On Sunday, seventy of us recreated BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill inside the British Museum: Gross Negligence from rikki on Vimeo. This is the eighth time we’ve performed inside the Museum to challenge their sponsorship partnership with the world’s biggest corporate criminal, BP. We’ve raised the profile of the issue and have definitely got their attention. … More It’s time to tell the British Museum: no more BP!

Performers create tableau of dying animals, devastated locals and poisoned waters in front of new BP-sponsored exhibition Performance highlights four-year anniversary and this month’s decision by a US judge that BP was “grossly negligent” and bore clear responsibility for the disaster Protest part of global day of action on climate change, with major marches in … More Protesters bring Deepwater Horizon oil spill into BP-sponsored British Museum

25 art-activists have oil poured over them in National Portrait Gallery in protest over BP Portrait Award Art Not Oil coalition calls on National Portrait Gallery to break sponsorship ties with oil company responsible for climate change Earlier this afternoon 25 performers scattered throughout the National Portrait Gallery simultaneously had oil poured over their faces … More National Portrait Gallery targeted by live oily portraits

Man dressed as Viking arrested outside British Museum for carrying a cardboard shield, but “flash-horde” protest against BP sponsorship goes ahead undeterred Around 200 people – many dressed as Vikings – erect mobile longship in Great Court of Museum in vocal performance protest Today, hundreds of people invaded the British Museum to stage a Viking … More “Unlawful arrest” as hundreds of protesters invade British Museum with Viking longship

On Sunday June 15th, theatrical protest group the Reclaim Shakespeare Company will be invading the BP-sponsored British Museum with a piece of mass interactive theatre. We want you to join us in this grand finale to our latest series of pop-up protests, targeting the Museum’s heavily BP-branded Vikings Exhibition. With your help, we are planning … More Join our Viking flash-horde at the British Museum, 3pm, June 15th!

Our performance action on Sunday has already raised a storm worthy of Ragnarok itself. First and foremost, of course, there is our own film of the action: Then there’s the small matter of our appearance on Channel 4 News. Last night, our protest served as a lead-in to a long segment all about the problem … More BP Vikings storm into the media

Viking exhibition hit by surprise protest performance about “looting and pillaging” oil company Museum-goers applaud as marauding “BP Vikings” ejected from Museum Photos here Sign the petition to the British Museum Today, theatrical protest group the Reclaim Shakespeare Company invaded the British Museum and held a surprise performance challenging BP’s sponsorship of the popular Vikings … More Horde of oily Vikings invades British Museum in protest at BP sponsorship

“Looting and pillaging” oil company pilloried in send-up of official trailer Spoof film launched by hijacking Museum’s own #Vikingslive hashtag to coincide with “Vikings Live” screenings in cinemas around the country BP Vikings – Pillaging the planet from rikki on Vimeo. Sign the petition to the British Museum. Today, grassroots “actor-vist” group the Reclaim Shakespeare … More Spoof film mocks BP sponsorship of British Museum Vikings exhibition

30 members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company take over Tate Britain’s “BP Walk Through British Art” with a noisy anti-BP performance Protest comes shortly after two Tate members resign over gallery’s BP sponsorship Click here to view and share a shorter version of the performance. Today at 3pm, a 30-strong group of ‘actor-vists’ known as … More ‘Is this a logo I see before me?’ – we take over Tate Britain

We hath returned! Last night, our merry band of mischievous conspirators didst leap into action once more, and headed to the steps of Tate Britain, a great house of culture much tarred by the oily stench of BP patronage. At that place, this very Friday eve, ’twas the Annual General Meeting of Tate Members; and … More We return, with a protest at BP-sponsored Tate Britain!