From https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jun/12/extinction-… : 'Climate activists attempt to disrupt a BP-sponsored Royal Opera House screening of Romeo and Juliet, and put on their own version of Shakespeare’s play, Petroleo and Fueliet, as they called on the ROH to drop BP as a sponsor. ‘BP seeks to enhance its image by sponsoring culture and research shows that this approach works,’ XR said'

* Sadiq Khan called on to end permission for oil branding of Royal Opera House’s ‘BP Big Screen’ broadcasts * 200 signatories to letter include leading figures from classical, folk and popular music * News comes day after BP Portrait Award judge and respected artists denounce BP sponsorship of the prize * Extinction Rebellion group plans to mount protest this evening at first BP Big Screen of the year More here: https://cultureunstained.org/2019/06/11/200-musicians-urg

'A judge and several leading artists have written to the director of the National Portrait Gallery on the eve of its annual awards calling on it to end its links to BP'... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/09/artists-national-p… https://cultureunstained.org/2019/06/09/bp-portrait-award-judge-speaks-… BP sponsorship of Portrait Prize 'a problem', says judge:

Unofficial tour guides and hundreds of attendees descended on the British Museum yesterday, urging it to repatriate objects acquired through colonialism and end its long-standing partnership with the oil giant BP. Museum galleries were packed with people listening to rebel museum talks, and some routes through the museum were temporarily closed by security in response to the crowds. https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2019/05/05/hundreds-join-indigenous-led-tour-o…

See https://www.facebook.com/scienceunstained From the Guardian, 3.4.19: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/03/edinburgh-science-f… EDINBURGH SCIENCE FESTIVAL CHARITY BANS FOSSIL FUEL SPONSORSHIP Edinburgh Science faced protests from activists for taking money from oil firms The charity runn

Taken from https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/shell-sponsorship Two of the major Dutch museums have just ended their collaboration with Shell, at a time of mounting protests over sponsorship by fossil fuel companies. Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and the Mauritshuis in The Hague both terminated arrangements with the country’s largest oil and gas firm this summer. A Mauritshuis spokesman says that it had a six-year partnership contract with Shell, which was due to end in July and was not renewed.

Text below from https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2019/02/18/we-create-a-200-metre-living-artwor… More than 300 people took over the British Museum on Saturday to create a giant 200-metre “living artwork” that circled the entire Great Court, in protest at B

[Photos by Kristian Buus] From our friends at BP or not BP?: On November 6th 2018, a group of performers set up a fake BP “welcoming committee” and Iraqi civilian protest in front of the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria exhibition at the British Museum. The performance was timed to coincide with a private exhibition viewing by journalists and VIPs, and the performers stayed for the whole morning talking to journalists, museum visitors and staff. The performers were from the activist theatre group BP or not BP?, and included a number of people of Iraqi heritage.

[Photo by Anna Branthwaite] A report from BP or not BP: https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2018/10/27/ian-hislops-protest-exhibition-inva… https://youtu.be/1tA39Qf4Vtk