apollonia foundation newsletter no 23
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Art workshop 3 FRIENDS: Apollonia Foundation Eco calendar 4 Flower arraignment made from the Nature Day children called “Dawn of joy” www.gvg.com.mk Concerts of classical music in Apollonia www.gevgelija.gov.mk www.biblioteka.edu.mk Inside this issue: Nature Day - activities 3 2 Concerts of classical music in ApolloniaTRANSCRIPT
FRIENDS:
Concerts of classical music in Apollonia
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Tree Day 3
Art workshop 3
Nature Day - activities 3
About us 4
Eco calendar 4
Apollonia Foundation
08.04.2010 No. 23
Inside this issue:
www.gevgelija.gov.mk
www.gvg.com.mk
www.biblioteka.edu.mk
4th Book Fair organized by the public institution “Pionerski Dom”
If you judge from the pic-
tures 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 organ-
ized 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 chil-
dren who come to Nature Day every
weekend took part in almost every
activity.
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 kindergar-
ten 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#!/
Flower arraignment made from the
Nature Day children called “Dawn of joy”
Page 2 Apollonia Foundation INFO
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 pro-
fessor Ljubica Ulisheva. Pieces from Divernua, Berkovic, Bach, Di-
jabeli 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 con-
cert 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 per-
formed 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 com-
petition which proves his brilliant talent. On the Easter concert he performed pieces from Chopin, Brahms, Men-
delssohn, 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 fa-
mous opera melodies and duos” performed by the students in the class of prof. Marija Muratovska from the fac-
ulty of music in Skopje and accompanied with prof. Elena Atanasovska on piano.
Page 3 Apollonia Foundation INFO
On 30th of March Macedonia planted trees once
again. This time the planting trees action had the pur-
pose 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 govern-
ment representatives from Greece (Polikastro and Bo-
jmica) 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 loca-
tion was “Bogorodica hill”.
Apollonia Group as usual supported this action with the presence of the
Apollonia staff, Apollonia Foundation with 42 children of the environ-
mental project Nature Day and other volunteers. It’s our company’s mis-
sion 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.
Tree Day
Nature Day - activities
The last month in Nature Day educationally was dedi-
cated 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 ele-
ments 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.
Art workshop
Apollonia Foundation with the insurance company
“Croacia osiguruvanje” on 1st April organized art work-
shop 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 crea-
tive afternoon.
Аdress: Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia
Тelephone: 034/ 213-222 Fax: 034/213-223 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]
Apollonia Foundation
ECO CALENDAR
FUTURE EVENTS:
2009 Year of many activities
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 Mace-
donia, Serbia and Bulgaria participated.
For the 15th
time traditionally we were spon-
sors 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 Gev-
gelija and the group Synthesis for presenting Ma-
cedonia culture abroad.
We sponsored 3 children from Gevgelija to par-
ticipate 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 tradi-
tional Guitar contest, the 3rd
Fig festival, and the 3
days Multimedia Art festival, which are very im-
portant traditional events in our community.
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