Culture Unstained
Campaigns and research organisation working for an end to fossil fuel funding of art and culture.
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- Reposted by Culture UnstainedGreat to see @britishmuseum.bsky.social finally cut financial ties with tobacco giant JTI. As ASH Chair @copddoc.bsky.social says "It is completely unacceptable that the industry, which kills millions of people every year, is trying to launder its reputation...” www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
- Reposted by Culture UnstainedThe British Museum has ended its relationship with sponsor Japan Tobacco International (JTI), one of the largest tobacco product manufacturers in the world.
- BREAKING: The British Museum’s controversial partnership with tobacco manufacturer JTI is OVER! www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art... - Yet this wasn’t the Museum finally making an ethical choice; instead the sponsorship was ended after an intervention by the Department of Health.
- As @copddoc.bsky.social, Chair of ashorguk.bsky.social told us: “Allowing JTI to sponsor the British Museum was not just wrong in principle. It was also a clear breach of the government’s obligations under the #WHOFCTC.”
- Japan Tobacco International’s name was quietly removed from the Museum’s website last week - the same day that a new report by @tcrgbath.bsky.social highlighted how the deal formed part of JTI’s wider influence & lobbying strategy. www.tobaccotactics.org/news/launch-...
- 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. youtu.be/LtTG8oMfeQY?...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Fossil fuel companies ... seek to reinforce their social licence and influence consumer behaviour by associating themselves with progress, positivity and public good.” MPs speak out for a ban on fossil fuel advertising & sponsorship: www.desmog.com/2025/07/07/m...
- 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.
- 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…
- 🏫 ❤️ "...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.”
- 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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- Reposted by Culture UnstainedEducation 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 buff.ly/ej7a8AM
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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/ #britishmuseum @sciencemuseum.org.uk
- And check out the underlying investigation by @desmog.com below… 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/05/20/r...
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- Revealed! BP’s internal memos show why BP *really* sponsors arts and culture… www.desmog.com/2025/05/20/r...
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- Reposted by Culture Unstained100,000 signatures to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships — thank you to everyone who signed ! Now onwards to a debate . . . govpetition.uk/700024
- Reposted by Culture Unstained📢 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:
- Reposted by Culture UnstainedIn 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
- 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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- Adani-owned NDTV using image posted by Gautam Adani to promote Adani-sponsored gallery. 🤔
- And the #ScienceMuseum sadly all too happy to help a coal and weapons producing billionaire indicted for bribery and fraud to burnish his image.
- Reposted by Culture UnstainedAlmost half of Europeans surveyed support an end to fossil fuel ads ✊🙌 If you want to see an end to fossil ads here in the UK, you can sign this petition from Chris Packham: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... www.desmog.com/2025/03/21/s...
- “We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry” - Prof Stefan Rahmstorf Yet the #ScienceMuseum is still promoting fossil fuel companies as part of the solution? 🤔
- Thank you Emma for taking a stand against the #ScienceMuseum 's unethical sponsorship deals, and all power to culture workers everywhere who are standing up to dodgy sponsorship and corporate capture of the arts
- I won't play violin in Icebreaker's 15/3/25 performance at Bradford Science & Media Museum to protest SM's greenwashing sponsorship by Adani & BP, & Adani's complicity in violence by Israel against people in Gaza. @cultureunstained.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social Explanation emmawelton.net/news/
- A welcome shift - and one influenced not just by the amazing campaign against #Sackler funding but also the #fossilfreeculture movement’s scrutiny of oil sponsorship of the arts… www.ft.com/content/d2a9...
- “This is the water that Shell has left for my people,” said the ruler of Ogale community in Ogoniland. “This is poison, and they are spending $ millions…so that they will not clean my land.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/07/nigerian-king-faces-shell-london-high-court-decades-oil-spills
- Ogale farmer Chief Fortune Olaka… “It has affected our land, affected our drinking water, affected our stream, affected our rivers, killed animals in our bush, killed our economic trees, damaged our stream and killed the fish that are in the stream today. www.itv.com/news/2025-02...
- Last week, the #BritishMuseum’s Director reaffirmed his commitment to partnering with #BP as the company scrapped its #climate goals. Now, new data shows that BP remains one of the biggest emitters in the world… 🔥🌍🛢️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Culture UnstainedDid you know? Half of global fossil CO2 emissions in 2023 were linked to just 36 companies. A 🆕 update to the Carbon Majors database shows the disproportionate contribution of a small number of high emitting companies to the GHG emissions damaging the planet. 🏭👉 carbonmajors.org/briefing/The...
- “As #climate impacts such as wild fires and flooding intensify, these museums will appear even more out-of-touch particularly with the concerns of younger generations.” The @the-independent.com on the growing pressure on the #BritishMuseum and #ScienceMuseum. 👀 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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- NEW | Prof Joanna Haigh tells @theartnewspaper.bsky.social: “Museums are intended to benefit society but by partnering w/BP the British Museum and Science Museum provide social licence and political cover for one of the most harmful industries on the planet.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/28/b...
