https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxex5p7ylxo
@BPOutOfOpera
On 20th May 2014, just before a BP-sponsored performance of the Royal Opera House's La Traviata was screened, we performed this 'flash dance' against BP sponsorship.
YES! to opera, but BOOO! to BP
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'FLASH DANCE' PROTEST AGAINST BP AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE OPERA SCREENING
'There is a fire in me
Burns all night and day
Flares at injustice
Leaps at oppression
Glows warmly in beauty'
(Ken Saro-Wiwa)
Shell has sponsored a classical season at the Southbank Centre (SBC) for 2
years, and until recently this deal looked set to continue into the
future. Then in January this year
Grassroots “actor-vist” group and Art Not Oil member the Reclaim Shakespeare Company have launched a spoof film challenging BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum’s popular Vikings exhibition. The film is modelled closely on the British Museum’s official Vikings trailer, and plays on the fact that a notorious oil company is sponsoring an