Creative “sing-in” at British Museum, targeting BP-sponsored exhibition

On Sunday 11th December at 12pm, we took to the British Museum to perform a specially written protest song in response to BP’s sponsorship of the current blockbuster exhibition “Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt”. We took over a space inside the museum’s Great Court, calling on the Museum’s Director not to renew the oil company’s toxic … More Creative “sing-in” at British Museum, targeting BP-sponsored exhibition

Stop BP with your face

A simple guide Our climate-wrecking, sea-level-raising nemeses at BP have decided, in their wisdom, to sponsor the “Sunken Cities” exhibition at the British Museum. The British Museum, in a similar moment of clever, irony-free thinking, have agreed to let them do it. As part of the exhibition, they’ve set up one of those comedy face-hole … More Stop BP with your face

Drenched performers occupy British Museum after hours

Performance fills museum with sounds of dissent against BP sponsorship and disrupts speeches at VIP exhibition launch Campaigners highlight irony of a fossil fuel company sponsoring a ‘Sunken Cities’ exhibition Second creative protest of the day, after a disobedient artwork obstructed the morning press launch Journalist at VIP launch reports guests ‘cringing’ during BP speech … More Drenched performers occupy British Museum after hours