La Fête du Slip
| La Fête du Slip | |
|---|---|
| Status | active |
| Genre | multidisciplinary alternative-porn festival |
| Begins | 2012 |
| Frequency | annually |
| Venue | Les Docks, Le Bourg, Théâtre Arsenic, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Forma Art Contemportain, Librairie HumuS, Pully CityClub |
| Location(s) | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Years active | 4 |
| Inaugurated | 2012 |
| Founder | Viviane & Stéphane Morey |
| Website | |
| www.lafeteduslip.ch | |
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.
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.
Took place on the 9th of March 2012. 2 venues, 4 events, 4 artists, 675 in attendance.
Took place between the 8th and 10 March 2013. 4 venues, 28 events, 32 artists, 1'840 in attendance.
Took place between the 6th and the 9th of March 2014. 5 venues, 30 events, 42 artists, 1'870 in attendance.
Took place between the 6th and the 8th of March 2015. 6 venues, 40 events, 46 artists, 2'800 in attendance.
Took place between the 4th and the 6th of March 2016. 7 venues, 63 events, 75 artists, 3'400 in attendance.
La Fête du Slip takes place in seven venues in Lausanne: theaters, nightclubs, galleries, cinema...
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.
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 to old literature enthusiasts, dance specialists, and hipsters. With its thematic color, La Fête du Slip attracts many sub-cultures, like the LGBT community, the BDSM/kink/fetish community, feminist activists, pornographers, sex workers, or gender studies researchers. Most of its audience is local, but the festival attracts a growing number of international festival-goers each year. As a Paris-Match article put it in 2015: "Switzerland was famous for its banks and chocolates, and now it has been shining with its own porn festival for three years."
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