\nDonte McFadden\, PhD\, is a leader\, educator and mentor. Donte previously served as the Director of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars from 2021-2024. Prior to joining UB\, he served as the Senior Associate Director for Undergraduate Research and High Impact Practices for the Educational Opportunity Program at Marquette University. In this role\, he served as the Director of the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program. He has held other leadership roles with the Educational Opportunity Program at Marquette\, including serving as its Interim Director and Associate Director of Administration\, Curriculum and Evaluation. Donte received his PhD in English with an emphasis in Film Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned a master’s degree in English and a BFA/BA in Film/Film Studies also from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Donte is co-founder of Black Lens\, a showcase for African American filmmakers as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival. \nBorn in Accra\, Ghana\, in 1957\, to radical political activist parents\, John Akomfrah was widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of black British culture in the 1980s. An artist\, lecturer\, and writer as well as a filmmaker\, his twenty-year body of work is among the most distinctive in the contemporary British art world\, and his cultural influence continues today. As a teen\, Akomfrah was a Super 8 filmmaker and enthusiast. With several underground cine clubs in London\, he helped bring Asian and European arthouse cinema\, militant cinema from Africa and Latin America\, and American independent and avant-garde cinema to minority audiences. In 1982\, Akomfrah helped found the seminal\, cine-cultural workshop the Black Audio Film Collective. He directed a broad range of work for the group\, including fiction films\, tape slides\, single-screen gallery pieces\, experimental videos\, music videos\, and documentaries. Since 1987\, Akomfrah’s work has been shown in galleries including Documenta (Germany)\, the De Balie (Holland)\, Centre George Pompidou (France)\, the Serpentine and Whitechapel Galleries (UK); and The Museum of Modern Art (USA). A major new retrospective of Akomfrah’s gallery-based work with the Black Audio Film Collective premiered at the FACT and Arnolfini galleries (UK) and is now making a tour of galleries and museums throughout Europe. In 2000\, Akomfrah was awarded the Gold Digital Award at the Cheonju International Film Festival\, South Korea\, for his innovative use of digital technology. He has been an artist-in-residence at universities including\, most recently\, New York University\, and a jury member at festivals including\, most recently the BFI London Film Festival\, UK\, and the Tarifa International Film Festival\, Spain. He has lectured at institutions including CalArts\, the Art Institute of Chicago\, and the London Institute. He was a member of the Arts Council Film Committee\, and Governor of the British Film Institute from 2001 through 2007. John Akomfrah is currently a Governor of Film London\, a visiting professor of film at the University of Westminster (United Kingdom)\, and an officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Justice for Geraldine and Martin campaign is an ongoing\, volunteer-led effort to exonerate Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre\, for their frame up and wrongful arrests at Buffalo\, New York’s Afro-Asian Book Shop July 15th\, 1967. Along with teaching the history of Geraldine and Martin’s struggle and sacrifice\, the campaign is raising funds to steward the site of the former Afro-Asian Book Shop at 1412 Jefferson Avenue\, a mural dedicated to Geraldine and Martin\, and forthcoming events. \nKevin Thurston is the Chef and General Manager of Tipico Coffee. Prior to that\, he co-owned Cafe Godot. In addition to his culinary work\, he wrote Color Me White (BlazeVox) which was illustrated by Mickey Harmon and has numerous publication credits. He has performed with the ensemble BuffFluxus for over 20 years. He lives with his wife and daughter in a Polish workman’s cottage on the outskirts of Buffalo. \n \n \nBanner image: A black and white still from Seven Songs for Malcolm X by John Akomfrah. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/bit-depth-episode-2-songs-and-justice/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:BitDepth,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image3.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T120000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251021T182041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T182041Z UID:10001258-1762164000-1762171200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Wave Farm & NYSCA: Media Arts Breakfast Zoom with Squeaky and BIFF DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 3\, 2025\, 10:30 am – 12 pm\nOnline on zoom\nRegister here\nWaveFarm & 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. Recent Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) grantees Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center and the Buffalo International Film Festival will share updates from MAAF-funded projects and will highlight recent and upcoming programming. Finally\, we’ll go round the room to hear updates from attendees! \nMeeting Agenda: \n\nWelcome and introductions from Wave Farm’s Galen Joseph-Hunter\nNYSCA updates from Fabiana Chiu-Rinaldi\nMAAF for Organizations grantees share short presentations:\n\nAnna Scime\, Executive Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival\nEkrem Serdar\, Curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\n\n\nQ&A\nRound the Room updates from all of you!\n\nBanner image: Dense\, black and white television static. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/wave-farm-nysca-media-arts-breakfast-zoom-with-squeaky-and-biff/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Partners,Special Event,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/static-noise.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20250930T202257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251030T212243Z UID:10001252-1761332400-1761339600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Bit Depth\, Episode 1: Nuclear Set DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 24\, 7 pm\n$15 General / Free for Squeaky Wheel members\nSqueaky Wheel invites you to the first episode of Bit Depth\, a new critical Squeaky variety show and event series! In Episode 1\, Nuclear Set\, we will be featuring artist talks\, films\, and music focusing on nuclear harm and anxieties\, tying in to our current exhibition Radiation Borders. The event will feature exhibition artist Elizabeth Tannie Lewin in conversation with former resident Dana Murray Tyrrell (both former Workspace Residents in 2017)\, a performance by the luminous cellist Katie Weissmann\, a screening of Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah’s And still\, it remains (2023 Best Experimental Film\, Blackstar Film Festival)\, the short film sound of a million insects\, light of a thousand stars in memory of the recently deceased filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa\, and the 1953 3D “documentary” Doom Town. All of this accompanied by a delicious Mediterranean spread (including vegan and gluten free options) by celebrated chef Kevin Thurston. Join us! \nBit Depth is Squeaky’s take on the Buffalo arts variety show. Each “episode” will feature a mix of films\, artists\, hackers\, magicians\, scientists\, performances\, mini-workshops\, scholars and more\, accompanied by a special spread of food by local celebrity chefs. Inspired in equal part by events such as Just Buffalo’s Big Night\, Hallwalls’ Art+Science Cabaret\, and Arika’s Episodes\, Bit Depth are one-of-a-kind evenings featuring luminaries and rarities from Buffalo and beyond in critical and joyous engagement with media art in all that it can entail. \nThis event is supported by Teiger Foundation. Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah’s And still\, it remains is courtesy of LUX (London\, UK). Tomonari Nishikawa’s sound of a million insects\, light of a thousand stars is courtesy of Canyon Cinema (San Francisco\, CA). Doom Town is courtesy of the 3D Film Archive. Special thank you to Flicker Alley. \nAttendees: Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. Food will feature vegetarian and gluten free options. The program will be in three parts\, with short breaks in between. Members can email office@squeaky.org with the subject “Bit Depth” and we’ll reserve their spot within 24 hours. Not a member? Annual rates start at just $30 – sign up here. \nFilms\n \nTomonari Nishikawa\, sound of a million insects\, light of a thousand stars\n2 minutes\, 35 mm on digital video\, Japan/USA\, 2014 \nI buried a 100-foot 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road\, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station\, from the sunset of June 24\, 2014\, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a starry sky\, and numerous summer insects were singing loud. The area was once an evacuation zone\, but now people live there after the removal of the contaminated soil. – Tomonari Nishikawa \nThis project is made possible with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund\, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts\, Electronic Media and Film\, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Wave Farm. \n \nArwa Aburawa and Turab Shah\, And still\, it remains\n28 mins\, 4K Video\, Algeria/UK\, 2023 \nAnd still\, it remains is a new film by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah which carries forward their long-term dedication to exploring race and environmental legacies of colonialism. In this work\, they examine the ongoing impact of French toxic colonialism in Mertoutek\, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara and a home to the Escamaran community of Black Algerians. Used as a testing ground for nuclear bombs by the French between 1961 and 1966\, the area continues to suffer the consequences of radioactive fallout circulating in the water and soil. \nThe film examines Mertoutek’s encounter with French nuclear colonialism without restricting the region’s history to a narrow colonial temporality. Juxtaposed with slow meditative shots of the mountains\, Escamaran ways of life and ancient rock art\, experiences of French nuclear experiments\, faith and spirituality are narrated by the voices of multiple residents. Summoning the landscape as a witness and protagonist\, And still\, it remains reflects on the deep inscription of colonial violence into the landscape’s body and ecology. It also pushes against forms of visual capture that reproduce a colonial gaze while challenging visibility as the currency for political redress. Winds migrating across the Sahara have recently carried sand containing nuclear remains from the Algerian Sahara back to France\, serving as a reminder that the environmental afterlives of colonialism cannot be contained or forgotten. \nBy focussing on the experiences of Mertoutek residents\, Aburawa and Shah throw into sharp relief the racial oversight in the ‘end of the world’ discourse by asking what worlds have already ended and what does a life after the end of the world look like? What does intimacy with toxic colonialism afford its survivors and how does it shape their ideas around justice? How does one recover from ongoing violence and how\, ultimately\, do you carry on? \n \nDoom Town\n18 min\, Dunning 3D process presented on anaglyphic 3D\, USA\, 1953\nDirected by Allan Milner. Screenplay by Gerald Schnitzer. Produced by Lee Savin. 2003 recreation by Peter Kuran and Greg Kintz. \nThe first 3-D documentary\, Doom Town was made by independent producer Lee Savin\, who was intrigued by the atomic-bomb tests at Yucca Flats in Nevada. Filming began March 17\, 1953. Photographed with the Dunning Three-Dimensional Process\, it captured the devastating effects of an atomic blast. \nDoom Town was written by screenwriter-director-author Gerald Schnitzer\, whose credits included scripts for Bela Lugosi (The Corpse Vanishes\, Bowery at Midnight) and The Bowery Boys. Schnitzer also created several acclaimed TV commercials for Kodak (“Kodak Moment”)\, Chevrolet\, and Clairol. \nDoom Town was sneak-previewed on April 30 at the Paramount Theaterin Hollywood and opened ni Los Angeles on July 2 with The Maze and Lippert’s 3-D short\, College Capers. The next day it opened at the Telenews theaters ni San Francisco and Oakland. After these bookings\, it was mysteriously pulled from circulation. Although the project was approved by proper channels\, the anti-atomic testing stance was hardly a message the government wanted to promote. Was Doom Town suppressed? Nobody seems to know but the movie disappeared without a trace in July 1953. \nIt was lost for decades until the negatives\, slated to be junked\, were discovered and salvaged by the 3-D Film Archive in 1985. The separate reel with the color atomic bomb shots was missing; a recreation was done in 2003 by Peter Kuran\, using actual 3D- atomic bomb footage. The original “multi-sound” has been recreated by Greg Kintz. \nYears ahead of its time\, Doom Town is a prescient social statement and an excellent example of 3-D filmmaking. – Ted Okuda\, 3-D Rarities\, Blu-Ray published by Flicker Alley\, 2015 \nArtist talk with Elizabeth Tannie Lewin with Dana Murray Tyrrell\n \nVisiting artist Elizabeth Tannie Lewin will be speaking with Dana Murray Tyrrell about her work in our exhibition Radiation Borders\, and which names the first episode of Bit Depth: Nuclear Set. Nuclear Set interweaves Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel\, poetry by Maquis\, Rene Char\, the journals of Italian Futurist\, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti\, historical footage of the United States’ nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands\, and a 3D video game landscape of Bikini Atoll to speculate a future that will survive our extinction. This artist talk reunites the two artists who were both part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency program in 2018\, and both of whom have significantly investigated the legacies of nuclear toxicity and harm in their work. \nPerformance by Katie Weissman\n \nKatie Weissman began playing the cello at the age of three at Buffalo Suzuki Strings after seeing Yo-Yo Ma appear on Sesame Street and holds a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from Boston University. When at home in Buffalo\, Katie is a cellist and vocalist in the contemporary music ensemble Wooden Cities and is a substitute for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Shea’s Performing Arts Center. She also plays with the composition think-tank Evolution of the Arm\, free jazz group Root Cellar\, folk-rock bands Haunted Continents and Birddog\, and various other chamber music outfits in the Western New York area. She has toured at home and abroad and has lent her playing to many recording projects in the studio\, including multiple albums and stage performances by Buffalo’s own Goo Goo Dolls. She teaches privately in her own studio and currently lives in Williamsville with her dogs\, rabbits\, and birds. \nMenu by Kevin Thurston\n \nThe menu prepared and selected by artist and chef Kevin Thurston will include glutenfree and vegan options\, including: \n\nTurkey meatballs\, cinnamon scented tomato sauce\nMuhammara (vegan/gf) + pita\nCreamy cucumbers (gf)\nPickle tray from Barrel + Brine (vegan/gf)\nAssorted sweets from Arabic Sweets\nand more!\n\nBiographies of the artists\, filmmakers\, and chef\nArwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are a directing duo dedicated to exploring race\, migration\, the environment and other ongoing legacies of colonialism through film. Together they also co-founded Other Cinemas\, a project dedicated to supporting Black and non-white communities in London through free film screenings and a free\, year-long film school. \nDana Murray Tyrrell is an artist\, curator\, and writer from Niagara Falls\, New York. His artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the Castellani Art Museum\, Roger Tory Peterson Institute\, University at Buffalo Department of Art\, and the Pride Center of Western New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Love Canal at the Earl W. Brydges Library (2024-25)\, Floater at Kingfish Gallery (2021)\, and Blue at the Castellani Art Museum (2017). Select group exhibits include Black Rock Arts (2025)\, the Burchfield Penney Art Center (2023\, 2021)\, and ECHO Art Fair (2016). He currently works at the Burchfield Penney with past roles at Rivalry Projects\, the Niagara Arts & Cultural Center\, and former Albright-Knox Art Gallery. \nElizabeth (Betsy) Tannie Lewin is a digital media artist interested in: technology\, landscape\, identity\, disappearance\, history\, and utopia. \nKatie Weissman began playing the cello at the age of three at Buffalo Suzuki Strings after seeing Yo-Yo Ma appear on Sesame Street and holds a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from Boston University. When at home in Buffalo\, Katie is a cellist and vocalist in the contemporary music ensemble Wooden Cities and is a substitute for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Shea’s Performing Arts Center. She also plays with the composition think-tank Evolution of the Arm\, free jazz group Root Cellar\, folk-rock bands Haunted Continents and Birddog\, and various other chamber music outfits in the Western New York area. She has toured at home and abroad and has lent her playing to many recording projects in the studio\, including multiple albums and stage performances by Buffalo’s own Goo Goo Dolls. She teaches privately in her own studio and currently lives in Williamsville with her dogs\, rabbits\, and birds. \nKevin Thurston is the Chef and General Manager of Tipico Coffee. Prior to that\, he co-owned Cafe Godot. In addition to his culinary work\, he