BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE AND SOUTHBANK CENTRE WILL NO LONGER BE SPONSORED BY SHELL

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Leading UK arts organizations the Southbank Centre—a complex encompassing the Hayward Gallery, the National Poetry Library, and the Royal Festival Hall, among other venues—and the British Film Institute (BFI) will no longer receive funding from the fossil-fuel giant Shell. They are the latest cultural institutions to end relationships with major oil companies in recent months—citing the climate emergency, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Galleries of Scotland severed ties with British Petroleum last year.

 

Source: https://www.artforum.com/news/british-film-institute-and-southbank-centre-will-no-longer-be-sponsored-by-shell-82411