Peter Lik joins Cirque du Soleil founder, Guy Laliberté, and a troupe of international luminaries, in an unprecedented event to raise awareness about the global water crisis, through artistic illustration. Peter Lik, world-renowned for his awe-inspiring panoramic landscape photography, has united with Laliberté, and his ONE DROP Foundation to rally around our most precious global resource: water. On the heels of Wednesday’s momentous launch of Expedition 21 aboard Soyuz TMA-16 Spacecraft, marking the beginning of Laliberté’s Poetic Social Mission—the world’s very first social and artistic event to be carried out from space—the artists are harnessing their singular skills to impact how water is protected and shared.
This historic event, Moving Stars and Earth for Water, will culminate with a simulcast—linked-up via satellite in 14 cities across five continents—featuring diverse personalities from around the globe, including U2, Peter Gabriel and Salma Hayek. The 120-minute event takes place—via global broadcast (Direct TV’s 101 ) and webcast www.onedrop.org and www.aol.com—simultaneously on October 9, 2009 at 20:00 EDT (-4 GMT) in Montreal, Moscow, Santa Monica, New York City, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Marrakesh, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, London and the International Space Station.