2015 Festival Report | Page 14

2015 ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Our Artist Development Program supports Festival artists to develop, present and promote their work through artist forums, mentorships and published resources; as well as touring opportunities. MELBOURNE FRINGE ON TOUR TOUR READY BUZZCUTS Melbourne Fringe on Tour delivers a selection of the best independent shows from last year’s Festival to outer metropolitan and regional venues throughout Victoria. In 2015 Fringe On Tour took six works from the Melbourne Fringe Festival to audiences in regional Victoria, including Wangaratta, the Ballarat Cabaret Festival and Rosebud. Melbourne Fringe invites leading festivals and venues nationally and internationally to see Fringe events with a view to programming independent artists. In 2015 the Tour Ready program expanded to facilitate connections between 164 projects from the Independent Program and 34 presenters from Melbourne, Victoria, interstate and overseas. Buzzcuts is our partnership with Express Media, which de fV