tooyoungforthelivingdead:

Calling all artists, creative folk and craftivists!

Last year the National Gallery hosted an evening reception for weapons dealers, celebrating the first day of business at DSEi, the world’s largest arms fair.
Help get the arms dealers out of the Gallery.

Italian arms company, Finmeccanica sponsors the gallery: for £30,000 it buys the opportunity to use the gallery’s rooms to impress its clients and woo decision-makers. Against such a lavish backdrop it’s probably easy to forget that their business is death and destruction.

Stop the Arms Fair is launching a campaign to end the National Gallery’s links with Finmeccanica. There is loads of potential for artivism: using art to communicate and win the campaign. Get involved and help plan a creative and engaging launch action and sketch out future plans.

Invite friends and come along yourself (try to let us know by emailing info@stopthearmsfair.org.u k if you’re coming so we get an idea of numbers).