“Cheers to You, Oh Wonderful You” with Sue Goberdhan – Interview #2

Welcome to my blog series “Cheers to You, Oh Wonderful You”, where we celebrate the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals around us. This series will be used as a space to connect, celebrate, and showcase the incredible people in our lives who ground us, teach us, and inspire us everyday. 

This interview I was joined by none other than my dear high school friend, Sue Goberdhan.

Sue’s community of influence in her own words is vast, shifting, and ever evolving. It’s one part theatre, one part activism, and one part as a producer, but it revolves mostly around the theatre community in Edmonton.

In striving to further her education in theatre, she realized it was all so very colonial and a program rooted in “the rich will be the ones to give back”, there was no flexibility for those that needed to work. Sue needed to work two part time jobs herself, alongside doing full time school plus rehearsals being in the drama program, and realized the education system was broken.

So she came to terms with the fact that she didn’t need this pathway she was on and chased theatre outside of school, winding up in her current profession. Sue is currently an artistic producer at Azimuth Theatre. Her job is to run the company, hire as many artists as she can, put as much money into artists pockets as possible, and just try to do what she can with the resources that she has.

I commented on how it was amazing how in the midst of seeking out education, that Sue noticed there was already more than enough work and influence that she could give, even without all that extra education. Sue already had more than enough to contribute because of what she had to offer and saw what needed to be done. She just chose to take that on, and to have eyes to see that is incredible. 

Sue commented that over the last couple of years she’s really come to understand that in the past artistic work has taken after a model of scarcity. So essentially, “we have to take as much work as we can, cause we don’t know when we’re gonna get it”. But if we can change that mindset to a model of abundance, all of a sudden we’re all saying, “we’re gonna take what we want to take so that everyone gets a place” then all of a sudden things shift and the culture shifts and she thinks we’re moving closer and closer to that. So that was where Sue started to realize that she could make a little space for herself and take what she wanted and not what she needed.

One fun, random fact about Sue is that back when she was a little kid she was obsessed with trying to be a really good typer, like a really, really fast, accurate typer and would practice all the time. So now when she watches movies, she finds herself typing what she’s listening to on her lap. It just looks like she’s anxious, but she’s just always tippity-tapping away.

Sue’s current favorite movie is “In the Heights” and her current favorite TV Show is “Boy Meets World” and “The Newsroom”.

The following is my interview with Sue which was an absolute joy to take part in and I hope you will enjoy and learn from it as I did. 

What has been one failure in your life that later became a win for you?

For me I remember right out of high school I wanted to audition for theatre school and I did. I was made to believe, from the university that came to our school, “Oh you don’t need any experience, you don’t need any of these things, just show up and do the audition.” And I thought, great.

So I showed up to the audition and as it turns out I needed everything they told me I didn’t need. I tanked, I tanked so hard. I still get little shivers when I think about that audition because it was the worst I had ever done. But at that point I thought, “Ok I clearly didn’t get this, so I need to start planning for what I can do outside of this. I need to figure out what my next plan is cause this clearly isn’t the path for me”.

So then I ended up doing arts and cultural management so that I could manage theatre behind the scenes. But then over the course of my life, I negated everything that I told myself from that audition.

That audition changed my life cause it shook my confidence in a way that I had no idea it would. I mean I didn’t audition for anything for five years afterwards, I didn’t do a single theatre thing for five years! It was brutal. I remember being in the room, seeing the people I was auditioning for, and thinking, “These people think I’m an idiot. These people think I’m the world’s least prepared person they’ve ever seen in their life.”

But it’s cool because from that point in 2010 to now I’ve worked with every single person in that room. I’ve done theatre with every person in that room and I’ve been paid to do theatre with every person in that room. So it turns out I didn’t need it. So that was the biggest failure for me that turned into like an 11 o’clock number, it feels like a redemption story.

That is the ultimate redemption story. I mean not that it needed to happen but it was almost like that cherry on top that you have now even had that opportunity to redeem yourself, like you said, by even working and rubbing shoulders with these people. I mean that in and of itself is amazing that they’ve been able to see that growth in you and to have the opportunity to work and create alongside you.

I think the best part is that I never talk to them about the audition because I don’t think they remember it. Because when we worked together, I’m positive that they introduced themselves to me for the first time. So I was like, “Ok, you don’t have to know.”

Just let it happen. Wow, that is amazing, and I didn’t realize that it was five years in between that you didn’t audition, but look at where you are now!

