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’.

https://www.theprintspace.co.uk/the-art-of-activism-free-open-call-and-… https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate-change/art-activism-19-september-1… 19.9.-13.10.19 Location: theprintspace gallery, 74 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8DL Friends of the Earth has partnered with theprintspace and The Guardian to host a month-long art exhibition focused on acts of resistance that give us h

'Today the Concertgebouw celebrates the Opening Night of its orchestra's new season. On the same day, Fossil Free Culture NL makes clear that there is little to celebrate on a dying planet. Solemn, near motionless performers carrying trays with glasses of black champagne, demonstrate the dissonance between the Concertgebouw's public image and its complicity in the global crimes by Royal Dutch Shell through its acceptance of their dirty money.

Taken from https://hyperallergic.com/511052/warren-kanders-resigns/ 'After months of protest, an emerging biennial boycott, and an accusation of war crimes, Warren Kanders has resigned from his position as vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s board of trustees. “The targeted campaign of attacks against me and my company that has been waged these past several months has threatened to undermine the important work of the Whitney,” said Kanders in his resignation letter to the board, according to the New York

From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49006976 An Egyptian writer has resigned from the British Museum's board of trustees, claiming it is "immovable" on its sponsorship deal with oil company BP. Ahdaf Soueif also cited the museum's positions on worker relations and the repatriation of cultural artefacts as reasons for her departure. In a blog post she called on the museum "to take a clear ethical position...

From our friends at Culture Unstained: https://cultureunstained.org/2019/07/05/leading-artists-escalate-pressu… * 78 leading artists – including Turner Prize and BP Portrait Award winners – call for end to BP sponsorship at National Portrait Gallery * Letter calls on Gallery director to ‘remove the BP representative from judging panel’ * Intervention follows Mark Rylance’s resignation from RSC over BP sponsorship Pressure on the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to drop its B