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'British Museum seeks to no longer be a

From our good friends at Culture Unstained (11.10.22):

• Ahead of new BP-sponsored Egypt exhibition, British Museum Director is urged not to “celebrate Egypt’s cultural past while ignoring the human rights situation in the

From our friends at Fossil Free Arts:

'Friends, we did it!!

Over three years ago we set out to rid Perth's two premier arts festivals of their poisonous partnerships with WA's two biggest emitters

Thanks to the Art Newspaper for running this story:

'Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point'...

Taken from the Morning Star, 12.9.22:

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/artist-stages-intervention-sh…

Artist Darren Cullen challenged an exhibition sponsored by Shell at London’s Science Museum by staging an

The South Asia Solidarity Group protested against Adani sponsorship of the Science Museum both outside and inside it on August 31st 2022, on the evening of its India-related 'Lates' event:

'We attended the Science Museum’s India Lates event on 31 August 2022 as part of the Fossil Fuel Science Museum coalition. Here we are

From The Guardian (15.7.22):

Hundreds of teachers have pledged not to take their students to a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London until it cancels its sponsorship deal with a company linked to the coalminer Adani.

More than 400 teachers

From our friends at UKSCN:

29.6.22: 'today, we visited the science museum with the Fossil Free Science Museum coalition to demand that they drop Adani as a sponsor #StopAdani with this climate crime scene we wanted to highlight the crimes of 

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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.

We then took the

From our friends over at Fossil Free Culture NL:

'The opening of Megalith on Friday 8 April, 2022 was supposed to be a celebratory event. However, even as artist Marit Westerhuis’ new solo show addresses the disturbing realities of the ecological crisis, the Groninger Museum continues to

Terrific news from our doughty friends at Culture Unstained:

'After coming under criticism in recent years over its prominent partnerships first with Shell and then BP, this year’s New Scientist Live festival – which takes place in Manchester this weekend – will have no fossil fuel companies as sponsors or exhibitors. This is understood to signal a shift in policy, after BP

by Alice Proctor

'The National Portrait Gallery has announced that it won’t renew its partnership with BP when its current agreement expires in December, ending thirty years of sponsorship. Though the official statements vaguely suggest that the decision comes

'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]

'Scottish Ballet has become the latest cultural institution to distance itself from the fossil fuel industry with an announcement that it has cut its ties with BP. This follows a dance protest outside the Theatre Royal in Glasgow during COP26