How's this for painful irony: the climate-wrecking oil company BP has been sponsoring the "Sunken Cities" exhibition at the British Museum. So last weekend, the theatrical action group BP or not BP? brought 40 people from 8 different countries into the museum for four hours - without permission - and took over the space with a "rebel ceremony" for the sunken cities of the future.
We filled the museum with powerful testimony, poetry, films and stories from the residents of seven cities and regions that could be lost to the rising seas if we follow BP's oil-burning business plan (the Pacific Islands, Alexandria, Lagos, Shenzhen, New York, Buenos Aires and London).
Please watch, like and share this film to tell the British Museum to stop promoting an oil company at a time of climate crisis. As climate science denier Donald Trump heads for the White House, it's more important than ever that our cultural and scientific institutions take a stand and break their ties with the fossil fuel industry. #SunkenCities #dropBP #FossilFreeCulture
With words and poetry from Platform - activism, education and the arts, The Living Theatre, Betty Abah, 350 Shenzhen, Observatorio Petrolero Sur, Selina Nwulu and museum visitors from around the world.
BP or not BP? is part of the Art Not Oil coalition.
This performance is dedicated to Filipa Bragança.