OUT LOUD, TOGETHER
OUT LOUD, TOGETHER
OUT LOUD, TOGETHER is an immersive theatre experience for curious audiences seeking intimacy, experimentation, and different ways of coming together. Created by Ari Ochoa and iAra Banchik Almasia, the work emerges from the FLINTA sex-positive community and the BOTTOMsUP universe.
The performance invites audiences into a consent-based space where pleasure, boundaries, negotiation, and care become live performance language. You choose how close to come, whether to watch, listen, move, or participate.
Built from real community stories, workshops, and collective research, OUT LOUD, TOGETHER transforms the theatre into a shared space where vulnerability, connection and agency can coexist.
Raw, warm, provocative, and deeply human, OUT LOUD, TOGETHER approaches intimacy not as spectacle, but as something created collectively in real time through drag, humor and testimony.
About the makers
Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer is a Latinx non-binary performance maker, drag artist, and cultural producer based in Amsterdam. Their work moves between theatre, nightlife, participatory performance, and community organizing, creating live environments that explore pleasure, gender, power, vulnerability, and collective behavior through drag, humor, and audience interaction. Ari is founder of BOTTOMsUP and BUB, and co-creator of MATES & MASCara, projects centered on FLINTA community spaces, artistic experimentation, and collective care practices within Amsterdam’s queer cultural landscape. Their practice is rooted in community-driven formats that blur the boundaries between performer, audience, and social gathering.
iAra Banchik Almasia is a Latinx theatre maker and scenographer creating participatory experiences that invite audiences into intimate and often taboo conversations. Her practice blends performance, scenography, documentary, and community engagement, transforming everyday actions into collective acts. Her work explores vulnerability, shared storytelling, and dialogue as forms of resistance.
BOTTOMsUP is a recurring FLINTA community and kink space launched in Amsterdam in 2023, bringing together performance, BDSM culture,, and embodied interaction. Through play parties, workshops, and playful formats such as kinKaraoke, the project explores intimacy, vulnerability, collective care, and social dynamics within community settings.
credits
Concept, direction and artistic lead: Ari Ochoa and iAra Banchik Almasia
Co-creation, Performers and facilitators: Zahira Mous, Bustie La Tish, Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer, iAra Banchik Almasia
Based on interviews with: Anonymous members of the FLINTA sex-positive community
Production: Jay Hamilton
Production assistant: Christianna Tsigkou
Dramaturge advisor: Joy Mariama Smith
Research advisor: Philippine Hoegen
Scenography and Light designer: Fatima Habib
Scenography Maker and Stage support : Ekaterina timofeeva
Light design and tech Support: Lucia Feijoó
Visual Campaign and Promotional Photography : Feriet, Erwin Olaf Studio
Reference person: Ivy
Intimacy coordinator costume design: Fran
Rehearsal space: Het Verbond, Frascati and Electric Shadows
Support: AFK (Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst)
OUT LOUD, TOGETHER is an immersive theatre experience for curious audiences seeking intimacy, experimentation, and different ways of coming together. Created by Ari Ochoa and iAra Banchik Almasia, the work emerges from the FLINTA sex-positive community and the BOTTOMsUP universe.
The performance invites audiences into a consent-based space where pleasure, boundaries, negotiation, and care become live performance language. You choose how close to come, whether to watch, listen, move, or participate.
Built from real community stories, workshops, and collective research, OUT LOUD, TOGETHER transforms the theatre into a shared space where vulnerability, connection and agency can coexist.
Raw, warm, provocative, and deeply human, OUT LOUD, TOGETHER approaches intimacy not as spectacle, but as something created collectively in real time through drag, humor and testimony.
About the makers
Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer is a Latinx non-binary performance maker, drag artist, and cultural producer based in Amsterdam. Their work moves between theatre, nightlife, participatory performance, and community organizing, creating live environments that explore pleasure, gender, power, vulnerability, and collective behavior through drag, humor, and audience interaction. Ari is founder of BOTTOMsUP and BUB, and co-creator of MATES & MASCara, projects centered on FLINTA community spaces, artistic experimentation, and collective care practices within Amsterdam’s queer cultural landscape. Their practice is rooted in community-driven formats that blur the boundaries between performer, audience, and social gathering.
iAra Banchik Almasia is a Latinx theatre maker and scenographer creating participatory experiences that invite audiences into intimate and often taboo conversations. Her practice blends performance, scenography, documentary, and community engagement, transforming everyday actions into collective acts. Her work explores vulnerability, shared storytelling, and dialogue as forms of resistance.
BOTTOMsUP is a recurring FLINTA community and kink space launched in Amsterdam in 2023, bringing together performance, BDSM culture,, and embodied interaction. Through play parties, workshops, and playful formats such as kinKaraoke, the project explores intimacy, vulnerability, collective care, and social dynamics within community settings.
credits
Concept, direction and artistic lead: Ari Ochoa and iAra Banchik Almasia
Co-creation, Performers and facilitators: Zahira Mous, Bustie La Tish, Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer, iAra Banchik Almasia
Based on interviews with: Anonymous members of the FLINTA sex-positive community
Production: Jay Hamilton
Production assistant: Christianna Tsigkou
Dramaturge advisor: Joy Mariama Smith
Research advisor: Philippine Hoegen
Scenography and Light designer: Fatima Habib
Scenography Maker and Stage support : Ekaterina timofeeva
Light design and tech Support: Lucia Feijoó
Visual Campaign and Promotional Photography : Feriet, Erwin Olaf Studio
Reference person: Ivy
Intimacy coordinator costume design: Fran
Rehearsal space: Het Verbond, Frascati and Electric Shadows
Support: AFK (Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst)
