No. 18
06.11.2009
Apollonia Foundation
Skopje Jazz Festival chapter 28 High quality, pure jazz agenda, legendary - top jazz names and exciting performances are the main characteristics that were written in the 28th chapter of the most prominent jazz event - Skopje Jazz Festival. The festival began on October 22 with the promotion of “Amam”, album of Macedonian - Italian trio “Skopje Connection” and ended on Octomber 26 with the spectacular performance of 'Power of Three', including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White. Skopje Jazz Festival is also named Superbrand for Macedonia in 2009. A Superbrands Adriatic council comprised of 60 members, including industry experts and media representatives, picked the festival amongst 800 nominated products.
Inside this issue: Book promotion - “One 2 way” from Stefan Markovski Nature Day cleaning
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Training for building authority
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Donate BOOK!
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Exhibition of Divna Pešič in Gevgelija
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About us
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Eco calendar
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“The Skopje Jazz Festival is a project that maintains the cultural environment in Macedonia and from 1982 onwards became a world-renowned festival due to its program, quality and image”, says Festival's director Oliver Belopeta. We are proud to say that Apollonia group is the most traditional sponsor of Skopje Jazz Festival which we believe is of high importance for culture in Macedonia and it’s considered to be one of the best of its kind in Europe.
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Book promotion - “One way” from Stefan Markovski On Tuesday 6th of October in Hotel Apollonia was held a promotion of the book “One way” from the young author from Gevgelija Stefan Markovski. This book won the reward for best novel “Petre M. Andreevski” for 2009 from the foundation Ramkovski. Nineteen years old Stefan won this price on the third literature competition that Ramkovski foundation is organizing. How important and prestigeous this reward is among writers can be seen from the fact that this year the foundation received 136 typescripts. Stefan started writing when he was eleven years old and in 2008 he also won the price for his essay “Zoonski glasnik” on competition of the Macedonian academy for sciences and arts.
“...its originality, its mystics and the hope that this will be the Macedonian Kami who will bring on his shoulders the wager to successfully cross over the Macedonian traditional cliché and pass trough the usual stories. I’ve always said that people don’t want to read about stories that happen to them every day. So in the interests of the new I end this speech with the massage that is composed in the very title of the book: Every life starts from one point and ends in another, but meanwhile “Lets try not to ruin the world. We are here just temporary.” , Aneta Vaseliva (editor and promoter of the book)
Nature Day cleaning action
Nature Day project continues it’s main goal which is taking care for the environment and educating children about nature. We have a cooperation with the public enterprise “Komunalec” and once a month we make cleaning action on a location that it’s shown from them like a polluted area or wild garbage dump. The second weekend in October we had Nature Day on the street Sava Mihajlov in Gevgelija, children’s park and green areas around the buildings there more specifically. This is a second time that Nature Day team cleans this location, and this time sixty children were part of it. Our next cleaning action will be in the village Negorci.
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Training for building authority Around 120 people from the local council for prevention and other consultative associations of citizens had the opportunity to be part of the three day training which was about building authority and capacitance among them. This seminar was organized in Strumica from the department for development of the Police which is part from the mission OSCE. People who took place in the training besides the police were the mayors of the municipalities which are near Strumica, presidents of the councils, directors of schools and high schools, directors of social cervices, representatives from the direction for protection and saving, traffic and communal inspectors, people from the public enterprise Macedonia Forests, representatives from the religion communities, doctors, public attorneys, people from OSCE and many more. Apollonia Foundation was present as non government organization and we support these kind of seminars that bring closer and reinforce all sectors of the community
Donate BOOK! On the occasion of the month of the book, the library in Gevgelija from 15th of October until 15th of November is organizing few projects for popularization and affirmation of the book. One of these project is the beneficent action for collecting old books for the school libraries, which was organized in a joined cooperation between the library Goce Delcev and Apollonia Foundation. On the 20th of October in front of the library in the center of the town was plac ed a stand for collecting old books. The result from the action that continued one week was 215 books. All books will be donated in the school Kliment Ohridski from Miravci, according to the official reports from the schools about their book funds, this is the school with less number of titles and total number of books. It’s in our plans in future to continue with activities like this one because the libraries in the schools are poor with books, and we already scheduled the next collective action for the book fair in December.
Exhibition of Divna Pešič in Gevgelija “United in diversity” is the title of Divna Pešič’s most recent series of paintings that the public in Gevgelija during October had an opportunity to see in the exhibitory parlor of Apollonia Hotel. Divna is more famous as professional sportsman since she has been the best shooter of all times in Republic of Macedonia in the discipline of small caliber rifle and air-rifle, by holding 36 state records in both female and male competitions. She graduated philology, currently is a graduate student of Management and Banking, works as a Account Manger and this amazing woman also has very successful career as artist. Divna started with painting when she was only 13, and so far has had a number of exhibition at home and abroad.
www.divnapesic.com.mk Her first exhibition in Gevgelija, which took place in Hotel Apollonija on the 16th of October, was announced as her seventh solo exhibition. The organizer of this art event was Apollonia Foundation, on the occasion of 25 years celebration of Apollonia Casino and Apollonia Group. With congratulations for the celebration the exhibition was opened from the mayor of Gevgelija.
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FUTURE EVENTS: 6.11.2009 12am Hotel Apollonia Reception - Municipality of Gevgelija 7.11.2009 6.30 pm Sport Gym Gevgelija - children’s football finals
Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia Тelephone: 034/ 213-222 Fax: 034/213-223 E-mail: snezana.dimitrova@apollonia.com.mk fondacija@apollonia.com.mk
11.11.2009,8 am outdoor Tree Day - action for planting trees
25 Years Apollonia Casino “...Today in our company we have 360 people employed from the local community. Together with the development of the company we also generate the development of the micro economy in the region using local suppliers, and the fact that 99% of our costumers are from Greece, it’s obvious the contribution that we make for the income in the local economy .” Quote from the interview with Maria Kling (general manager) about the celebration of 25 Years Apollonia Casino and Apollonia Group and the first foreign investment in Gevgelija.
“The greatest value is attributed
not to those who give, but to those who receive without feeling indebted. The person who possesses material goods gives a little, but the person who possesses himself gives a lot.”
13, 14.11.2009, 9 am outdoor Nature Day - Cleaning action in Negorci
ECO CALENDAR
Annual exhibition Artists of Gevgelija Apollonia Hotel
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Nature Day children visit the Darvin exhibition in the city library.
TREE DAY! Let’s all plant tree today.