No. 25
10.06.2010
Apollonia Foundation
The kick box club Apollonia - Balkan Champions
Inside this issue: Concert of classical music in Apollonia
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Book promotion
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Involvement in the community
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Mirjana Krsteva - Massetti with exhibition in Kumanovo
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Flute festival of music students in Kavadarci
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Exhibition “Ethno moments”
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About us
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Eco calendar
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On the 29th and 30th of May in Burgas, Bulgaria was held Balkan Kick-box competition, in which participant from 11 states took part: Croatia, Bosnia and Hertsigovina, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Bulgaria and Albania. The kick-box club Apollonia from Gevgelija with it’s representative Goran Groshev won the gold medal for Macedonia. Goran was competing in low kick-box category above 91 kg., and he won the Balkan championship dominating all three rounds in the final battle with Bulgarian representative Lazar Lazarov. Apollonia Foundation supported this activity of the kick-box club Apollonia, and the outcome proves that it was worth doing so. We are very proud of this success and we hope that this will be good motivation for other young people who are part of this club, practicing kickbox, and for improving the sport in Gevgelija,
Apollonia Group nominated for philanthropy price for 2009 given by the Center for Institutional Development - CIRa FRIENDS:
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On 27th of May in Skopje the Center for Institutional development - CIRa, for the third time in Republic of Macedonia, granted the annual Philanthropy and Corporate social responsibility (CSR) awards. By awarding them, individuals, enterprises, civic organizations, media and institutions were honored for nurturing positive philanthropy and CSR practices for supporting the community, environment working conditions and relations with employees, encouraging further development of philanthropy and CSR in Republic of Macedonia. Apollonia Foundation received Certificate of Appreciation from CIRa for special contribution towards developing philanthropy in Macedonia in 2009. Apollonia Group received the Certificate of Appreciation as company for the integrated approach towards social responsibility in 2009.
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Concert of classical music in Apollonia Concert night with accordions was the name of the seventh concert of classical music from the program “Gevgelija spring 2010”. On the 27th of May in Apollonia Hotel for the first time the public of Gevgelija had an opportunity to see accordion concert with dozen students from the class of professor Zorica Karakutovska. Trough their performance of 20 pieces from famous masters of composing like Matveev, Vlasov, Grig, Bizov, Kusjakov, Veber, Semjonov, Pjacola, Gardel, Derbenko the young students showed their musical maturity. Before the concert their professor Zorica expressed her gratitude for the support of Apollonia Foundation and effort of bringing the concert program close to other cities besides Skopje by organizing this event “Gevgelija music moments” constantly in the last decade. Zorica Karakutovska has won more then 130 prices with her students on many state and international competitions, we’ll mention few: 3rd place in chamber music category for the “World cup 2002” in Denmark, 3rd place for piano accordion on the “World cup 2004” in France, “Klementina Rafajlovska” award, Grand prix award on State competition for music students, winner of the annual price for best pedagogue in music area given by the Association of music and ballet pedagogues of Macedonia. You can see video of the event on the following link: http://gevgelijanet.com/index.php?option=com_yjstudio&Itemid=210
Book promotion On the 25th of May in Apollonia Hotel was held poetry night and promotion of the book “Wishful desires” from Ljubica Stojceva from Gevgelija. The professor Ilija Karajanov for this poetry work will say that it represents imaginary dialogue with the beauty of living, desire of youth love and traveling through the pages of light. The poetess is searching for the invisible and hidden worlds of youthful emotions. Writes with honesty, opens her soul and as seis… Flowerless gardens are born in spring, mometer notices the waves, desires and inspiring desires, hope and spring, anxiety of one unrepeatable adolescence. The sun arcs are drinking the joy, At the end of the books critic Karajanov unstoppably casting the soft light… will say “We hope that the lines from the lyric writing will reach Australia, where the Quote from the song “For you, my hometown” poetess lives now, and initiate new arts as symbol of philanthropy, altruism and sublime civil and cosmopolitan values.”