- “You are now an outlier - it’s part of your job to sell the #BritishMuseum’s ongoing association with an oil giant.” And that’s exactly why BP sponsors culture! 🛢️ Kirsty Wark grills Director Nick Cullinan on #FrontRow who deflects and avoids the ethical issues! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- NEW | Us in the Guardian on BP’s reckless plans… “BP abandoned any pretence of caring about its massive climate impacts as it recommitted to oil and gas. Now, by recommitting to partnerships with BP, #TheBritishMuseum and #ScienceMuseum have done the same.“ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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- Before this week, #BP’s business plans were already on a collision course with #netzero and the Paris #Climate Goals. 🔥 Now, it’s going even further in a planet-wrecking direction. 🌍 The @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social must urgently review its BP partnership! 😡 www.theguardian.com/business/nil...
- BP’s CEO: Our strategy is really cool. The planet: Getting hotter every year. BP’s strategy is environmentally reckless - those still partnering with BP must urgently think again. #dropbp
- Commitment to fossil fuels and abandonment of low carbon by BP is overwhelming clear. Now, LESS THAN 5% of its capital expenditure will go on ‘low carbon’ - and half of that is on hydrogen and CCS, not *actual* renewables!! #bp #netzero #climate #investorbriefing
- Reposted by Culture Unstained"Documents released by the UK government in early February 2025 reveal that, in 2021, Gautam Adani and then UK prime minister Boris Johnson discussed collaborating on weapons production and renewable energy." @cultureunstained.bsky.social media release via Adani Watch: tinyurl.com/56a52neh
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- Our statement on BP’s expected shift back to fossil fuels - and the steps #TheBritishMuseum and #ScienceMuseum must now take to end their partnerships with this environmentally destructive company. 1/3 #dropbp #bp #climate #fossilfuels #climatechange
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- A “fundamental reset” to frying the planet (faster)… 🔥🌍 Once again, BP is going back to petroleum…and the likes of The British Museum and the Science Museum are *still* backing them! 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- That 10-year partnership with a major polluter, with a track record of going “back to petroleum”, realllllly isn’t looking like a great idea, is it #BritishMuseum?! 🙄 www.ft.com/content/881b...
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- Reposted by Culture Unstained🚨 Over 150 of Australia's top athletes have put their names to a letter supporting the Duty of Care Bill. This bill represents the best opportunity to protect future generations of sports fans and athletes. ✍️ Join other sport-loving Australians by signing the letter: www.dutyofcare.org.au
- With the news that the contract has been awarded for the redevelopment of the British Museum coming this morning, questions still linger over the use of BP’s dirty money for the project and the legitimacy the major polluters is gaining as a result… #dropbp
- Reposted by Culture UnstainedTrustees at the Science Museum recently expressed unease over the museum’s ongoing sponsorship with a company belonging to Indian conglomerate Adani Group, it has emerged.
- “The bribery allegations would appear to breach the museum’s group ethics policy…” Great piece in @artsprofessional.co.uk covering our latest findings on the mounting controversy around the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social’s #Adani sponsorship… 👀 🙌 💰 www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/science...
- Siri, how do you define “greenwashing”? 🤔 👇👇👇
- BREAKING | Now @thetimes.com reports on our investigation finding that trustees at the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social raised concerns when Adani’s indictment was announced! 📑👀 And in spite of the growing opposition, the museum has taken *more* dirty #Adani money! 😮💰 www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...
- The FT reports on the briefings disclosed by the Cabinet Office which now reveal how much #Adani paid to sponsor the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social - and Gautam Adani’s ambitions for his conglomerate to become the ‘BAE Systems of India’! www.ft.com/content/631b...
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- BREAKING | Cabinet Office makes unprecedented disclosure of docs from Former PM’s meetings with billionaire Chair of the #Adani Group - including at the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social on the day its sponsorship of a new energy gallery was announced! cultureunstained.org/2025/02/14/b...
- After refusing to admit it, the Director of the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social now says it told #Equinor its sponsorship deal would NOT be renewed! But now, he is adamant that taking money from #Adani - which faces bribery charges - was the right thing to do… 👀 www.telegraph.co.uk/art/architec...
- With a drop in profits, BP is set to double down on its strategy of more fossil fuels and going back to petroleum. 🛢️🔥🌏 How can the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social and #britishmuseum continue to partner with this planet-wrecking business? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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- Reposted by Culture UnstainedI pulled out of today's Icebreaker concert at London Science Museum to protest SM’s greenwashing sponsorship by Adani & BP and Adani's complicity in violence by Israel against people in Gaza. Giving fees received to @cultureunstained.bsky.social Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social.
- Last year, Equinor was dropped as a sponsor of the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social after failing to align its business with 1.5C (not that the museum would admit it…) And now, Equinor is getting worse. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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- Whistleblowers have spoken out on the dangerous safety conditions at #Adani’s Carmichael coal mine in Australia! Is the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social ok with the cavalier attitude of its sponsor to safety and health? www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