wrote Color Me White (BlazeVox) which was illustrated by Mickey Harmon and has numerous publication credits. He has performed with the ensemble BuffFluxus for over 20 years. He lives with his wife and daughter in a Polish workman’s cottage on the outskirts of Buffalo. \nTomonari Nishikawa’s (1969-2025) films explore the idea of documenting situations/phenomena through chosen medium and techniques\, often focusing on the process of art making. His films have been screened at numerous film festivals and art venues\, including Berlinale\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Hong Kong International Film Festival\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, London Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, Media City Film Festival\, Singapore International Film Festival\, and Toronto International Film Festival. In 2010\, he showed a series of 8mm and 16mm films at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center\, and his film installation\, Building 945\, received the 2008 Grant from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain. He taught in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/bit-depth-episode-1-nuclear-set/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:BitDepth,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BITDEPTH-Dithered.png GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191646Z UID:10001230-1747764000-1747774800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Seed Songs for Palestine DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 20. 6–9 pm; screening at 7 pm\nat Duende (85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203)\nRSVP below. Free. Click here to learn more about the “Revive Gaza’s Farmland” programme at Arab Group for the Protection of Nature.\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present an evening of short films to benefit the farmlands of Gaza. The screening\, curated by wave~form~projects and re:assemblage collective\, includes work by Alanis Obomsawin\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani\, Marwa Arsanios\, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh\, and Ryley Williams. This event has taken place in locations across the world\, including in cities such as Cape Town\, Glasgow\, Jakarta\, Oaxaca\, Toronto\, and cities across the U.S; we are excited to present it in Buffalo. \nHow to get to Duende: The event will take place at Duende\, on the second floor. The address is 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203. Duende is located at 85 Silo City Row. Turn off of Ohio Street onto Silo City Row\, then drive through the gate into Silo City. You will be driving through an active construction site. Parking is just past the bar. Duende is a 2-story building on the right hand side just past the red caboose train car. Please note that the second floor is only accessible with stairs. \nThe Revive Gaza’s Farmlands Project was initiated by Golo Besmlah in collaboration with Arab Centre for the Protection of Nature. Curated by wave~form~projects and re:assemblage collective. The Buffalo iteration of this program is presented by Squeaky Wheel\, in collaboration with Silo City\, Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo\, the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Community Lab at the University at Buffalo (aka UB Food Lab). Special thank you to Dee Hartman\, Noura al Khasawneh\, Samina Raja\, Toleen Touq\, and all our partners. \nAbout the program\nThe event will begin at 7pm. Doors will open at 6pm. There will be brief introductions and talks by associates of UB Food Lab\, Jewish Voice for Peace\, and Squeaky Wheel ahead of the films. We will have samosas available from Ali Baba Kebab and some bottles of water. The bar of Duende will be open through the event. \n“The films in Seed Songs for Palestine engage themes of seed sovereignty and Indigenous resilience\, highlighting the intrinsic connections between land\, culture\, and self-determination. Delving into the symbolic and practical importance of seeds\, plant life\, and relations with land as forms of resistance and continuity for Indigenous communities\, the films interrogate the dynamics of freedom and survival in the face of environmental and colonial oppression\, while also offering poignant reflections on both the fragility and resilience of existence. Collectively\, they illuminate the vital role of seed sovereignty in asserting Indigenous rights and preserving cultural heritage. This collection of shorts presents a rich tapestry of voices and radical perspectives that have existed from time immemorial\, considering the intersections of ecological stewardship and self determination which continue to disperse across fertile lands.” – wave~form~projects and re:assemblage collective. \nFilm program\nDuration: 74 minutes \n\nCecilia Vicuña\, Semiya (Seed song) (2015\, Chile\, 8 mins)\nAlanis Obomsawin\, Farming (1975\, Canada\, 2 mins)\nRana Nazzal Hamadeh\, We Would Be Freer (2023\, Palestine/Canada\, 9 mins)\nMarwa Arsanios\, Who is Afraid of Ideology\, Part I & II (2017-2019\, Lebanon/Iraqi Kurdistan\, North and East Syria\, 39 mins)\nRyley Williams\, it’s amazing that you still exist (2021\, Canada\, 4 mins)\nNicolás Grandi and Lata Mani\, Nocturne I (2013\, India\, 5 mins)\n\nSupplemental material from the curators and our partners\nVideo: The Untold Revolution: Food Sovereignty in Palestine (26 mins)\, Ameen Nayfeh\, 2021 \nVideo: Seeds are meant to disperse (8.5 mins)\, Christina Battle\, 2022. More information. \nReading: Forgotten history: a vision for Palestinian refugees’ agricultural self-sufficiency\, Nadi Abu Saada\, 2023 \nReading: Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities: Insights From Urban Growers in Srinagar\, Jammu and Kashmir by Raja\, S.\, Parvaiz\, A.\, Sanders\, L.\, Judelsohn\, A.\, Guru\, S.\, Bhan\, M.\, … Frimpong Boamah\, E. Journal of the American Planning Association\, 2022 \nReading: UB’s Food Lab partners with prominent Kashmiri poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef to celebrate an important Indigenous green called haak\, University at Buffalo\, 2024. Read more about UB Food Lab’s global work here. \n\nBanner image: A still from Rana Nazzal Hamadeh\, We Would Be Freer (2023\, Palestine/Canada\, 9 mins) URL:https://squeaky.org/event/seed-songs-for-palestine/ LOCATION:Duende\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Seed-Songs.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191630Z UID:10001222-1743879600-1743886800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 5\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel is proud to present a poetry reading by Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall as part of the public programs accompanying our exhibition\, The Image in its Absence which features an installation by Ebeid. Catering from Ali Baba Kebab\, with vegetarian options\, will be available to attendees. Special thank you to Judith Goldman and Laura Marris. This program is funded by Teiger Foundation\, and co-sponsored by the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nBiographies of the artists\nCarolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. She is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press\, 2016) and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts (Albion Books\, 2023). Her next book Hide is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in winter of 2026. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University\, CantoMundo\, the NEA\, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She is the current Bonderman Assistant Professor of poetry at Brown University. A longtime editor\, she currently edits poetry at The Rumpus\, as well as the multimedia zine Visible Binary. Carolina grew up in West New York\, New Jersey in a Cuban and Palestinian family. \nJoe Hall is a Buffalo-based writer and researcher. His six books of poetry include Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean 2023) and People Finder\, Buffalo (Cloak 2024). Current Affairs on Fugue & Strike: “a remarkable poetic project\, unlike anything else in literature today.” Hall has performed and delivered talks nationally at bars\, squats\, universities\, and rivers. Protean\, The Cleveland Review of Books\, Eighteen-Century Fiction\, Poetry Daily\, Fence Digital\, mercury firs\, dollar bills\, and an NFTA bus shelter have all featured his writing. He has taught community-based writing workshops for teachers\, teens\, and workers. Community Mausoleum recently featured his essay “PEN America: Cultural Imperialism’s Avant-Garde.” Find more at http://joehalljoehall.com. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/carolinaebeidandjoehall/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Carolina-and-Joe.