No. 23
08.04.2010
Apollonia Foundation
4th Book Fair organized by the public institution “Pionerski Dom”
Inside this issue: Concerts of classical music in Apollonia
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Tree Day
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Art workshop
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Nature Day - activities 3 About us
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Eco calendar
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If you judge from the pictures that you see on this page you’ll never guess that this is a book fair. Well the traditional book fair that takes place in “Pionerski Dom” and which was organized for the 4th time this year is usually fill with many educative and competitive activities for children such as flower arraignment contest, creative art workshops, competition in decorating Easter eggs, open dance lesson classes, games and the traditional parade of children in masks for April’s fools day which is called “Aprilijada”. In the four days that the fair was opened many children and parents came to participate in the activities and see the books from seven publishing companies that were for sales. Apollonia Foundation children who come to Nature Day every weekend took part in almost every activity.
Flower arraignment made from the Nature Day children called “Dawn of joy”
Apollonia Foundation same as last year sponsored the prices for the Aprils fools day children carnival, and the other competitive activities. From each class from the primary schools and kindergarten that participated in the carnival was chosen one homemade mask, but the reward which this year was children's outdoor game ball went to the whole class. You can find more pictures from this event on our facebook group page http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/
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Concerts of classical music in Apollonia It’s becoming a tradition to have the talented children from the music school in Gevgelija performing in Apollonia at least twice a year, especially for holidays. On the occasion on Woman’s day on 9th of March they made special show and once again showed what they’ve learned in the piano lessons with their professor Ljubica Ulisheva. Pieces from Divernua, Berkovic, Bach, Dijabeli were performed by thirteen students in one hour classical music program. Everyone present at the concert enjoyed in the children's performance and the mom’s got the best present for woman’s day from their children. On 16th March in Apollonia Hotel was held the third concert from the classical music program “Gevgelija spring 2010”. For the first time in Apollonia Hotel the public from Gevgelija had the pleasure to see piano duo concert which was performed by Valeri Stefanovski and Jovan Karovski - well known professors in the music faculty in Skopje. They performed pieces from Ljubomir Brangjolica, Darius Mijo and George Gershwin. The classical music concerts that are in the program of the event “Gevgelija musical moments” are in the foundation program for 2010 and in this years program of the Ministry of culture.
The Easter concert that is also part of the manifestation “Gevgelija Spring” was held on 1st of April in the resorts of Apollonia Hotel, on the first day of traditional customs and celebration of Easter. This concert was performed by artists from Gevgelija. We had the pleasure to hear one very young and extremely talented pianist who is still in high school - Mihail Petkov. He started taking piano lessons when he was nine and after just seven months practice he went to the international contest Interfest Bitola where he won the second price. He has also won the second price on international piano contest in Kraguevac and the highest special price on the state competition which proves his brilliant talent. On the Easter concert he performed pieces from Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Debussy. What made the program even more solemnly special was the performance of the special guest star - the city choir “Gortinija” from Gevgelija. With Kedrov, Verbitski and “Alleluia” that gave very nice Easter atmosphere to the concert. The next concert in our program is scheduled for 13.04.2010 Tuesday 8 pm, and it will be “Night of famous opera melodies and duos” performed by the students in the class of prof. Marija Muratovska from the faculty of music in Skopje and accompanied with prof. Elena Atanasovska on piano.
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Tree Day On 30th of March Macedonia planted trees once again. This time the planting trees action had the purpose to brake the state borders and differences in the name of Nature, and to make it a world wide activity that everyone will join. So for the first time we had government representatives from Greece (Polikastro and Bojmica) who together with our people planted trees on both sides of the border. Gevgelija region planted 20.000 trees: pine wood, cypress, ash wood and this year’s location was “Bogorodica hill”. Apollonia Group as usual supported this action with the presence of the Apollonia staff, Apollonia Foundation with 42 children of the environmental project Nature Day and other volunteers. It’s our company’s mission to be an active members of the community, but it’s also a pleasure and honor to do the right thing for our planet and to show the children the right example. “We care for nature” is also our Nature Day motto.
Art workshop
Apollonia Foundation with the insurance company “Croacia osiguruvanje” on 1st April organized art workshop on the center of the town in which were included the children from Nature Day project. The theme was Nature, the materials were chalk’s and watercolors and the result was many curios children having a fun creative afternoon.
Nature Day - activities
The last month in Nature Day educationally was dedicated to the theme: Water, Air, Soil and Energy. We had workshops, plays, projects and games as fun methods to teach the children about preserving these important elements of nature. By the way did you know that: If you leave the water running while brushing your teeth, as much as 40 L of water can go down the drain.
2009 Year of many activities
Apollonia Foundation
Аdress: Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia
FUTURE EVENTS: 13.04.2010 8 pm Apollonia Concert of classical music “Famous opera and duos” class of prof. Marija Muratovska
16.04.2010 Apollonia Hotel Exhibition of Goran Jovanov graphics 24 - 25.04.2010 Nature Day project Earth Day activities - Gevgelija
Тelephone: 034/ 213-222 Fax: 034/213-223 E-mail: snezana.dimitrova@apollonia.com.mk fondacija@apollonia.com.mk
In cooperation with Ramkovski Foundation we made promotion of the novel “One-way” from the young author Stefan Markovski (19) – this novel won the first price of the contest organized by this foundation. In June we organized the 8th traditional art commune Apollonia in which 10 artist from Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria participated. For the 15th time traditionally we were sponsors of the popular Skopje Jazz Festival. We supported the activities of 3 folk groups from Gevgelija, the activities of the city choir Gortinija, the theater group Kabare 6 from Gevgelija and the group Synthesis for presenting Macedonia culture abroad. We sponsored 3 children from Gevgelija to participate in the International piano competition in Belgrade where they won 1st and 2nd place in their category. We organized theater show for the citizens of Gevgelija. As in the past years we supported the traditional Guitar contest, the 3rd Fig festival, and the 3 days Multimedia Art festival, which are very important traditional events in our community.
ECO CALENDAR