UK - Demonstration - Flashmob protest in the British Museum against BP sponsorship of the arts

London, UK. Sunday 18th November 2012. Reclaim Shakespeare Company flashmob demonstrating in the British Museum’s Great Court against BP's (British Petroleum) sponsorship of the arts. Oil giant BP has a long-running financial relationship with the British Museum. The museum’s current ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’ exhibition is sponsored by BP. Despite the company’s decision to go into the ‘world’s most destructive project’ – the Tar Sands, the devastating Deepwater Horizon spill, and its eyeing-up of the vulnerable Arctic.

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London, UK. Sunday 18th November 2012. Reclaim Shakespeare Company flashmob demonstrating in the British Museum’s Great Court against BP's (British Petroleum) sponsorship of the arts. Oil giant BP has a long-running financial relationship with the British Museum. The museum’s current ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’ exhibition is sponsored by BP. Despite the company’s decision to go into the ‘world’s most destructive project’ – the Tar Sands, the devastating Deepwater Horizon spill, and its eyeing-up of the vulnerable Arctic.