Meow-za: The Internet Cat Video Festival turns four

[Little Tich]

Source: MPR News

Calling all cat lovers: The Walker Art Center's fourth annual Internet Cat Video Festival is tonight — and it promises to be claw-some.

The festival will include the hottest cat videos of the meow-ment, curated by feline aficionado Will Braden. Braden is the creator of the Henri Le Chat Noir videos and a previous recipient of the festival's Golden Kitty Award.

The festival began in 2012 as an experiment on the lawn outside the Walker Art Center. 10,000 people showed up, paw-sitively packing the park. The next year, the festival took over the grandstand at the Minnesota State Fair. After a return to the Walker in 2014, the festival moves to a new location tonight: CHS Field in Lowertown, St. Paul.

The roughly 100 cat videos that will be shown tonight aren't all comedy: The categories include Drama, Animated, Musical, Action, Vintage and Documentary. One lucky cat will pad away with the 2015 Golden Kitty award.

Read more: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/12/internet-cat-video-festival

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I want to go, but

I really don't want to deal with a crowd of 10,000 people. Parking sucks in Lowertown; suppose I could take the train. But 10,000 people? Maybe I'll stay home with my real cats and make YouTube videos of them.

[NJCher]

2. the video

Is hilarious. I am afraid I will be watching it many more times.


Cher