You may have already noticed on billboards, newspapers, magazines and screens across the land that along with the amazing 2012 Olympics edging closer and closer we also now have the pleasure of bathing in the outstanding magnificence that is BP’s new olympics focused advertising campaign.* London 2012. Fuelling the Future. Among other things they seems …
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Reverend Billy leads mass exorcism in Tate Modern Turbine Hall over ‘taint’ of BP sponsorship
PRESS RELEASE 18 July 2011 Reverend Billy leads mass exorcism in Tate Modern Turbine Hall over ‘taint’ of BP sponsorship American performance group and British artists, activists and art lovers congregate in call for gallery to end its relationship with oil company Monday (18 July) Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthalujah choir joined with …
Hunt’s Glass Slipper is Filling with Toxic Toes
The following is a great and insightful article on arts cuts and oil sponsorship by Mark Donne as featured in the Huffington Post: Given the phone-hacking and “blagging” scandal engulfing his department, embattled Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt might understandably be granted brief artistic respite; perhaps in the form of an elegant white swan gliding majestically …
BP White Swan
On Wednesday 13th July, a surprise interpretation of Swan Lake was performed at BP’s Summer Big Screens in Trafalgar Square, illustrating the story of BP’s involvement in the tar sands. Take a look here at this beautiful performance: For further information please visit the BP White Swan website.
Come lay hands on Tate Modern – 18th July
Reverend Billy and & The Church of Earthalujah invite you to a service at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on Monday 18 July, 5.30. An exorcism of the evil spirit of BP, brought to you by Liberate Tate, UK Tar Sands Network, London Rising Tide, Art Not Oil and Climate Rush. Brothers and sisters, a …
Liberate Tate 