No. 33
09.02.2011
Apollonia Foundation
Gevgelija - city of culture 2011 with over 100 cultural events
Inside this issue: Gevgelija musical moments 2011 - project from national interest
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Competition in catering 2 and tourism Nature Day
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Environment achievements in 2010
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Apollonia art commune 3 artists About us
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In Motel Vardar, near the ancient city "Gortinija" as the oldest cultural and civilization trace in this region, was held a press conference for the cultural manifestation "Gevgelija - city of Culture 2011". The conference was held by the Minister of Culture Elizabeta Kancevska Milevska, along with representatives from the ministry, the chairman of the parliamentary commission for culture Vasko Shutarov, the mayor of the municipality of Gevgelija, representatives of cultural institutions in the city, representatives from Apollonia Foundation, other NGOs, artists and interested citizens. "Gevgelija is a city that has a soul, goodness, which fosters thoroughness of cultural monuments and traditions of the past, that’s why the Ministry of Culture has declared as "City of Culture 2011" in order the gentle historical past to maintain its brilliance" said the Minister of Culture.
Beneficent Christmas children’s workshop On 3 and 4 January at the Motel Vardar, Apollonia foundation organized beneficent Christmas children's workshop, on which participated children from Gevgelija, children with special needs from the daily center in Gevgelija, volunteers from the high school club Glow from Gevgelija, students flutists from Vaso Karajanov the music school, group Hip-Hop, Rhythm plus, the models from the Cultural Center and other young talents from Gevgelija. After finishing the workshop Irena and Stephanie from club Glow together with a social worker finished the charity action by donating the items collected during the workshop. Here's what they said about that experience: "There were 10 families with 30 kids which were chosen by the Social Service as the poorest. Before New Year Apollonia Foundation delivered them food and some household instruments. First we visited the two families in Gevgelija, then in Negorci, Prdejci, Miletkovo, Miravci, Bogorodica, Gavoto, Bogdanci, Crnicani and Dojran. With volunteerism and with the help from Apollonia Foundation and the participants in the Christmas workshop, we contributed at least a little happiness and hope to their faces. Our charity doesn't stop here, because we will organize some noble actions like this again.� "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."~ Mother Teresa
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Gevgelija musical moments 2011 - project from national interest The manifestation "Gevgelija musical moments" of Apollonia foundation for the second time was chosen in the program of the Ministry of Culture for 2011 as a project of national interest. Nineteen concerts of classical music divided in two parts will be held within this manifestation. The first event from the program started yesterday - February 8, with a performance of Ninoslav Dimov - saxophone, Stojan Dimov - clarinet/saxophone and Rita Trpcheva - Popovic - piano, all famous artists and teachers from the Music university in Skopje. Many young musical artists from the primary and secondary schools in the country, Gevgelija musical talents, students from the Faculty of Music, and proven artists and professors of music will take part in the miscellaneous program. There is also possible a collaboration with students from the music school in Thessaloniki, Greece. This year we introduce to the public one important novelty, during the months of February, March, April and May two to three times a month, exclusively on Tuesday, the concerts from the first part of the program— Gevgelija spring 2011 will take place. The concerts that will take place at the Hotel Apollonia are additional contribution from Apollonia Foundation for the manifestation "Gevgelija city of Culture 2011".
Competition in catering and tourism The young people from Gevgelija with good results During December in Sarajevo was held an international competition of tourist schools in which 15 high school centers from the Balkan participated. Representatives from the high school Josif Josifovski from Gevgelija in a very strong competition won the second place in the category bartenders - preparing cocktails. The hotel and tourism students Gevgelija high school in January also took part in the State competition for catering and tourism schools in Macedonia, held in Ohrid, on the occasion of the holiday “Vodici”. Eight schools from the country took part in this competition. Six students from Gevgelija competed in four categories, supervised by the jury composed of top professionals from all over Macedonia for each category, and the central jury. In the category cooks our students won the second place while for presentation of their town the first place. Trajče Karagoshev student in 3rd year won the second place for preparing mixtures of marsh, and Daniel Chobanov also from 3rd year won the first place in the category flambeling fruit. Apollonia Hotel was the sponsor of these students by providing them training and preparation with the most experienced personnel from Apollonia, as well as providing all necessary support as equipment and some technical tools for successful performance in this competition.
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Nature Day
Environment achievements in 2010
January was devoted to learning about water
Toplik, activity - how many drops of water are needed to fill a dam as Toplik
Gevgelija started recycling the plastic bottles, thanks to a grant from US AID for the “Gevgelija Plastic Recycling program” made from the Piece Corps volunteer Kristen Halseth and Apollonia Foundation Realized activities within this project: 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 as a result several new children participated. 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.
Location Dinkut, put the Earth in a plastic bottle and monitor the cycling of water! More photos on http://www.facebook.com/home.php? ref=home#!/photo.php
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.
Apollonia art commune artists One of the participants in this years Apollonia Art Commune 2010 was academic Vasko Tashovski. He is born on 31st August, 1937 in the village Nizo Pole, Bitola. Completed The School of Applied Arts in Skopje in 1958 and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1964. In the period between 1966 and 1991 he worked as a set designer in the Macedonian Television. Apart from paintings in oil, he also works in watercolors and graphics. Occasionally he makes graphic design, too. He has had more than 40 one-man exhibitions, and has taken part in a lot of group exhibitions in the country and abroad. His work was also presented to the Paris public in 1992 with an imposing exhibition and auction of about 100 works. The last time he presented his work in front of the Gevgelian public was in May 2008, with exhibition held in Apollonia Hotel. Vasko Taškovski’s paintings warns us to harness our destructive urges towards nature and get back the lost harmony between nature and human” Academic Georgi Stardelov
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Apollonia Foundation in 2010 CULTURE
• Traditionally supporting Jazz Festival in Skopje; • Organizing comedy "Tsunami" performed by the Drama FUTURE EVENTS:
15 February 19:00 Promotion on two books from Stefan Markovski hotel "Apollonia" 22 February 19:30 Classical music concert Marjan Ivanovski on cello and Vesna Angelova on piano hotel "Apollonia" 24 February 2011 Art exhibition "Small format" Library "Goce Delcev"
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Studio "Tetovo" as part of six day international festival of comedy in Gevgelija; Taking part in the project “My colorful childhood” of the city library and Gevgelija culture center, by supporting children’s art workshop; Donation to the city mixed choir Gortinija, and the folk groups: KUD Negorci, KUD Braka Tolevi, and supporting the activity of the Ensemble Bojmija; General sponsor of the 3 day multimedia art festival “BOSH 2010“; Organizing the 9th art commune APOLLONIA 2010 with artists from Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria; Supporting the students from musical school in Gevgelija to participate on flute festival in Kavadarci; Supporting the children’s activities for the 4th book fair organized by the public institution “Pionerski Dom”; Organizing one day children’s art workshop in cooperation with Croatia insurance company; Supporting young musical talents to participate on the International musical contest “Davorin Jenko“ – Serbia where the children won first and second prize; Donation to the musical and ballet pedagogy Association for improving the young talents in their musical education; Donation to the enigmatic club CEPIUM; Donation to Risto Stamkov from Gevgelija for publishing his collection “Songs from the south Povardarie”
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