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191538Z UID:10001142-1706724000-1706731200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Eclipse Haiku Workshop for Youth and Adults DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 31\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 12 and up\nLimited space; register below\nIn this one-time workshop\, participants will explore geological timescales\, public art\, climate science\, and poetry in anticipation of the Solar Eclipse of 2024. Through brief presentations and exercises\, guest artist Jason Livingston and paleontologist Phoebe Cohen will facilitate haiku-writing generated by the evening’s topics and prompts. This workshop is recommended for audiences young and old who would like to explore their creativity and engage with astronomy\, geology\, and climate. \nNo prior experience with writing haiku is expected. Please note: participants under age 16 must attend with an adult. \nLivingston and Cohen presented this workshop privately for our Saturday Cafe program this past Fall; we are excited to present this second edition\, open to all. Participants will have the opportunity to record audio of themselves reading their haiku aloud. Work written and recorded by participants may be requested for inclusion in Livingston and Cohen’s upcoming exhibition and public art project In the Sun’s Absence. Click here to learn more about the exhibition. \nBiographies of the instructors\nJason Livingston is a media artist\, filmmaker\, and educator. His award-winning films have been widely exhibited at festivals and museums\, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, and Media City in Canada. He is currently researching histories of extractive cinema and abolitionist re-imaginings of our shared world as a Presidential Fellow in the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo. \nPhoebe Cohen is a paleontologist\, geobiologist\, teacher\, and science communicator. Her research focuses on understanding the interactions between life and the earth system in deep time by integrating micropaleontological\, geological\, and biological lines of evidence. Phoebe is an Associate Professor at Williams College\, where her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. She is also the co-host of the forthcoming podcast Jax and Phoebe Make a Planet\, and an advocate for inclusion and equity in the earth sciences and beyond. \nThis event is supported by the Simons Foundation as part of their In the Path of Totality project. \nBanner image: Phoebe Cohen is lecturing\, standing in front of of a projection with several students gathered around a table with notebooks. On the screen is a diagram depicting the Sun\, Moon\, and Earth’s position during a solar eclipse\, with the moon blocking the sun relative to the earth. Cohen is pointing at the moon. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/eclipse-haiku-workshop-for-youth-and-adults/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Squeaky-Wheel-Workshop-1.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T130000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001095-1684584000-1684587600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Equipment Orientation DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 20\, 12 pm\nFree\nJoin us Saturday\, May 20 at noon for our first equipment orientation of the year. We’ll briefly preview Squeaky’s rental inventory and discuss how to get started with basic functions\, handling\, and operations of each piece of equipment. It’s a great time to come with your questions and find out how renting from Squeaky Wheel can support your creative moving image visions! URL:https://squeaky.org/event/equipment-orientation-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Access,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Equip-Orientation.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001086-1671127200-1671134400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky's Sneaky Peeky DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 15\, 6–8 pm\nFree at 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\nRSVP here\nWe’re moving and we want to hear from you! Join us for our Annual Meeting and a sneak peek into our new home base at the Tri-Main Center (2495 Main Street\, Suite 310) . Hear from our Executive Director\, renew your membership (or become a new member!)\, and give us your feedback on how to utilize the new space. Wine\, beer\, and light fare will be provided. Be sure to RSVP at the link above! \nImage description: An illustration of young people making a movie together. Illustration by Tom Holt. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeakys-sneaky-peeky/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TomHolt-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001084-1668189600-1668283200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Deniz Tortum's September 1955 and Floodplain DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 11\, 6–8 pm and Saturday\, November 12\, 2022\, 3–5 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nReserve a viewing time here or show up!\nSqueaky Wheel invites you to a special event for you to experience two virtual reality experience by Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 and Floodplain. We are excited to welcome back Tortum\, who was a Workspace Resident researching virtual reality documentary practices in 2017\, in conjunction with his virtual reality intensive taking place that weekend. Viewers can sign up at the link above to reserve a viewing time for September 1955. \n \nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). A wide image taken outdoors on a partially sunny day. A dirt road\, plastic chairs\, and some houses are visible. Someone is sitting on a chair\, their back turned against us. On the left\, a minaret is visible.\nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain\nVirtual reality on Oculus Rift\, 15 min\, 2018 \nA mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths\, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization slowly unravels\, quiet new dynamics emerge. \nFloodplain is set against a man-made environmental crisis and explores our relationships to each other at the end of nature. If we can no longer be what we were\, can we really become something new? Can we be a forest\, or a stone; can we be a multitude of organisms; can we be nothing? Can we be something that we don’t know we can be yet? \n \nDeniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A sun dappled room with a cabinet full of photography film. Two pictures are hanging on the wall; one of a person with a camera\, the other of a soccer team lined up. A coat and fedora hang in the corner by a comfortable chair.\nDeniz Tortum with Çağrı Hakkı Zaman & Nil Tuzcu\, September 1955\nVirtual Reality on Vive\, 8 min\, 2016 \nThe 8-minute virtual-reality documentary depicts the Istanbul Pogrom\, a government-initiated organized attack on the minorities of Istanbul that took place on September 6-7\, 1955. This interactive installation places the viewer in a reconstructed photography studio in the midst of the pogrom\, allowing one to witness the events from the perspective of a local shop-owner. \nDrawing on the photographic archive of Maryam Şahinyan (1911-1996) and Osep Minasoğlu (1929-2013)\, Armenian photographers who lived in Istanbul at the time\, the installation materializes an extinct space. The wall in the virtual studio that exhibits Sahinyan’s photos is transformed into a documentation of the raids and their aftermath in the physical space; by overlapping the layouts of the two spaces the project experiments with the transition from a virtual to physical experience. The experience of the space induced by participating in the mundane activities of the photography studio aims to generate unique historical narratives that are reproduced and enacted by the viewer. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nBanner image: Deniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/deniz-tortums-september-1955/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-11.46.12-AM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001082-1664020800-1664053200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's Excellent Adventure! DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24\, 2022\nTeam check-in: starts at 11 AM\nGameplay: 12–4 PM\nParty: 6–9 PM\nSliding scale: $10-25 per person.\nLocation: Anywhere! With optional opening and closing events at Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\nClick here for tickets\nClick here for the event guide+ team placards \n* Event guide available on September 24\, 2022\, at 12 pm ET \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is on! \nBring your creativity and a team of up to 4 of your friends and family. Compete to win prizes by posting photos and videos to Instagram to solve clues. \n\n\n11:00 am-12 pm – Check in at Five Points Bakery\, grab a team photo\, and register before the clues drop! \n\n\n12:00 pm – Clues released and the Excellent Adventure Begins! \n\n\n4:00 pm-Finish Line. The Excellent Adventure ENDS! No late photo posts will be accepted. \n\n\n6:00 pm-Party! – and winners are announced \n\n\nHailed by Buffalo Spree magazine as the “Best New Fundraiser”\, the Excellent Adventure is “a brilliant mashup of scavenger hunt and selfie culture…truly family-friendly\, educational\, and\, most of all\, super fun.” \nGet to know the place you live\, share your creativity\, have fun with your friends\, and win prizes.