Culture Unstained
@cultureunstained.bsky.social
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Campaigns and research organisation working for an end to fossil fuel funding of art and culture. cultureunstained.org
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RBC is both a funder of major fossil fuel infrastructure and investor in weapons being used by the Israeli military. The @britishmuseum.bsky.social and @sciencemuseum.org.uk continue to partner with fossil fuel sponsors bp & Adani, while @sadlerswells.bsky.social is sponsored by Barclays.
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The film has been launched to shine a spotlight on The @oldvictheatre.bsky.social sponsorship by Royal Bank of Canada, as well as other cultural organisations that partner with corporations fueling the climate crisis, investing in arms and complicit in genocide.
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The play, originally written by acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill in 2015 against the backdrop of escalating campaigns against BP sponsorship of the arts, speaks powerfully to the growing opposition to unethical corporate sponsors and the “artwashing” of those profiting from the genocide in Gaza.
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INTRODUCING: ‘Tickets are Now On Sale’, a new short film of a play by acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill, featuring BAFTA-winning actor Siobhán McSweeney and BAFTA-nominated actor Samuel West.
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TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE | Siobhán McSweeney and Samuel West in Caryl Churchill's play on sponsorship
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TODAY: MPs will, for the first time, debate a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship. For our health, for climate, for human rights, for Palestinian liberation - we must stop promoting and enabling some of the most destructive companies on the planet.
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TAKE ACTION -as a creative / culture worker, academic or scientist 👩‍🔬 actionnetwork.org/forms/science-museum-boycott
Text reading 'Act Now: Culture Workers & Academics' on a neon pink background, underneath a squiggly line drawing of the Science Museum's entrance
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BP, sponsor of the museum’s STEM Academy for training teachers, is one of the world’s biggest polluters and producers of oil and gas, ploughing billions into new fossil fuel extraction. BP is also supplying fuel to the Israeli military and directly profiting from the genocide in Palestine.
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Adani, sponsor of the Museum’s climate gallery, is the world’s biggest private producer of coal, which it extracts by denying the rights of Indigenous people to their lands. Adani produces weapons in partnership with Elbit Systems, which are being used in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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🏫 ❤️ "...We - teachers, lecturers, educators and parents - urge our schools and universities not to bring student groups to the Science Museum while Adani and BP remain sponsors.”
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Culture, education and academic boycott of the Science Museum until Adani & BP are dropped as sponsors!

🎨👩‍🔬✍️ We - writers, academics, performers, artists, scientists, musicians, culture workers - refuse to contribute to Science Museum events and activities and will refuse contracts with the museum…
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Education union calls on schools to boycott London's Science Museum over ‘image-laundering’ sponsorship deals

Groups representing scientists, teachers and culture workers held a protest outside the institution on Sunday over its deals with oil company BP and Adani Green Energy

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If you're a teacher please support the boycott of the Science Museum until they drop BP & Adani as sponsors. This action is supported by NEU and continues the calls by @cultureunstained.bsky.social to stop fossil fuel companies sponsoring culture.
www.educationclimatecoalition.co.uk/sciencemuseu...
Science Museum Boycott — Education Climate Coalition
www.educationclimatecoalition.co.uk
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Our Co-Director Juliette unpacks the significance of recently unearthed BP memos which expose the polluter’s cynical agenda for sponsoring art and culture… 🛢️📋👀https://bylinetimes.com/2025/06/04/bp-sponsorship-british-museum/
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'BP's Cynical Greenwashing Sponsorship Tactics Over British Cultural Institutions Has Now Been Exposed'
These internal memos reveal how fossil fuel companies use cultural sponsorship as a means of cultural and political control, argues Juliette Daigre
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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
100,000 signatures to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships — thank you to everyone who signed ! Now onwards to a debate . . . govpetition.uk/700024
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📢 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 for a tobacco-style ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social's petition has now passed the halfway mark toward its goal of 100,000 signatures, at which point it will be considered for Parliamentary debate. 💪

✍️ Sign the petition here:
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
petition.parliament.uk
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In the UK I'm petitioning for a ban of fossil fuel ads and sponsorships– for too long these corporations have had unlimited £££ to greenwash their dirty reputations in schools , sports and everywhere in between – it must change govpetition.uk/700024
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
govpetition.uk
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cc @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social Still “committed to working with funders who are also on a journey to decarbonise”? Can we talk again about #BP?
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A poorly argued piece here from #BritishMuseum Director Nick Cullinan which is sprinkled with inaccuracies, straw man arguments and mischaracterisations of activism.

We can - and should - have ethical standards for cultural sponsorship.
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Think twice before attacking corporate sponsorship of the arts
Activists should ask themselves what will replace the funding that is lost
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