Art Not Oil

For creativity, climate justice and an end to fossil-fuelled sponsorship of the arts. Coalition, winners of 2020 Best Campaign #CreativeGreen Award

[Art Not Oil @ArtNotOil]

Last night, we won the first ever 'Best Campaign' award at the #CreativeGreen Awards 2020! 🍾

In the last year, many cultural institutions cut their ties to @BP_plc and @shell, and that was down to activists, artists, workers and frontline communities demanding #climatejustice!

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

The @sciencemuseum’s sponsor #Adani is displacing Indigenous peoples to keep mining new coal, burning coal in new power stations, facing charges of alleged bribery and fraud, and making drones fuelling the genocide in Palestine.

Are you “delighted” to work alongside #Adani?! 😡

[Stop Adani @stopadani]

Surely the London @sciencemuseum has to finally end its grotesque #Adani sponsorship deal. @gautam_adani can't even visit his own greenwashing exhibition without risking arrest! #StopAdani @Cult_Unstained @londonmining @XRebellionUK https://t.co/bCK9qXuIHt

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

🚨 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.”
https://t.co/Bc75mHnqxs

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

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? 👀

[Chris Garrard @TheGarrard]

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

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

“Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter winner Arundhati Roy to be this year’s PEN writer of courage.“

#FreeAlaa

https://t.co/piOmsfH23S

[BP or not BP? @drop_BP]

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
https://t.co/aixAYFHOeZ

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

Dear @sciencemuseum,

There is *NO WAY* you can claim that @bp_plc is an acceptable sponsor, now ditching its already weak target!

BP doesn’t meet your #climate criteria.

Do the right thing.

#DropBP ✍️🥼🏛️
https://t.co/kK99HCRSnf

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

“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…

1/3

[LDNMiningNetwork.bsky.social @londonmining]

The world needs to decarbonise rapidly if we are to avert catastrophic climate breakdown.

But who decides how much mining is necessary and where it takes place?

On 30th November, join us to discuss how to build a globally just transition.

https://t.co/gbprj4yOhD

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

🎥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

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

@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... 🎥

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

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

[BP or not BP? @drop_BP]

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! 🫨🛢️🎶

[BP or not BP? @drop_BP]

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.
https://t.co/X0S3T0xo5Q

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

.@NPGLondon has appointed Victoria Siddall as its new Director, someone who has championed #climate action in the arts. 🖼️🌍🎨

(The Gallery had been sponsored by BP for 34 years but in 2022, the sponsorship deal was dropped.)
https://t.co/kOM8vqy9h4

[#StopRosebank @StopCambo]

BREAKING 🚨: The UK government has decided not to defend the case against Rosebank.

This is a massive win and a huge step towards stopping Rosebank for good.

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

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
https://t.co/daatHqzwFe

[Culture Unstained @Cult_Unstained]

BREAKING! 🎭 Over 80 leading actors, playwrights and theatre-makers have called on @oldvictheatre to end its partnership with @RBC, one of the world's biggest fossil fuel financing banks... 1/3
https://t.co/eNhAieriP6

[Chris Garrard @TheGarrard]

The case against the @sciencemuseum agreeing a sponsorship deal with #Adani was damning when they signed it.

But it continues to get worse, with the company pushing the world deeper into #climate breakdown…

#dropadani