The Cultural Frontline - Opera singer Joshua Hopkins: Remembering my sister in song

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Joshua Hopkins is an award-winning Canadian baritone who is using his voice to call out violence against women, after the loss of his sister in 2015. Joshua tells Sophia Smith Galer how collaborating with Booker Prize winning author Margaret Atwood on Songs for Murdered Sisters offers consolation, while opening up conversation about gender-based violence across the world.

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Presenter: Sophia Smith Galer

(Photo: Joshua Hopkins. Credit: Songs for Murdered Sisters, directed by James Niebuhr)

Published on Saturday, 8th May 2021.

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