No. 39
08.08.2011
Apollonia Foundation
Nature day Activities for July 2011
Inside this issue: Nature day Activities for July 2011
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Concert od Toni Kitanovski in Gevgelija
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Exhibition of arts from Vladimir Temkov
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Concert of PMG Collective 2 The woman - a symbol and inspiration
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3 Biography of Aco Filipovski Participant in the art commune "Apollonia" 2011
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In the month of July, the Nature Day children explored and studied the Geography of the area in Gevgelija and Macedonia. The first weekend was spent finding out about River Vardar. The ecologist Lazar Nikolov accompanied the children down to Vardar where he explained where the river starts, where it flows into the sea and how important natural feature the river is to Macedonia. The children tested the river water quality and found it to be reasonably healthy in Gevgelija. The day ended with children making small river valleys in the sandbar along the river. The next weekend the children continued their investigation of water features by hiking to Toplik reservoir. The children again tested the small lake’s water. Because of the hot weather the water was no longer flowing out of the lake so the dissolved oxygen level was very low. Before hiking back a good game of water tag was played on a hot day. In the next two weekends the children focused on the geology of the area. First, by looking for rocks and minerals along the dry river beds ending at the aggregate plant at River Vardar and the next weekend with a trip to the foot hills of Kozuf Mountain to see the effects of the shifting earth that cause earthquakes in Macedonia. The month ended with a trip to the mountains with the Gevgelija Mountain Club accompanying the children to learn how to hike better and survive in the outdoors. The children watched the pitching of a tent and then cooked their own lunch. Everything was prepared on a stick including sausages, spiced apples and even bread. The children were instructed in how to make the fire, how to safely use a knife and how to completely extinguish the fire. The day ended with a nice river swim. Next month the chil-
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Concert of Toni Kitanovski in Gevgelija Jazz guitarist Tony Kitanovski and Orchestra "Cerkezi" on July 8 held a concert on the terrace of hotel "Apollonia" in Gevgelija in the frames of manifestation "Gevgelija, City of Culture" for 2011 organized by the Center of culture. Roma orchestra "Cerkezi" cooperates with the Macedonian jazz guitarist and composer Tony Kitanovski and together they have performed at music festivals in several countries in Europe such as France, England, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, fascinating audiences with their unique sound and emotional aphttp://www.tonikitanovski.com/ proach.
Kitanovski Tony was born in Skopje in 1964. He is a great composer and guitarist with outstanding technique and imagination. From 1990 to 1997 stays in the United States for studies.. In 1997 he returned to Macedonia in Skopje and forms the band Luna . Collaborating with many famous musicians, including Greg Hopkins, Charlie Mariano and Met Dariau. Tony Kitanovski is the founder of Skopje school for jazz and contemporary music.
Exhibition of arts from Vladimir Temkov In the exhibitory parlor of hotel "Apollonia" within the frames of manifestation "Gevgelija - City of Culture" on July 11 was opened an exhibition of works by Vladimir Temkov. The artist from Kavadarci presented himself in front of Gevgelija audience with two dozens of paintings that are part of his last cycle, "My cereal fields." "Temkov carries his drawing within him. His paintings are his view, thinking about the field, the life, the message that our native land carries, Macedonia, our sun. His works have been transformed in one the most formalistic ways, expressly represented on the canvas, as he sees and feels. Temkov’s art speaks the language of the robust lyricism, spontaneous and completely free from any strictly rational concept", say the criticism for Temkov.
Concert of PMG Collective Another event realized in the premises of "Apollonia" which caused a lot of interest among the younger audience. Concert of PMG Collective with the promotion of their latest album, fourth in a row, entitled "A life so well begun." This is probably the most mature and most organic album of the band ever. Sinisa Evtimov, guitar, Alexander Gavrovski, bass, Zdravko Kevreshan, drums and Mirko Popov, vocal, is the composition behind this material. The event was organized by the Center of Culture - Gevgelija, and within the manifestation "Gevgelija - City of Culture."