\nHere is the deal: \n\n\nTeams have four hours \n\n\n50 clues in 5 categories \n\n\nBonus points awarded for creativity and effort \n\n\nClues completed by posting photos and videos to instagram with hashtag #squeakyadventure \n\n\nThe Excellent Adventure promises to bring out the artist\, tour guide\, historian\, and/or goofball in all of us! Players can take part in their own backyard or on the other side of the world. All you need is an internet connection\, a smart phone\, and a few hours for fun. \nAnd did we mention there is an After Party!? \nIf you are local\, celebrate a day of adventuring through Buffalo at Five Points Bakery with music from ABCDJ. There will be food and drinks available for purchase\, and all proceeds benefit Squeaky Wheel\, an excellent excuse to get out and enjoy the last Saturday of September. \nDon’t want to quest for clues – why not come and party anyway! We have a special party-only ticket available (only $10)\, so you can still support Squeaky Wheel\, check out the work of the Excellent Adventure teams and celebrate the winners at the Five Points After Party\, 6-9 pm. \n“The Squeaky Wheel Excellent Adventure was a great opportunity to get outdoors\, be creative\, and see lots of Buffalo sights that I don’t often take the time to notice. My friends and I had a lovely afternoon of competitive fun and learned some new ways to use digital media!” \n—Sarah Wooton\, 2020 participant\, Team Inspector Catjets \nA panel of Excellent Adventure judges made up of media professionals and community members will review submissions\, assigning points for the completion of each clue\, and assigning bonus points for creativity or effort. At exactly 4 pm\, gameplay ends. No late submissions! At 6 pm we’ll gather at Five Points Bakery for the after-party where posts will be shared on screens and prizes will be awarded. DJ? Check. Dancing? Check. Fun? Absolutely! \nWhat does my ticket support? \nSqueaky Wheel’s mission is to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses digital media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Buying a ticket to this fundraising event supports the amazing work that Squeaky Wheel does to bring Media Arts Education to youth\, schools\, seniors\, artists\, and communities throughout and beyond Western New York. \n \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is made possible through the generous support of Five Points Bakery\, Allen Street Consulting\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo Spree\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Catholic Health\, Delaware Camera\, FGI Landscaping\, Lumpy Buttons\, PUSH Buffalo\, Rigidized Metals\, UB Media Study. \nBanner photo: A collage of posts from previous Excellent Adventures responding to prompts such as (left to right\, top to bottom): Favorite Public Artwork\, Favorite Mural\, Hottest Wings\, Photo Finish Team Photo\, Team Headstand\, Make a New Friend\, Five Fall Colors\, Twisted Tongues\, Stupid Human Trick. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-excellent-adventure-3/ LOCATION:Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14213\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-09-16-at-3.38.47-PM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220811T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220811T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001080-1660240800-1660248000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:DATA Summer Showcase DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 11 at 6 pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel 617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\nLocation + Accessibility information\nFree and open to the public \nLead Teaching Artist: Nyles Moore\nTeaching Assistant: Naomi Frisch\nStudent Mentor: Diego Diaz \nJoin us to view the work the DATA (Digital Art & Technology Access) students created this summer in the Digital Art + Animation workshops! The showcase will feature digital and printed artwork and animations. Light snacks and drinks will be available. \n \n \n \n \n \nGraphic image: Courtesy of Nyles Moore\, 2022 \n \nSpecial thanks to DATA’s generous funders and partners: \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data-summer-showcase/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DSC06406.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210622T180000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10001046-1623774600-1624384800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Dark Matters: Youth Workshop DESCRIPTION:June 15 and 22\, 2021\n4:30–6 pm\nFree and open to youth ages 12–21. The workshop is limited to ten participants.\nTo register\, email jbwc@justbuffalo.org \nHow does your relationship with Artificial Intelligence like Siri and Alexa affect the way you navigate the world? What does inclusive technology look like? What kind of technology would you like to see in the world? \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center for a virtual youth workshop! Led by Just Buffalo’s Teaching Artist Richie Wills\, participants will have a discussion session where they analyze the technology around us\, followed by a creative writing session where they envision possible futures with transformative technologies surpassing racism and inequities. This workshop is presented as part of the public programs accompanying Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, an exhibition and interactive web experience exposing the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. \nOptional: To prepare for the workshop\, read this article from The Verge. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities\, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate. \nAbout the Teaching Artist\n\n\nRICHIE WILLS holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Richie has worked as a Writing Center and BABEL volunteer and as an outreach coordinator for Words on the Street and The Mocha Center. He is also contributing writer for The Galactic Tribe and continues to work as a community organizer. Richie believes in the power of the written word and storytelling to bring people together and break barriers. \n \nAbout Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project CELEBRATES the legacy of prominent Black writers who have called Buffalo home\, whose voices shape history\, inspire radical change\, and influence current and future generations of poets and writers; DRAWS INSPIRATION from Buffalo’s history as a gateway to freedom along the Underground Railroad; and CHALLENGES our community to grapple with racism and inequities through literature\, to find pathways toward justice in the power of the written word\, and to open hearts & minds as we confront our shared past and present in order to shape a more equitable future. See more information here. \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/dark-matters-youth-workshop/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-3.43.32-PM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201010T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201010T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191403Z UID:10000807-1602325800-1602349200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure DESCRIPTION:Fact Sheet | Prizes | How It Works | Rules & Info \nSqueaky Wheel’s biennial social media scavenger hunt is back! Named by Buffalo Spree magazine as the “Best New Fundraiser 2019\,” this fun\, family-friendly event sets participants on a mission to accomplish as many tasks as they can throughout the afternoon. The most points at the conclusion of the event win the Grand Prize\, with many additional special category prizes. The tasks (designed with equal parts cultural awareness\, media-savvy\, and silliness) encourage teams to creatively engage with their community outdoors in the open air and from the safety of their homes. \nThis year’s Excellent Adventure adapts easily to the challenging circumstances we’re living in now. With some thoughtful adjustments\, we’ve reconfigured this year’s event to prioritize safety and to allow for social distance\, yet it will remain an eminently social\, superbly fun activity. Additionally\, because of the measures we’ve taken to produce the opening and closing events online\, we can open up the Excellent Adventure to anyone in the world with a smartphone and an internet connection. So be sure to tell all your friends in Denver or Dakar! \nFunds raised at this event will support the free and low-cost media equipment access\, education programs\, and art exhibitions that Squeaky Wheel offers to Western New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds every day. \n \nFact Sheet: \n\nWho: You and up to three others!