action • it works with repressive regimes to get new oil See https://www.facebook.com/BPnotBP https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/oct/02/royal-shakespeare-com

From BP or not BP: School strikers threaten to boycott RSC over BP sponsorship https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2019/09/26/school-strikers-threaten-to-boycott… ------------------- And this, taken from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49839043 School students have threatened to boycott the Royal Shakespeare Company over "sickening" links to oil giant BP. The theatre company is sponsored by BP, which has been cr

From our friends at Liberons Le Louvre (https://www.facebook.com/LiberonsleLouvre/ & zerofossile.org/louvre): 'We have stained the Louvre Pyramid, of which total is still a partner, because total has dirty hands and the museum also dirties its image by continuing to reach one of the main leaders of the climate crisis!'

Thanks to Hyperallergic for this story: https://hyperallergic.com/518846/global-climate-strike-london/?fbclid=I… LONDON — On Friday, September 20, thousands of protestors in the UK and millions around the world joined the Global Climate Strike — the world’s largest-ever climate protest.

From our friends at Fossil Free Culture in the Netherlands: https://www.fossilfreeculture.nl/portfolio/dissonance-act-2-afterthough… 'As the last notes fade away, two large banners depicting a poem are placed on stage at the Concertgebouw. Fossil Free Culture NL collaborated with award-winning poet Hannah van Binsbergen to compose this poem for their performance ‘Afterthought’.