Walker Art Center's Internet Cat Video Festival 2015: The Cats Go Marching in New St. Paul Saints Baseball Stadium on Wednesday, August 12

The cats go marching in when the Walker’s wildly popular Internet Cat Video Festival
heads to the St. Paul Saints new stadium in Lowertown, St. Paul. Now in its fourth
year, the 2015 Festival features a new selection of videos programmed by Will
Braden, creator of the Henri Le Chat Noir videos and recipient of the first Golden
Kitty (People’s Choice) Award. Have a favorite cat video of your own, or know an
undiscovered feline fatale? Nominations are now open for the 2015 Internet Cat
Video Festival! Click here to submit your favorite video to this year’s festival.

2015 Internet Cat Video Festival

360 Broadway St. Paul, MN

Tickets on sale June 2

Ticket details TBA. Follow the Walker on Facebook for event updates.

Media Contact

Rachel Joyce, Assistant Director, Public Relations, Walker Art Center

612.375.7635

rachel.joyce@walkerart.org

A Brief History of the Internet Cat Video Festival

In August 2012, the Walker Art Center planned a small experiment as part of its
outdoor summer programming on Open Field, the green space adjacent to the
building. What if there was an evening program dedicated to the Internet
phenomenon of cat videos? Would anyone come to watch videos what they could
easily view with a few clicks at home or work? How would this solo hobby translate
to a public setting?

Word of the program quickly spread internationally via social media and the press,
including coverage as varied as the New York Times, the BBC, Japanese television,
Australian talk shows, Brazilian newspapers, CNN, NPR, the Wall Street
Journal, Cat Fancy, Slate, Time, CHEEZburger, and many more. The result was
10,000 people gathered on Open Field enjoying the first Internet Cat Video Festival
—together.

The overwhelming success of the event has led to international tours of the program
and in 2013 the Walker presented the second installment of the festival to an even
larger crowd at the Minnesota State Fair. Still more fans returned to the event at the
Walker last summer as 8 Signs of Addiction featuring Shorty and Kodi received the
Golden Kitty.