We cometh to rescue cultural institutions from the slings and arrows of outrageous oil sponsorship. Reclaimed the Bard, now kicking BP out the British Museum!
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20 Dec 2023
📣 Enough is Enough!! 😠
From its refusal to return stolen objects to its renewed backing for BP, something is seriously wrong at the @britishmuseum. 🏛️🔥
Until this reckless BP deal is dropped, pledge NOT to visit or work with museum!
👇 SIGN NOW! 👇
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22 Nov 2024
🚨 NEW in @TheArtNewspaper!
“The @ScienceMuseum is facing fresh scrutiny over one of its sponsors, Adani Green Energy—a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group—after charges were brought against the group’s billionaire chairman, Gautam Adani.”
theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/…
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21 Nov 2024
Morning, @sciencemuseum!
Just so you know, Chair of the Adani Group and two execs from your sponsor Adani Green Energy have been indicted, and an arrest warrant issued for Gautam Adani. 😮
Will you now *finally* be cutting ties to Adani? 👀
21 Nov 2024
🚨 Breaking News: @gautam_adani, billionaire chair of the Adani Group, has been charged in the US over an alleged $250 MILLION bribery scheme 💰🤯. Arrest warrants have reportedly been issued for him and his nephew Sagar Adani.
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🛑 #StopAdani @jugeshinder
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17 Oct 2024
Sorry @ThangamDebb - calling out unethical sponsorship deals is *not* pointless! 🤨💰🏛️
This is a disappointingly uninformed and misleading piece which overlooks the fundamental reasons why unethical corporations with an image problem like BP seek to sponsor the arts... 1/x
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10 Oct 2024
Siri, how do you say “I don’t give a f*** about your future”, in climate-wrecking, war-fuelling fossil fuel producer speak?
“BP abandons oil and gas pledge as it prepares to target Middle East”
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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9 Oct 2024
Just weeks ago, the Director of the @britishmuseum defended his BP sponsorship in the national press… 🏛️
Now, BP has committed to going even *further* in the WRONG direction, and pushing the world deeper into #climate breakdown!! 😡🛢️🔥
#dropbp
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25 Sep 2024
Shame on the @BritishMuseum Director.
"I think you have to have very good reasons for turning down money that would help keep the museum free to the public.”
Look at the accounts. 👀
BP sponsorship does NOT help to keep the museum free to the public.
theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/…
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20 Sep 2024
“We have to be vigilant that we don’t allow our culture-making to become commodified, to be used as a product to clean up a brand.”
Our Co-Director @TheGarrard spoke to @TheStage as part of this new piece on the challenges of ethical sponsorship of the arts…
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In this week’s Long Read, fundraisers and donors take Amanda Parker (@ArtsParker_UK) inside the complex and often messy world of arts philanthropy in 2024 👇 thestage.co.uk/long-reads/we…
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11 Sep 2024
🚨 BREAKING! 🏛️
Save the Children UK has *withdrawn* from tonight’s #Late at the @sciencemuseum after concerns were raised about museum sponsor Adani, a company partnering with Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit on the production of drones…
theguardian.com/culture/2024…
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9 Sep 2024
🎥NEW: Find out what happened when we brought an AdVan to the OPENING NIGHT of the @oldvictheatre’s latest star-studded show…to expose the TRUTH about its destructive and polluting sponsor @RBC! 👀😲🎭
#OVTheRealThing #DropRBC
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9 Sep 2024
#Ayotzinapa10YearsOn
Join us on 19-20 September to mark another anniversary of #Ayotzinapa. We will have on display some images of our solidarity actions with the 43, and our collaborative translation of @monacofelipe 'Eternal Hours', with bios of 48 students.
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6 Sep 2024
@oldvictheatre may not want to talk about what their sponsor @RBC funds, so we made sure that the audience for the ‘Press Night’ of #OVTheRealThing, saw the truth of fossil and arms funding bank RBC... 🎥
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3 Sep 2024
BREAKING! Tonight, as the audience arrived for the ‘Press Night’ of #OVTheRealThing, an AdVan pulled up at @oldvictheatre playing testimony from those impacted by its sponsor, fossil and arms funding bank @RBC… 🎭🛢️🌎
…until the theatre called the police! 😮 1/5
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1 Sep 2024
This. Is. Grim. 🤢
BP is cutting renewables.
Putting billions into more oil and gas.
But now, it’s desperately greenwashing its image…by sponsoring and renaming a music arena in Birmingham but using its EV charging brand! 🫨🛢️🎶
1 Sep 2024
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We have a brand new name and we’re bringing a fresh new look.
We’re currently hard at work behind the scenes gearing up for a grand arena revamp set to be revealed in November. Watch this space
Make sure to follow us for all the latest updates.
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29 Aug 2024
Earlier this year, several architect groups said they wouldn’t bid for the @britishmuseum’s redevelopment due to sponsorship by oil giant BP. 🔥🛢️
We urge the shortlisted architects to reconsider and withdraw their bids, until BP is dropped by the Museum!
architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
29 Aug 2024
News | Five architect teams shortlisted for @britishmuseum design competition – major redevelopment will transform a third of museum’s gallery space
Read: ow.ly/Mvxj50T9Ly5
ALT British Museum Western Range shortlisted architects. Top left-right: Tom Emerson, Stephanie Macdonald, David Chipperfield, Lina Ghotmeh. Bottom left-right: Jamie Fobert, Eric Parry, Rem Koolhaas
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29 Aug 2024
With many architects rightly shunning the @britishmuseum's redevelopment project due to it being tainted by @bp_plc's dirty money, 5 teams of architects have now been shortlisted.
We urge them to think again - and withdraw their bids unless BP is dropped.
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29 Aug 2024
As Future Architects Forum put it earlier this year...
'Such donations by oil companies are transparent acts of reputation washing and any architect with the slightest pretence of social concern must refuse to become complicit.’
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15 Aug 2024
Great new op-ed from @johnpaulstonard in @TheArtNewspaper!
“The sponsorship from BP [at the @britishmuseum] is essentially a payment for reputation enhancement…from a company that, under its new CEO, has announced downgrading renewable energy projects.”
theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/…
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14 Aug 2024
Are you an actor, playwright or work in the theatre sector? 🎭
New signatures are being added all the time to this open letter urging the Trustees of the @oldvictheatre to end its partnership with fossil fuel and arms financing bank @rbc! 1/2
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13 Aug 2024
Nope, it’s not #AprilFoolsDay.
BP is *actually* partnering with NASA to drill on the moon and Mars…and because it will help BP advance its oil and gas drilling on Earth. 😠
Because burning one planet isn’t enough for @bp_plc. 🔥🌎🛢️
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Mark Rylance, Paapa Essiedu and Caryl Churchill are among the creatives urging London’s Old Vic to cut its ties with the Royal Bank of Canada over its links to fossil fuels and arms manufacturers that have supplied Israel 👇
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