Poetic Social Mission - Moving Stars and Earth for Water - Global Artistic Event Program Details - Event Broadcast Live on October 9 at 8:00 p.m. EDT on onedrop.org

Montreal, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Cirque du Soleil, the
artistic producer of the Moving Stars and Earth for Water event,
today revealed the program details for the global artistic event as
part of Guy Laliberté's Poetic Social Mission. For information on
the specific involvement of each of the personalities, download the
full program at :

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Under the theme Moving Stars and Earth for Water, the Poetic
Social Mission will take place on October 9, 2009 (GMT-4) in 14
cities around the world. For 120 minutes, the earth will gaze up at
the stars and resonate to the rhythms of artists and world-renowned
figures who will demonstrate their commitment to water and pay
tribute to this vitally important natural resource.

14 cities on five continents... and space

The event will take place in Montreal, Moscow, Santa Monica, New
York City, Johannesburg/Durban, Mumbai, Marrakesh, Sydney, Osaka,
Tampa, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, London and the
International Space Station.

A global webcast and broadcast

RDI, Le Réseau de l'information of Société Radio-Canada will act
as exclusive host broadcaster in Canada and DIRECTV, the world's
leading provider of satellite television, will broadcast the global
artistic event in standard and high definition on The 101 Network in
the United States, and via DIRECTV Latin America on channels 999 and
1004. Other international broadcasters may join in to present part
or all of the event.

More personalities joined the list of confirmed participants:
conservasionist Bindi Irwin, musical group Empolga às 9, singer Lila
Downs and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.

The Moving Stars and Earth for Water artistic event will also be
webcast

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live on http://www.onedrop.org.

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This first social artistic mission in space is made possible by
Space Adventures, the company that has arranged all the previous
private spaceflights.

For further information: Tania Orméjuste, Cirque du Soleil,
+1-(514)-723-7646, ext. 8335, tania.orméjuste@cirquedusoleil.com

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Contact:
For further information: Tania Orméjuste, Cirque du Soleil,
+1-(514)-723-7646, ext. 8335, tania.orméjuste@cirquedusoleil.com