We would like your help with this. Each week will feature one anniversary
of a climate campaigning event or act of creative resistance, as well as
several imagined events from 2010-20, mostly related to the current remit
of Art Not Oil. So an example might be:
'Tuesday 4th January 2017: Tate boss Nicholas Serota pied at opening of
Tate Heathrow, part of its brand new 6th Terminal.'
or
'Friday 18th June 2019: UN climate negotiations in Melbourne blockaded by
5 30-ft Kangaroos for Climate Justice.'
or
'Thursday 12th December 2011: Leytonstone-sited billboard advertising
BP-sponsored Sustainable Energy Art Olympiad covered in thick black
treacle.'

Could you send us one or more suggestions to add to these? They're verging
on the surreal, but feel free to be as low-key or as high-octane as you
like. And if yours are shorter than these, you'll have a better chance of
seeing them in print when the diary emerges in the autumn.

Thanks for anything you're able to come up with. The deadline is April 25th.

Don't forget we're also still happy to see your artwork submissions,
(pref. 300 dpi TIFFs, as well as smaller web-friendly JPGs for the 2009
gallery).

Thanks and keep up with the creative resistance to the fossil-fuelled
insanity!

The Art Not Oilers

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ART NOT OIL TO CELEBRATE 7 YEARS OF CREATIVE CAMPAIGNING WITH 2010 DIARY

Art Not Oil, set up by London Rising Tide in 2004 to combat oil company
sponsorship and greenwash in UK cultural institutions, is to celebrate
its seventh year with a 2010 desk diary.

As well as continuing with its grassroots combination of exhibitions and
direct action, Art Not Oil (ANO) is going to take its message into the
bookshops with a diary that will feature some of the best work from its
galleries of over 350 artworks. ANO is asking artists to put forward work
that addresses or echoes these themes in whatever way they choose, and it
is also on the lookout for designers to contribute to the project.

The diary will contain a past timeline of the story so far in the journey
to see the back of oil industry arts sponsorship, not to mention a future
fantasy timeline of some of the necessary inspirations that might get us
to a moment in 2015 when we can celebrate the end of such sponsorship, and
perhaps also the prospect of fossil fuel companies becoming persona non
grata in society, with their 'licence to operate' revoked.

One example of the fantasy timeline might be:
'November 17th 2011: Tracy Emin publicly and powerfully removes all her
work from BP-sponsored Tate Britain'

Sam Chase from Art Not Oil said:
'In a world where campaigns come and go, Art Not Oil has stood its ground,
built a strong foundation of support amongst politicised artists
worldwide, helped to spread their work and inspired new artists to use
their talents to make the world a fairer, greener place. It has also shown
the UK's cultural institutions and the climate-destabilising oil companies
that they have come to rely on for support, (since governments diverted
funding towards other foolhardy and sometimes murderous endeavours), that
there is a growing groundswell of discontent about this situation, a
situation that we are proud to be playing a part in ending.'

Jo Traynor added: 'The 2010 diary will be a beautiful, stirring 365 day
reminder of the extraordinary art that is being made in the struggle for a
safer, more just future, and the crucial role that our creativity will
need to play if we are to have a chance of reaching that place.'

It will be launched on November 30th 2009, the date of a massive worldwide
day of action for climate justice, which will coincide with the Copenhagen
climate negotiations, as well as the 10th anniversary of the day people
power shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle.

All profits will go towards the next six years - or however long it takes
- of the Art Not Oil campaign.

Art Not Oil/London Rising Tide,
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES; Tel: 07708 794665
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
www.artnotoil.org.uk - (send us your art!)
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NOTES TO EDITORS

Art Not Oil stands for 'creativity, climate justice and an end to oil
industry sponsorship of the arts', and works using a combination of
alternative grassroots exhibitions (both online and 'actual'), creative
direct actions and communications.

It has focused on the BP Portrait Award, the (no-longer, thanks in part to
us) Shell-sponsored Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award , as well as
making several 'interventions' at Tate Britain, National Gallery, National
Theatre, Royal Opera and British Museum.
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