Squeaky Wheel hosts gallery exhibitions, screenings, and other special events year-round, with visiting artists, special workshops, off-site events, and much more. We feature filmmakers and artists who make challenging and critical inquiries to media art: its possibilities, histories, and the communities it can hold and form.
Exhibitions are free for the general public. Our regular events admission is $10 for the general public and $7 for members of Squeaky Wheel unless otherwise noted.
Regular events are free for ArtsAccess Pass Holders. ArtsAccess can also provide free transportation if requested at least two weeks ahead of time. Squeaky Wheel is now an official ArtsAccess sign up location. Find out how to be a part of the ArtsAccess program here.
You can find accessibility information about our venue here. See individual event pages for event-specific accessibility, including ASL interpretation, virtual and hybrid events, and more.
Burning Books
420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States
Squeaky Wheel presents two films each by directors Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar that take on displacement, resistance, and the human toll of borders and settler-colonies.
Burning Books
420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States
Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since the age of 12. Now she has to evacuate Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a new life.
Burning Books
420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States
The Infiltrators tells the true story of a radical group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – who get themselves detained in order to infiltrate a shadowy detention center and help other immigrants get free.
Burning Books
420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States
Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre – border walls, shantytowns, hi-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists – that it looks a lot like today.
Burning Books
420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States
A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.
Squeaky Wheel’s programs are made possible with major support by Teiger Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz, and The Children's Guild Foundation. Our programs would not be possible without the support of members, businesses, and individual supporters such as yourself.
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