Almost 200 artists and creative producers have penned an open letter to the Northern Territory's top multicultural arts festival demanding it dump oil and gas producer Santos as a major sponsor.
They want the Darwin Festival, scheduled for August, to take a leading role in the battle against climate change by rejecting sponsorship from companies involved in fossil fuel extraction.
"Artists and audiences have made it clear that we will not accept arts and cultural institutions being used as a vehicle for the promotion of fossil fuels and the damage their use has on our collective future," the letter says.
