This looks great.

Here's some info that may be of interest to the artists involved and to all and sundry...

To celebrate the beginning of the end of BP's sponsorship of the National Portrait Award, come and help us put together An Exhibition of Resistance to BP and Big Oil, from June 15th-21st 2004.

We are asking you to rub your eyes, wipe away the mirage of 'sustainable development' and 'beyond petroleum' to create a true portrait of an oil company.

It’s time to strip away the greenwash. In fact it's time to reclaim the whole planet from these neoliberal robber barons and their bloody oil wars, climate chaos and massive pay hikes. We know there are better worlds out there, worlds that have nothing to do with profit or fossil fuels...or corrupt art markets for that matter.

It's our desire to see London ablaze with powerful, passionate, positive, independent art with attitude during the week - on our streets, on our airwaves, in galleries, in social centres and squats, cinemas, cafes...you name it.

We've got a few plans we could do with some help with, but it'd be great to see you and/or your partners in artistic crime pulling off your own events and actions.

Events simmering in the pot for the week include:
* an 'art not oil' happening in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG*) on June 16th.
* greeting visitors to the BP sponsored relay of 'Faust' - an opera about a man selling his soul to the devil? Hmm, how appropriate - from the Royal Opera House to Covent Garden Piazza, Canary Wharf, Belfast and, er, Eden Project, 19.6.04
* an art-on-the-move parade of true portraits of an oil company on June 21st**, travelling from BP HQ*** to the NPG. At the NPG we'll celebrate our creations and demand that the gallery severs its links with BP and Big Oil. From there we'll head to our own space to discuss and party.
* your event here . It's ALL of us who have to make these and some even more amazing acts of resistance to the oil madness happen during the week and beyond. No one's in charge, so if you have a fiendish plan that just might work, get out and make it happen...

Sat May 8th: Public meeting to meet, plot, eat and create.
May 13th: London Rising Tide benefit gig with films, food etc., Tufnell Park occupied social centre, 156-158 Fortess Road,

* National Portrait Gallery is on St. Martin's Lane, W1.
** June 21st: summer solstice and the day the National Portrait Award winner will be announced)
*** BP's HQ is 1 St. James' Square, SW1.

Contacts and further information: LRT, part of the Rising Tide UK and international networks, takes creative action to combat the root causes of climate chaos and to help build movements for social & ecological justice.
Tel: 07969 786770;  london@risingtide.org.uk c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk (from May 1st)
See also www.burningplanet.net & Rising Tide UK: www.risingtide.org.uk

Let's kick the corporations out of the galleries, museums, opera, planet earth etc.

This looks great.

Here's some info that may be of interest to the artists involved and to all and sundry...

To celebrate the beginning of the end of BP's sponsorship of the National Portrait Award, come and help us put together An Exhibition of Resistance to BP and Big Oil, from June 15th-21st 2004.

We are asking you to rub your eyes, wipe away the mirage of 'sustainable development' and 'beyond petroleum' to create a true portrait of an oil company.

It’s time to strip away the greenwash. In fact it's time to reclaim the whole planet from these neoliberal robber barons and their bloody oil wars, climate chaos and massive pay hikes. We know there are better worlds out there, worlds that have nothing to do with profit or fossil fuels...or corrupt art markets for that matter.

It's our desire to see London ablaze with powerful, passionate, positive, independent art with attitude during the week - on our streets, on our airwaves, in galleries, in social centres and squats, cinemas, cafes...you name it.

We've got a few plans we could do with some help with, but it'd be great to see you and/or your partners in artistic crime pulling off your own events and actions.

Events simmering in the pot for the week include:
* an 'art not oil' happening in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG*) on June 16th.
* greeting visitors to the BP sponsored relay of 'Faust' - an opera about a man selling his soul to the devil? Hmm, how appropriate - from the Royal Opera House to Covent Garden Piazza, Canary Wharf, Belfast and, er, Eden Project, 19.6.04
* an art-on-the-move parade of true portraits of an oil company on June 21st**, travelling from BP HQ*** to the NPG. At the NPG we'll celebrate our creations and demand that the gallery severs its links with BP and Big Oil. From there we'll head to our own space to discuss and party.
* your event here . It's ALL of us who have to make these and some even more amazing acts of resistance to the oil madness happen during the week and beyond. No one's in charge, so if you have a fiendish plan that just might work, get out and make it happen...

Sat May 8th: Public meeting to meet, plot, eat and create.
May 13th: London Rising Tide benefit gig with films, food etc., Tufnell Park occupied social centre, 156-158 Fortess Road,

* National Portrait Gallery is on St. Martin's Lane, W1.
** June 21st: summer solstice and the day the National Portrait Award winner will be announced)
*** BP's HQ is 1 St. James' Square, SW1.

Contacts and further information: LRT, part of the Rising Tide UK and international networks, takes creative action to combat the root causes of climate chaos and to help build movements for social & ecological justice.
Tel: 07969 786770;  london@risingtide.org.uk c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk (from May 1st)
See also www.burningplanet.net & Rising Tide UK: www.risingtide.org.uk

Let's kick the corporations out of the galleries, museums, opera, planet earth etc.