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PRESS RELEASE from' Facing the Gulf - Portraits of Oil', 7.3.11:

Tel: (0)1 504 460 5845; facingthegulf@gmail.com

http://facingthegulfportraitsofoil.blogspot.com

New gallery of portraits: http://gallery.artnotoil.org.uk/v/Facing+the+Gulf/NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY BOSS INVITED TO EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS BY THOSE HIT BY BP GULF OIL SPILL'To RSVBP or not to RSVBP?'
One of many questions for Sandy Nairne, Director of The National Portrait Gallery. 

There are exciting plans hatching in London to commemorate the first anniversary of BP (and friends') Deepwater oil spill. Watch this space for more info.

Also, Facing the Gulf will be active back in Louisiana:http://facingthegulfportraitsofoil.blogspot.com/and...ARTIST JAY CRITCHLEY LAUNCHES DAYWITHOUTOIL.ORG – DON’T BE CRUDE PROJECT & WEBSITE TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BP OIL SPILL - APRIL 20, 2011 >>>> CRUDE PLEDGE SIGNERS TO DONATE THE VALUE OF DAILY OIL CONSUMPTION TO
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS. 

Where: Tate Britain, Millbank SW1

When: Saturday 29 January 2011Time of Tour: Anytime you like, say from late lunchtime onwards? (Tate is open 10am to 6pm)Post Tour Meet-up (optional for people free and feeling sociable): from 5pm - location nearby tbc (probably Morpeth Arms)

Visiting Tate Britain information  www.tate.org.uk/britain/information  
 
PLEASE SEND THIS INVITATION ON / PROMOTE THIS EVENT TO ANYONE YOU THINK YOU WILL BE INTERESTED (this information online here: http://bit.ly/fRrHDU)
 
"A self-guided tour is a self-governing tour where one navigates a route oneself as opposed to an escorted tour where a tour guide directs the route, times, information, and places toured" (Wikipedia)
 
Twenty years ago Tate began to publicly support the oil company BP.

For a secret fee[1] BP is associated with Tate and great art, part of the corporate's need to generate a 'social license to operate' and create a perception of it making a positive contribution to society. Unfortunately, through this sponsorship arrangement, Tate has become complicit in taking the world to runaway climate change and other negative social impacts around the world.