The Tutti Ensemble is an arts organisation, based in Adelaide, South Australia, and with 80 members, both disabled and non-disabled. This article describes how the group was initiated and how it has evolved into a model of effective social inclusion. The features of an environment conducive to genuine social inclusion, and the values which are central to this, are considered. Tutti's success in promoting social inclusion has been accompanied by spectacular artistic accomplishments, attracting the adulation and involvement of high-level performers and it is argued that the two can go hand in hand and that opportunities for creativity can help address some of the effects of fragmentation experienced in society today.
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