In Motel Vardar, near

the ancient city

"Gortinija" as the oldest

cultural and civilization

trace in this region, was

held a press conference

for the cultural manifes-

tation "Gevgelija - city of

Culture 2011". The con-

ference was held by the

Minister of Culture Eliza-

beta Kancevska Milevska, along with representatives from the ministry, the chairman

of the parliamentary commission for culture Vasko Shutarov, the mayor of the munici-

pality of Gevgelija, representatives of cultural institutions in the city, representatives

from Apollonia Foundation, other NGOs, artists and interested citizens.

"Gevgelija is a city that has a soul, goodness, which fosters thoroughness of cultural

monuments and traditions of the past, that’s why the Ministry of Culture has declared

as "City of Culture 2011" in order the gentle historical past to maintain its brilliance" -

said the Minister of Culture.

FRIENDS:

Apollonia Foundation

09.02.2011 No. 33

Gevgelija musical mo-

ments 2011 - project

from national interest

2

Competition in catering

and tourism

2

Nature Day 3

Environment achieve-

ments in 2010

3

Apollonia art commune

artists

3

About us 4

ECO CALENDAR 4

Inside this issue:

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www.gvg.com.mk

www.gevgelijanet.com

Gevgelija - city of culture 2011 with over 100 cultural events

On 3 and 4 January at the Motel

Vardar, Apollonia foundation organized

beneficent Christmas children's work-

shop, on which participated children

from Gevgelija, children with special

needs from the daily center in Gev-

gelija, volunteers from the high school

club Glow from Gevgelija, students flut-

ists from Vaso Karajanov the music

school, group Hip-Hop, Rhythm plus,

the models from the Cultural Center

and other young talents from Gevgelija. After finishing the workshop Irena and

Stephanie from club Glow together with a social worker finished the charity action by

donating the items collected during the workshop. Here's what they said about that

experience: "There were 10 families with 30 kids which were chosen by the Social Ser-

vice as the poorest. Before New Year Apollonia Foundation delivered them food and

some household instruments. First we visited the two families in Gevgelija, then in

Negorci, Prdejci, Miletkovo, Miravci, Bogorodica, Gavoto, Bogdanci, Crnicani and Do-

jran. With volunteerism and with the help from Apollonia Foundation and the partici-

pants in the Christmas workshop, we contributed at least a little happiness and hope

to their faces. Our charity doesn't stop here, because we will organize some noble ac-

tions like this again.”

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."~ Mother Teresa

Beneficent Christmas children’s workshop

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During December in Sarajevo was held an international competition of tourist schools in which 15 high school centers

from the Balkan participated. Representatives from the high school Josif Josifovski from Gevgelija in a very strong com-

petition won the second place in the category bartenders - preparing cocktails.

The hotel and tour-

ism students Gevgelija

high school in January

also took part in the

State competition for

catering and tourism

schools in Macedonia,

held in Ohrid, on the

occasion of the holiday

“Vodici”. Eight schools

from the country took

part in this competition. Six students from Gevgelija competed in four categories, supervised by the jury composed of

top professionals from all over Macedonia for each category, and the central jury. In the category cooks our students

won the second place while for presentation of their town the first place. Trajče Karagoshev student in 3rd year won the

second place for preparing mixtures of marsh, and Daniel Chobanov also from 3rd year won the first place in the cate-

gory flambeling fruit. Apollonia Hotel was the sponsor of these students by providing them training and preparation with

the most experienced personnel from Apollonia, as well as providing all necessary support as equipment and some tech-

nical tools for successful performance in this competition.

Competition in catering and tourism The young people from Gevgelija with good results

Gevgelija musical moments 2011 - project from national interest

The manifestation "Gevgelija musical mo-

ments" of Apollonia foundation for the second time

was chosen in the program of the Ministry of Culture

for 2011 as a project of national interest. Nineteen

concerts of classical music divided in two parts will be

held within this manifestation. The first event from

the program started yesterday - February 8, with a

performance of Ninoslav Dimov - saxophone, Stojan

Dimov - clarinet/saxophone and Rita Trpcheva - Pop-

ovic - piano, all famous artists and teachers from the

M u s i c u n i v e r s i t y i n S k o p j e .

