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Cat Camp NYC Symposium is Catnip For Cat Lovers

If you love cats and are in the NYC area this weekend, the place to be is Cat Camp. No, there won’t be campfires and s’mores, at least not this year. It’s been my dream for years to have a cat-centric festival outdoors like Coachella with music to celebrate all things cat. A real camp out in the woods by a lake. Hello, Jackson Galaxy are you listening? Or music producer and Lil Bubs dad, Mike?

I’ll mention it when I see him this weekend where he and Bub are doing a presentation, and mega meet & greet fundraiser. Attendees will be able to have their photo taken with Lil Bub herself. I haven’t seen her in ages, not since my piece in The Huffington Post and numerous interviews so I’m stoked. Tickets are selling fast, so snap up meet and greet tickets right meow.

Lil Bub and her owner Mike Bridavsky.

Courtesy Mike Bridavsky

Cat camp, spearheaded by the cat cafe Meow Parlour co-founder Christina Ha, promises to be a more intimate version of the L.A. based CatCon. “Cat Camp” will offer attendees a weekend packed with feline-focused events, including a keynote address from “My Cat From Hell” star, the one and only Jackson Galaxy, presentations from rising Instagram superstar, Hannah Shaw aka Kitten Lady Hauspanther founder and catification queen Kate Benjamin, anti-declaw advocate and Paw Project founder Dr. Jennifer Conrad, educational panels— including one with “senior and special needs cats,” the organizers said NYC Feral Cat Initiative and an adoption fair with adoptable kitties from Kittykind

See the complete speaker list and schedule

Camp Cat will also have dozens of vendors of merch for cats and those who love them. I’m especially excited to meet Bexy McFly, the creative brains and founder of the hilarious PUSSWEEK Magazine from Australia. We’re having a sneak peek meeting today.

Are you planning to attend “Cat Camp”? Let me know. Look for me on Sunday! Cat Camp is held in Chelsea, at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 W. 18th St., on March 11 and 12.

Tickets range in price from $13 to $150. For details and to purchase, click on CAT CAMP NYC tickets.

And because I’ve been in love with the idea of a Cat Camp since discovering vintage cat art years ago, I couldn’t resist creating what Cat Camp might have looked like 100 years ago.

23 Comments

Pipo/Minko/MrJackFreckles

March 17, 2017 at 11:15 PM Reply

Wow, We didn’t know there even were gatherings like that! How cool!

Maggie

March 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM Reply

I hope it will be a yearly event! Can’t wait to read your report, Layla.

The Swiss Cats

March 12, 2017 at 2:14 PM Reply

That sounds like a pawsome event ! Can’t wait to know more about it ! Purrs

Nellie

March 11, 2017 at 9:55 PM Reply

Cat Camp! That would bes the mostest fun! Mes LOVES camping!
Tee Hee!
Actually Mommy says she would loves to go!
Kisses
Nellie

Layla Morgan Wilde

March 11, 2017 at 10:50 PM Reply

Nellie, let’s go on a camping adventure soon.

Tamago

March 11, 2017 at 1:54 PM Reply

That sounds like a wonderful event! I hope you’ll have lots of fun 🙂

Layla Morgan Wilde

March 11, 2017 at 10:49 PM Reply

I’ll post pics on Instagram tomorrow 🙂

meowmeowmans

March 11, 2017 at 1:35 PM Reply

Have fun! We wish we weren’t so busy this weekend!

Layla Morgan Wilde

March 11, 2017 at 10:48 PM Reply

Darn, too bad. It would be good to see you.

easyweimaraner

March 11, 2017 at 12:51 AM Reply

Oh I bet that was the cat camp many moons ago… and I would love to be there… although I would be probably the furst dog ever at a cat-event :O)

Layla Morgan Wilde

March 11, 2017 at 1:11 AM Reply

It could be the first cat camp, at least in my wild imagination and there might be room for a dog xox

speedyrabbit

March 11, 2017 at 12:33 AM Reply

That Sounds Like some much fun,xx Speedy

Summer

March 10, 2017 at 10:28 PM Reply

My human REALLY wishes she were going to Cat Camp, although I tell her every day is Cat Camp here!

Layla Morgan Wilde

March 11, 2017 at 1:09 AM Reply

you would not enjoy the weather. It turned nasty cold.

The Island Cats

March 10, 2017 at 6:02 PM Reply

Sounds like fun! Can’t wait to hear more about it.

Skeeter And Izzy

March 10, 2017 at 2:04 PM Reply

This sounds like sooooooooooooooooo much fun!!! We wish we could be there!!!
We be liken the new look of the site!
Luvs
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut & Romeo & the Angels >^..^^..^<~

Layla

March 10, 2017 at 8:32 PM Reply

Thanks kindly but the update really slowed down the page load. Hello tech support. I’ll take lots of pics from “camp” xo