Marc Hopkins, director of The Choirs YYJ, loves bringing people together to sing and knows the value to participants when this happens.

To help mark AlzheimerB次元官网网址檚 Awareness Month in January and raise awareness and funds for , a local choir program that works with dementia patients, their caregivers, area students and friends, he organized a drop-in choir night at Pacific Opera VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 Baumann Centre. The initial Jan. 6 event sold out quickly, so a second session was added for .

Hopkins, who also directs VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 drop-in choir, wanted to pay tribute to John Mann of Spirit of The West, who died Nov. 20 of complications from early onset Alzheimer disease. Hopkins will be teaching participants to sing the SOTW anthem B次元官网网址淗ome for a RestB次元官网网址� and hired some local Irish musicians to help make the sessions even more fun.

The Jan. 5 event, at 925 Balmoral Rd., starts at 7 p.m. and (plus fees). All proceeds from the two sessions will go to Voices In Motion.

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