BP or Not BP
50 performers recreate Deepwater Horizon oil spill inside British Museum in protest at BP sponsorship
· New York activists Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir join forces with BP or not BP?
· Guerrilla performance marks five years since disastrous oil spill
· Performers cause disruption in the Great Court, with umbrellas, giant pelicans, songs and an anti-BP sermon
New York-based singing activists Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir joined forces with UK-based oil sponsorship campaigners BP or not BP? to recreate the BP Deepwater Horizon spill inside the British Museum. The unsanctioned performance filled the Great Court with singing, dancing, a giant pelican drowning in oil and an impassioned sermon calling on the Museum to dump BP, whose sponsorship contract is due to expire soon.