Into to Mac
9/13; 10/11
Steven Ansell
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Screenwriting Lab
9/15 - 10/20
Ken James
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Max/MSP/Jitter
9/15 - 10/6
J.T. Rinker
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Intro to Photoshop
9/16 - 10/7
Tammy Wetzel
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Cameraless Filmmaking
9/18 - 10/9
Brian Milbrand
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Art & Intuition
9/17 - 10/15
Ron Ehmke
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Final Cut Pro Editing
9/17 - 10/22
Brian Milbrand
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Page Layout & Design w/ InDesign
9/18 - 10/2
Steven Ansell
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16mm Filmmaking
9/27 - 9/28
Carl Lee
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Intro to Flash
10/4 - 10/5
Tammy McGovern
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Intro to Web Design
10/13 - 11/17
Liz Knipe
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Flash & Actionscript
10/14 - 11/18
Alex Placito
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Digital Video Production
10/16 - 11/6
SeonHyoung Kim
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Circuit Bending
10/18 - 11/22
Bill Sack
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Super 8 Filmmaking
10/29 - 11/12
Jan Nagle
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DVD Studio Pro
10/29 - 11/19
Brian Milbrand
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After-school Digital Arts
10/29 - 12/10
Tammy McGovern
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Intro to Digital Audio Editing
11/1
Jax Deluca
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Grant Writing
11/2
Dorothea Braemer
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Sound Mapping / Creative Cartography
11/2 - 11/9
Cade Bursell
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Film Hand Processing
11/8 - 11/9
Brian Milbrand
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Intro to Pure Data (PD)
12/6 - 12/7
J.T. Rinker
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Tutorials:
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In addition to workshops, Squeaky Wheel offers a wide range of private tutorials at $60/hour in everything from Intro to the Macintosh, iDVD, iMovie to audio recording and Final Cut Pro editing. Call to arrange.
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Registration period for each workshop ends one week before the beginning of the workshop. We strongly encourage you to register as early as possible and to adhere to the registration deadlines. Full tution for workshop is due by the first day of the class. We accept cash, checks, credit card, money orders and online payments using PayPal.
Registering by mail or in person:
Download registration form:
To reserve a seat in a workshop, mail or drop off payment, along with a registration form to:
Squeaky Wheel
712 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
Registering online:
To register online, click the appropriate link next to the workshop description for the class you would like to take. From there you can fill out the online registration form and pay for your workshop using PayPal.
If you have questions, please call 884-7172 or email: tammy@squeaky.org.
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Membership Discount:
Members receive discounts on all workshops. Read workshop descriptions for details about complimentary equipment rentals and digital lab access time available to members enrolled in selected workshops. Visit our equipment page to learn about our equipment access policies. To learn about more membership benefits or to sign up for membership online, visit our membership page at
www.squeaky.org/membership.html.
Refunds:
To receive a full refund, or to cancel your registration, you must let us know at least three business days prior to the start of the workshop.
No refunds will be made after the first day of class.
Cancellations:
Squeaky Wheel attempts in all cases to conduct every workshop, but does have a minimum attendance requirement. If a workshop is cancelled, you may use your credit towards another workshop or receive a refund.
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Writing
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Screenwriting
Instructor: Ken James
Mondays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
September 15th - October 20th
Cost: $120 non-members / $95 members
Sharpen your cinematic storytelling skills in this project based workshop. Writers are encouraged to develop their own ideas and grow as screenwriters through critique and analysis of their work by faculty and peers. Gain insight into character development, writing effective dialogue, and story structure. Whether you’re developing a narrative film (of whatever genre), or an experimental or documentary film, we will focus on crafting the most compelling version of your work.
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Grant Writing for Artists & Non-profits
Instructor: Dorothea Braemer
Sunday, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
November 2nd
Cost: $50 non-members / $40 members
Learn grant writing from an experienced and successful grant writer and media artist. Find out how to get your ideas across to the people who want to give you money. Learn the fundamental steps towards generating support for your organization’s program ideas or for your own personal art projects. Discussion topics include preparing work samples, project proposals, budgets, researching grants and more.
