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Four actors with learning disabilities or neurodivergence dressed as birds and cheering with their arms up.

Who are EGO Arts?

EGO Arts is a Coventry-based arts organisation. We strive for equal access for anyone who wants to discover their artistic talents, and we support them to live an enriched creative life.

We’ll work with you to create original, eclectic, radical work.

Two actors in Victorian clothing, one of whom is holding her heart and looking upwards towards the ceiling of a dark chapel.
Three young actors dressed in overalls with snakeskin patterns in a show called The Snake Pit.
An actor dressed as a Tudor nobleman performing inside St Mary's Guildhall Coventry.
A young actor in a wheelchair wearing a black cape. His arms are outstretched and he looks to be saying something deep and serious, while around 15 actors dressed as police, lifeguards and beach-goers look on from behind in shock.
Two men and a woman playing keyboard and drums in a small room surrounded by instruments.
Three EGO artists at a paint-covered table paint a large cardboard five-point star.
An actor cheers in victory while other actors watch from behind.
An actor with Down's syndrome dressed in a lab coat and holding a red potion in a glass beaker.

Our team and trustees

Staff

Our core staff team bring with them a multitude of skills, expertise and experience which means our organisational development and our creative offer remains relevant, resilient and exceptional.

Our staff team

Trustees

 

EGO is governed by a gifted and accomplished Board of Trustees who safeguard the charity ensuring that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering its charitable outcomes.

Our trustees

Freelancers

We regularly work with freelance associates with specialist skills — such as choreography, film, circus, videography, costume, lighting design, stage combat, BSL interpretation and audio description.

Two men shake hands, one with his arm around the other.

Our Impact

Improving wellbeing

82% of people who engage with the arts have better wellbeing (mentally and physically)

A place for growth

Our evaluations consistently show that members of EGO substantially grow their skills and confidence, and develop greater wellbeing and sense of belonging

Building futures

Our alumni have appeared in films, television series and theatre, and have become professional designers and performers nationally and internationally

We believe that...

  • Our art is an expression that has value.

 

  • Our work should be open to everyone

 

  • Our work can happen in any space

 

  • Ideas should come from our members themselves and must never be imposed on them. 

 

  • When our members are heard, seen, and recognised, they will be empowered, and that this will be a catalyst for change.

Therefore, EGO will...

  • Make spaces and work that will create new definitions of value and quality.

 

  • Enable and support our members to lead and learn themselves, and to grow and prosper.

 

  • Enable and encourage our members to illuminate and shine from within, ensuring they don’t become mere mirrors, only reflecting the light from others.

 

  • Always listen to and hear our members, and to actively seek those who are silenced or ignored and encourage them to get involved.

 

  • Find new places to display our members’ beautiful, powerful, and essential work, and bring many more people to see it, recognise it, be changed by it, and fight for it.