In the month of July, the Nature Day chil-

dren explored and studied the Geography

of the area in Gevgelija and Macedonia.

The first weekend was spent finding out

about River Vardar. The ecologist Lazar

Nikolov accompanied the children down

to Vardar where he explained where the

river starts, where it flows into the sea

and how important natural feature the

river is to Macedonia. The children tested

the river water quality and found it to be

reasonably healthy in Gevgelija. The day ended with children making small river valleys

in the sandbar along the river.

The next weekend the children con-

tinued their investigation of water fea-

tures by hiking to Toplik reservoir. The

children again tested the small lake’s

water. Because of the hot weather the

water was no longer flowing out of the

lake so the dissolved oxygen level was

very low. Before hiking back a good

game of water tag was played on a hot

day. In the next two weekends the chil-

dren focused on the geology of the area. First, by looking for rocks and minerals along

the dry river beds ending at the aggregate plant at River Vardar and the next weekend

with a trip to the foot hills of Kozuf Mountain to see the effects of the shifting earth

that cause earthquakes in Macedonia.

The month ended with a trip to the mountains with the Gevgelija Mountain Club ac-

companying the children to learn how to hike better and survive in the outdoors. The

children watched the pitching of a tent and then cooked their own lunch. Everything

was prepared on a stick including sausages, spiced apples and even bread. The children

were instructed in how to make the fire, how to safely use a knife and how to com-

pletely extinguish the fire. The day ended with a nice river swim. Next month the chil-

dren will focus on the wildlife and animals of Macedonia.

For more information regarding the activities , participance and reservations for sign-

ing in children in this project visit the group „Nature Day“ on www.facebook.com

FRIENDS:

Apollonia Foundation

08.08.2011 No. 39

Nature day

Activities for July 2011

1

Concert od Toni Ki-

tanovski in Gevgelija

2

Exhibition of arts from

Vladimir Temkov

2

Concert of PMG Collective 2

The woman - a symbol

and inspiration

3

Biography of Aco

Filipovski

Participant in the art com-

mune "Apollonia" 2011

3

About us 4

ECO CALENDAR 4

Inside this issue:

www.gevgelija.gov.mk

www.gvg.com.mk

www.gevgelijanet.com

Nature day

Activities for July 2011

Page 2 Apollonia Foundation Newsletter

Concert of Toni Kitanovski in Gevgelija

Jazz guitarist Tony Kitanovski and Orchestra "Cerkezi" on July 8 held a concert on the terrace of hotel "Apollonia" in Gev-

gelija in the frames of manifestation "Gevgelija, City of Culture" for 2011

organized by the Center of culture. Roma orchestra "Cerkezi" cooperates

with the Macedonian jazz guitarist and composer Tony Kitanovski and to-

gether they have performed at music festivals in several countries in

Europe such as France,

England, Austria, Ger-

many, Belgium, Nether-

lands, fascinating audi-

ences with their unique

sound and emotional ap-

proach.

Kitanovski Tony was born in Skopje in 1964. He is a great composer

and guitarist with outstanding technique and imagination. From 1990

to 1997 stays in the United States for studies..

In 1997 he returned to Macedonia in Skopje and forms the band Luna .

Collaborating with many famous musicians, including Greg Hopkins, Charlie Mariano and Met Dariau. Tony Kitanovski is

the founder of Skopje school for jazz and contemporary music.

Exhibition of arts from Vladimir Temkov

Concert of PMG Collective

In the exhibitory parlor of hotel "Apollonia" within the frames of manifestation "Gevgelija - City of Culture" on July 11 was

opened an exhibition of works by Vladimir Temkov. The artist from Kavadarci presented himself in front of Gevgelija audience

with two dozens of paintings that are part of his last cycle, "My cereal fields."

"Temkov carries his drawing within him. His paintings are his view, thinking about the field, the life, the message that our na-

tive land carries, Macedonia, our sun. His works have been transformed in one the most formalistic ways, expressly repre-

sented on the canvas, as he sees and feels. Temkov’s art speaks the language of the robust lyricism, spontaneous and com-

pletely free from any strictly rational concept", say the criticism for Temkov.

Another event realized in the premises of "Apollonia" which caused a

lot of interest among the younger audience.

Concert of PMG Collective with the promotion of their latest album,

fourth in a row, entitled "A life so well begun."

This is probably the most mature and most organic album of the band

ever. Sinisa Evtimov, guitar, Alexander Gavrovski, bass, Zdravko

Kevreshan, drums and Mirko Popov, vocal, is the composition behind

this material.

