Tutti Ensemble
Tutti Choir. Performance at Mission Ignition, 2008. Photo: Ben McMahon
Tutti provides a full-time day program in visual, performing and digital arts for young adults with disabilities. From its small beginning Tutti has grown to be a stable, mature community-based arts organisation.
Tutti has retained at its heart a committed group of volunteer members who contribute to its smooth running and operation.
Fundamental to Tutti’s philosophy is the belief that education of disadvantaged people and the wider community is essential to social inclusion.
Club Tutti, formed in May 2003 offers older people the opportunity to enjoy choral singing and while building their confidence in a smaller social group. In 2006 Tutti Kids began as an early intervention music and drama program for children with disabilities and now offers four different age group programs for children aged 2–15.
In June 2008 Tutti won the Australian Music Council’s inaugural National Music in Communities Award. With a string of award-winning productions to its credit Tutti is increasingly being recognised as an outstanding model of artistic excellence, social inclusion and community cultural development.
On an everyday level the organisation is a cultural catalyst in the lives of around 230 South Australians aged 2 – 84, including 80 in regional SA who form the Big Country Choir.