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Spoof film mocks BP sponsorship of British Museum Vikings Exhibition

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 28/04/2014 - 4:33pm
Angry BP-branded Viking with the words "BP: sponsoring our history while destroying our future"

Grassroots “actor-vist” group and Art Not Oil member the Reclaim Shakespeare Company have launched a spoof film challenging BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum’s popular Vikings exhibition. The film is modelled closely on the British Museum’s official Vikings trailer, and plays on the fact that a notorious oil company is sponsoring an

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Horde of oily Vikings invade British Museum in protest at BP sponsorship

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 28/04/2014 - 4:19pm
Three Vikings with BP logos on their shields growling in the British Museum

Viking exhibition hit by surprise protest performance about “looting and pillaging” oil company

Yesterday, Art Not Oil coalition member the Reclaim Shakespeare Company invaded the British Museum and held a surprise performance challenging BP’s sponsorship of the popular Vikings exhibition.

The performance aimed to point out the irony in the fact that an oil

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Southbank Centre drops Shell as sponsor!

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 24/01/2014 - 4:34pm
Shell Out Sounds in the Royal Festival Hall, by Hugh WarwickOn 25th October, just as a Shell-sponsored performance by the Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra was about to start, a 15-strong choir suddenly stood up in their seats behind the stage, in full view of the audience, and began to sing.

Campaigners celebrate as Shell’s sponsorship of Southbank Centre ends

Oil-branded concerts come to an end after campaign exposed Shell’s record of environmental damage and alleged human rights abuses

Campaigners are celebrating after the Southbank Centre announced that its sponsorship relationship

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