Festival des Chats: giant charaoké, film screenings and entertainment at the Grand Rex

For all cat lovers, a festival is coming to the Grand Rex this Saturday, October 4, 2025, for a whole day dedicated to these little felines that have been touching the web and accompanying humans in their daily lives for centuries. This charity event, benefiting theYouCare association, invites you to discover a family program based around these fur balls, from 2pm to 11pm.

12 celebrities are joining forces on this day, in partnership with , theLOOF association (Livre Officiel des Origines Félines) and the Ziggy food brand, to help raise awareness of animal abandonment, and donate 10% of the day's proceeds to the association, which helps cats to be taken in and housed in good conditions in shelters, then helped to find a family.

Every year in France, almost 300,000 cats are abandoned. Cats available for adoption from local shelters will be presented during the event in the form of photo-reportages, enabling members of the public to apply to adopt one of them. Testimonials, the most beautiful cosplay contest, make-up workshops, masterclass, screening of the animated film Flow, sketches, stands, quizzes - there'll be plenty of entertainment for the whole family to enjoy!

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The program

• Bernard Werber will recount the fabulous history of cats, from 5000 years ago in Egypt to the present day.
• Mathias Malzieu will present his musical and feline show based on his new book-Album " L'homme qui écoutait le cœur battre des chats ", which recounts the adventures of Tornado and June, two consoling cats adopted by masters who have lost their unborn child and to whom they will give a taste of life.
• Snack-time screening of the animated phenomenon " Flow, the Cat Who Was No Longer Afraid of Water " (César 2025 and Oscar 2025 for Best Animated Film), in the presence of the teams, who will talk about the behind-the-scenes aspects of the film's phenomenal success.
• Renowned veterinarian Laetitia Barlerin will decipher the behaviors and secret lives of our favorite furry friends.
• Fabien Olicard will recount some of the most extraordinary cat stories and offer a unique mentalism experience involving cats.
• Every hour, the YouCare Association will showcase cats up for adoption in the form of photo reports, so that families in the audience can volunteer.
• Ethologist Jessica Serra will reveal how cats perceive our world through a unique experience in which she will take you inside a cat's head.
• Nicolas Ullman and Yann Destal will get the audience up and dancing in a giant Charaoké, performing a 100% cat playlist and asking them to give their tongues to the cat to guess the titles.
• Sandrine Arcizet will recount how she was saved from a heart defect thanks to her cat Baya's purr, and tell all about the little-known powers of purr therapy.
• Solène Chavanne will recount the crazy idea she had of creating the Chat Pitre bookshop, the first bookshop dedicated to books and cats.