Involvement in the community
Waiters run, for the first time in Gevgelija as part of the celebration program for “St. Spas”. Apollonia participated with four staff waiters
Aero meeting in honor of Igor Goreski Pilot from Gevgelija who died tragically in helicopter accident 2 years ago.
Apollonia Foundation and Apollonia Group took part in conference for Alternative Tourism in Brajcino, and Enviorment in Veles, part of the project MK @ EU , where experts talked about the opportunity of using European funds
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Mirjana Krsteva - Massetti with exhibition in Kumanovo
From 27th of May until 10th of June, in the exhibition hall of the National Institution Center for Culture Trajko Prokopiev, the public in Kumanovo had an opportunity to see the arts of young artist from Gevgelija, M i r j a n a K r s t e v a M a s s e t t i . "I am drawing things which in reality nobody speaks about. Maybe that’s what it makes my pictures esoteric, but believe me, they shine with sincerity," says KristevaMassetti. She has graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria – division of Graphic Arts, in the year 2001 in the class of professor Borislav Stoev, and Founder member and president of Multimedia Centar, NGO for art development and advancement, organizations of cultural events and art education. She is also president of the Association of Artist from Gevgelija. You can read more of her life and work on http:// mirjanakmassetti.com/. This exhibition was supported by Apollonia Foundation.
Flute festival of music students in Kavadarci On the 29th of May the flute students in the class of professor Suzana Stefanova - Nada Gogova, Sara Stamkova, Kostovska Ivana and Ana Gocevska from the musical school Vaso Karajanov from Gevgelija, participated in the first flute festival of students from the music primary schools and high schools in Macedonia. Organizer of the event was the school in Kavadarci “Lazo Micev - Rale” in the frames of the manifestation “Kavadarci - town of culture” and supported by the Ministry of education and science. The festival had representative character where students had an opportunity to meet, associate and play music together with other students from Skopje, Tetovo, Ohrid and Kavadarci. Apollonia Foundation supported this activity of these young music talents by sponsoring their trip to Kavadarci.
Exhibition “Ethno moments” from Dragi Hadzi - Nikolov Adzi On the 13th of May in the exhibitory parlor Apollonia Hotel was opened the exhibition called “Ethno moments” of Gevgelia artist Dragi Hadzi-Nikolov Adzi. This event is part of the celebration program on the Day of St. Spas who is the patron of Gevgelija. The exhibition was opened by the president of the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts professor Georgi Stardelov, who noticed that the arts of Adzi have many objects and items that no longer exists in the everyday practice, and this reminded him on the past and the childhood. “Maybe Dostoevsky was right when he said the beauty will save the world, here is one more proof for that the beauty does every-
thing so that we are joyful, humanitarians, that we are lighten with God’s strains, so let’s all hold up together, let’s believe in light and beauty.” Dragi Hadzi-Nikolov - Adzi was born on 4th of July 1956 in Skopje. He graduated at the Faculty of fine artsPainting in Skopje. He is married and has two children. Lives and works in Gevgelija.
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Plastic recycling project - activities * 50 children who participate in the Nature Day project (lead by the Apollonia Foundation) were educated about recycling plastic through interactive games. The children spread their knowledge to the community by distributing over 1,000 educational brochures to residences of Gevgelija. * 2 clean-up events were held around the 4 new locations for plastic recycling, and all of the plastic gathered was placed in the new recycling bins. Residents of the nearby communities were invited to help, and several children new participated as a result. Residents also brought their plastic to kick-off the start of recycling in Gevgelija. * 15 new containers for recycling plastic were delivered to the primary schools Vlado Kantardziev and Krste Misirkov. * All 1,523 students who attend Vlado Kantardziev and Krste Misirkov were educated about recycling plastic through interactive lesson plans taught by their teachers, and youngest children learned from the brochure “Why recycle” which was sponsored by OXO, as their contribution to the Plastic Recycling program. Find out more about eco lo gi ca l ed u ca tio n on ch ild r en h er e: http://www.oxo.org.mk/planeta/e_index.html
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