Blog


  • We took the stage for jailed Egyptian activists at British Museum’s BP-branded big lecture

    We took the stage for jailed Egyptian activists at British Museum’s BP-branded big lecture

    Today, at the BP sponsored British Museum, we remembered political prisoners and friends jailed in Egypt. In particular, we remembered Alaa Abd El Fattah, Aya Hejazi, Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma, Yousef Shabaan, Mahmoud Shawkan, and Abdullah Al Fakhrani, who are amongst the tens of thousands of dissidents imprisoned by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime. Holding larger-than-life…

    24 Nov 2016 admin
  • Egyptian political prisoners remembered in unsanctioned performance at British Museum’s ‘Sunken Cities’

    Egyptian political prisoners remembered in unsanctioned performance at British Museum’s ‘Sunken Cities’

    24 November 2016 Unsanctioned vigil held for jailed human rights campaigners at ‘Curator’s Introduction to the BP Sponsored Exhibition Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds’   Exhibition displays objects from ancient sunken cities in the Nile Delta, where BP is now drilling for fossil fuels. Community opposition successfully halted BP’s gas plant plans – the North…

    Press Release
    24 Nov 2016 anna
    ,
  • For Lucy Fairley, founder of Helix Arts and Crossings

    For Lucy Fairley, founder of Helix Arts and Crossings

    My friend and Platform ally Lucy Fairley has died, aged 70. We’ve known her and her work for nearly 25 years and worked especially closely with her in the late 1990s. She founded Artists Agency in Sunderland in 1983, and in 1987 appointed Esther Salamon to join her initially as Placement Officer, then as in…

    30 Sep 2016 jane
  • Strip away the carapace – the Ice Age, BP, and the British Museum

    Strip away the carapace – the Ice Age, BP, and the British Museum

    It pushes me quickly to tears. I’m kneeling on the cold stone floor of the Great Court, legs tucked beneath me, one foot crossed under the other. I’m listening to a rendition of A Requiem to Sinking Cities – an agit-performance in the heart of the British Museum. Silent figures hold up two banners, ‘#DropBP’…

    15 Sep 2016 james
  • Open letter: BP can’t buy our silence

    Open letter: BP can’t buy our silence

    Today’s Times has published an open letter from Mark Rylance, Naomi Klein, Nnimmo Bassey, Matthew Herbert, and 215 artists, actors, arts managers, musicians, frontline activists, campaigners, and scientists, arguing: We cannot afford another five years of BP-branded culture. Last Thursday BP announced the renewal of its flagship sponsorship programme. Its partners, this time: British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal…

    2 Aug 2016 anna
  • Tate loses in court over BP secrets as oil co. renews other cultural sponsorships

    Tate loses in court over BP secrets as oil co. renews other cultural sponsorships

    Press release: Tate loses in court over BP secrets as oil co. renews other cultural sponsorships  Information Tribunal rules Tate must reveal BP sponsorship fees for 2007-2011 in a legal victory for campaigners. Artists and campaigners promise fresh wave of discontent as British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Opera House, and Royal Shakespeare Company sign…

    Press Release
    29 Jul 2016 anna
  • Statement: protest will escalate with BP’s newly announced sponsorship deals

    Statement: protest will escalate with BP’s newly announced sponsorship deals

    Contact: Anna Galkina / 07942044472 / [email protected] Today BP announced new headline sponsorship agreements with the British Museum, Royal Opera House, National Portrait Gallery and Royal Shakespeare Company, providing the institutions with an average of only £375,000 a year each. This is less than the price of the average 2 bedroom flat in London, and 25% less…

    Press Release
    28 Jul 2016 admin
  • Information Commissioner in U-turn over Tate’s BP secrecy

    Information Commissioner in U-turn over Tate’s BP secrecy

    Press release: Information Commissioner in U-turn over Tate’s BP secrecy * Information Commissioner argued in court hearing today that Tate failed to show how disclosing sponsorship details would harm its commercial interest. * The art museum is refusing to publish sponsorship fees despite ending the deal with BP.[1] Tate representative argued that commercial confidentiality bound…

    Press Release
    11 May 2016 anna
  • We’re taking Tate to the Information Tribunal over #BPsecrets

    Next Wednesday, we’re taking Tate to the Information Tribunal for refusing to reveal details of BP sponsorship. The disputed information is the amounts BP gave after 2006 and until 2012. This is despite a previous court ruling, and despite the fact that the sponsorship deal is ending in 2017. Thanks to a heap of internal…

    5 May 2016 anna

PLATFORM BRINGS workers AND communities TOGETHER TO CREATE NEW, LIBERATORY SYSTEMS THAT TACKLE INJUSTICE AND CLIMATE BREAKDOWN.