FRIENDS:

Concerts of classical music in Apollonia

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Activities of the chil-dren from Apollonia

Foundation

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Dojran recognizable by the sweet wild fig

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Exhibition of Goran Jovanov

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Plastic Facts 4

Eco calendar 4

Apollonia Foundation

10.05.2010 No. 24

Inside this issue:

www.gevgelija.gov.mk

www.gvg.com.mk

www.biblioteka.edu.mk

Gevgelija Recycles!

Did you know that it takes between 450 to 700 years for a plastic bottle to decom-

pose, and nearly every piece of plastic EVER made still exists today. Recycling is the

simplest and easiest way to preserve the Earth’s valuable and finite resources. Gev-

gelija started recycling the plastic bottles, thanks to a grant from US AID for the

“Gevgelija Plastic Recycling program” made from Piece Corps volunteer Kristen Halseth

and Apollonia Foundation. The municipality

of Gevgelija already has eight bins located

around the community labeled “Plastic

Only” with two holes on the top designed to

fit plastic bottles, but the local government

reports that any plastic deposited into these

bins currently goes to the landfill with the

rest of the garbage. This project will take

advantage of the resources already avail-

able and use six of the “Plastic Only” bins

for recycling plastic bottles.

This program includes coopera-

tion between the two primary schools in

Gevgelija and other citizens of Gevgelija

who will fill the containers with plastic,

the local government and public enter-

prise “Komunalec” who will empty and

transport the plastic containers, the local

company called Bliznak Kom who will buy

off the plastic and Apollonia Foundation

who will monitor and use the income from the sold plastic for expanding this program.

The goal of this project is to improve the ecological conditions of Gevgelija and

to educate children and all residents of Gevgelija about recycling plastic. Thanks to this

program the community started it’s own initiative for collecting also paper twice a

week, from bigger companies that have more paper waste, and they are building new

containers just for plastic and paper which will be set up on several location of our

town. Now all we have to do is recycle.

Where to recycle!

Containers for recycling plastic bottles

are now available in the following loca-

tions:

Across from Vlado Kantardjiev

Close to Krste Misirkov

In the parking lot by Solun 53

New buildings on St. Sava Mihajlov

Page 2 Apollonia Foundation INFO

Concerts of classical music in Apollonia

The classical music program “Gevgelija Spring 2010” continues with new concerts. In April were held two more concerts. On the 13th of May we had “Night of famous opera melodies and duos” with the postgraduates from the class of prof. Marija Muratovska - Naumovska from the Faculty for music in Skopje. The unforgettable arias of Mo-zart, Puccini, Verdi, Sans, De Lib, Z. Masne were performed by Elikona Husaj and Dielza Sulejmani (mezzo - so-prano), Bela Lugaci, Adelina Taci, Delina Hajra (soprano), Ivan Naumovski (baritone) and prof. Elena Atanasovska on piano. The drama, the poetics and the expression of the feelings were so effective which was one more recogni-tion of the talent that these artists have and have achieved with their performances through Europe. Adelina Taci has a significant appearance with the world known tenor Carreras on her career record, and Beca Lugaci has been per-forming in Paris, France and Italy this year and she is preparing for concert in Austria. On the beging of the concert their professor Marija Muratovska expressed her gratitude because the Gevgelija music scene is always open for artists from Macedonia and abroad, like in this case with her students that come from Prishtina, Kosovo.

On the 27th of April the classical music public of Gevgelija had the pleasure to hear guitar-flute duo concert in performance of the profes-sors Tanja Jankova (guitar) and Silvana Culeva - Atanasova (flute). Peaces from Mozart, Leu, Schile, Schubert, Piazzolla were performed in the program. Silvana Atanasova during her 23 years career had per-formed 3 times as soloist with the Macedonian Philharmonic, had played with the Revial orchestra of the Macedonian Radio Television, and made a lot of concerts for the local public. She established the quarter flute ”Sirinks”, and is an author of few children musical scenar-ios, among them “Story for the planet Musicland”. Jankova mastered her instrument in 2001 and is the winner of the first price on the State competition for guitar and second price for chamber music (1993). So

far she has had many concerts in Skopje and the other towns of Macedonia, and recorded many videos for MRTV with cooperation of the French studio “Music entertainment”.

