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 Walkers 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 (Peoples 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 years festival.

2015 Internet Cat Video Festival

Wednesday, August 12, 6-10 pm

St. Paul Saints CHS Field

360 Broadway St Paul, MN

Tickets on sale June 2

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

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 Festivaltogether.

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.