The event was organized by the Center of Culture - Gevgelija, and

within the manifestation "Gevgelija - City of Culture."

http://www.tonikitanovski.com/

Page 3 Apollonia Foundation Newsletter

In the exhibitory parlor of hotel "Apollonia" in Gevgelija on July 20 was

opened an exhibition entitled "Woman as a symbol and inspiration", another

cultural event in the area art, as part of the manifestation "Gevgelija - City of

Culture for 2011."

There were arts by six Macedonian women artists presented which the

unforgettable role of women in life transferred with creative inspiration on

their canvases. Thirty works bear the signature of the artist: Marija Svetieva,

Hristina Zafirova, Simonida Filipova Kitanovska, Aferdita Kiki, Dita Starova and

Ljindita Beqiri.

The works of these artists from different generations, transmitted by oil on

canvas, mixed techniques on paper, fabric and fiber board, bear the stamp of

the new creative time, and new manners of traveling of this dynamic life en-

ergy through which today's woman is presented - said Mile Ničevski from Cen-

ter of culture - Gevgelija in the welcoming speech at the opening of the exhibi-

tion.

After the exhibition in Kavadarci, and ten-day exhibition until the end of

the month in Gevgelija, the traveling exhibition of Macedonian academic

women painters continues with artistic presentations in Ohrid and Prilep.

The woman - a symbol and inspiration

One of the participants in this year's jubilee art commune

"Apollonia" 2011, organized by Apollonia foundation " was Alexander -

Aco Filipovski. Born on 15th March 1936 in s.Nikiforovo - Gostivar area, as

the sixth child of a mother Mitra and father Ruse Filipovski. In Nikiforovo

he spends the first years of his childhood. After the incineration of Niki-

forovo in 1943 and losing the entire property and house, the family is

forced to move to Gostivar. From earliest childhood he shows great inter-

est and love for drawing. In 1958 he finished the School for Applied Arts in

Skopje, department of graphics in the class of famous artists - professors:

Lubomir Belogaski and Dragoljub Martinoski - Penkin. After graduating he

goes to Gostivar and works as a primary school teacher of art education.

In 1965 he gets job in the graphics institute "Goce Delchev" as an art de-

signer, dealing actively with the applied arts. From 1968 he is a member of

the Association of Artists of Macedonia (DLUM) and has participated in over 60 joint exhibitions of the association in the

country and abroad. He has organized solo exhibitions and participated in other exhibitions in the country and abroad:

Skopje, Gostivar, Kumanovo, Bitola, Ohrid, Belcista, Prilep, Strumica, Stip, Subotica, Belgrade, Pochitelj, Zagreb, Berlin

and Moscow.

"... more than 50 years passed since I work

actively with the most beautiful magic

called art. In my work I want to show the

joy and beauty of life, and sublimity of the

spirit. Art according to me should be full of

positive energy that will feed and elevate

the spirit of man. To ennobled, to be feast

for the eyes and a boon for the soul. She

needs to radiate a serenity and spiritual

comfort. "

Аco Filipovski

Biography of Aco Filipovski

Participant in the art commune "Apollonia" 2011

http://www.acofilipovski.com.mk/

Works created during the art commune "Apollonia" 2011

ECO CALENDAR

FUTURE EVENTS:

08 August 2011, 9pm

Exhibition of

Miomir Vemi¢

Hotel Apollonia *******

11 August 2011 ,9pm

Poetry event with

Mihail Rendzov

Garden - Hotel Apollonia *******

18 August 2011 9pm

Exhibition of the group

„Tower“ from Germany

Hotel Apollonia

*******

21 August 2011, 9 pm

Concert of

Vladimir Cetkar Trio

Terrace - Hotel Apollonia *******

22 August 2011, 9pm

Exhibition of photos from

Konstantin Plevneš

Terrace - Hotel Apollonia

For the artists - participants in the

art commune "Apollonia"

The artists, participants at the art commune

"Apollonia", continue the journey through all

the pages of beauty, spiritual light, harmony ...

Their arts are an attempt to touch the essen-

tial, magical, imaginary, non discovered, eter-

nal. This trip of theirs is mystical, divine, mys-

terious, vivid.

Artists are after eternal search of dreams, af-

ter that picture of the subconscious, after that

hidden reality, and these archetypes that re-

veals as visions, insights, imaginations, myths,

symbols …

Artists with untamed force continue their

travels through ageless night, facing the fasci-

nating dichotomy of real and imaginary, mate-

rial and dreamed, visible and invisible. Thus

they return to a life-giving sources of one an-

cient picture of collective subconscious, and

their works continue to live as the absolute

fascination, eternal time of creative rhythm,

harmony of the human soul.

Ilija Karajanov

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

Аdress: Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija R. Macedonia

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