Apollonia Art commune 2009 traditionally for the 8t h time

From 15th till 25th of June Apollonia Foundation was a host of the Apollonia Art com-mune 2009 which was organized traditionally for the 8th time. The begging of the new art season started with an exhibition of the arts made in the last art commune 2008, which was held in the exhibitory parlor of Apollonia Hotel. This exhibition was opened by Dimitar Malidanov, dean of the faculty for fine arts in Skopje. In his speech he said that the pleni-tude of light here in the south is what makes different poetics and originality among au-thors, in recapturing the real image of Gevgelija. The participants of this prestige art crea-tive “workshop” had the opportunity for 10 days in the Motel “Vardar”, which is located nearby the ancient town Gortinija, to express their inspirations and artistic talents and make the newest works of art. Members in this year’s Apollonia Art colony were:

1. Vasko Taškovski, academic from Skopje

2. Nice Vasilev from Strumica

3. Mile Petrov from Gevgelija

4. Gordana Petrova from Gevgelija

5. Bore Minov from Stip

6. Pande Petrovski from Bitola

7. Simonida Filipova - Kitanovska

8. Mari ja Stojadinovič f rom Kriusevac, Serbia

9. Vasilev Vasko from Sevlievo, Bulgaria

The art commune was very successful, 24 beautiful peaces of art were produced, and we will present you all of them in the next newsletters together with a short biography of the artists who made them.

Apollonia Foundation

06.07.2009 No. 14

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Inside this issue:

KUD Braka Tolevi on International culture event in Banja Luka -

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One more success of the gymnastic club Partizan from Gev-

gelija

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International prize for our choir “Gortinija”

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Kabare 6 3

Exhibition of Hristina Zafirovska

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About us 4

Eco calendar 4

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In the recrea-tion ground Partizan in Do-jran, from 17th until 23th of June was held state pioneer competition in several disci-plines which was organized by the Federation of Gym-nastic sports of Macedonia. In this sport event partici-pated 75 children from the gymnastic clubs in Bitola, Prilep, Strumica, Skopje and Gevgelija.

The best pioneers who competed in more disciplines won medals, diplomas and rewards and the best teams received bowls. From the association for gymnastic sport Partizan - Gevgelija 13 children participated in several disciplines and they won the following prices:

1. First place in the individual competition for women (age under 11 years old) - Popova Mihaela and Nestorova Tanja share this place

2. Second place in the same category - Avramova Angela

3. Third place in the same category - Atanasovska Rosana and Atanasova Teodora share this place

4. First place in the team competition for women (age under 11 years old)

5. Second place as total winner in all categories for women

Apollonia Foundation for the second time this year supported this activity of the gymnastic club, and helped with the travel costs of the children, who always comes back from the competitions with medals and rewards. We’re proud with their work and success. For more info see: http://fgsm.org.mk

One more success of the gymnastic club Partizan fro m Gevgelija

KUD Braka Tolevi on International culture event in Banja Luka - BiH

From 3rd until 6th of July the folklore group KUD Braka Tolevi from Gevgelija presented our Macedonian folklore in the international culture event in Banja Luka „5th Kozara Ethno“ which was organized by the Tourist Organi-zation of the City of Banja Luka and KUD Piskavica. Main idea of this mani-festation is to present the forgotten parts of old customs as a touristic poten-tial of mountain Kozara and it’s region and promote a country tourism as a way to protect homeland true cultural values. Main objective of this event is to protect, improve and promote cultural and touristic values of Kozara region. The ethno event of Kozara shows the essence of „folk“, it reminds it’s visitors of the way that people lived before and presents it as a interesting touristic attraction. Exposition, folklore, traditional games and songs , working in the field are one of the interesting parts of this ceremony.

Also, this event is colored by authentic sound of ethno part of Kozara with numerous songs

and plays of different groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina, other regions and international groups.

The topic of the event Kozara Ethno 2009 is the custom of „Slava“ of the area from Potkozarje so typical scenes from life and daily works of ethno man from Kozara were part of the event. On the 5th Kozara Ethno, cul-tural and artistic clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad per-formed, 10 traditional vocal groups from the territory of Kozara took part in the competition program and ethno groups from Serbia, Macedonia, Slo-venia, Belgium, Hungary and BiH took part in the regular program. We’re proud that Gevgelija and the traditional folklore of our region is presented on this culture event of world wide range. Apollonia Foundation supported the participation of the folklore group KUD Braka Tolevi on this festival, because we believe that our folklore, and traditions are one of the best ambassadors of Macedonian culture. For more info of this event see: http://kozaraethno.com and http://www.banjaluka-tourism.com.

