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Transcript of Apollonia Foundation Newsletter No 24
FRIENDS:
Concerts of classical music in Apollonia
2
Activities of the chil-dren from Apollonia
Foundation
3
Dojran recognizable by the sweet wild fig
3
Exhibition of Goran Jovanov
3
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: [email protected] [email protected]
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