Thanks pal! The only thing I worked on then was “Almost Heroes” and we worked on that in my basement. Then that summer was the first summer I had done anything outside of high school. When we showcased “Almost Heroes” that was my third show being back on the stage because that summer I made a decision that I was just going to do it!

So I did the reading of “Almost Heroes”, then I did a play called “The Jackal and Her Reflection”, and then I did the actual run of “Almost Heroes”. Then ever since “Almost Heroes” I just kept getting work and thinking it was pretty cool.

Way to make a comeback and show your place. Way to be!

If you could talk to yourself back when you were graduating high school, what would be something that you would tell yourself?

What would I say to that goofy kid? I might just tell her that when people compliment you you should just take it and not pretend it isn’t true. Because then I didn’t think anything that people told me was true. So I’d say that if people compliment you take the compliment because it’s probably true and use that as rocket fuel.

If I had just chosen to believe that I was good at anything, I feel like I could have been further in my life if I had just chosen to believe that. So I would tell her to believe that you’re good at the thing you love.

Who is one person that you can count on to be in your corner that you’re grateful for, and why?

I feel like I am so lucky because I have so many, I have so many people in my corner and I never take that for granted.

I will allow you to do a top five if that helps and makes your life easier in answering this question.

Thank you, I just think it’s important to recognize those that meet me at the same level over and over again, and there are many, and I don’t think it’s worth narrowing down if it’s not a narrow subject. Everyone of them just meets me where I’m at whenever I need them and I’m really lucky to have that.

So if I have to name five it would be my Mom, Matt, Sabah, Kaleb, and my friend Raine. All of these folks equally just show up to everything I do and are always cheering me on. They respect my decisions and aren’t afraid to tell me when they think I’m making a mistake or if they think I’m doing something right. They’re always there to be a sounding board, and I feel really lucky to have that, cause I’m just a very unsure person. I like having folks to bounce ideas off of, it feels good. It’s always a call-in.

Who do you feel has played a vital role as a mentor in your life?

First of all, I would say our high school band teacher Ms. Baril. She taught me so much and I still talk with her, we text each other, she’s wonderful, and we get coffee. It’s been really nice as I’ve gotten older that I’ve still been able to rely on her in a lot of ways. She’s always had some kind of wisdom to give me.

I remember on our last day of high school, she gave all of us some advice that changed my whole outlook on life. She said, “Everyone has to grow up, that’s not a choice, everyone has to. But to the extent to which you grow up is your choice. You don’t have to grow up all the way. And life’s more fun if you don’t.” It was the best advice ever! So yes, Ms. Baril is a big one.

And then the job that I’m with right now is very special. It’s a company that has always been very focused on elevating people who need elevating, the people who are under-represented, people whose voices often get pushed aside.

Like at the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was run by these two wonderful women, who are both white women, Kristi Hansen and Vanessa Sabourin. They looked at each other and they looked at the mandate of the company and they thought, “If we stay in these positions we are not fulfilling the mandate and we are not adhering to the values that we have.” So they actually stepped down to be able to allow for a different set of people to take over. It was really special and really, really exciting!

So when they stepped down, they said, “We are looking for people of color to come in and take up space to do the work they want to do to elevate whoever they feel needs elevating.”

The process for getting this job was strenuous, I mean, I think I interviewed three different times and it was over the course of I think about four months or so, I mean it took forever to get this job. But by the time I got to the second round, I was like, “You know what, at this point, I don’t care who gets the job because I know that they care about it enough that whoever it is is going to be amazing.” And then it just so happened to be me and my partner Morgan Yamada! It’s been really amazing!

And so Kristi and Vanessa have been really, really valuable in mentoring me going forward. I was literally talking to Kristi before I was talking with you and she’s just so generous and really works hard to make sure that she’s helping me in making meaningful contributions. As well as Vanessa, she does very much the same. They’ve both been very integral to who I am at this particular moment.

What strength and humility to see something like that and to be willing to step down from those positions! I was so blown away by the fact that they made that decision of “no we’re not just going to bring in more people, we’re actually going to step down from where we’re at so as to make this happen to really move forward in the direction that we need to”. That’s amazing!

Exactly! I was absolutely floored when I saw that job come up. They made this announcement saying, “We recognize the need in the community and we are listening and we are taking action. We are taking this into our own hands.” And I thought, “I don’t know if there is anybody else brave enough to do that.” It was really beautiful, it was something that I’ll never forget and that I’ll always treasure.

When things aren’t going in the direction you were hoping, what have you found has usually been the right next step for you?

