Acropolis News

The International Organization New Acropolis (IONA) held its annual assembly in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, attended by representatives and delegations from fifty countries where it is implanted.

International management presented the reports and balances on the actions carried out during the period 2011-2012, among which include the development of curricula of the School of Philosopy of IONA, the extensive program of activities to commemorate the World Philosophy day, and environmental volunteer programs and humanitarian.

Yearbook was presented containing the activity report for the year 2011, which among other figures are listed 2,017 voluntary actions and about 20,000 participants in the Philosophy programs worldwide.

The Assembly adopted its Annual Declaration, which reaffirms its commitment to continue promoting the philosophy, culture and volunteering as the better way to contribute to the betterment of society.

The Lifesaving and Rescue Group of NA in Uruguay undertook this refresher course in first aid and water rescue for 30 lifeguards. The certificate is part of the requirements requested to work as a lifeguard in Spain, at the Lain Entralgo Agency of the Community of Madrid.

What women are looking for today? What values ​​define them? What are their characteristics?

- “… The femininity can not be limited to the sensitivity, passivity and motherhood, we need to rediscover and express the creativity and transforming capacity” – said prof. Adriana Vellegal at a moment of the conference at the headquarters of New Acropolis in Argentina.

New Acropolis in Slovakia continues the cycle of public lectures, a program organized in conjunction with the information and documentation center of UNESCO-cultural heritage of this institution. The Jerusalem lecture received more than 100 people and was held in the University Library of Bratislava. It was given by the director of NA in Slovakia, Kamila Hermannová.

The responsible for public relations of NA and the President and Vice President of AIESEC (Association Internationale des Sciences Economiques et étudiants in commerciales), announced a set of activities planned for this year 2012. The presentation was held in the conference room of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.

At the headquarters of NA Argentina it was held a Shiatsu workshop focused mainly on low back pain.

Lumbalgia is a term for low back pain in the lumbar region, caused by disorders related to the lumbar vertebrae and soft tissue structures such as muscles, ligaments, nerves and intervertebral discs.

Prof. Fernanda Reynoso explains how this technique helps your body recover naturally. Shiatsu acts on the physical and energy through the hands and knowledge of the energy points to reactivate health.

Successfully completed the Greek Cultural Week organized by New Acropolis in Peru
About 2,600 visitors had the opportunity to travel through ancient Greece to activities on the occasion of the Greek Cultural Week organized by the NA and the Embassy of Greece.

This initiative forms part of the cultural diffusion NA develops throughout Peru with the objective of promoting the human through culture.

Among the activities scheduled, we highlight the exhibition “Greek Myths: A reunion with your inner self”, consisting of sets and art panels, and a conference on the same subject.

New Acropolis in Honduras, visited the Hospital School in Tegucigalpa. The volunteers shared songs, games and gifts, and squandered joy to children in the halls of Nutrition and Orthopaedics.

The hospital school caters mainly to poor people and children who have been for a long time in the hospital and must deal with boredom and sadness in addition to the ailments of their own disease.

New Acropolis, committed to human problems of our time, conducts international social projects, actions to rescue the environment and natural disaster relief.

DANGER. A photo exhibition reflecting the warming of the globe. Photo: Musef

As part of the annual World Day of Mother Earth, the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) from La Paz and the International Organization New Acropolis in Bolivia presented the exhibition “Mother Earth, from North to South, East to West. “It is an exhibition that aims to show the importance of the Earth, under the concept of divinity, the humanity has had for centuries and the effects it has had by the human intervention.

The art exhibition consists of 22 photographs, three videos and five pieces of sculpture and ceramics, and some more pieces that were collected in Africa, Greece, Egypt and Bolivia.

It consists of three parts, the first enhances the beauty of nature, in the second it is appreciated the ways in which cultures have symbolized the Earth in its vision, and the third shows the contact the humans had with the Earth through the millennia.

Alongside the exhibition there will be workshops for children, video conferences and discussions.

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The Director of New Acropolis in Portugal, the writer Jose Carlos Fernandez, gave a lecture entitled “The Moon Goddess and the eternal feminine.” This activity is part of the cycle “The Secret Doctrine of HP Blavatsky – Archaic Symbolgy” being done on the premises of New Acropolis in Lisbon since last year. With this there are five conferences that are addressed in this theme, gathering each one with a large number of people. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) was a philosopher and Russian writer, author of the books Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine, among other.