Members Only After-Hours Summer Events
KinoSaito Member After-Hours
Free for members | RSVP required
13 Jun. 2025 | 5-7pm | RSVP
18 Jul. 2025 | 5-7pm | RSVP
15 Aug. 2025 | 5-7pm | RSVP
Join us at KinoSaito for special extended evening hours to enjoy our current exhibitions, Kikuo Saito: Reminiscence in Color, curated by Mikiko Ino Saito, and The Unknown and Its Poetics, curated by Adrián S. Bará. Light refreshments will be provided.
An art workshop will happen concurrently with each Member After-Hours, but registration for the workshop is required ahead of time. Don’t forget to use your discount code.
Note: This event is for KinoSaito members only, so be sure to sign up for a membership today and don’t forget to RSVP, as limited space is available.
Artists in Residence
Open Studios with Jessica Caldwell and Sam Vernon
15 Jun. 2025 | 1-5pm | Free
Join us for open studios with our Artists in Residence: Jessica Caldwell and Sam Vernon. Peek into their studios and chat with them about their practices.
Jessica Caldwell is an interior designer and educator who believes that every space tells a story. With over 15 years of experience, her work moves fluidly between branding, decorative arts, and interior environments—always with a focus on materiality, memory, and cultural identity. She has designed for brands like Tiffany & Co., Tory Burch, and Bloomingdale’s, but her passion lies in crafting spaces that feel personal, intentional, and deeply connected to the people who inhabit them.
Sam Vernon is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges the performance of art objects and the scholarly exploration of personal and institutional archives. With a focus on themes of identity and material cultural production in print, Vernon uses a variety of media, including installation, drawing, and assemblage, to create engaging narratives that invite critical reflection. Her work often explores the complexities of Blackness, the body, and power structures in contemporary society. Vernon has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, recently including her solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Hamburg in Germany, and has received accolades for her innovative approach to social commentary through art. Sam lives and works in NYC and teaches Drawing at Pratt Institute.
Pratt Institute
A top-ranked college with opportunities in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt offers nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and serves 5,140 students. The Institute’s impact expands beyond its 25-acre residential campus in Brooklyn to cutting-edge facilities throughout the borough, a landmark building and public gallery in Manhattan, as well as an extension campus, PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, New York. Since its founding in 1887, Pratt has prioritized diversity and inclusion, welcoming students from all walks of life while developing and sustaining pathways to more equitable workplaces and careers.
2025 Japanese Film Series
Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn
Directed by Juichiro Yamasaki
(新しき民, 2014)
Free | RSVP required
27 Jun. 2025 | 6pm
The year is 1726. In Sanchu, located in Okayama Prefecture, Jihei is living quietly with his wife Tami, who is expecting a baby soon. One day, Tami's elder brother Shinroku says that the village farmers are planning on negotiating with the domain to exempt various taxes, and asks Jihei to take part in it. Jihei reluctantly participates. Confronted by countless farmers and fearing that the situation will get out of hand, the domain accepts the farmers’ requests except for the exemption of mountain taxes. The mountain folks including wood workers and iron workers are furious with the result and they attack storehouses to steal rice. The domain quickly tries to suppress them, but the farmers decide to assemble and stand up once again to confront the domain. Unfortunately, the farmers are defeated by the domain’s overwhelming power. After witnessing the beheading of the farmers that are captivated, Jihei faces his conflicted feelings of what he should do, and decides to abandon his village and family and flee from Sanchu in order to stay alive. Years go by and being unable to return to his village, Jihei is living in a town. His life takes a drastic turn after a fateful encounter with one man. Jihei is forced to face the unforgettable past and decides to return to his village. How is the village now? How is Tami doing? With mixed feelings, Jihei heads to his village…
Prior to the screening, guest speaker Dr. Joel Neville Anderson, Film Professor of Ithaca College, will present an historical introduction and lead a post-screening discussion.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Higher Eyes on Aricama
Performer | Maria Camia
Piano | Aaron Banes
Free | RSVP Required
19 Jul. 2025 | 1pm | RSVP
19 Jul. 2025 | 3pm | RSVP
20 Jul. 2025 | 1pm | RSVP
20 Jul. 2025 | 3pm | RSVP
Maria Camia will perform Higher Eyes on Aricama, a 45-minute solo-performance with four 4’x4’ colorful paintings / Toy Theater sets, hand puppets, costume, and a live pianist. The story follows two flower humanoids, Ari and Cama, as their attention spans shatter into infinite altered dimensions causing their homeland Aricama, the land of practice, play, and healing, to turn into dust. Will they release themselves from their attachments or lose everything they worked for? Maria explores dreams, phone addiction, and a message from the body.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. They are a creative home to artists and audiences from around the world and a dynamic hub for risk-taking performance. La MaMa believes in the power of art to reveal our shared humanity and supports artists of all identities in the creation of new work.
Founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, La MaMa is the only original Off-Off-Broadway theatre still in operation. Over the course of 61 years, they have grown from an underground refuge for the avant-garde to a world-renowned cultural institution, with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk Awards, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, and the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. They have supported nearly 160,000 artists from all over the world, such as Blue Man Group, Peter Brook, André De Shields, Ping Chong, Olympia Dukakis, Harvey Fierstein, Philip Glass, Tedeschi Kantor, Shuji Terayama, Adrienne Kennedy, Diane Lane, Taylor Mac, Bette Midler, Meredith Monk, Sam Shepard, Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados, and Julie Taymor, to name a few.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
2025 Japanese Film Series
0.5mm
Directed by Momoko Ando
(0.5ミリ, 2013)
Free | RSVP required
25 Jul. 2025 | 6pm
Sawa works as a caretaker. One day she gets involved into unexpected events which have her lose her job and money. Not having a house to live and money to spend, she begins to hunt for her clients in the street, suggesting to take care of them as a sleep-in caretaker. She targets old men who seem having problems in their lives. At first they get confused by Sawa's aggressive attitude and lots of energy, but gradually let her into their lives, and their almost dead lives start to shine again...
Prior to the screening, guest speaker Dr. Joel Neville Anderson, Film Professor of Ithaca College, will present an historical introduction and lead a post-screening discussion.
2025 Japanese Film Series
Miss Hokusai
Directed by Keiichi Hara
(百日紅, 2015)
Free | RSVP required
29 Aug. 2025 | 6pm
Miss Hokusai is the story of O-Ei, the daughter and apprentice of her artist father, Hokusai, the famous mid-18th and early 19th-century woodblock painter of such works as The Wave. Set in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, the film – based on a manga series called Sarusuberi – concentrates on O-Ei's sometimes-contentious relationship with her father and their fellow artist roommate, lush womanizer Zenjiro. O-Ei's mother and little sister O-Nao, who's sickly and blind and is rarely visited by their father, live nearby. As O-Ei studies her father's style, she must contend with his personal failings and the various men around her who treat her as either an object of affection or a naive girl.
Prior to the screening, guest speaker Dr. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, Associate Professor of Japanese at Vassar College, will present an historical introduction and lead a post-screening discussion.