Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested for blasting air horns and setting off a glitter cannons during a performance at Glyndebourne Festival this afternoon. 

Three supporters caused the disruption during ‘Dialogues des Carmélites’, which is being performed at the world-renowned opera festival, near Lewes in East Sussex, at around 5.35pm. 

They then displayed a Just Stop Oil banner as they addressed the audience, before being forcibly removed from the venue and arrested for their latest protest. 

One of those taking action this afternoon, Sean Irving, 24, a PhD Student, from Norwich, said:

‘I am here because I am scared for my generations’ future. I am angry that our illegitimate government, corrupted by oil money, is actively and knowingly pursuing a course of action that threatens all of our lives and the lives of our children.’

‘By signing off on the development of over a hundred new fossil fuel projects, the government signs the death warrants of hundreds of millions; who face crop-failure, displacement, war and famine.’

‘The pursuit of new fossil fuel projects in 2023, is moral and economic madness. Our culture cannot survive sustained crop failure.’

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Dialogues des Carmelites tells the story of Blanche de la Force, who struggles with life as a nun in a convent. 

The dramatic work is famed for its tragedy and it is new for the 2023 festival.  

Another of those taking action, Pia Baas, 29, a community worker from London, said: ‘This government is sacrificing everything we know and love, to enrich themselves. But you cannot eat money! We are on a course for mass hunger and societal collapse if we do not act urgently.’

‘Our cultural institutions have failed to admit this truth and failed to address the urgency of action. It is immoral for cultural institutions to stand by and watch whilst our society faces inevitable collapse.’

‘We call on art and cultural institutions, like Glynbourne, to make a statement demanding that the government end new oil, gas and coal. Those working in cultural institutions must join in civil resistance against this criminal and illigitimate regime.’

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