\nWhat: Social media scavenger hunt\nWhere: Anywhere in the world! \nWhen: Saturday\, October 10\, 2020\n10:30 AM ET: Opening Event begins on Google Meet: Rules\, support announced\, Teams/Participants finalized.\n11 AM ET: List of tasks unveiled: The race begins!\n11 AM–4 PM ET: Embark on your adventure!\n4 PM ET: Final deadline to submit tasks\n5 PM ET: Closing Event on Google Meet: Team roll-call\, submissions screened\, prize-winners announced!\nWhy: To enjoy a fun-filled day of adventure and raise funds to support media literacy\, arts\, and education in Western NY\nHow: Assemble your team. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE at a sliding scale of $10-$25 per person.\nRegister early to receive a bonus clue! \n(by Friday\, October 9\, 5:00 PM; registration closes Saturday\, October 10\, 12 pm) \nPrizes: \nGrand prize: The Adventure Continues! ~$2\,000 value!\n– GoPro Hero9 kit \n– 4 Media Art Workshop vouchers for Squeaky Wheel \n– 4 Anytime lift tickets to Holiday Valley\n– Gift card to Steelbound Brewery & Distillery in Ellicottville \n– 1-year membership to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff \n– 4 annual Reddy Bikeshare memberships\n– Private fossil hunt and tour at Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve\n– New Era sports merchandise\n– Parkside Meadow gift card \n2nd Place: Photo finish! ~$800 value!\n– 35mm Analog Camera kit\n– 1 CEPA Gallery membership + 1 workshop voucher\, and swag\n– 4 memberships to Squeaky Wheel \n– Passes to the George Eastman Museum \n– 4 tickets to the National Comedy Center (2 dual admission tickets)\n– Private bike tour and swag from Buffalo Bike Tours \n3rd Place: Culture Vulture! ~$500 value!\n– 2 tickets to Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra\n– $50 Giftcard for The Black Sheep\n– 2 Tickets Darwin Martin House 1 hour tour + souvenir book\n– 4 Tickets to the National Comedy Center (2 dual admission tickets)\n– 3 Individual memberships and 3 PineGrill T-shirts to African American Cultural Center \n– 4 Tickets to a Squeaky Wheel screening \nMost Creative\n– $50 Pineapple Company gift card\n– $50 Gutter Pop Comics gift card + gift basket \n– $50 Lumpy Buttons gift card \nBest Group Energy\n– 4 Vouchers for a Make Your Own Glass workshop + 4 admission passes at Corning Museum of Glass\n– Explore Buffalo family membership\n– Buffalo Science Museum family membership \nHonorable Mentions:\n– Owl prowl for 14 people with Buffalo Audubon Society\n– Shopping party at Half & Half: $50 gift certificate + 20% discount for up to 20 friends\n– $20 gift card to Revolver Records \n \nHow the Excellent Adventure works:\nTraveling by foot\, bicycle\, vehicle\, assistive device\, or just going into your backyard\, participants will race to accomplish as many prompts as possible in photos or videos and upload them to Instagram with the hashtag #squeakyadventure. Thanks to Reddy Bikeshare and Buffalo Bike Tours\, participants will also have discounts to bicycle rentals for the day. For those new to Instagram or in need of technical support\, a virtual tech-help desk will be available at Squeaky Wheel for the duration of the event. Included with the list of tasks will be an FAQ with common questions and links to additional apps and tools that teams may find useful. \nAt 10:30 am EST\, the Excellent Adventure Opening Event begins\, and participants must be present. Rules will be explained\, teams finalized\, and other details\, including safety precautions\, discussed. Participants will be required to wear masks when social distance isn’t possible. \nAt 11:00 am (EST)\, the list of Excellent Adventure prompts will be revealed\, AND THE ADVENTURE STARTS! \nParticipants have until 4:00 pm to accomplish as many tasks as they can and win points for each one. Most tasks are open to interpretation\, such that whether you are participating from home or in the field\, as a real-world or virtual team\, you should be able to get them done. \nA panel of judges will review the uploaded imagery in real-time\, and they or staff will respond to each team’s task on Instagram to confirm that the task was received. Each prompt is assigned a certain number of points depending on difficulty. The judges will give points for completing tasks\, with bonus points\, at their discretion\, for creativity. The final deadline to submit tasks will be 4:00 pm. Between 4:00–5:00 pm\, the judges will confer\, and the staff will prepare for the Closing Event. \nAt 5:00 pm\, the Closing Event will begin where all will have a chance to view the submissions before the judges announce the prize winners. The Grand Prize is awarded to the team with the most points. Additional prizes will be awarded to teams completing tasks with humor\, innovation\, media-savvy\, and other special categories (the actual special categories are subject to change). Top prizes include a GoPro camera kit\, access to safe and healthy activities\, and gift cards to delicious eateries and breweries around Buffalo! For those competing outside of Buffalo\, prizes are shipped whenever possible. \n\nRULES: \n\nTEAMS:\n\n\n\n\nRegister and form your own team of up to 4 people up to 12 pm day of event (3 pt. bonus task for those who register by 10/3/20; 1pt bonus task for those who register by 10/9/20)\nYou can join as a single-member team or as a “free-agent” and Squeaky Wheel will connect you with other free agents or teams looking for additional members (must register as free-agent by October 9th).\nTeams can be from any geographic location.\nTeams can be virtual. This may take more creativity\, but if you have an online team\, tasks can be interpreted to fit a virtual team.\nTeam members must all take part in solving the task. They do not always have to be in the image/video\, but all must collaborate in coming up with each task submission.\n\n\n\n\n\nPLAY\n\n\n\n\nAt the opening event at 11 am the List will be revealed and the Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure officially commences. \nThe list contains 100 clues/tasks each of which can be completed for a certain number of points (1-4).\nEach team can select any number of tasks to complete. You do not have to complete all tasks (in fact it will be almost impossible). The more you accomplish\, the more points you will get.\nYou may accomplish tasks in any order.\nEach completed task must be documented in a photo or video that includes the Squeaky Wheel placard with your team name and uploaded to Instagram with proper hashtag: #SqueakyAdventure and captioned with the Task #.\n\nNOTE: task number must coincide with the number assigned on the List. (For example\, if you do task #5 first\, your caption should say “Task 5”.\nThe Squeaky Excellent Adventure placard will be emailed and linked. You will need to print this out. (If you don’t have access to a printer\, you may trace the placard by hand.)\n\n\nDeadline to post tasks is 4:00 pm.\nRecommended Free Apps: TikTok\, Boomerang\, Hyperlapse\, Slo Mo Video\, Glitch Art\, Adobe Spark\, Layout\, Swipeable\, Stop Motion (names may differ for depending on OS)\nClosing event will be online (Google Meetings) at 5 pm where teams will be acknowledged\, judges introduced\, and prizes awarded. Participants will receive a link to the Closing event \n\n\n\n\nNEED TECHNICAL HELP? \nFor those new to Instagram or are in need of technical support\, a virtual tech-help desk will be available at Squeaky Wheel for the duration of the event. If you need help on the go\, feel free to text/call 716-427-4125 or message us on Instagram at @SqueakyBuffalo. \n\nBICYCLE RENTAL TOURS \nThanks to Buffalo Bike Tours all adventurers receive 20% off Bike Rentals. Use promo code SQUEAKY2020 and sign up here: https://www.buffalobiketours.com/rentals \nReddy Bikeshare also has a special deal for you! Sign up for a Group Pass for just $1.00 (normally $9.00) which gets you access to up to 4 bikes at once. But that’s not all! You also get your first hour free for four riders ($24 value!). After that\, your cost is just $0.10/min (or $6/hr) per bike. \nTo sign up and ride: \nClick https://widget.socialbicycles.com/#/78/1045?promoCode=SQUEAKY20 to get started! We’ve applied the promo code for you to make it easy. Next\, follow these \nsteps to redeem your free ride time: \n\n Download the Social Bicycles app for Android or iOS and login with your email and password that you just used to create your new account.\n Click the upper right corner\, then click on “Memberships”\, tap the arrow under your membership\, then “Add promo code”\n Enter the promo code SCAVENGE1 and hit apply.\n\nYou’re all set! You can use the same account number and PIN to unlock up to 4 bikes. \n\nPRIVACY CONCERNS? \n\nIf you don’t want to use your personal account\, you can set up a new Instagram account for the team.\nLet your teammates know if you don’t want to be tagged in the photos.\nLet your teammates know if you don’t want your image included.\n\n\nSAFETY & CONDUCT \n\nDon’t do anything illegal\nAbide by Squeaky Wheel’s Community Guidelines. (Details).