Celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest!
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesSqueaky Wheel is celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest and you're invited!
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Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesIn this hybrid event, our two Summer 2023 Workspace Residents will deliver presentations on their work and practice and answer questions.
Weaving the Magic Back into Reality: Writing Speculative Fiction for Film with Alicia Solstice Hawkins
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesAlicia Solstice Hawkins will present on how speculative fiction offers subversive narratives that challenge oppressive worldviews, while reimagining powerful and liberatory counter-narratives. This will be followed by exercises on how participants can incorporate speculative fiction into their documentary or fiction film projects.
Free – $7.00
2D Stop-Motion World Building with Photoshop with Maggie Hazen
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesWorkspace Resident Maggie Hazen will lead participants as they create their own stop motion animations, while learning fundamental artistic techniques in digital 2d animation and developing a new exciting visual language.
Free – $7.00
Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesAmatryx Gaming Lab & Studio presents Creativity in the Time of Covid-19, an exhibition of pandemic artwork and creative expression.
Zain Alam at Silo City: I am sounding a sacred space
Silo City 85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY, United StatesWithin Silo City's immense resonance, Alam will be layering recitations of the azaan (the Islamic call to prayer) to distill them into tonal content alone.
Free – $7.00
The Animation Fest: A Retrospective @ North Park Theatre
North Park Theatre 1428 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesJoin us for a special retrospective screening that brings together 10 short films from the past 20 years of our Animation Fest!
[Speaking in Foreign Language]
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United Statesbrings together several of Squeaky Wheel’s Fall/Winter 2023 activities- screenings, presentations, and a solo exhibition-within a curatorial framework on how voice and language function across borders and power.
Echolocations: Films in translation and transcription
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesA group screening that looks at how voice and language are made legible across borders and power. With work by Alex Dolores Salerno, Astria Suparak, champoy, JJJJJerome Ellis, Johann Diedrick, Nadia Shihab, Olivia Ong Evans, Saif Alsaegh, and Sky Hopinka.
Free
Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesSqueaky Wheel presents a book launch event with editor Mindy Seu and Tina Rivers Ryan on Seu's essential publication Cyberfeminism Index.
Free
Squeaky Wheel’s 20th Animation Fest!
Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesFeaturing 10 films made near and far, the 20th edition of Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest features animations made in a variety of media, forms, and materials, from stop-motion puppetry, AI generated imagery, hand-drawn works and more.
Free
Jordan Lord | The Voice of Democracy
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesJordan Lord's The Voice of Democracy solo exhibition analyzes the politics of voice and accent across disability, race, class, and gender, and how that shapes the terms of entry to democracy.
Free
Work-in-progress: Avye Alexandres’ Compass
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesSqueaky Wheel presents an evening with Avye Alexandres, as she presents a work-in-progress version of her upcoming project Compass.
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam
Journey's End Refugee Services 2495 Main Street, Suite #530, Buffalo, NY, United StatesTrinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society.
Free
Sharlene Bamboat’s If From Every Tongue It Drips
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesSharlene Bamboat's If From Every Tongue it Drips follows a queer Urdu poet as she traces the connections between quantum physics and political movements in South Asia.
Free
Emily Watlington presents The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (for Hearing People)
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesA coalition of moving image artists is using closed captions and image descriptions as an artistic medium. They are modeling types of access that are not afterthoughts, but folded into a work's makeup.
Free
Eclipse Haiku Workshop for Youth and Adults
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesLed by artist Jason Livingston and paleontologist Phoebe Cohen, participants will explore geological timescales, public art, climate science, and poetry. Through brief presentations, and exercises, Livingston and Cohen will facilitate haiku-writing generated by the evening's topics and prompts. No prior experience with writing haiku is expected.
Free
Extended: Jordan Lord | Works from The Voice of Democracy, with Abby Sun and Pooja Rangan
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesCelebrating the closing of Jordan Lord's solo exhibition The Voice of Democracy, Squeaky Wheel invites audiences from Buffalo and beyond to watch the works in the exhibition online, and join us for a screening and conversation between the artist and Pooja Rangan.
Free
Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson’s Spaces of Exception
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesShot between 2014 and 2017, Spaces of Exception investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp.
Free
Jason Livingston, with Phoebe A. Cohen: In the Sun’s Absence
Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United StatesTimed with the 2024 Solar Eclipse, and featuring haiku’s installed on public signage, sound art, video, print work, and sculptural projects, In the Sun’s Absence asks audiences to contemplate how “in the sun's absence, we have a chance to notice its significance."
