Apply for the 2011 FReeZACentral Mentoring Program and you could be working with mentors like Clare Bowditch, Deborah Conway, DW Norton (Superheist), Angie Hart (Frente), Jen Cloher or staff from all your favourite festivals and record labels like Soundwave, The Falls, Big Day Out, Destroy All Lines, Roadrunner and triple j.

Since 2004 FReeZACentral has been operating as a Victorian Government Victoria Rocks Initiative, managed by Mushroom Marketing and The Push, a non-profit Victorian music organisation which runs a range of programs and events for young people. This year, FReeZACentral will accept around 50 young people, living in the state of Victoria and aged between 18 and 25, into its mentoring program.

Participants are paired with a mentor to help them establish themselves in the music industry. The mentoring program provides both pathways into performance and working as an artist; tour and event management; music business; publicity and marketing; technical production and stage management; as well as networking and work experience opportunities.

On top of getting to know and learn from their mentor, participants are lucky enough to be involved in releasing a CD, working on festivals and organising a tour. As part of this year's 2010 program, young people worked on Push Over Festival, Apollo Bay Music Festival, Escape To Oz compilation and tour, in partnership with Blunt Magazine and Naked in the Woods 2 launch and compilation, which is distributed nationally via Frankie magazine, ABC Radio National, Rhythms and triple j magazine.

"The FReeZACentral Mentoring Program is a great way for young people to get their foot in the door of the music industry. The program provides young people with 'money-can't-buy' networks and hands-on experience," said FReeZACentral's Project Manager Sarah De Borre.

"Through this year's FReeZACentral program we've been able to launch the careers of artists and budding music industry workers to around 50,000 music lovers around the country and numerous music industry mentees have secured internships and employment through their mentors."

Applications for the 2011 FReeZACentral Mentoring Program close on November 24, 2010 and are available, along with some extra info from the FReeZACentral website, by email or by calling the Push on (03) 9380 1277.

If you live in Victoria, are between the ages of 18 and 25, and you've attended any Face The Music Conferences or FReeZACentral Workshops, which hit Mornington, Geelong, Ballarat, Mildura, Bairnsdale, Wangaratta, Northcote and Melbourne this year or past years, then you're eligible to apply. So go on then!