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The woman - a symbol and inspiration In the exhibitory parlor of hotel "Apollonia" in Gevgelija on July 20 was opened an exhibition entitled "Woman as a symbol and inspiration", another cultural event in the area art, as part of the manifestation "Gevgelija - City of Culture for 2011." There were arts by six Macedonian women artists presented which the unforgettable role of women in life transferred with creative inspiration on their canvases. Thirty works bear the signature of the artist: Marija Svetieva, Hristina Zafirova, Simonida Filipova Kitanovska, Aferdita Kiki, Dita Starova and Ljindita Beqiri. The works of these artists from different generations, transmitted by oil on canvas, mixed techniques on paper, fabric and fiber board, bear the stamp of the new creative time, and new manners of traveling of this dynamic life energy through which today's woman is presented - said Mile NiÄ?evski from Center of culture - Gevgelija in the welcoming speech at the opening of the exhibition. After the exhibition in Kavadarci, and ten-day exhibition until the end of the month in Gevgelija, the traveling exhibition of Macedonian academic women painters continues with artistic presentations in Ohrid and Prilep.
Biography of Aco Filipovski Participant in the art commune "Apollonia" 2011 One of the participants in this year's jubilee art commune "Apollonia" 2011, organized by Apollonia foundation " was Alexander Aco Filipovski. Born on 15th March 1936 in s.Nikiforovo - Gostivar area, as the sixth child of a mother Mitra and father Ruse Filipovski. In Nikiforovo he spends the first years of his childhood. After the incineration of Nikiforovo in 1943 and losing the entire property and house, the family is forced to move to Gostivar. From earliest childhood he shows great interest and love for drawing. In 1958 he finished the School for Applied Arts in Skopje, department of graphics in the class of famous artists - professors: Lubomir Belogaski and Dragoljub Martinoski - Penkin. After graduating he goes to Gostivar and works as a primary school teacher of art education. In 1965 he gets job in the graphics institute "Goce Delchev" as an art dehttp://www.acofilipovski.com.mk/ signer, dealing actively with the applied arts. From 1968 he is a member of the Association of Artists of Macedonia (DLUM) and has participated in over 60 joint exhibitions of the association in the country and abroad. He has organized solo exhibitions and participated in other exhibitions in the country and abroad: Skopje, Gostivar, Kumanovo, Bitola, Ohrid, Belcista, Prilep, Strumica, Stip, Subotica, Belgrade, Pochitelj, Zagreb, Berlin and Moscow.
"... more than 50 years passed since I work actively with the most beautiful magic called art. In my work I want to show the joy and beauty of life, and sublimity of the spirit. Art according to me should be full of positive energy that will feed and elevate the spirit of man. To ennobled, to be feast for the eyes and a boon for the soul. She needs to radiate a serenity and spiritual comfort. " Đ?co Filipovski Works created during the art commune "Apollonia" 2011
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11 August 2011 ,9pm Poetry event with Mihail Rendzov Garden - Hotel Apollonia
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For the artists - participants in the art commune "Apollonia" The artists, participants at the art commune "Apollonia", continue the journey through all the pages of beauty, spiritual light, harmony ... Their arts are an attempt to touch the essential, magical, imaginary, non discovered, eternal. This trip of theirs is mystical, divine, mysterious, vivid. Artists are after eternal search of dreams, after that picture of the subconscious, after that hidden reality, and these archetypes that reveals as visions, insights, imaginations, myths, symbols …
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18 August 2011 9pm Exhibition of the group „Tower“ from Germany Hotel Apollonia *******
21 August 2011, 9 pm Concert of Vladimir Cetkar Trio Terrace - Hotel Apollonia *******
22 August 2011, 9pm Exhibition of photos from Konstantin Plevneš Terrace - Hotel Apollonia
Artists with untamed force continue their travels through ageless night, facing the fascinating dichotomy of real and imaginary, material and dreamed, visible and invisible. Thus they return to a life-giving sources of one ancient picture of collective subconscious, and their works continue to live as the absolute fascination, eternal time of creative rhythm, harmony of the human soul. Ilija Karajanov
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