No. 24
10.05.2010
Apollonia Foundation
Gevgelija Recycles!
Inside this issue: Concerts of classical music in Apollonia
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Activities of the children from Apollonia Foundation
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Dojran recognizable by the sweet wild fig
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Exhibition of Goran Jovanov
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Plastic Facts
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Eco calendar
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Did you know that it takes between 450 to 700 years for a plastic bottle to decompose, and nearly every piece of plastic EVER made still exists today. Recycling is the simplest and easiest way to preserve the Earth’s valuable and finite resources. Gevgelija started recycling the plastic bottles, thanks to a grant from US AID for the “Gevgelija Plastic Recycling program” made from Piece Corps volunteer Kristen Halseth and Apollonia Foundation. The municipality of Gevgelija already has eight bins located around the community labeled “Plastic Only” with two holes on the top designed to fit plastic bottles, but the local government reports that any plastic deposited into these bins currently goes to the landfill with the rest of the garbage. This project will take advantage of the resources already available and use six of the “Plastic Only” bins for recycling plastic bottles. This program includes cooperation between the two primary schools in Gevgelija and other citizens of Gevgelija who will fill the containers with plastic, the local government and public enterprise “Komunalec” who will empty and transport the plastic containers, the local company called Bliznak Kom who will buy off the plastic and Apollonia Foundation
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who will monitor and use the income from the sold plastic for expanding this program. The goal of this project is to improve the ecological conditions of Gevgelija and to educate children and all residents of Gevgelija about recycling plastic. Thanks to this program the community started it’s own initiative for collecting also paper twice a week, from bigger companies that have more paper waste, and they are building new containers just for plastic and paper which will be set up on several location of our town. Now all we have to do is recycle.
Where to recycle!
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Containers for recycling plastic bottles are now available in the following locations: Across from Vlado Kantardjiev Close to Krste Misirkov In the parking lot by Solun 53 New buildings on St. Sava Mihajlov
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Concerts of classical music in Apollonia
The classical music program “Gevgelija Spring 2010” continues with new concerts. In April were held two more concerts. On the 13th of May we had “Night of famous opera melodies and duos” with the postgraduates from the class of prof. Marija Muratovska - Naumovska from the Faculty for music in Skopje. The unforgettable arias of Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Sans, De Lib, Z. Masne were performed by Elikona Husaj and Dielza Sulejmani (mezzo - soprano), Bela Lugaci, Adelina Taci, Delina Hajra (soprano), Ivan Naumovski (baritone) and prof. Elena Atanasovska on piano. The drama, the poetics and the expression of the feelings were so effective which was one more recognition of the talent that these artists have and have achieved with their performances through Europe. Adelina Taci has a significant appearance with the world known tenor Carreras on her career record, and Beca Lugaci has been performing in Paris, France and Italy this year and she is preparing for concert in Austria. On the beging of the concert their professor Marija Muratovska expressed her gratitude because the Gevgelija music scene is always open for artists from Macedonia and abroad, like in this case with her students that come from Prishtina, Kosovo. On the 27th of April the classical music public of Gevgelija had the pleasure to hear guitar-flute duo concert in performance of the professors Tanja Jankova (guitar) and Silvana Culeva - Atanasova (flute). Peaces from Mozart, Leu, Schile, Schubert, Piazzolla were performed in the program. Silvana Atanasova during her 23 years career had performed 3 times as soloist with the Macedonian Philharmonic, had played with the Revial orchestra of the Macedonian Radio Television, and made a lot of concerts for the local public. She established the quarter flute ”Sirinks”, and is an author of few children musical scenarios, among them “Story for the planet Musicland”. Jankova mastered her instrument in 2001 and is the winner of the first price on the State competition for guitar and second price for chamber music (1993). So far she has had many concerts in Skopje and the other towns of Macedonia, and recorded many videos for MRTV with cooperation of the French studio “Music entertainment”. The classical music concerts that are in the program “Gevgelija spring and Gevgelija music autumn 2010” are organized by Apollonia Foundation and supported by the Ministry of culture.
Activities of the children from Apollonia Foundation
The smallest children from Nature Day went to see “Cinderella” ballet show for children in Skopje
Jeopardy - quiz game for Recycling Nature Day in Valandovo near monastery “Sveti Georgija”
Clean up events and promote of the Plastic Recycling project with giving flyers to the citizens of Gevgelija
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Apollonia Foundation INFO
Dojran recognizable by the sweet wild fig On the 25th of April 2010 in Dojran was organized an event for preparation and promotion of sweet wild fig in the south-east region of Macedonia. This project is part of the activities of Slow Food Foundation in Macedonia, operates around the world with projects to defend local food traditions, protect local biodiversity and promote smallscale quality products, with an increasing focus on investments in countries of the Global South. The sweet wild fig officially will become part of the world list of products and will be the first product from Macedonia. For this purpose, the municipality of Dojran, in cooperation with Slow Food Konvivium Sarplaninska and the Federation of farmers in Macedonia - The net of women farmers, on the 25th April 2010 in the presence of significant international and home guests, organized preparation of wild fig-sweet and promotion of the project. As company that pledges for improvement of the environment and biodiversity Apollonia Group together with Apollonia Foundation were the general sponsors of this event.
Exhibition of Goran Jovanov In organization of Apollonia Foundation on the 23rd April in Apollonia Hotel was opened exhibition of graphics from the Master work: “Reflection of the present and absent” of the artist from Gevgelija Goran Jovanov. The exhibition was opened by the manager of the head office for culture and art in Skopje - Nikola Gligorov. He pointed the modesty of this young talented artist, who through the two dimension abstractness of his arts makes adventure for every individual to explore, searching the image in the picture and the story that is behind each art. “The structure of his art sheets are recognizable by the constant vibration among the in and out spaces, between the present and absent, full and empty, stillness and dynamic” says the art critic Konca Pirkoska for the work of Jovanov. Goran Jovan with his 23 years age, already has 10 years experience and active presence in the exhibitory areas in Macedonia, the Balkan and some of the European cities. So far he has realized 3 individual exhibitions in Macedonia culture center, “Suli An” in Skopje and “Leonardo Center” in Belgrade. He has also been on group exhibitions, international biennales, art commune in Macedonia and abroad, and more significant are his presentations n Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Taiwan, Mexico, Sofia, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Subotica. He is member of the Association of artists of Macedonia since 2006 and he is also titleholder of the prestige award for graphics of this art association, which was given at the 56th annual exhibition of DLUM. For the video of the exhibition click here: http://gevgelijanet.com/index.php? option=com_yjstudio&Itemid=210
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Plastic Facts It takes between 450 to 700 years for a plastic bottle to decompose!
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Only 2.5% of plastic bottles are presently recycled in Europe. Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space. Recycled plastic can be used to make things like trash cans, park benches, playground equipment, decks, kayaks, and fleeces. Nearly every piece of plastic EVER made still exists today.
“Ethno Moments” Competition in waiters run City Square, 12 am Apollonia waiters will participate
CAN BE RECYCLED
May, 2010 Classical Music Concerts Gevgelija Music Talents
Bottles from soda or water
ECO CALENDAR
CAN’T BE RECYCLED Oil containers
Yogurt containers
Laundry detergent bottles
Cooking oil bottles
Bottles from shampoo or soap