Following your dream… all the way to LA

ARTS HUB AUSTRALIA — Creative worker Heather Forbes was invited by a friend to go to LA for an all expenses paid three day trip, so she seized the career opportunity and went.
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ARTS HUB AUSTRALIA — Creative worker Heather Forbes was invited by a friend to go to LA for an all expenses paid three day trip, so she seized the career opportunity and went. She shares some of her adventures with Arts Hub.

Monday the 9th of April
On my first day in LA I had arranged to meet an expatriate young Australian film and television producer, Allon Furstenburg who works full-time at New Wave entertainment in Burbank, Los Angeles. Another friend, who knows that I have an interest in film producing, had put me in touch with Allon some months before I left for my brief stint in LA.

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Heather Forbes
About the Author
Heather Forbes is a writer, sailor, theatre teacher and yoga devotee from the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne. She has had numerous articles published by Drama Victoria’s periodical Mask over the years and has had her mother’s biography published in a collection of women’s biographies entitled; Ordinary Women. Her sailing stories have been published in Peninsula Alternative and various sailing publications. Heather works as a Drama teacher at a large Melbourne secondary school part-time. If she wasn’t writing, teaching and soaking in the arts she would be sailing around the world.