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Art & Intuition
Instructor: Ron Ehmke
Wednesdays, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
September 17th - October 15th
Cost: $75 non-members / $65 members + reader (approx $10)
This workshop combines theory (discussion + readings) and hands-on experiments (in class and at home) to explore the creative process in new ways. Intended for practitioners of all kinds and backgrounds (writers, media & visual artists, designers, performers, activists, organizers, psychologists and social workers, teachers, spiritualists, etc.) who are eager to discover new ways of engaging the mind, body, and spirit, and willing to share their own favorite techniques with others. Hint: if you have a gut feeling that you should take this class, then you’re halfway there!
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Circuit Bending
Instructor: Bill Sack
Saturdays, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
October 18th - November 22nd
Cost: $125 non-members / $90 members
Circuit bending is a process whose aim is to unlock the chaos and serendipity hidden within every electronic device. A person with no prior electronics knowledge or experience can wring tremendous subversive satisfaction from transforming a pedestrian toy or appliance into a personalized experimental device. Circuit bending differs from hardware hacking in that benders approach the circuit or object with no clear expectations as to the specific result of their modifications, proceeding like explorers into uncharted territories.
With just a few simple tools and basic electronic components, a circuit bender can turn a discarded toy electronic keyboard into an aleatoric music box capable of emitting uncategorizable and unforeseen screams, hisses and rumbles. An outmoded video game can automatically render melted, glitched programming resembling Saturday morning cartoons on Saturn. A 'talking' toy or game can be coaxed into revealing arcane knowledge intoned in previously unheard electronic languages.
The workshop will be a hands-on exploration of bending techniques focusing on the repurposing of scavenged, yard-sold, and thrift-shopped children's toys. Almost everything made for children in the last ten years has a sound-producing chip inside it – even books make noise these days! Participants will be encouraged to bring their own sacrificial items for modification, and will certainly finish the workshop as the proud owner of at least one new experimental musical instrument. Access to tools will be provided, as will enough electronic supplies to get the participants started. Supplemental lectures, written material, and internet resources will be available to guide the newly-baptized benders in their personal bending explorations beyond the workshop.
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Intro to Digital Audio Editing
Instructor: Jax DeLuca
Saturday, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
November 1st
Cost: $50 non-members / $35 members
Learn basics of digital audio editing in this intensive one-day workshop. Bring in sound to incorporate into your project or learn how to generate sounds directly from the audio editing software. Participants will learn how to create simple edits, work with multiple tracks, control fading in and fading out of audio, experiment with filters and effects, and learn how to export their audio files as mp3 audio tracks that can be used as soundtracks for film/video projects or as standalone audio pieces. Intro to Mac workshop or equivalent experience is strongly suggested for this workshop.
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Sound Mapping / Creative Cartography
Instructor: Cade Bursell
Sundays, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
November 2nd - November 9th
Cost: $30 non-members / $20 members
Increase sound awareness and focused listening by creating a site-specific sound map. A map can be a historical record, political/cultural marker or a poetic, subjective representation of place. A sound map could focus on areas that are preserved, rural and urban borderlands, toxic sites, tourist sites, and marked or unmarked sites of significant events. A sound map could also explore an internal geography. This two-part workshop will include an introduction to Acoustic Ecology, (the pioneering work of R. Murray Schafer) and contemporary sound mapping projects. We will also discuss sound and image relationship, creative and radical cartography. For part two -participants will return with their edited sound maps to share with others.
