press and publications
We continue to develop and seek new knowledge and perspectives. We therefore conduct research ourselves, but others also regularly conduct (scientific) research into our inclusive way of working. We appear in various media. View all publications below.
2025
Een Ander Perspectief met Rob en Merel – Speak Up! Podcast
PodiumINC lanceert online platform voor inclusieve podiumkunsten – Theaterkrant over IK BEN KAMER 15
Merel vond de liefde op een gesloten afdeling – Podcast De liefde van nu
What does it mean to make theatre out of social sensitivity? - Thesis by theatre producer Anniko Delvoije
CONTENT WARNING: weinig prikkels music by Dorris Bandcamp
Theatre for all: ‘Nine in 10 theatres do not have accessible backstage’ - NPO Radio 1
Into the museum with the stimulus map: how many stimuli can low-stimulus culture tolerate? - NRC
Apt theatre about sex workers and their clients - Scenes
TJIVZ Bios over Speels Collectief - Green Metropolitan Region
CONTENT WARNING: Few stimuli | A low-stimulus performance - De Meervaart, Amsterdam
How do you give the right applause to players for whom incentives may be too much or too little? - Stage Reviews
In Own Motion - a short film by Aude Waumans, Rina Zoncape, Sophie Albrecht, Milena Keurentjes, Kaat van Gessel and Daantje Bos
The exclusion of people with disabilities within theatre - Research by Anne Thomas (Artisteducator in Theatre, ArtEZ)
Speels Collectief makes theatre accessible - Diversity & Inclusion Code
One-hour culture - Sanne Arbouw - NPO Radio 1
Speels Collectief is building an inclusive theatre world - Friends lottery
This show takes theatre lovers who are irritable seriously - Theatre newspaper (Critic's Choice)
German review USUALLY I'M ON TOP - Grenzenlos Kultur
CONTENT WARNING: weinig prikkels - NPO Culture
Little stimuli and fluffy cuddles: Speels Collectief knows how to reach everyone with new show - Brabants Dagblad
Smash or pass? The Amsterdam Fringe Festival is a form of theatrical speed dating - Volkskrant
Inclusive Collective shows the absurdity of the norm - Theatre newspaper
The art school building - Podcast Studium Generale
Accessible programming - Podcast Culture Academy
2024
A whole new vocabulary - The theatre newspaper
Inspired theatre with a mission - Inclusion magazine
Short documentary on Community Arnhem - By students of UU undergraduate course ‘Community Art - Practice and Theory
Interview with Kir Robben - Green Metropolitan Region
Will your idea draw full houses? The try-outs - Green Metropolitan Region
Podcast | Accessible programming: accessible events, how do we take the next step? - Culture Academy
KRAAK. episode with sex worker Lisette Mepschen on her work and starring in performance LOVE ME BY THE HOUR - Broadcaster Brabant
USUALLY I'M ON TOP is a performance that breaks taboos and morphs into ideal images - The Haarlems Dagblad
Mixed abled company shows that sex work is an honourable profession and so is using it - Theatre newspaper
Sex worker Lisette and client Eric offer an insight into the world of paid intimacy - Brabants Dagblad
Sex worker Lisette from Tilburg has warm relationship with her clients - Broadcaster Brabant
2023
Inclusive Collective shows the absurdity of the norm - Theatre newspaper
Speels Collectief: Breaking through pictures, opening eyes and immediately getting the Van Dale updated as well - Brabants Dagblad
Extraordinary: Speels Collectief - Our Tilburg
Speels Collectief celebrates multitude of relationships - AD
Speels Collectief kicks over prevailing ideal images - The Lindenberg
More than just your limitation at Speels Collectief - Kunstloc Brabant
A year of inspiration : Art for all - Kunstloc Brabant
2022
USUALLY I'M ON TOP - Going to the theatre with PROUD2BME - PROUD2BME
De Lindenberg enters partnership with theatre company Speels Collectief - the Lindenberg
Norm-breaking performance Usually I'm On Top about sexuality and femininity is back - Nijmegen News
Wonder and joy during Theatre Route Nearby
- Studio Assisi
Speels Collectief puts an end to one-sided view of sex
- HAN news bulletin ROSA
More life in Landpark Assisië in Biezenmortel and more connection with surrounding villages
- Brabants Dagblad
What is sex anyway? Arnhem theatre group set out to change definition, and succeeded
- The Gelderlander
VAN HAAR SOKKEL episode 3 – Podcast, Speels Collectief
VAN HAAR SOCKET episode 2 – Podcast, Speels Collectief
Transcript OF HER SOFTLY episode 1
- Podcast, Speels Collectief
It's about how I look at myself
- Thesis Dana van den Heuvel, vocational therapy drama
2021
Diverse Theatre And Ever Changing Horizons - Master's thesis University of Utrecht, Merel van Lieshout
Interviews Theatre Thikwa, Stopgap Dance Company and Speels Collectief - Master's thesis University of Utrecht, Merel van Lieshout
The change power of socio-artistic collaboration - Publication, Culture East
A quest to resist binary thinking - Culture East publication, Merel van Lieshout
2020
Socio-artistic practice - values and challenges – Master's thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Irene Flapper
Speels Collectief: Singing in a glass cage – HAN – ROSA, Bram Wicherink
Speels Collectief - a collective claiming crip – Utrecht University Research, Merel van Lieshout
Social and artistic collaboration: a real-life example – Cultuur Oost, Liselot Peerenboom
Making music with people – Pilot Learning Programme, HAN Social Work and Culture East
Not equal, but equivalent. – Special Arts, pArt 2020 no.1, Bart Bleijerveld
Building apprenticeships, Siza - HAN - Speels Collectief Siza, Bas Langereis
‘Everyone has super great stories to tell’ Siza, Bas Langereis
2016-2019
Towards Successful Cultural Interventions (2019) – Master's Thesis, Utrecht University, Xanne Mensinga
Meet, play, tell (2019) – Artistic Research Codarts Rotterdam, Wytske Lankester
Community Art: the effects and potentials of a controversial concept (2018) – Research Radboud University, Sarah van Leer
Speels Collectief makes people grow (2017) – Arnhem Courier, Marnix ten Brinke
Is God a lump? (2016) – Thesis ArtEZ University for the Arts, Merel van Lieshout
Theatre from the first glance (2016) – Thesis ArtEZ University of the Arts, Sanne Arbouw
