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The Melbourne Fringe Festival is an annual multi-arts festival, held in late September, early October every year. They offer advice and support for developing Fringe Festival events, as well as an extensive marking campaign. Their artist resources page contains a number of links to artist resources including venue information, other festivals, local council grants, even job advertisements with the festival itself.

Gigpig is a great resource for local musicians and punters. It's a mashup of data contributed by its users and is basically a huge database. "Every member is encouraged to add bands, venues, gigs and pictures". Gigpig provides "forums, a gig calendar, music news and a powerful search function". CH

Based at the Arts House Meat Market CultureLAB is an Arts House an initiative in partnership with Arts Victoria to provide artists and companies with the necessary resources to conceptualise, explore and develop new artistic work. Offering space to rehearse, perform and exhibit as well as administrative and financial support, CultureLAB Expressions of Interest are assessed twice in a 12-month period.

This resource is primarily aimed at visual artists, but has a wide range of categories including film, animation, artisan crafts, cartoons and comics and photography. It houses a shop, collections and also a forum. It advertises itself as "a hub for onliine graphic artists to display their creations for feedback and exposure". This site is very interactive. You have options to do the following: start your own free art collection, share it or blog it, download, buy, and see the artist gallery profile. Artworks cna also be rated and the front page is constantly changing to feature new artworks. CH

This site is associated with the Creative Commons and offers musicians an opportunity to share their unsigned songs with the world. You can sell the tracks through Sound Cloud or you can just distribute them to share with a genre specific audience or accross the entire range of music styles that are available to SC's members. Obviously the selling of tracks can be very beneficial but the distribution of your music via this site is a great way to promote your band or music to the world. Sound Cloud is a relatively new resource, it only sprung up last year and Nine Inch Nails were the first major band to try it out, see what they did.

Maribyrnong City Council offers free Arts Hub Access - they would appreciate if you filled in a feedback form though):\n"To Access Arts Hub\n Visit one of the Maribyrnong Library branches (you can only access Arts Hub from a library computer)\n When you are at the branch go to the Maribyrnong Library home page\n Select Online Databases and Weblinks\n Then choose the Arts Hub link