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Intro to 16mm Filmmaking
Instructor: Carl Lee
Saturday & Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00pm
September 27th - September 28th
Cost: $125 non-members / $95 members
This intensive weekend workshop introduces participants to the basics and beauty of 16mm film production through hands-on training. In the first session, we'll learn about film stocks, the Bolex hand-wind camera, the use of the light meter, and fundamental concepts of framing and filming. Each student will then go shoot their roll of film with the instructor's guidance. The next day we'll hand-process those rolls and have an in-class screening. All participants receive two rolls of film stock and Squeaky Wheel members receive one day of equipment rental.
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Super 8 Filmmaking
Instructor: Jan Nagle
Wednesdays, 7:00 - 9:00pm
October 29 - November 12
Cost: $95 non-members / $80 members
This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of Super 8 filmmaking. Topics will include lighting, film stocks, camera know how, exposure, animation, projection, image composition, in-camera editing and transfer to video. Workshoppers will also make a short film demonstrating their newly developed or refined skills. All participants receive one 50' roll of black & white reversal film stock, Squeaky Wheel members receive one day of equipment rental and one additional roll of film. Film developing and/or lab services is not included in the cost of the workshop.
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Film Hand Processing
Instructor: Brian Milbrand
Saturday & Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00 PM
November 8th - November 9th
Cost: $95 non-members / $75 members
Give your films the unique look of hand made images in this intensive weekend workshop. Learn how to develop your previously shot black and white or Ektachrome color films by hand. Turn your black and white films into color films by tinting the whites and toning the blacks. Apply special effects to your images such as solarization and reticulation using various hand processing techniques. See the results of your work when we project the films at the end of the the workshop. All chemicals are included in the cost of the workshop.
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Cameraless Filmmaking
Instructor: Brian Milbrand
Thursdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
September 18th - October 9th
Cost: $95 non-members / $75 members
Learn the art of making films without ever picking up a camera. This class will focus on a variety of methods for making handmade films including handpainting, scatching, bleaching, xeroxing, printing, tinting and toning. The class will focus on using both 16mm clear leader, and using found footage 16mm films from Squeaky Wheel's library.
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Digital Video Production
Instructor: SeonHyoung Kim
Thursdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
October 16th - November 6th
Cost: $145 non-members / $125 members
Whether you're interested in making documentaries, video art, music videos or short narratives, this workshop will help you take your ideas and turn them into stylish and meaningful productions. Discussions will focus on storyboarding, framing, exposure, movement, lighting, audio and more. Members of Squeaky Wheel receive one day video camera rental and two hours in our Macintosh based computer lab.
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Final Cut Pro
Instructor: Brian Milbrand
Wednesdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
September 17th - October 22nd
Cost: $145 non-members / $125 members
Get an intensive introduction to Final Cut Pro, the amazing all in one video editing, compositing and special effects package for the Macintosh. Learn how to work with keyframes, edit multiple video and audio tracks, apply filters, create transitions and more. Members receive six hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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DVD Studio Pro
Instructor: Brian Milbrand
Wednesdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
October 29th - November 19th
Cost: $135 non-members / $115 members
Learn everything you need to know to create professional looking DVD's complete with motion menus, custom layouts and scripts to control playback and interactivity. This class is a perfect follow-up to Final Cut Pro. Bring your own edited video to work with during this hands-on workshop. Knowledge of Photoshop helpful though not required. Members of Squeaky Wheel receive four hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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Intro to Mac
Instructor: Steven Ansell
Saturday, 3:00 - 5:00
Session I: September 13th; Session II: October 11th
Cost: $35 non-members / $20 members
If you have little or no experience with Macs and you'd like to take our other computer workshops, including Web Design or Final Cut Pro, Intro to Mac is required. This two-hour workshop will familiarize you with the operating system and organization of Macintosh computers. Members receive one hour in our computer lab outside of class.