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Kabare 6 International prize for our choir “Gortinija”

The city choir “Gortinija” participated in the biggest world festival for orthodox choir music in Hajnovka, Poland called “Days of orthodox music”. Thirty choirs from all over the world took part in this festival, which was great opportunity for pres-entation of the Macedonian orthodox music as well as the qualities of our choir. Their performance was excellent and the choir won the Special prize for interpretation. Their pres-ence on this festival was helped by the municipality of Gev-gelija and Apollonia Foundation.

For more details of the festival visit the following web page:

http://festiwal.cerkiew.pl/page.php?id=76

The amateur theater group KABARE 6 from Gevgelija, with their 10 year experience of work in and out of Macedonia, have added one more success, performing on the International festi-val for alternative theater FAKI 12, which was held from 19th till 24th of May in Zagreb, Croatia. Setting their artistic capabilities of one of the scenes in Culture center Medika in Zagreb, Kabare 6 won the audience and the interest for cooperation from many others professional and amateur Balcan groups. That’s how, in the frames of this festival, Kabare 6 and the group LJUD from Slovenia made a joined project, who had a positive effect to the public for which was intended.

This group presented our community very successfully and came back with many offers for cooperation with other inter-national groups as well as invitations for other festivals abroad. Apollonia Foundation supported their activities and made a donation for covering part of the cost for their trip and success-ful presentation on the festival in Zagreb. For more info visit the following web page: www.attack.hr/faki/

Organized by Apollonia Foundation, on the 5th of June in the exhibitory parlor of Apol-lonia Hotel was opened the exhibition of Hristina Zafirovska from Skopje, presenting paintings from the new cycle called Creation II. These arts present the impulsive crea-tive notion of the artist, an energy that tries to find its way with the purpose and the need to exteriorize in one expression. With one very characteristic art language visu-ally its presented the imaginary, mental picture for the process of creation of one peace of art.

Hristina was born in 1983 in Skopje. She has graduated on the Faculty for fine arts in Skopje, on the section for

painting with graphic design in the class of prof. Simon Šemov. Hristina has been part of over 20 group exhibitions in Skopje, Belgrade - Serbia, Istanbul - Turkey, Trebinje - BiH, Prague - Czech Republic and Peking - China. She participated in 7 workshops and art colonies in Macedonia, Croatia and Serbia. In 2000 she won the first price from the Culture Cen-ter in Kratovo for taking place in the traditional art commune “Lazar Sofi-janov” in Kratovo. Individual exhibitions: “Creation” in Youth culture cen-ter Skopje (2007), and the last one “Creation II” which was presented to the public in Gevgelija, Skopje and Prilep.

Exhibition of Hristina Zafirovska

About Gevgelija musical moments

This year is the 10 years celebration of the traditional culture manifestation called “Gevgelija musical moments”. By organizing these events Apollonia Foundation wishes to establish and con-tinuously develop feelings and positive relations between the Gevgelian audience and the classical music. In the past 10 years, on the podium in Apollonia Hotel, in front of Gevgelian public, plead of reproductive artists, from pupils, students on musical academies until top musicians as Simon Tprcevski presented themselves.

Years behind, this manifestation is the only possibility for the all the admirers of classical music, as well as the students and teachers in the primary musical school in Gevgelija to see and lis-ten in live the performances of many classical peaces. Apollonia Foundation will continue to real-ize this manifestation convinced in the nobility of this “mission of realized reunions with the values of the clasical music” .

This year the season of concerts in the Gevgelia Spring starts on the 14th of July with pi-ano concert of one young musician Emil Ribarski from Skopje. Everyone is welcomed to come and enjoy his music.

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

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ECO CALENDAR

FUTURE EVENTS:

14.07.2009 9 pm Hotel Apollonia

Concert of classical music

Emil Ribarski - piano

The concert is part of the manifestation 10 years

Gevgelia musical spring