Upstate Art Weekend at KinoSaito
We are excited to share our participation in the seventh 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.
25-29 Jun. 2025 | 10am-5pm
Expanded Open Hours for Upstate Art Weekend
KinoSaito and the KinoSaito Coffee Bar will be open for additional hours on Thursday, June 25, 2026 and Monday, June 29, 2026 for Upstate Art Weekend.
Open Studios
Borinquen Gallo and Ari Elefterin
25 Jun. 2026 | 1-4pm | Free
Join us for open studios with our future Artists in Residence Borinquen Gallo and Ari Elefterin. Peak into their studios and chat with them about their practice.
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.
Cello Echoes with Helen Gillet & My Pal Foot Foot
Free | RSVP required
27 Jun. 2026 | Time TBA
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.
To Be Announced Workshop
Free Drop In Program
28 Jun. 2026 | 1-4pm
Join us at KinoSaito on Sundays in June for our Workshop! Participants are invited to create artwork of display in our current exhibition.
All materials provided.
Kids and families of all abilities are welcome.