Action: Greenwash

'WHAT LIES BEHIND SHELL’S WILD LIE?' Public meeting, 16.10.06

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 17:02

-----please forward wildly!------

Shell is the third largest oil company in the world.
It is also the new sponsor of the Natural History Museum’s
Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

There will be a 'Shell's Wild Lie' counter-exhibition and public meeting with speakers from Shell-affected communities, at LARC, on MONDAY OCTOBER 16TH at 7PM.

LARC - or London Action Resource Centre (www.londonarc.org) - is at 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES, (corner of Parfett St., Whitechapel tube)

The speakers are
# Desmond D’Sa from Durban, South Africa,
# Ifieniya Lott from the Niger Delta, Nigeria
# Terry Clancey from County Mayo, Ireland

BP National Portrait Competition

Submitted by Toadministrator on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 13:18

BP Portrait Gallery Vigil
April - May 2007

BP were sponsoring the BP National Portrait Competition. The winning entries were made into an exhibition, which toured the country. When it got to Bristol we decided to throw a spanner in the works of the PR machine.
There are good reasons why companies like BP choose to throw cash at cultural, arty events. Altruism and love of art and 'high' culture don't feature highly on the list. Oil companies have had a bit of an image problem over recent years, as one scandal after another has hit the front pages. Sponsoring events like this is part of their PR counterattack. Its a way of convincing the public that they are caring, responsible companies who support culture and the arts. And its very cheap too.

OIL SPILL ACTION AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, 3.2.07

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/03/2007 - 13:17

Turmoil at the Make Nature History Museum
Climate activists splatter oil across photo exhibition in outrage at Shell
greenwash tactics

Today at the Shell-sponsored Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
at the Natural History Museum, 20 activists inspired by the Camp for
Climate Action (1), smeared oil over the photographs. This was an act of
outrage at Shell’s painfully transparent attempts to greenwash its
reputation via cultural sponsorship.

Art Not Oil at The Foundry, London, June 29th-July 9th

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/17/2006 - 15:39

* for creativity, climate justice and an end to oil industry sponsorship of the arts *

Art Not Oil at The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, (Old Street tube)
June 29th-July 9th 2006
Nosferatu - Fabio Sassi

Image: Fabio Sassi
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Art Not Oil sheds light and shadow on the oil industry...

BP refuses gift of song outside Annual General Meeting, 20.4.06

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 04/22/2006 - 14:02

Members of the provisionally musical theatre wing of climate justice
action group London Rising Tide (LRT) set out on April 20th 2006 to communicate their
warm feelings about BP in song to shareholders heading for the oil giant's
Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the ExCel Centre in Docklands.

Arts & Business Awards infiltrated & disrupted, 3.4.06

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 00:00

The 28th Annual Arts & Business Awards gala ceremony was held at the (BP-sponsored) Barbican Centre in London on Monday April 3rd 2006. It consisted of free drinks, schmoozing, mutual pat-on-the-backs concerning the 21st Century snake oil that is 'Corporate Social Responsibility', followed by an vain attempt to raise the tone with a performance by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).