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.
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).
The Greenwish Guerrillas struck again yesterday at the opening of the BP-sponsored ‘Michelangelo Drawings - Closer to the Master’ exhibition.
This is what the poster for the exhibition became after it had spent a few hurried moments in the hands of the Greenwash Guerillas' (very) ad hoc design department.
ART NOT OIL runs at Mono (12 Kings Court, Glasgow) from February 1st until February 28th, sorted by the Camcorder Guerillas (www.camcorderguerillas.net), who will be hosting an evening of short oily films including 'Grangemouth-Brazil Video Letters' from 7-9pm on Monday Feb 13th.
The new Art Not Oil 2006 - Call for Entries leaflet is now ready for your perusal. Contact us for copies...
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and here's the plain text of the new leaflet:
ART NOT OIL 2006
CALL FOR ENTRIES
First Prize: Justice
Second Prize: Survival
On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, especially Shell and Chevron.
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of this execution, activists from London Rising Tide, Rhythms of Resistance, Rossport Solidarity Camp and London Earth First! came together to take action against Shell for its activities in Nigeria, in Ireland and worldwide.
please spread far and wide!
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indignation – inspiration – creation…solution?
ART NOT OIL
at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 5DW; Tel: 0191 232 6478
EXHIBITION RUNS OCTOBER 5th-28th
FREE PUBLIC OPENING, WED OCT 5th, 7pm: art – music – food – talk
As the BP Portrait Award settles in at the Sunderland Museum and Winter
Gardens, its alter ego Art Not Oil comes to the Forth Hotel to offer up
what could be a truer portrait of an oil company, as well as celebrating
our creative dissent.
indignation – inspiration – creation... solution?
ART NOT OIL
at Oxford House, Derbyshire St., London E2 6HG
Bethnal Green tube
EXHIBITION RUNS AUGUST 5th-28th
Mon - Fri: 9am - 10pm; Sat & Sun: 10am - 6pm
Leaflets & posters available from info@artnotoil.org.uk
FREE PUBLIC OPENING, THURSDAY AUGUST 4th, 6-10pm:
art – live music/poetry (aka Ramshackle Oily Karaoke) - film – sound – food – talk
Pix available on Indymedia
The Art Not Oil exhibition was mounted onto a sturdy trike on June 13th and ridden gently through the rush-houred streets of central London. The destination was the National Portrait Gallery, which was hosting the presentation ceremony for the BP Portrait Award.
On arriving, it was clear that after last year's blockade of the main entrance, BP security, NPG security and Metropolitan Petroleum (also known as the police) were taking no chances...
Bringing the climate message home: an account of London Rising Tide's treesit at BP HQ, April 26-29th 2005One activist will spend a third night in the tree-tops opposite BP's corporate headquarters, in protest at the greenwashing of the company's environmental and social record.
Outfoxing police and BP security, eight London Rising Tide activists took to the trees in St. James' Square at dawn on Tuesday April 26th. They occupied two trees throughout the day, hanging a massive banner reading "BP FUELS CLIMATE CHAOS" opposite BP office workers' windows.
On his return to terra firma, Sam Sutherland, one of the climbers, commented,
