The Apollo Arts Initiative is pleased to support like minded artists and groups that value and respect the rights of the individual as well as the whole.
Whether it is through the arts, sciences, education, religion or government, all can be creatively used to promote peace and well being for all of Humanity and our Planet
We welcome a new decade for the AAIF!
We wish all artists and creative groups a Happy And Healthy New Year 2020!
In 2020 Vice-President Bart Cook will continue his filming for the George Balanchine Foundation archives of his acclaimed ballet roles. In February he will work with former principal ballerina Allegra Kent to film the ballet Episodes Concerto section.
Spring 2019 Maria Calegari presented a keynote address at the Arcane School Conference in New York City, titled, "A Story of Group Work from the World of Ballet," based on her experiences staging the ballet Brahms-Schoenberg Quartets by George Balanchine." Visit www.lucistrust.org to view her talk.
Fall 2018, Bart Cook .and Maria Calegari continue their work of sharing the legacy of George Balanchine traveling to Perm, Russia and Hamburg, Germany where they will stage the ballets, Serenade, La Sonnombula and Brahms-Shoenberg Quartet
Cultural exchange in Tbilisi, Georgia, February 2017
Co-founders Maria Calegari and Bart Cook returned to the homeland of George Balanchine to stage his ballets, Mozartiana, Serenade and Concerto Barocco with the State Ballet of Georgia. The company is directed by ballerina, Nina Ananiashvili who is a United Nations Ambassador of Peace. All the arts are well preserved and appreciated in Georgia as part of their cultural heritage.
To see interviews and ballet footage of their trip as well as film clips of George Balanchine and his New York City Ballet in Tbilisi click on this link.
During 2016 co-founders Maria Calegari and Bart Cook travelled to the Paris Opera Ballet where they staged an All Balanchine program which had it's premiere on October 22. The history of ballet in Paris is well known and George Balanchine as well as Igor Stravinsky began their careers there once they left Russia. The ballets staged were, Mozartiana, Sonatine, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet and Stravinsky Violin Concerto.
For the New Year of 2015, The Apollo Arts Initiative has sponsored a Peace Pole on the Peace Path at the World Peace Prayer Sanctuary in Wassaic, NY, USA. In honor of Apollo and Greece.
Since January 2014, AAIF President and co-founder Maria Calegari is an appointed representative to the United Nations for the Aquarian Age Community, an NGO of the UN that supports the spiritual work of the United Nations. www.aquaac.org
Ms. Calegari presented a talk, " The Apollo Arts Initiative: The Universality of Art and Dance" at the Arcane School Conference in NYC on May 11, 2014 www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/conference/video_broadcasts/may_10_11_2014
Ms. Calegari's exhibit of 30 watercolor paintings is currently on display at the Gallery at Lifebridge Sanctuary until the end of December 2014. "Nature's Bounty" is dedicated to the United Nations International Year of Farming www.lifebridge.org/whatsNew.cfm The opening reception on October 19, 2014 was well attended by friends, family and co-workers of Ms. Calegari.
Several paintings were purchased which highlighted the circulatory flow that occurs when artists are supported in this way which in turn enables them to keep creating! It also gives true life to the art work as it is released by the artist to inspire others. Please support the arts!
