La Fête du Slip (literally "Panties Fest" or "Underpants Fest") is an annual alternative-porn film festival held in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is Romandy's first and biggest multidisciplinary festival whose sole purpose is to focus on body, gender, and sexuality in art. It takes places during the first week-end of March since 2012. Description La Fête du Slip is a festival celebrating diversity in bodies, gender and sexuality. It offers a select and diverse program of cinema, music, visual and performing arts, literature, and porn. La Fête du Slip looks for contemporary emerging art. Its programming evolves around innovative and subversive works. Artistic projects transcending categories and proposing new forms of experimentation are favored. By bringing together very different artworks that have an echo in their content, the festival aims at enriching the experience of its audience by creating unexpected encounters between artists. History and background Edition 0 Took place on the 9th of March 2012. 2 venues, 4 events, 4 artists, 675 in attendance. 1st Edition Took place between the 8th and 10 March 2013. 4 venues, 28 events, 32 artists, 1'840 in attendance. 2nd Edition Took place between the 6th and the 9th of March 2014. 5 venues, 30 events, 42 artists, 1'870 in attendance. 3rd Edition Took place between the 6th and the 8th of March 2015. 6 venues, 40 events, 46 artists, 2'800 in attendance. 4th Edition Took place between the 4th and the 6th of March 2016. 7 venues, 63 events, 75 artists, 3'400 in attendance. Hosting La Fête du Slip takes place in seven venues in Lausanne: theaters, nightclubs, galleries, cinema... Les Préliminaires Each edition gets an early kick-start with a party called Les Préliminaires (literally "The Foreplays") that takes place one week before the actual beginning of the festival. The main goal of this event was – and, to some extent, still is – to raise sufficient funds for the festival. However, having considerably grown in size and larger funds being involved and needed way ahead of time, this party's function is far more less the one of a fund raiser. It is now mostly a way for the festival enthusiasts to take a first pulse of the upcoming events and to discover the program in details. Audience The audience of La Fête du Slip is very diverse. The variety of the program and the venues creates a unique blend, ranging from queer punks