No. 20
11.01.2010
Apollonia Foundation
Christmas workshop Apollonia Foundation for the third time organizer of children’s Christmas workshop
Inside this issue Concerts in December
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Happy New Year from 3 Apollonia Certificate of gratitude from OSCE
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About us
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Eco calendar
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Children Christmas workshop was held in Motel Vardar, which is part of Apollonia Group - Gevgelija, from 4th until 7th of January. Around 200 children of different age took part in this workshop. They were making drawings on different themes, origami, snowmen and Christmas trees from paper boards, candlesticks from old CD’s and jars. All the decoration made from the children were given for beneficent sails and the money that were collected will be given as a donation to the Daily Center for children with special needs in Gevgelija. Apollonia Foundation is giving effort to include the children from this daily center in all the activities that we organize, with the purpose to make them feel equal to other children. This 3-day workshop was closed with Christmas show on the very same day of Christmas, 7th of January 2010. In this Christmas show a lot of children showed their musical and dancing abilities. Cha cha cha dance from Ritam Plus, folklore dance, children fashion show, hip hop dance and other singing and acting performances were part of the program. At the end we made a lottery for the children who took part in the workshop. This traditional Christmas workshop was the firsts of many projects of Apollonia Foundation for 2010.
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Concerts in December On the occasion 200 years from the birth of F. Mendelssohn, in the frames of the activities of Apollonia Foundation a concert was held of the students from the class of our most famous pianist Simon Trpceski. In the resorts of Apollonia Hotel the admirers of the classical music had the honor to hear and enjoy in the performances of “Song without worlds” from Mendelssohn. The concert was performed by three postgraduates: Edita Hadzi-Hazma, Andrej Naunov and Ana Arangelova, two students from second year: Antonije Arangeloviќ and Duško Ičev. Opportunity for musical assertion Simon Trpceski gave to his student Boban Mirkovski who is student from first year in the class of Trpceski. We are proud to say that this concert was real pleasure for the audience and specially for the children from the musical school in Gev- Simon with the students from the musical school Vaso Karajanov in Gevgelija gelija.
In the frames of the manifestation Gevgelija musical autumn 2009 in the lobby of Apollonia Hotel on the 11th of December was held another concert of classical music performed by Kliment Todoroski - violin and Marija Vrškova - piano. L.W.Beethoven, F.Krisler и Cesar Franck were part of the program. These two talented musicians had been part of many musical festivals and projects. For the violinist K.Todoroski of all more significant concerts we can mention the performance with our world famous pianist Simon Trpceski at the concert tour in Macedonia, the Easter concert of Simon and the concert held in United Nations. Marija Vrškova won this year’s price from the international jury of the competition “Ohridski biseri” for long years of working in the chamber
As part of the New Year’s musical events in Apollonia Hotel was held the traditional concert of the students from the class of prof. Ljubica Uliševa in the musical school Vaso Karajanov in Gevgelija. Seventeen children on age from 8 to 18 years old, in the presence of their parents, teachers and lovers in the classical music had the chance to show what they learned during the past year. Peaces from the creators of the classical music like Mozart, Mendelssohn, Šopen and Brahms were in the program.
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Happy New Year from Apollonia
*With spectacular fireworks, for the first time after long brake on the town square was organized New Years celebration for the people from Gevgelija, on which local young and famous musical singers from Gevgelija performed. The stars of the night were the famous pop singers Elena Ristevska and Lambe Alabakovski from M2, and the night ended with the DJ from Gevgelija more known like Erik Fox from Antenna 5 radio. * For the 28th time in Gevgelija there was a New Years caravan with Santa Claus for all children in our community. Santa as in the past years arrived on the railway station where was welcomed from big number of parents and children from the kindergarten and school age. The children welcomed him with joy and admiration and for return he was giving them candies. Tha caravan continued in “Pionerski Dom” where was held New Years show fro children. Sport events part of New Years celebration * In the Sport Gym 26 April in Gevgelija was held traditional New Years football tournament which was organized by the sport club Espero 63, under the initiation of the Municipality of Gevgelija. This tournament is one of the oldest in our country and has rich history and tradition. It started back in 1963, and since then as part of this tournament many elite football player and teams from our and the local communities have played . For more info visit the following web page http://dobarglas.info/naslovna_v7.htm All these New Year’s celebration events were supported by Apollonia Foundation.
Certificate of gratitude from OSCE Apollonia Foundation received a certificate of gratitude for realization of the activities of the department for prevention by the Ministry of Internal affairs - Strumica. The certificate was given by the manager of the department for development of the police by OBSE and it was personally handed to the president of the foundation on December 9 in MFA. According to the insight of the modern police officers, the prevention is on the top of the list of priorities and the staff that is working on this matter is highly trained.
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2009-Year of many activities Аdress: Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia
FUTURE EVENTS: 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31 January
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2010 from 09.00 until 13.00 Nature Day 19 January 2010 “Vodici”
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Orthodox holiday
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* Protecting human environment: - Every weekend in the past year was full with activities in the frames of the project for children Nature Day. All children from Gevgelija, including the children with special needs from the Daily Center in Gevgelija can be part of this project. - We organized celebration of the Earth Day with cleaning action; - We took part in the environmental projects organized by the community like Tree Day ; - A volunteer from the Peace Corpus become part of the team with active involvement in this project. With her experience and help in the next year we plan activities for selecting garbage in which the primary schools from our community can be involved.