Many young musical artists from the primary and sec-

ondary schools in the country, Gevgelija musical tal-

e n t s ,

students from the Faculty of Music, and proven artists and professors of

music will take part in the miscellaneous program. There is also possible a

collaboration with students from the music school in Thessaloniki, Greece.

This year we introduce to the public one important novelty, during the

months of February, March, April and May two to three times a month,

exclusively on Tuesday, the concerts from the first part of the program—

Gevgelija spring 2011 will take place.

The concerts that will take place at the Hotel Apollonia are additional

contribution from Apollonia Foundation for the manifestation "Gevgelija

city of Culture 2011".

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More photos on http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/photo.php

Gevgelija started recycling the plastic bottles, thanks to a grant from US

AID for the “Gevgelija Plastic Recycling program” made from the Piece

Corps volunteer Kristen Halseth and Apollonia Foundation

Realized activities within this project:

50 children who participate in the Nature Day project (lead by the Apol-

lonia Foundation) were educated about recycling plastic through interac-

tive games. The children spread their knowledge to the community by

distributing over 1,000 educational brochures to residences of Gevgelija.

2 clean-up events were held around the 4 new locations for plastic recy-

cling, and all of the plastic gathered was placed in the new recycling bins.

Residents of the nearby communities were invited to help, and as a result

several new children participated. 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 contribution to the

Plastic Recycling program.

Environment achievements in 2010 Nature Day

January was devoted to learning about water

Apollonia art commune artists

One of the participants in this years Apollonia Art Commune 2010 was academic Vasko Tashovski. He is born on 31st August,

1937 in the village Nizo Pole, Bitola. Completed

The School of Applied Arts in Skopje in 1958

and graduated from the Academy of Applied

Arts in Belgrade in 1964. In the period between

1966 and 1991 he worked as a set designer in

the Macedonian Television. Apart from paint-

ings in oil, he also works in watercolors and

graphics. Occasionally he makes graphic design,

too. He has had more than 40 one-man exhibi-

tions, and has taken part in a lot of group exhi-

bitions in the country and abroad.

His work was also presented to the Paris public in 1992 with an imposing exhibition

and auction of about 100 works.

The last time he presented his work in front of the Gevgelian public was in May

2008, with exhibition held in Apollonia Hotel.

Vasko Taškovski’s paintings warns us to harness our destructive urges towards

nature and get back the lost harmony between nature and human”

Academic Georgi Stardelov

Toplik, activity - how many drops of water are

needed to fill a dam as Toplik

Location Dinkut, put the Earth in a plastic bottle and moni-

tor the cycling of water!

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FUTURE EVENTS:

15 February 19:00

Promotion on two books

from Stefan Markovski

hotel "Apollonia"

22 February 19:30

Classical music concert

Marjan Ivanovski on cello

and Vesna Angelova on piano

hotel "Apollonia"

24 February 2011

Art exhibition

"Small format"

Library "Goce Delcev"

Apollonia Foundation in 2010

CULTURE

• Traditionally supporting Jazz Festival in Skopje;

• Organizing comedy "Tsunami" performed by the Drama

Studio "Tetovo" as part of six day international festival of

comedy in Gevgelija;

• Taking part in the project “My colorful childhood” of the

city library and Gevgelija culture center, by supporting chil-

dren’s art workshop;

• Donation to the city mixed choir Gortinija, and the folk

groups: KUD Negorci, KUD Braka Tolevi, and supporting the

activity of the Ensemble Bojmija;

• General sponsor of the 3 day multimedia art festival “BOSH

2010“;

• Organizing the 9th art commune APOLLONIA 2010 with

artists from Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria;

• Supporting the students from musical school in Gevgelija

to participate on flute festival in Kavadarci;

• Supporting the children’s activities for the 4th book fair

organized by the public institution “Pionerski Dom”;

• Organizing one day children’s art workshop in cooperation

with Croatia insurance company;

• Supporting young musical talents to participate on the

International musical contest “Davorin Jenko“ – Serbia

where the children won first and second prize;

• Donation to the musical and ballet pedagogy Association

for improving the young talents in their musical education;

• Donation to the enigmatic club CEPIUM;

• Donation to Risto Stamkov from Gevgelija for publishing

his collection “Songs from the south Povardarie”

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

Аdress: Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia

Apollonia Foundation