I think for me I find that I just have a very hippie-dippy relationship to the Universe, in that if I don’t have something or something isn’t working right, I trust that it’s for a reason.

There’s just something in me that just knows who I am and that I know the work I do is good and strong, I know that I care a lot, and sometimes that can be a real detriment to my life. But more often than not it’s actually a really good thing because even if things aren’t going my way, something else is coming. I just have to trust that that’s happening.

So I think a big thing for me is keeping my eyes open and just using the time that I’m not working to do something that makes me feel good.

So during the pandemic for example, I remember I had in March of 2020 the most gigs I had ever had as an artist lined up for the next three months. I had the most gigs! I had never had that many gigs and I was actually making a life as an artist at that point I thought, “Wow! I can’t believe this is my life!” And then March 15th, all of them were gone. Every opportunity was gone! And I thought, “Oh. Ok. No money. No job. Like, things are bad.” Then I freaked out about it for a few days and then I was like, “I can’t do anything about this, nobody can do anything about this. This is just what it is.”

So then I started doing things that I liked. Like I learned that I love to paint, I love to go for walks, I started doing things that I never really made time for before, and this has taught me balance. It’s taught me that I was not doing myself any favors before because I was burning the candle at both ends. So I’m just always keeping my eyes open for the next opportunity, but also the lesson in this moment.

That is a really healthy and wise perspective to strive to maintain to keep you going in a good direction for yourself. Not just so you can succeed but so that you can be able to take care of yourself and honor yourself. Thank you for sharing that! 

What is something you do that you enjoy that helps to calm and slow you down?

Oh yes, I have many things. I’m a person that loves to do things with my hands. I’m always doing things with my hands.

I bought a guitar, it’s a really cute, yellow electric guitar. Matt says if I were a guitar I’d be this guitar. So I play the guitar just for myself, I like to just doodle around on it and see what comes out. I also have a ukulele, I sing, I go for walks, and paint, I do cross-stitch sometimes. I’m working on a “Bob’s Burger” series of cross-stitching. I’m so proud of it! 

As you should be, the cross-stitch is amazing! 

To go along with that, what are three skills you have developed that you are proud of yourself for?

Well for the longest time I didn’t think I could sing, I didn’t think that that was for me. I just thought, “This isn’t something that I do.” But I learned it actually is something that I do! I’ve learned that I’m actually quite good at it. I just went and worked really, really hard. I went out and found the right people to help me learn what I needed to learn, because I found that traditionally, when you go into voice lessons people will tell you all the different voices you have and how to mix them, where to place them, and the science behind it all.

But I don’t do science, science is not my thing. I need someone to explain it to me in terms of feelings. So I found someone who does that for me and she changed my whole life. There was a song I was trying really hard to learn for a Fringe show coming up. I remember hearing everybody else who was in the cast and I thought, “I’m the weakest link in the whole crew! I need to not be the weakest link in this crew.”

I had a few months to prepare, so I found the right person to teach me. Her name is Joy and she’s amazing. Oh my gosh, one lesson and I sang that song! The song was “They Just Keep Moving the Line” from “SMASH” and it’s a butt buster! But like, the one lesson with Joy and I was able to sing that song full belt. I thought, “This is it! You’ve helped crack the code for me and now I get it!” Honestly she made me feel invincible. Now if I can hear it and I can kind of mimic it, I can do it. It’s just one of those things where I feel so much more confident now because of that one experience. So that’s one skill is singing, that’s my big one.

Another one would be playwriting. I’ve done a lot of writing in the last couple of years and I’ve learned a lot from a lot of different people. I’m really excited about one facet of my job and that is a series we have called “Performance Lab”. Essentially it’s a chance for the community to teach itself. So we hire an instructor every week, every Monday and then for an hour and a half people can show up, learn a skill from this instructor, and then we move onto the next instructor next week.

So a lot of what I’ve learned in the time that I’ve been facilitating “Performance Lab” has been that I can do it! With playwriting I’ve been working on a lot of different projects and it’s been exciting, and I’ve been able to use those skills to be able to kind of nurture emerging artists as well and that makes me feel really good about that skill.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Yeah it’s just something where all it takes is reading something for you to be able to say, “Hey what if you did this or what if structurally something else could work better?” It makes for a really good skill because it’s collaborative and I think a lot of the time people miss that. But I love that it’s a collaborative skill.

