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In September 2020, The Concertgebouw (Concert Hall) in Amsterdam dropped sponsor Shell. After The Concertgebouw broke up with Shell, the whole 'Museumplein' (Museum square) in Amsterdam, including Van Goghmuseum and The Rijksmuseum, was declared fossil free.
They did so after Fossil Free Culture (FFC) staged several artistic performance actions there. FFC first put out a statement on The Concertgebouw in January 2019, with a visual action called Writing on the Wall. They served black champagne and handed out a flyer named Dissonance Act 1 on the day of the Season Opening in 2019, they unrolled two massive banners on stage after a Sunday concert a few weeks later with a poem of award-winning poet Hannah van Binsbergen, and they whipped up a paper storm by throwing 10,000 musical scores from the balconies in the Main Hall during the last notes of another concert. Each sheet of paper was imprinted with an impossible and unplayable music score composed by Annelies Jonkers, reminding the Concertgebouw that there will be no music or anyone to listen to it on a dead planet.