The classical music concerts that are in the program “Gevgelija spring and Gevgelija music autumn 2010” are organized by Apollonia Foundation and supported by the Ministry of culture.

Activities of the children from Apollonia Foundation

The smallest children from Nature Day

went to see “Cinderella”

ballet show for children in Skopje

Jeopardy - quiz game for Recycling

Nature Day in Valandovo

near monastery “Sveti Georgija”

Clean up events and promote of the

Plastic Recycling project with giving

flyers to the citizens of Gevgelija

Page 3 Apollonia Foundation INFO

On the 25th of April 2010 in Dojran

was organized an event for preparation

and promotion of sweet wild fig in the

south-east region of Macedonia. This

project is part of the activities of Slow

Food Foundation in Macedonia, oper-

ates around the world with projects to

defend local food traditions, protect

local biodiversity and promote small-

scale quality products, with an increas-

ing focus on investments in countries

of the Global South. The sweet wild fig

officially will become part of the world list of products and will be the first prod-

uct from Macedonia.

For this purpose, the municipality of Dojran, in cooperation with Slow Food Kon-

vivium Sarplaninska and the Federation of farmers in Macedonia - The net of

women farmers, on the 25th April 2010 in the presence of significant interna-

tional and home guests, organized preparation of wild fig-sweet and promotion

of the project.

As company that pledges for improvement of the environment and biodiversity

Apollonia Group together with Apollonia Foundation were the general sponsors

of this event.

Dojran recognizable by the sweet wild fig

Exhibition of Goran Jovanov

In organization of Apollonia Foundation on the 23rd April in

Apollonia Hotel was opened exhibition of graphics from the Master

work: “Reflection of the present and absent” of the artist from Gev-

gelija Goran Jovanov. The exhibition was opened by the manager of

the head office for culture and art in Skopje - Nikola Gligorov. He

pointed the modesty of this young talented artist, who through the

two dimension abstractness of his arts makes adventure for every

individual to explore, searching the image in the picture and the

story that is behind each art. “The structure of his art sheets are

recognizable by the constant vibration among the in and out

spaces, between the present

and absent, full and empty,

stillness and dynamic” says the

art critic Konca Pirkoska for the work of Jovanov.

Goran Jovan with his 23 years age, already has 10 years experience and

active presence in the exhibitory areas in Macedonia, the Balkan and some of

the European cities. So far he has realized 3 individual exhibitions in Macedonia

culture center, “Suli An” in Skopje and “Leonardo Center” in Belgrade. He has

also been on group exhibitions, international biennales, art commune in Mace-

donia and abroad, and more significant are his presentations n Berlin, Paris,

Zurich, Taiwan, Mexico, Sofia, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Subotica. He is member of

the Association of artists of Macedonia since 2006 and he is also titleholder of

the prestige award for graphics of this art association, which was given at the

56th annual exhibition of DLUM. For the video of the exhibition click here: http://gevgelijanet.com/index.php?

option=com_yjstudio&Itemid=210

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:

Plastic Facts

It takes between 450 to 700 years for a plastic

bottle to decompose!

Only 2.5% of plastic bottles are presently recy-

cled in Europe.

Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards

of landfill space.

Recycled plastic can be used to make things

like trash cans, park benches, playground

equipment, decks, kayaks, and fleeces.

Nearly every piece of plastic EVER made still

exists today.

CAN BE RECYCLED

13.05.2010 8:30 pm Apollonia Hotel

Exhibition of Dragi Hadzi-Nikolov — Adzi

“Ethno Moments”

Competition in waiters run City Square, 12 am

Apollonia waiters will participate

May, 2010 Classical Music Concerts Gevgelija Music Talents

CAN’T BE RECYCLED

Bottles from soda

or water

Yogurt containers

Cooking oil bot-

tles

Oil containers

Laundry deter-

gent bottles

Bottles from

shampoo or soap