And then the third skill I’d say is I’ve learned that I’m a very emotionally intelligent person. I can just manage my emotions in any room. I’m not always the best at it but for the most part, like 95% of the time, I can really handle myself. That was just something I had to learn as a woman, especially as a woman of color, and in this city it is not easy to be heard in a room full of white guys. It can really make you so angry, like it’s infuriating and it’s not the easiest thing to navigate.

But the fact that I’ve been able to hold myself together through those spaces has kind of helped to push myself forward in that there are no excuses. There’s no reason why anyone can say that they shouldn’t listen to me, because I’ve been smart and respectful. I understand what’s right and what’s wrong and I just understand how to navigate those difficult situations and unfortunately that’s a skill you learn when you have to, not because you want to. It has been something that has served me endlessly in my life, it’s been very helpful.

I think with that one too is that skill is deeply dependent upon knowing your worth as a human. I think those two go hand in hand. You have to know that your time and your presence is valuable.

And your energy as well.

Yes totally. So if you don’t bring those things into a room, then all of a sudden it’s hard to assert yourself into whatever small spaces you can.

So it’s not just about knowing how to pick your battles but how to face them well? Which again is so hard to come across and to even be willing to take on.

Totally. Also it’s about what to do in those scenarios where you don’t pick a battle. Where you don’t want to do this, so how do you move forward anyways? So it’s a delicate balance but I’ve learned it has helped me in my life and my career so much.

What are some key elements in your environment, whether that’s in your home, creative space, work space, that encourages and inspires you?

I have this little fishing wire that goes across my wall just above my computer, and I have cards from friends and little trinkets that are clothes-pinned on there that make me feel really good. I surround myself with things that make my heart feel really good.

For example, one of my favorite ones that Matt gave me for Christmas, is a “Sister Act 2” card. It says, “You are not now nor have you ever been a Las Vegas showgirl. You are a headliner!” “Sister Act 2” is my favorite movie of all time, like that is it! It is THE movie!

What a nice little cornucopia of love to be surrounded by!

Well and back in December I got Covid, I was really sick for a while, and while that was happening I was surrounded by so much love.

I have this little card from Kristi, one of my mentors from Azimuth. It’s from her and her husband, because they dropped off Donut Party for me. I love Donut Party donuts they’re my favorite. The card says, “Auntie and Uncle want you to eat the whole box!” Then my friend Morgan from Azimuth as well, she brought me this huge care package with snacks and ginger ale, just really cute treats and there was a little note with it that I have pinned here. Another one of my collaborators from Azimuth, she sent me a Nintendo gift card and a little card as well.

I like having all those little things around to remind me that I’m not crazy, that I’ve got something going for me and it gives me that reminder that life is good and not to take it for granted. So that’s one thing I keep around for me.

And then I always have, I’m a very weirdly tactile person, like in any given moment if I’m doing work things I need my computer, if I’m doing creative things I typically will need a pen and paper. So I always have a pen and paper all over my space. Like beside my bed, on my desk, in my living room, I’ve got all of those things everywhere because I need them, because if an idea comes to me at 4am, I don’t want to forget it.

There’s just something about pen and paper that feels so, maybe that it feels romantic to me. It just feels like a part of time that feels stuck. So that’s something I like to have beside me is a paper recollection of the things that I’ve thought about.

Oh and incense! I have a little incense holder that I start my day with. A little incense to make sure my space smells good and that I feel good and then I get going.

What are three reasons that you have had to celebrate lately?

Oh well, so one thing that I’ve always wanted to do, I remember a couple years ago when I decided that traditional education didn’t work for me, I thought, “What am I going to do to change this? Cause if it’s like this for me, what about Moms? What about parents? What about people with disabilities, who get laughed out of audition rooms? Cause that does happen, which is terrible. So how do I fix this?”

So for a while I was interviewing different people and trying to understand what I could do to facilitate learning in a non-traditional space and I never really got anywhere. Mainly because as an individual I could never get funding, it was really hard to get funding to get this thing off the ground.

Flash forward to now, at Azimuth we wrote this huge grant to launch a mentorship program through our company because education is a huge tenant of mine and Morgan’s tenure there, and Morgan had this brilliant structure that I was like, “Ok, this is it! This is what I’ve been trying to do but I just didn’t have the smarts to do it.”

But now together we’ve written this grant and now we’ve been able to launch this program, so we actually get to do the thing that we set out to do, which is really exciting! So it’s a five month paid mentorship so everyone gets paid to be there, including the participants, so that we’re eliminating financial barriers and giving folks the chance to focus on developing their practice full time for five months.

That is a definite reason to celebrate!

