KinoSaito Birthday Picnic
19 Sep. 2026 | 3-7pm | $25 | Free for Members*
It’s Our 5-Year Anniversary Celebration!
Happy birthday to us! KinoSaito is turning 5, and to celebrate we have an afternoon full of events to support our current exhibition. Be sure to buy your tickets in advance.
KinoSaito is a five-minute drive from the Peekskill Metro-North station, which is one hour from Grand Central; shuttles between the Peekskill station and KinoSaito will be available during the celebration on September 19th, from 3–7pm.
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Artwork by Purvai Rai
3-6pm | Open Studios
Purvai Rai and Alina Tenser
Join us for open studios with our Artists in Residence: Purvai Rai and Alina Tenser. Peek into their studios and chat with them about their practices.
3:30pm | Toast
Completion of our Helen Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Grant
We are thrilled to announce the completion of our Achieving Decarbonization project and the successful installation of high-efficiency HVAC and solar panels in and on our annex gym building. KinoSaito is commited to an environmentally-thoughtful approach to sustainability and development. This equipment complements existing solar panels on our School facility and ensures that we will remain a net-zero organization. We sought these improvements because our community programming has evolved and expanded exponentially, allowing us to develop sustainably while respecting our environment.
This project was generously supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation as part of the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative. Please join us for a toast at our Anniversary Party and hear about what’s next!
Photo by Kris Graves
4pm | Performance Set I
Naama Tsabar and Kristin Mueller: Untitled (Double Face)
Amidst these turbulent times Tsabar and Mueller came together at KinoSaito to workshop a new performance on Tsabar’s sculpture Untitled (Double Face) - a single guitar that has two necks and requires the performers to lean on each other, negotiating movement and sound, while playing.
This work is a place for two separate and distinct bodies to exist, to be equal. A place for negotiating, for acknowledging each other, for moving in and through conflict and beauty, for creating together.
The program will include the long running performance Untitled (Double Face), 2014 and the debut of the performance developed at KinoSaito with the support of NYSCA.
Photo by Peter Gannushkin
Photo by Chika Kobari
4:45pm | Panel Discussion
Landscape Art in the Age of Climate Change
Curator Katrin Lewinsky and artists will participate in a Q & A about the All Day Long exhibition.
Photo by Laura Brichta Watermill
6pm | Performance Set II
Naama Tsabar and Kristin Mueller: Untitled (Double Face)
Amidst these turbulent times Tsabar and Mueller came together at KinoSaito to workshop a new performance on Tsabar’s sculpture Untitled (Double Face) - a single guitar that has two necks and requires the performers to lean on each other, negotiating movement and sound, while playing.
This work is a place for two separate and distinct bodies to exist, to be equal. A place for negotiating, for acknowledging each other, for moving in and through conflict and beauty, for creating together.
The program will include the long running performance Untitled (Double Face), 2014 and the debut of the performance developed at KinoSaito with the support of NYSCA.
Double Face Performance at Palais de Tokyo
Photo by Chika Kobari
6:30pm | Outdoor
Celebratory Picnic
Enjoy the last KinoSaito Garden Party of the summer with picnic style food and complimentary drinks featuring Teremana Tequila El Arnoldo!
Created in a small town in the highlands of Jalisco, their founder Dwayne Johnson worked with a Mexican family-owned distillery to build a unique home on the grounds solely for Teremana - Destilería Teremana de Agave. Here they craft Teremana with a love for great tequila made the right way, in small batches, by hand.
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