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Intro to Adobe Photoshop
Instructor: Tammy Wetzel
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
September 16th - October 7th
Cost: $135 non-members / $115 members
Learn how to edit, retouch, paint, manipulate and create still images using the industry standard graphic design program, Adobe Photoshop. Quickly become familiarized with Photoshop's interface and workflow. This class is useful for anyone wanting to create graphics for print, web and video. General computer literacy or Intro to Mac workshop required. Squeaky Wheel members receive four hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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Intro to Flash
Instructor: Tammy McGovern
Saturday & Sunday, 1-5pm
October 4th - October 5th
Cost: $95 non-members / $75 members
This introductory level workshop will teach students how to incorporate graphics, sound, text and video to create simple animations for the web. Topics covered include, drawing, keyframe animation, tweening and adding simple actionscripts. Members receive four hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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Intro to Web Design
Instructor: Liz Knipe
Mondays, 7-9pm
October 13th - November 17th
Cost: $145 non-members / $125 members
Learn the basics of web page layout and design using HTML and Dreamweaver. Participants will learn to use HTML and CSS to design stylish, fun and user friendly web pages. Create rollover effects, pop-up windows, pages with embedded video and more. Knowledge of Photoshop is helpful but not necessary. Basic computer literacy or Intro to Mac workshop is required. Members receive six hours in our computer lab outside of class.
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Advanced Flash Techniques w/ ActionScript 3.0
Instructor: Alex Placito
Tuesdays, 7-9pm
October 14th - December 9th
Cost: $160 non-members / $130 members
In this extensive eight-week workshop, we will cover the world of Flash interactivity using ActionScript 3.0. The topics we'll cover will be be primarily web-based, and will include mouse and keyboard interactivity, sound and video, controlling animation via ActionScript, and ActionScript-based text control. Some more advanced topics may include Object-Oriented programming, XML and RSS feeds, and web servers (Flash w/ PHP). Prerequisites: experience using Flash (not necessarily ActionScript) is required (ideally from Squeaky Wheel's Intro to Flash workshop). Some basic programming experience is highly reccomended, though students without said experience, and a powerful drive to learn will swim rather than sink.
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Page Layout & Design with InDesign
Instructor: Steven Ansell
Thursdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
September 18th - October 2nd
Cost: $135 non-members / $115 members
Learn page layout and design with Adobe InDesign. Learn how to quickly and easily create flyers, posters, zines and more. This workshop will cover setting up single and multi-page documents, working with text, creating vector artwork and more. Familiarity with Photoshop is helpful though not necessary. Basic Mac literacy or Intro to Mac workshop required. Members receive four hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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Intro to Max/MSP/Jitter
Instructor: J.T. Rinker
Mondays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
September 15th - October 6th
Cost: $135 non-members / $115 members
Max/MSP/Jitter is a visual programming environment favored by many artists, musicians and VJ's for the creation of real-time, interactive multimedia projects. Take this introductory workshop to become familiarized with Max/MSP/Jitter's interface and to gain the skills necessary for creating interactive programs for video, audio, performance, installation, interactive sculpture and more. No prior experience with computer programming or Max/MSP/Jitter is required. Members receive four hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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Intro to Pure Data (PD)
Instructor: J.T. Rinker
Saturday & Sunday, 1-5pm
December 6th - December 7th
Cost: $115 non-members / $95 members
PD is a free multi-platform graphical programming environment designed specifically for developing interactive audio software. Use PD for film or video extending spoken word and live audio/musical performances, interactive art installations and more. This workshop will offer an introduction to PD as well as address the specific participants' interests in utilizing PD. Members receive two hours time in our computer lab outside of class.
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Youth |
| Kids after-school and summer camps are programs
for girls and boys ages 8-17 who are interested in learning
media arts skills. To register your son or daughter, click
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After-school Digital Art Workshop (ages 9-15)
Instructor: Tammy McGovern
Wednesdays, 5:00 - 7:00pm
October 29th - December 10th (no class on November 26th)
Cost: $125 non-members / $120 members
Make your imagination come to life using graphic design, sound editing and animation software to make animated movies with your own drawings and sound effects. By the end of the class, each participant will have created at least one animated movie or cartoon as well as a web page to feature their new digital art creations.
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