I’m really, really proud of this and I’m so excited that we get to do it. Another thing that I’m celebrating is we also have this project coming up that’s kind of been living in my head for a few years. I had applied for a couple fellowships with it and a couple grants but I didn’t really get anywhere with it. But I think it’s really going to work.

It’s a project called, “The Otherhood Experiment”, where essentially imagine that you as an audience member are a renter and you want to live in the Otherhood. It’s the most exclusive place, it’s vibrant and diverse and not a place that you see everyday. But in order to belong there, you need to decide if you’ve been Othered enough to belong there.

So pretty much as you enter, it’s an immersive experience, where the artists in the room build the world, so it’s not so much a script as it is a formula. The artists who are in the room come with work that they’ve been putting together that explores their identity, that explores culture, that explores diversity, that explores challenges that they face, or celebrates the things that they’ve accomplished, but existing in these bodies who have been Othered.

Essentially we build a neighborhood around these stories and it’s an immersive piece where the audience comes in and they can go and visit all of these places to decide if they’ve been Othered enough. They literally have to check their privilege while they’re there. Then by the end of the tour, by the end of the show, they have to decide if they’ve earned a spot in the Otherhood or not. So we’re working on that in the next couple of years which I’m so excited about, like I can’t even tell you.

This has lived in my brain for so long and I felt kind of dumb when I was trying to explain it to people because I couldn’t quite put it into words. But now that I’ve actually had time to devote to making the idea, it feels like something I can really build into something that lasts. Because no matter what or where it happens, it will always be different, because it depends on the people, the people make the world, and that’s kind of the world we live in now anyways. I really believe in it and really believe that it’s gonna take us someplace.

And the third one, oh we’re moving! My Mom and I bought a house and I’m excited to go and get it all set up. Right now my office is my bedroom, because we’re living in an apartment, and I cannot wait for my office to be in a different room than my bedroom.

Oh it just feels better having that separation for sure.

It makes such a huge difference to wake up in your room and have it be just that. A space that is just for you, to be comfy, cozy, and calm. Then you can leave your room and have it be whatever else is out there, but that’s probably what I’m most excited about. 

What is one piece of advice that you find yourself thinking back on and striving to implement the most often?

I actually struggle with some advice to be honest. Someone once told me that it’s really hard to be really good at one thing when you’re only pretty good at a lot of things. To an extent I totally agree, I think that’s totally true. But who says I want to be really good at one thing? Maybe I want to do a bunch of things.

Like that’s just always kind of been my way, I never want to settle into one thing and decide that I’m going to do this one thing for the rest of my life. That’s not how I work. I like changing things up and I like trying new things and I like experimenting. I mean I’ve done a lot of things: I’ve worked at a garden shop, I worked at a bridal store, I worked in a maternity store, I worked at an oil company, I had a cake business, you know?

You dappled in everything and done super well in what you’ve done. You don’t just half bake what you’re doing and go, “Huh ok, well that was satisfying enough. Time to keep going.” That’s just not who you are.

No and I have a really hard time reconciling that. But that being said it’s not bad advice, it’s just not the way I live. So that’s something I struggle with, is I want to be the kind of person that implements that kind of advice into my life but that’s just not how my brain works.

And I think it’s actually because, I found this out as an adult, that I have ADHD. Who knew? Well now I do, and doesn’t that make sense? And I don’t see that as a detriment, I see it as my superpower. I think that that’s the reason why my brain works the way that it does and the reason I see things the way that I do.

It’s brought on far more of a lightbulb moment rather than a crouch into a cave moment, since this has connected the dots so well for you, so that you can go along with it rather than fight against it anymore?

Exactly. Daniel Graham, Matt’s brother, says it best, whenever something like that happens he’ll go, “See the only difference between today and yesterday is that somebody turned the lights on.” And that’s exactly it!

What are three things you have been particularly grateful for this past week or month?

I’ve been grateful for my work partner, Morgan Yamada, she’s pretty much my work wife. I love her very much and I’m so grateful for her because she’s very organized, and our skill sets really compliment each other, and it’s really helpful to have her around. She’s amazing!

I’m grateful for musicals, I’m always grateful for musicals but especially right now. I’m working on what’s called, “Scenes from the Sidewalk” and it’s pretty much an inside-out theatre review. We the performers hang out on the sidewalk and perform. We’ll be doing it this next month and we’re really excited for it. It’s something that makes me feel really good, so I’m really grateful for that.

