Ending oil industry sponsorship of the arts
From our friends at BP or not BP:
'Dear friends,
We're excited to announce our next action: a disobedient tour of the British Museum on Saturday August 14th!
We'll be joined by a team of amazing speakers inside the museum, making the links between objects in the museum’s collection, the history of the British Empire, the museum's BP sponsorship, and struggles for global and climate justice around the world today.
Culture Unstained's response to the appointment of George Osborne as Chair of British Museum Trustees:
https://cultureunstained.org/2021/06/25/7-reasons-george-osborne-should…
Chris Garrard's letter in the FT, 28.6.21:
The British Museum will soon decide whether to renew its sponsorship deal with the oil company BP. However, its new chair George Osborne can have no role in that decision (“George Osborne picked to lead British Museum”, June 25).
Climate change activists urge @Sadlers_Wells to end sponsorship of Barclays, the largest financier of fossil fuel extraction in Europe; (FYI Sadler’s Wells board chair is also chair of Barclays, as per @Tate with BP and Lord Browne a few years back):
https://www.sadlerswells.com/about-us/people/board-of-trustees/
'The country’s foremost dance organisation is being pressed by climate change activists to drop a partnership with Barclays that funds cheap tickets for young people.
Fro our friends at Fossil Free NL:
'After a long history of cultural sponsorship that started in 1931, Shell and NEMO Science Museum have quietly ended their partnership during lockdown. A cultural sector fully liberated from the fossil fuel industry is now within reach in Amsterdam.
We celebrate the end of Shell’s current partnership with NEMO and call for a commitment to rule out future fossil fuel partnerships. Let’s remember what we can’t accept.
...created by Jason Scott-Warren, @jes1003:
London, 22/5/21: student climate strikers joined by BP or not BP? in calling for the museum to drop oil giant
Shell as sponsor for its flagship climate exhibition. Petition handed to management amid calls for boycott.
@ukscn_london
@drop_BP
Photos courtesy of Ron F (@TheWeeklyBull)
From our friends at UKSCN:
The Science Museum's new climate exhibition, Our Future Planet, is being sponsored by one of the world's biggest polluters: oil giant Shell. This is unacceptable.
We've signed petitions and sent open letters calling on them to drop Shell, but so far there's been no reply.
But if thousands of us pledge to boycott this upcoming exhibition, it will show the Science Museum the consequences of their decision to partner with a polluter like Shell.'
From our friends at @ukscn_london:
'we have put pressure on the @sciencemuseum
to #dropshell’s sponsorship of their new carbon capture exhibition. their response wasn’t good enough, so we are calling for action. join us in demanding that shell’s sponsorship is dropped: 22nd may | 2pm | the science museum'
