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  • 22 Feb 2017 anna

    Fight BP’s Pinkwashing

    A briefing for LGBTQ rights campaigners by No Pride In BP, Platform and People & Planet Download briefing as pdf Pinkwashing: (n.) a public relations tactic, involving an appeal to LGBT-friendliness, in order to offset or ‘wash’ over other questionable practices Is BP a queer-friendly company? “proud to be a business where you can be yourself”…

    Fight BP’s Pinkwashing

  • UK-based and angry about #MuslimBan? Here’s 5 things to do.

    UK people. Are you angry about Trump’s attempts to deport people from the US? Did you perhaps go to the Women’s March, or sign that oddly-worded petition about cancelling Trump’s visit? Well, we’ve got more work to do (join a protest against the #MuslimBan this week), and more importantly, more work to do at home. Muslim lives, the…

    UK-based and angry about #MuslimBan? Here’s 5 things to do.

  • 5 Dec 2016 james

    ‘Art – Possibility – Action’ – creating spaces that are equal, democratic, free and luminous.

    The storm of political events tosses us this way and that – first the election of Trump in the wake of Brexit, then the rejection of the far right Presidential candidate in the Austrian elections and the inspiring victory at Standing Rock in Dakota. Somewhat becalmed in the midst of the roaring gale, my mind…

    ‘Art – Possibility – Action’ – creating spaces that are equal, democratic, free and luminous.

  • “Art is direct, it challenges the authorities, the power structure” Ken Saro-Wiwa jr, 1968 – 2016

    Yesterday at All Saints Church in Fulham, London, we attended a celebration of the life of journalist, government special advisor, and digital tech innovator Ken Saro-Wiwa jr. His life was suddenly cut short at the age of 47. We are sorrowed by this profound loss to the Saro-Wiwa family, and of a talented man invested in…

    “Art is direct, it challenges the authorities, the power structure” Ken Saro-Wiwa jr, 1968 – 2016

  • 24 Nov 2016 admin

    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…

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

  • 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…

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

  • 30 Sep 2016 jane

    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…

    For Lucy Fairley, founder of Helix Arts and Crossings

  • 15 Sep 2016 james

    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’…

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

  • 6 Sep 2016 anna

    Democratising energy – an online peer learning course

      6 weeks of learning and sharing with people working on energy transitions around the world PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this course has now closed. If you would like to be notified of future courses like this, you can still fill out this form or sign up to Platform’s mailing list at the top of this page.…

    Democratising energy – an online peer learning course

  • 2 Aug 2016 anna

    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…

    Open letter: BP can’t buy our silence