And I’m really grateful for friendship, I’m really grateful for friendship. I’ve had a lot of really sweet moments with some really wonderful friends in the last little while, and I just feel really lucky. I remember one time when I was at karaoke for my birthday and you know my friends were singing, and you know how we’re all theatre people, we’re all music people, we all sing. And I remember a friend of mine comes up to me and she says, “Do you audition your friends before your friends with them?” And I was like, “Well it would seem that way.”

It’s just incredible how I have such talented friends, yourself included, and there’s just so much to celebrate there and I’m so grateful to have people to share a mindset with and who share my love for music and for art. You can’t help but feel so good, you just feel so much more held, it feels wonderful.

It makes it so that any weight just feels, not so much lifted, but you feel like it’s being shouldered with. Like the burden is being shared and they’re not just there because they have to be, there’s a sincere want to be because there is that shared bond. Which is all the reason in the world to be grateful for.  

What do you feel have been key factors in shaping who you are today?

I’ve been shaped a lot by loss, by grief. It’s something that has really shaped the way I look at the world, because all of a sudden my priorities shift. You know, like you want all these things in your life, you want the success, you want money, and you want all of these things, but at the end of the day you have this limited amount of time.

And it comes down to what do you do with it? What do you do with it? What are you leaving behind? And that’s something that I think about all the time, which I don’t know, maybe it’s not healthy, but it’s also just honest to my experience.

Grief is a big thing that has shaped who I am, but I think also my Mom is just the most integral part of this equation. She just taught me how to survive in this world and her whole thing is, “If someone wants to be at your table and there isn’t enough space, build a bigger table.” That’s just the way it works. And that’s something I take into my life fully.

Then I think it’s just knowing that things are going to work out the way they need to. You can do whatever you want to do but at the end of the day there’s something that’s going to happen to you that you’re not going to have any control over, so you just have to do with what you’ve got. Those I’d say are the big shapers for me.

What do you feel have been some key habits in shaping who you are today?

Remaining malleable, in terms of your beliefs, in terms of how you look at the world, in terms of what you believe to be true, remain malleable. Your opinion should change, they should shift with new information and you shouldn’t resist that. You should take that into consideration at any point in time and know that being wrong doesn’t make you bad, it just makes you wrong for a minute. Then all of a sudden you fix what was wrong and then you’re right again.

It’s just something that you have to pay attention to, to what people in the world are telling you, do your own research, and really take an interest in digging a little deeper. That’s something that I struggle with is digging a little deeper, and I’m trying to do better at that. Not just in work but even in life, I think it’s because my brain, with ADHD – lightbulb!. It’s like I’ll have a conversation and I will hear you say something and I’ll want to hear more but then my brain is like, “Oh but I got to think about this other thing!”

And so trying to ground myself a little bit more and finding ways to really hold myself down to the ground and thinking things clearly, fully, and to really actively listen. So actively listening, grounding yourself, and being malleable with new information I think those are some of the key factors of being me. Those are the things that I struggle with and attempt to do all the time.

The shaping and molding of Sue.

She’s a plasticine girl.

And boy is she incredible to behold! Thank you so much Sue for doing this interview like a boss! 

———————————————————————————-

Thank you for taking part in and reading my interview for my blog series, “Cheers to You, Oh Wonderful You” with my dear friend Sue.

Referencing back to the upcoming show that Sue will be apart of, “Scenes from the Sidewalk” Cabaret, the show will be taking part on July 18th and 19th at 7:30pm at The Fringe Theatre (10330-84 avenue, Edmonton, Alberta) where audiences sit in the beautiful lobby and enjoy the cabaret through their gigantic lobby windows.

Please go support these incredibly talented individuals, tickets are “Pay-What-You-Will”, and if you’d like to donate to help raise funds for the artists, please do so at the Go Fund Me link below:

🎉 https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-our-scenes-from-the-sidewalk-cabaret?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer 🎉

What is one thing that you have been grateful for this past week?
Comment below and share this blog post if it has been of value to you or could be to someone else.

If you have someone in mind that you think I should interview for this blog series, please let me know by contacting me either through my work email: stephanietracy26@gmail.com or my work Facebook page: Stephanie Tracy Writes. 



About the Author 

Hi there! I’m Stephanie Tracy, a freelance writer, editor, and blogger for hire. I specialize in physical and mental health, parenting, and self-development. I create engaging, inspiring and useful content to help businesses progress in making their viewers into customers. When I’m not writing, you can find me happily playing with my toddler, walking in the park with my family, or indulging in a movie marathon with my husband.