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  • A still from Jelena Oroz's No Room. Drawings of cars with cat like single eyes and legs on a street. A person is watching them from the window.

    Squeaky Wheel’s 22nd Animation Fest!

    Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Join us for an evening of delights at Squeaky Wheel's 22nd Animation Fest!

    Free – $10.00
  • A blue and orange sunset of water and sky, with hills in shadows in the Dutuwewa region of Sri Lanka.

    Beena Sarwar’s Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Sri Lanka made headlines in 2022 when a massive economic crisis catalyzed sustained, peaceful protests and forced regime change. Colombo is where policy decisions are made, but in a democracy, it is villages like Dutuwewa that make their voices heard. How has the country coped?

    Free – $10.00

  • Bit Depth, Episode 1: Nuclear Set

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    The first edition of Squeaky Wheel's brand new critical media arts variety show, features an artist talk with Elizabeth Tannie Lewin and Dana Tyrell, performance by Katie Weissman, and films by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Tomonari Nishikawa, and the 1958 3D “documentary” Doom Town.

    $15.00

  • Dense, black and white television static

    Wave Farm & NYSCA: Media Arts Breakfast Zoom with Squeaky and BIFF

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    WaveFarm & NYSCA present their latest online convening in early November for the next Media Arts Breakfast with a focus on the media arts ecosystem in Buffalo, NY, along with updates from NYSCA's Fabiana Chiu-Rinaldi and Wave Farm's Galen Joseph-Hunter.

  • A photograph from the production of A Village of Widows. A number of people are standing around a train station in Japan with luggage around them. Two of them are holding a sign "Welcome Dene People" and underneath "Article 9 Society in Hiroshima". Photograph courtesy of Peter Blow.

    Village of Widows: The Story of the Sahtu Dene and the Atomic Bomb

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Peter Blow's 1999 documentary traces the human cost of the uranium mining that was used in the U.S.' atomic bombs upon the Sahtu Dene village of Deline in the Northwest Territories.

    Free

  • Bit Depth, Episode 2 | Songs and Justice

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    In Episode 2 of our event series, we’ll be focusing on revolutionary figures, from Buffalo and beyond, whose impact has been felt in our community and across the world.. The event will feature a screening of Frame-up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre; a conversation with Geraldine Robinson, James Coughlin, and Brandon Scilia from the Justice for Geraldine and Martin Campaign; and a screening of John Akomfrah's Seven Songs for Malcolm X, introduced by Donte McFaddon.

    $15.00

  • A/V Club Presents

    Journey's End Refugee Services 2495 Main Street, Suite #530, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Come enjoy the work being made by the A/V Club! From documentary to music video to animation, the variety of work created by this talented…

    Free
  • A still from Drop in the Ocean. An illustration of an upset looking femme person in hoody in a woodsy area with autumn colors. On top of the illustration are selection boxes with the options "with caution", "with snark", "oh, fuck this! I'm pissed" and a larger box with options and the text "I had to handle this..."

    Joan Nobile’s Drop in the Ocean

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Squeaky Wheel invites you for an afternoon to experience Joan Nobile's visual novel video game Drop in the Ocean, with an artist talk by the artist.

    Free

  • A still from Olivia Ong Evans' film Kota Hujan (City of Rain). A still of Bogor, Indonesia at dusk or dawn, with a pink and orange sky. Shorter buildings with flat roofs are on the bottom, and skyscrapers and mountains are visible in the distance. A bird is flying through the flame.

    Olivia Ong Evans’ Kota Hujan (City of Rain)

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    A work-in-progress event featuring Olivia Ong Evans' upcoming film Kota Hujan (City of Rain).

    Free – $10.00
  • Colorful handwriting in blue, green, orange, and black in both Chinese and English. Someone with a red bracelet is seen writing on white rice paper.

    Writing Diasporic Dreams and Futures with CAO Collective

    Virtual NY, United States

    Squeaky Wheel is excited to welcome Chinese Artists & Organizers (CAO) Collective is leading a virtual writing workshop on dreams, nostalgia, and diasporic home-making.

  • A tour of Silo City with their Director of Ecology Joshua Smith, and Squeaky Wheel residents Ahmed T. Ragheb, Lily Ekimian Ragheb, and Kathryn Ramey and her son.

    Workspace Residency, Summer 2026

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Squeaky Wheel is now accepting applications for the Summer 2026 session of its Workspace Residency

  • A GIF of Spring 2024 resident Jaehoon Choi working on a 3D mapped projection project in a dark room.

    Info-session: Workspace Residency, Summer 2026

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Join us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel's Workspace Residency.

  • A GIF of Spring 2024 resident Jaehoon Choi working on a 3D mapped projection project in a dark room.

    Info-session: Workspace Residency, Summer 2026

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Join us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The curator will go over the program, the application questions, how panels rating criteria, and answer questions from the audience.

  • Dark City Beneath the Beat

    Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, United States

    Saturday, February 28th at 4pm Free and open to the public the University at Buffalo CAS Office for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging invite you to…

  • A bright orange background with a jagged white line and white text. The text states “Screenings series | Starts March 4, 2026 at Burning Books. INFILTRATORS. Films on borders and resistance."

    Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance

    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.

  • A still from Khaled Jarrar's film, Notes on Displacement. A man and two women are walking along train tracks on a cloudy day. The man is carrying an umbrella. One of the women has multiple bags hanging from her shoulder.

    Khaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement

    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.

  • A still from the 2019 film The Infiltrators. A row of detainees in orange jumpsuits. Two people are clearly in focus.

    Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators

    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.

  • A still from Alex Rivera's film Sleep Dealer. A man with his mouth obstructed by some strange technology is connected to a larger machine by a mess of blue wires. He is looking intently ahead as if looking somewhere else.

    Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer

    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.

  • A still from EMPTY METAL. A person with gritted teeth, singing into a microphone.

    Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL

    Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

    “Filled with energy, rage, and the smallest measure of hope, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times” -Film Society Lincoln Center

  • Photographs of Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar on a red background with white lines.

    Alex Rivera & Khaled Jarrar

    Virtual NY, United States

    Squeaky Wheel presents a virtual artist talk with artists Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar to discuss their films that are screening as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance.



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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