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Apollonia Foundation

06.05.2011 No. 36

Earth Day 2011 1

Apollonia - Blood Do-

nation Day

2

“Denicia” 3

Mountain Marathon 3

Poetry meeting with

Sande Stojčevski

3

ECO CALENDAR 4

Peace Corps Seminar 3

Concert duo accordion 2

Theatrical perform-

ance "We play for ap-

2

About us 4

Inside this issue:

www.gevgelija.gov.mk

www.gvg.com.mk

www.gevgelijanet.com

Earth Day 2011

On the occasion of “Earth Day",on

20-th of April, in and in front of the

City Library, an event was held called

"Green Fair in Gevgelija”, organized by

Apollonia Foundation, in cooperation

with the City Library "Goce Delchev”.

Within this event was an exhibition of

children's drawings, photographs and

handicrafts along, with winning literary

and art works all on a theme related to

Earth, nature and our environment.

T h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s e v e n t w a s :

-To create awareness of environmental protection in the future;

-To involve children from primary schools in the municipality of Gevgelija and its

citizens in these events, to focus every citizen on how to behave with nature;

-To create an opportunity for municipal institutions, schools, environmental asso-

ciations and other firms to be part of this action to protect our environment.

Participating in this event with presenta-

tions and booths were Slow Food - Tera from

Gevgelija and Mountain Club "Kozuf” from

Gevgelija.

Apollonia Foundation is pleased with the

interest of the citizens in this event and

hopes that this event will become a tradition.

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Apollonia - Blood Donation Day

Organized by the Apollonia Foundation in collaboration with the

Red Cross Gevgelija and the Blood Transfusion Center of the General

Hospital in Gevgelija, on the 19th of April, a one day blood donation

action was held in the premises of Hotel “Apollonia”.

This action is a project of Apollonia Foundation members participat-

ing in one of the most noble human activities, which is donating blood

for the health needs of another person in need.

The action “Apollonia - Blood Donation day” is organized twice a year,

once in the spring and once in the autumn, in collaboration with Red

Cross Gevgelija and the Blood Transfusion Center of the General Hospi-

tal in Gevgelija. The Apollonia Foundation

has signed a memorandum with these two

parties to achieve operational preparation,

continuity and implementation of the pro-

ject.

The campaign lasted from 10 am utill 7 pm.

With this last blood donation action, the

number of voluntary blood donors, who

have taken part in the project “Apollonia –

Blood Donation Day”, has increased by

20%.

In this most recent action, 60 blood units

were collected versus 47 blood units donated during the first action, organized in October last year, and 10 new donors were

registered.

On 9-th of April, at the “Pionerski dom”, Gevgelija’s audience had the honor to enjoy the wonderful performance of the

comedy “We play for applause" performed by actors from the Drama Studio - Tetovo. The actors left the audience breathless

with their professional performance. This performance was part from the event "Gevgelija City of Culture 2011".

Concert duo accordion

Theatrical performance "We play for applause"

Postgraduates at the School of Music in the class of prof. ZoricaKara-

kutovska, Philip Stamevski and BojanVolchevski, on 5-th of April at the Hotel

Apollonia held a concert as part of the program of cultural in the City of

Culture for 2011. Audiences in Gevgelija enjoyed the art of these two tal-

ented young artists through

performance of pieces from

Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Zolo-

tarjov, Bizov and Galjano. As

guests at the concert in Gev-

gelija, students from the

School of Music from the

class of prof. LjubicaUlisheva

and from the class of prof.

Susanna Stefanovska had their own performance.

You may find more information about this event at the following link: http://

www.gevgelijanet.com/art-/1407-2011-04-07-00-27-42.html

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On the occasion of the opening ceremony of “Gevgelija-

City of Culture 2011" on 16-th of April, on the terrace of

Hotel Apollonia a poetic portrait was created of the great

Macedonian poet, novelist and winner of many awards for

literature, including the Order of Merit for Macedonia, the

great Petre M. Andreevski. This night dedicated to Petre M.

Andreevski was centered around the poem "Denicia",

which is said to be a collage of hundreds of small stories,

which together can give a definition of love. The event was

enriched by music and an artistic stage performance pub-

lished by academic painter Sergei Andreevski. More infor-

mation can be found at the following link: http://www.gevgelijanet.com/art-/1429-2011-04-18-01-01-33.html.

“Denicia”

Mountain Marathon

On 26-th of April,

at 8 o'clock on

the terasse of

Hotel Apollonia ",

organized by the

City Library

"GoceDelchev " a

meeting was held

with the poet

Sande Stojčevski.

The event was

opened by the Director of the City Library, Dragi Hadzhiniko-

lov-Adji, and was followed with an interpretation of the po-

etry from Stojčevski by students of secondary and primary

schools in Gevgelija, accompanied by instrumental music

from students from the Musical school "Vaso Karajanov”.

Sande Stojčevski is a Macedonian poet, essayist, literary critic

and translator. He graduated at the Faculty of philology in

Skopje. He works at the National University Library "St. Kli-

ment Ohridski" - Skopje and he is editor of the journal

"Siesta" - Prilep and "Nude" - Skopje. He is a member of the

Macedonian PEN Centre and the Writers of Macedonia.

Poetry meeting with Sande Stojčevski Peace Corps Seminar

In order to assist in enhancing and enriching the cooperation

between Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Macedonia and

their associates, the Peace Corps organized a seminar-

training in April as part of the cycle training for volunteers

and contributors to the Peace Corps. Topics included in the

seminar were: the role of volunteers in the community, cul-

tural differences, the NGO Law and Law on volunteerism, IPA

funds, cooperation between municipalities and citizens and

tourism development. Teams that participated were given

task to develop a work plan for two-years.

In memory of the deceased climber PeroIlievski, the Mountain Club “Kozuv "-

Gevgelija, on 23-rd of April organized the mountain marathon “Pero Ilievski-

2011”. The memorial march was held on the village path, Konsko - s. Uma -

LekovitaVoda. The marathon was held to present mountain sports, love for the

mountains and natural beauty of mountain villages in the municipality of Gev-

gelija, and preserving the environment.

As part of a project that teaches young-

sters how to relate and preserve the

environment, the children from

“Nature Day” took active part in this

march and showed once more that

“Nature Day” is everyday. With small

gestures on their part, but big for Nature, they showed an ecological awareness by

stimulating their peers to adopt the new behavior of loving and honoring the gifts

form Mother Nature, and most important - a new behavior of consciously helping

Nature by picking up what others leave behind.

ECO CALENDAR

FUTURE EVENTS:

10.05.2011, 8 pm

Concert of Marija

Trencevska

(piano)

Hotel Apollonia

23.05 - 29.05.2011

Exhibition of photography

“15 years Peace Corps in

Macedonia“

City Library Goce Delcev

Gevgelija

About us

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 Foundatioon

Apollonia Foundation achievements in the

area sport for 2010

Sports play a significant role in the positive

physical and emotional development of both

children and adults, so again in 2010 the

Apollonia Foundation provided significant

support to the traditional New Years football

tournament “Espero 63”, basket tournament

GEVDION 2010, open fun football school

2010, gave a donation for sports education of

young athletes, donated to the kick box club

Apollonia for organizing the state competi-

tion in kick boxing in Gevgelija, participated

in the Balkan championship in Bulgaria where

they won the gold medal, and also partici-

pated in the international tournament in

Serbia.

Drawing from ЕLENA ILIEVA 4th

grade in „VLADO KANTARDZIEV“

school - First price in the art

competition for Earth day 2011