Art Awards
ArtsWestchester: 2026 Arts Awards Luncheon
$175 | RSVP required
13 Mar. 2026 | 11:30am
Each Spring, ArtsWestchester honors individuals and organizations for their extraordinary impact on Westchester’s arts and cultural community. Since 1976, the Arts Award has celebrated the vision and leadership of those who enrich the county’s cultural life and elevate local artists.
This is not a KinoSaito event. Member discounts are not applicable.
Music Performance
Lin Esser with Kathy Ridl and Jim Ridl
$20 | Member discounts* | RSVP required
22 Mar. 2026 | 3pm
Cellist Lin Esser, pianist Jim Ridl and bassist Kathy Ridl bring their diverse influences, creative philosophy and highly engaging skillsets to KinoSaito’s main performance space. The program celebrates the wide-ranging and long standing creative link these three artists have enjoyed over their many years of collaboration. The ensemble’s Southwestern and Midwestern American origins serve to inform and inspire the often vast harmonic landscapes typical of the trio's unique character.
*Discounts for Supporter level members and above apply.
Love in the Archive Film Series
Watermelon Woman
A film by Cheryl Dunye
FREE for members | $10 for non-members
27 Mar. 2026 | 6pm | RSVP Required
Cheryl, a 25-year-old lesbian who works at a video rental store in Philadelphia becomes interested in films from the 1930s and 1940s that feature uncredited Black actresses. After watching a film titled Plantation Memories in which a Black actress is credited only as “The Watermelon Woman”, she decides to make a documentary in which she attempts to uncover the Watermelon Woman's identity and her own.
This film will be presented by Megan Meadowlark, Associate Director of Visual Arts Programming at ArtsWestchester.
Love in the Archive Film Series
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
A film by Marie Losier
FREE for members | $10 for non-members
24 Apr. 2026 | 6pm | RSVP Required
A portrait of counterculture icon Genesis P-Orridge and the controversial impact they had on music, art, and performance focusing on their Pandrogyny project – an ongoing examination of identity and gender in which Genesis and their life partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge undertake a series of body modifications to become more visually similar in appearance in an attempt to create a conceptual third being.
This film will be presented by Megan Meadowlark, Associate Director of Visual Arts Programming at ArtsWestchester.
Music Performance
Westchester Jazz Alliance Quartet
$20 | Member discounts* | RSVP required
17 May 2026 | 3pm
The Westchester Jazz Alliance Quartet is a premier jazz quartet that includes Charley Krachy, sax, Dave Frank, piano, Joe Solomon, bass, and Takashi Inoue, drums. Two of the members were closely associated with the legendary jazz pianist/educator, Lennie Tristano. The mission of the Westchester Jazz Alliance and WAJQ is, through education, performances, and jazz parties, to increase awareness, participation, and enjoyment of jazz in the New York area and beyond.
About Charley Krachy
A native son of Verplanck, Charley left at age 17 to join the US Navy. Charley has been playing the saxophone since the age of 10 and professionally for the last 35 years. During this time, he has performed at venues throughout New York - including Birdland and the Blue Note with jazz greats Ted Brown, Connie Crothers, Virg Dzurinko, Kazzrie Jaxen, Roger Mancuso, and Ratzo Harris. In 2016 Charley performed with the Kazzrie Jaxen Quartet at Lincoln Center. Charley has also performed in Stockholm, and Uppsala Sweden with Swedish pianist Boel Dirke and Guitarist Andy Fite.
*Discounts for Supporter level members and above apply.
Love in the Archive Film Series
Films from the Fluxus Archives
FREE for members | $10 for non-members
29 May 2026 | 6pm | RSVP Required
Alison Knowles (b. 1933-2025) was an American visual artist, poet, and founding member of Fluxus. The Fluxus group ethos sought to disassemble traditional barriers between art forms, while rejecting the exclusivity of the art world in favor of art as an open and participatory experience accessible to all.
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus is an unconventional video portrait of the Fluxus movement, produced largely in Venice at the 1990 reunion, when many of the original Fluxus artists met for a major exhibition in connection with the Biennale, almost thirty years after the first iconoclastic Fluxus concerts were held in cities around the world. This portrait includes interviews with leading Fluxus artists, including Alison Knowles and Yoko Ono, plus documentation of their works, and historic archival footage from thirty years of groundbreaking performances, films, and video tapes.
“Topless Cellist” Charlotte Moorman is Nam June Paik's heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait traces Moorman's career as an avant-garde performer, from her classical training to her notorious arrest as the "Topless Cellist" and subsequent talk-show celebrity. Rare documentations of Moorman's performances include Otto Piene's Sky Kiss and Jim McWilliams' Chocolate Cello. Interviews with Moorman's friends, family and collaborators, such as Yoko Ono, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Otto Piene, and Barbara Moore, among others, provide intimate recollections of the inimitable Moorman.
2026 Upstate Art Weekend
Upstate Art Weekend at KinoSaito
25-29 Jun. 2026 | 10-5pm
We are excited to share our participation in the sixth edition of Upstate Art Weekend, June 25-29, 2026! Over 155 cultural organizations will participate in this year’s edition, celebrating art and culture in the Catskills Mountains and Hudson Valley.
Music Performance
Cello Echoes with Helen Gillet & My Pal Foot Foot
Free | RSVP required
27 Jun. 2026 | Time TBA
This performance is a part of Upstate Art Weekend.
Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello and her right foot nicknamed My Pal Foot Foot as live looping producer.
Gillet was raised in Belgium, Singapore, Chicago, Wisconsin and has lived in New Orleans for 23 years and counting. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big Easy Awards, featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three times as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine's Critics Poll. She has played, recorded with many musicians over the past 20 years, including members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, AACM (Chicago), ICP (Holland), Members of Morphine, Kidd Jordan, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine (North America Tour 2018), Zachary Richard, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool at the Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans in 2003 and Jeff Tweedy at Lincoln Center in 2019. She has performed at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide including the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Dark MOFO Festival in Tasmania, Darwin World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, New Direction Cello Society Festival at Berkeley College of Music, Kennedy Center and at The Big Ears Music Festival in 2024.