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Apollonia Foundation

10.06.2010 No. 25

Inside this issue:

www.gevgelija.gov.mk

www.gvg.com.mk

www.biblioteka.edu.mk

The kick box club Apollonia - Balkan Champions

On the 29th and 30th of May in Burgas, Bulgaria was held Balkan Kick-box compe-

tition, in which participant from 11 states took part: Croatia, Bosnia and Hertsigovina,

Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Bulgaria and Al-

bania. 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 Foun-

dation 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 kick-

box, and for improving the sport in Gevgelija,

Apollonia Group nominated for philanthropy price f or 2009 given by the Center for Institutional Development - CIRa

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 Corpo-

rate 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 Founda-

tion received Certificate of

Appreciation from CIRa for

special contribution to-

wards developing philan-

thropy in Macedonia in

2009. Apollonia Group

received the Certificate of

Appreciation as company

for the integrated ap-

proach towards social re-

sponsibility in 2009.

Concert of classical music in Apollonia

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Book promotion 2

Involvement in the community

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Mirjana Krsteva - Mas-setti with exhibition in

Kumanovo

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About us 4

Eco calendar 4

Flute festival of music students in Kavadarci

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Exhibition “Ethno mo-ments”

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Concert of classical music in Apollonia

Concert night with accordions was the name of the seventh con-cert of classical music from the program “Gevgelija spring 2010”. On the 27th of May in Apollonia Hotel for the first time the public of Gev-gelija had an opportunity to see accordion concert with dozen stu-dents 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 accor-dion 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

Involvement in the community

On the 25th of May in Apollonia Hotel was held poetry night and promotion of the book “Wishful desires” from Ljubica Sto-jceva 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-mometer notices the waves, desires and anxiety of one unrepeatable adolescence. At the end of the books critic Karajanov will say “We hope that the lines from the lyric writing will reach Australia, where the poetess lives now, and initiate new arts as

symbol of philanthropy, altruism and sublime civil and cosmopolitan values.”

… Flowerless gardens are born in spring, inspiring desires, hope and spring, The sun arcs are drinking the joy,

unstoppably casting the soft light…

Quote from the song “For you, my hometown”

Waiters run, for the first time in Gev-gelija as part of the celebration pro-gram for “St. Spas”. Apollonia partici-pated with four staff waiters

Apollonia Foundation and Apollonia Group took part in conference for Alter-native Tourism in Brajcino, and Envior-ment in Veles, part of the project MK @ EU , where experts talked about the opportunity of using European funds

Aero meeting in honor of Igor Goreski Pilot from Gevgelija who died tragi-cally in helicopter accident 2 years ago.

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Mirjana Krsteva - Massetti with exhibition

in Kumanovo

Exhibition “Ethno moments” from Dragi Hadzi - Nikolov Adzi

On the 29th of May

the flute students in the

class of professor Suz-

ana Stefanova - Nada

Gogova, Sara Stamkova,

Kostovska Ivana and

Ana Gocevska from the

musical school Vaso

Karajanov from Gev-

gelija, participated in

the first flute festival of

students from the

music primary schools

and high schools

i n M a c e d o n i a .

Organizer of the

event was the school in

Kavadarci “Lazo Micev - Rale” in the frames of the

manifestation “Kavadarci - town of culture” and sup-

ported 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.

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 arts-

Painting in Skopje. He is married and has two chil-

dren. Lives and works in Gevgelija.

Flute festival of music students in

Kavadarci

From 27th of May until 10th of June, in the exhibi-

tion hall of the National Institution Center for Culture Tra-

jko Prokopiev, the public in Kumanovo had an opportu-

nity 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 Kristeva-

Massetti. 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, organiza-

tions 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 Founda-

tion.

Аdress: Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia

Тelephone: 034/ 213-222 Fax: 034/213-223 E-mail: snezana.dimitrova@apollonia.com.mk fondacija@apollonia.com.mk

Apollonia Foundation

ECO CALENDAR

FUTURE EVENTS:

* 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 Gev-

gelija.

* 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 contribu-

tion to the Plastic Recycling program. Find out more about

eco lo gica l educa t ion on ch i ldren here:

http://www.oxo.org.mk/planeta/e_index.html

Plastic recycling project - activities

15-25 Јune

9th Art commune

Apollonia 2010

Motel Vardar

20 June

State competition in

Kick box “Аpollonia“

Partizan Gym - Gevgelija

17 Јune 7 pm

Poetry night “Love is our

guide ”

Apollonia Hotel