\nBe respectful of people\, communities\, and public spaces. Please also be mindful of problematic and culturally appropriative digital behaviors\, i.e. digital Blackface.\nDo not record or photograph people without their consent.\nAbide by all regional CoVid19 safety precautions (link?)\nSqueaky Wheel may disqualify any team that fails to follow these rules and codes of conduct.\n\n\nJUDGING: \n\nA three person panel of judges (Liz Ferrer\, Bow Ty\, and Jenson Leonard) determines whether or not a submitted photo/video meets the criteria of a task. \nPoints are awarded for each completed task\, with additional points given (if appropriate) for effort or creativity or “going beyond” at the discretion of the judges. \nJudges or staff will respond in comments to each submission to confirm receipt.\nJudges will be reviewing between 11 am–4 pm\, and making selections between 4–5 pm\, with a moderator assisting the process.\n\n \nBe sure to follow us on Facebook\, Instagram\, and Twitter @SqueakyBuffalo for updates. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is made possible through the generous support of Clover Group\, Inc.\, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP\, Rigidized Metals\, Allen Street Consulting\, Bluebird Mobility\, Catholic Health\, Putman Insurance Agency\, Stephens & Stephens\, LLP\, Bridget Donahue Gallery\, Buffalo State College Communication Department\, Paradise Wine\, Buffalo Spree\, Yelp\, Challenger News\, Buffalo Bike Tours\, and Reddy Bikeshare. \nWe are currently seeking additional sponsors for this event. If you are interested\, please contact kyla@squeaky.org. \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-excellent-adventure/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/websiteBanner-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T220000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191317Z UID:10001010-1581706800-1581717600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings DESCRIPTION:Special Event | Friday\, February 14\, 7–10 pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\nAges 18+ only. Please review our community guidelines. \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual Valentine’s day event celebrating intimacy and sexuality returns with a special auditory edition. Listen to headphones filled with ASMR and other tracks by artists Erin Gee and Hope Mora; create a live soundtrack to a new film by Caroline Doherty; sing along to karaoke films by Michael Robinson\, and Wayne Yung\, and enjoy a performance by lyricist and hip hop artist Desiree Kee\, and much more! \nProgram\n7–8 pm: Listen to artist made audio tracks by Hope Mora and Erin Gee on remote headphones\, and sing your heart out with karaoke! \n8 pm: Come together in the microcinema to watch\, listen\, sing\, and vocalize to films by Caroline Doherty\, Dina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, Jess Dobkin\, Lauren Fournier\, Michael Robinson\, Thirza Curthand\, and Wayne Yung! \n9 pm: Gather in the gallery to listen to a performance by lyricist Desiree Kee\, followed by more karaoke! \nAudio Works\nChannel 1\nErin Gee\, of the soone\, 18:39 min\, digital sound\, 2019\nErin Gee leads the listener in a first-person roleplay as a specialist of a new experimental neural treatment: language processing and deprocessing. After a brief testing of equipment and EEG monitoring\, Gee reads out the processes of a long-short term memory algorithm as it “learns” language from the classic book of passions gone awry\, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. This exposure to machined-evolution of linguistic patterns is intended to reset or recalibrate human linguistic patterns in your brain\, offering a form of abstracted\, deep tissue neural “massage”. \nChannel 2\nHope Mora\, Sex With Harmony\, 1:48 min; Basic Need With Dajah\, sound\, 1:21 min; My Neck My Back\, Bell Hooks Love\, and Magic Booty\, 5:03 min\, digital sound\, all 2020 \nScreening program\nThirza Curthand\, Helpless Maiden Makes An “I” Statement\, 6 min\, digital video\, 1999\nBy using clips of evil queens/witches this video plays off the sadomasochistic lesboerotic subtexts commonly found in children’s entertainment. A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual s/m relationship with her lover\, and “evil” queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. This video was inspired by the artist’s own childhood “kiddie porn”\, Disney movies which turned her on to no end and kicked off many a prepubescent masturbation session. \nLauren Fournier\, Sex and Death\, 4 min\, digital video\, 2015\nThe performer re-frames the Freudian tension between eros and thanatos using the feminist tradition of performance for video. She repeats the locution “sex and death and sex and death and sex and death” aloud as she shimmies across the screen. The formal integrity of the loop meets the failures of the body\, as the performer playfully moves across the screen\, trying to catch her breath to continue the spell-like invocation. Sex and death— the drive toward binding (eros) and the drive toward destruction (thanatos)— are configured by Freud to be the two fundamental drives behind Western civilization. In this video\, the Freudian tension is taken up through a floundering\, vaguely sexual performance. The function of humour is something which has been increasingly (re)claimed by Canadian feminist video and performance artists in recent years\, and is something that I find both politically efficacious and formally refreshing. \nJess Dobkin\, It’s Not Easy Being Green\, 3 min\, digital video\, 2011\nA heartfelt and provocative rendition of Kermit the Frog’s melancholic It’s Not Easy Being Green\, where the artist\, in the role of Kermit the Frog\, is fisted by a woman in drag in the role of Jim Henson. Together\, as human puppet and puppeteer\, they lip sync the much loved song. This film is a for-camera version of a performance previously presented to live audiences. For mature audiences. \nDina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, In Queer Corners\, 6 min\, digital video\, 2013\nIn Queer Corners is a collaborative video by Dina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat. The video examines the ways in which archives harbour stories\, those that are spoken\, and those left unsaid. Based on serendipitous encounters\, and employing the language of dreams and desire\, Georgis and Bamboat narrate each other’s stories and address the complications of queer re-tellings. In Queer Corners explores the limits and possibilities of the archive through the theme of narration and storytelling. Working with a found object from the dusty and neglected corners of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archive\, this work explores how archival objects can come to life through their encounter with the present\, with other desires\, and with unexpected responses and meanings.\nThe archive\, if left unexamined\, works authoritatively to construct and stabilize knowledge. Though it selects and gathers signs unconsciously\, what is held within its walls is neither arbitrary nor innocent. In resistance to interpret archival objects into a synchronized story of the past\, In Queer Corners looks to its archival object as an affective placeholder from which new meanings and new stories can be made. The narratives recorded in this work respond to the found image in narrative accounts where the line between dream and reality is distorted. They speak a non-literal truth about desire\, insecurity\, despair\, sex\, race and class\, and the difficulty of uttering and representing these very things. Knowledge itself is vulnerable\, made in relation\, and articulated in broken stories. Reaching for some thing or some place\, the bodies represented tell unfinished narratives. Though the bodies stand alone\, the line between self and other is obfuscated and they depend on each other to tell their stories. \nWayne Yung\, One Night in Heaven\, 5 min\, digital video\, 1995\nIn this queer Asian spoof of karaoke\, a new boy in town discovers the dark side of the big city. The story follows his adventures to an underground club where sex and murder are in store. \nCaroline Doherty\, Rock\, Soft Place\, ~5 min\, digital video\, 2020 \nMichael Robinson\, Hold Me Now\, 5 min\, digital video\, 2008\nPlagued by blindness\, sloth\, and devotion\, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. \n \n \nDesiree Kee \n \nDina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, In Queer Corners (2013) \nBios of the artists \nCaroline Doherty is an artist based in Buffalo\, NY. She employs multiple mediums\, including performance\, video\, sculpture\, and public projects. She has participated in residencies including the Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency in Buffalo; the SOMA Summer Program in Mexico City; Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology in Michoacán\, Mexico; and ArtPark in Lewiston\, NY. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America\, in Europe\, and in China. Caroline has been an educator for over 15 years\, facilitating art making for youth\, university students\, and adults in formal and informal settings in the US\, Mexico\, and Canada. \nDesiree Kee is a 25 year old lyricist that was born and raised Queens\, Ny. She moved from NYC to Maryland in 2002 and later relocated to Buffalo\, NY in 2011. She currently has two projects available on her soundcloud which is I AM NOT A RAPPER EP (2017) and This Mixtape Is A Cry For Help (2019) as well as 4 self-directed visuals which can be found on her youtube. \nHope Mora is a visual artist from West Texas\, currently teaching and completing her MFA at The University at Buffalo and holds a BFA from Texas State University in San Marcos. She has shown work in selected gallery and public space exhibitions in Central Texas and Western New York\, such as Mexic-Arte Museum\, Public Art San Antonio\, Anna Kaplan Contemporary\, and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art. \nThe Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings is sponsored by City Wine Merchants and SE2 Silent Disco. \nBanner image: Wayne Yung\, One Night in Heaven (1995). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/love-sex-show-sweet-nothings/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/unnamed-2.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T010000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191316Z UID:10000984-1571515200-1571533200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Scary-oke! DESCRIPTION:October 19\, 2019\, 8pm–1am \nMarket Arcade (617 Main Street)\nSlasher Ticket $15 | Pre-sale $20 | Door $25\nGet tickets here* \n \nScary-oke is back! \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center’s popular Halloween Karaoke Party returns! This 8th edition of our legendary fundraiser\, Peepshow\, Scary-oke takes on the theme of “Haunted Futures”. \nThere’s something for everyone at Scary-oke! Karaoke lovers: hop between three haunted movie-themed karaoke rooms designed by local artists Obsidian Bellis\, Charlie Best\, and Brian Milbrand accompanied by karaoke jockeys Incognegro\, Holly Johnson\, and Rick Vallone. Dance partiers: project your moves into another world using our green-screen backdrop\, boogie through the haunted halls with Silent Disco\, or dance the night away with DJs @ABCDJ. \nArt lovers: bid on exciting work by local and regional artists in a special silent Art Auction. Gamers: get spooked with a creepy survival horror game by Buffalo Game Space’s Wase Qazi. Exhibitionists: pose for photos on the silver carpet\, indulge yourselves in multiple selfie spots\, or enter for your chance to win amazing prizes in the Costume Contest hosted by Grovey Cleves. \nBe sure to stick around for performances by Cat & Cat the Incredible Conjoined Stripper Clowns\, Max Darling\, Fifi Laflea\, and Vidalia May. And you won’t want to miss the Epic Song Sing-a-Long to cap off the night!\nProceeds help benefit Squeaky Wheel’s award-winning youth and adult media education programs\, along with our low-cost equipment access and exhibitions. Don’t miss the biggest karaoke event in WNY and help make a difference! \nThis fundraiser is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors\, to date: Clover Management\, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria\, Buffalo Rising\, Buffalo Spree\, Allen Street Consulting\, Challenger News\, Cheryl Lyles\, Quick Brown Fox Labs\, Half and Half Boutique\, Shea’s Performing Arts Center\, Yelp\, Putman Insurance Agency\, Bluebird Transportation\, LLC\, 2FilmCritics.com\, Café 59\, Block Club\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Lumiflux Media\, Catherine Linder Spencer\, Andrews\, Bernstein\, Maranto & Nicotra\, PLLC\, Mister Goodbar\, Allasen Carpet\, Fry Baby Donuts\, Mohawk Cryo\, Renoun Creative\, UB Dept of Art\, UB Dept of Media Study\, Savoy Buffalo\, Paranormal Club @ Medaille College\, Interdisciplinary Studies Dept. Medaille College\, DeBellis Catherine & Morreale Corporate Staffing\, and John McKendry. \n \n*Before purchasing a ticket please review our community guidelines URL:https://squeaky.org/event/scaryoke/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Peepshow-Group-Photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190316T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190316T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191228Z UID:10000955-1552744800-1552762800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Gender + The Non-Binary DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 16\, 2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nCoffee\, refreshments\, research\, and guidance provided. Email ekrem@squeaky.org for childcare requests.\nRSVP Here \nJoin us for the global do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia. \nAs Art+Feminism enters its sixth year of worldwide activities\, they announce an evolution of their project: Gender+ The Non-Binary. This focus breaks apart “the myth that people are only as valuable as their adherence to gendered stereotypes – only as honorable as their ability to fit into one of two categories: assigned girl at birth or assigned boy.” \nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a day of learning\, and bringing to light histories unknown while impacting the world’s dictionary. Research materials\, coffee\, and food will be provided. Onsite childcare is available by request for those who RSVP by March 13th. \nSupported by Buffalo State University’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Departments of Art and the Department of Media Study\, and the Wikimedia Foundation. \nImage credit: Detail of Wendy Red Star\, Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance)\, 2019. This artwork was produced for the 2019 Art+Feminism Call to Action Art Commission. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-gender-the-non-binary/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/lossy-page1-1280px-Ashkaamne_matrilineal_inheritance_by_Wendy_Red_Star.tif.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191228Z UID:10000954-1550257200-1550264400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Play with Me DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 15\, 7pm\nGeneral Admission: $10\n*Limited Online only* Threesome Special: 3 Tickets for $25\nFree with ArtsAccess Pass\nClick here to buy your tickets \nThis event is for ages 18+\n \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show returns\, with a special video game edition curated by Toronto-based Dames Making Games (DMG)! Featuring a lusty\, critical line-up of independent video games that include dating simulators\, coop play-a-longs\, and more\, DMG representatives Izzie Colpitts-Campbell and Jennie Faber will lead group playthroughs\, and highlight works by milkymilkface\, Maxwell Lander\, Robert Yang\, Spooklight games\, and other games that explore how we navigate and understand intimacy. Come\, play\, and flirt! \nDress up in cosplay to enter a costume contest sponsored by Evergreen Health! \nBanner image: Pretzel After Dark by milkymilkface URL:https://squeaky.org/event/love-sex-show-play-with-me/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/LoveSex.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190209T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191228Z UID:10000958-1549720800-1549731600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction DESCRIPTION:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction\nBlack Magnolias x Black Quantum Futurism\nSaturday\, February 9\, 2019\, 2–5pm\nFree and open to the public\n \nWhat if your future dreams for society became the dominant narrative for hope in the present? How do we imagine a more liberated future for ourselves? This discussion group and creative workshop led by Black Magnolias will use speculative fiction–Afrofuturism\, science fiction and fantasy–as a tool to create new worlds of hope and change. Participants will be engaged in using ideas of limitless technology\, fantasy\, and science to rewrite the world and walk away with a sci-fi story that replaces negative narratives with possibility and power. \nResponding to a newly commissioned essay by Rasheedah Phillips written for the exhibition by Black Quantum Futurism\, this three hour workshop will be accompanied by presentations\, short films\, and free coffee. Pens and writing materials will be provided. \nInitiated by Marielle Smith and Richmond Wills\, Black Magnolias was created as a creative space to share\, build and develop a strong community of writers of color. This transient workshop series responds to a need for space for Black & Brown\, Queer and LGBT+ writers of all platforms and extend the invitation to those that belong to this community. This event is open to participants ages 14 and up. \nMarielle Smtih is a Buffalo native and mother of two\, who enjoys writing and performing poetry\, essays\, and folklore that are reflective of her life experience and ancestry as a queer Black person. Marielle has been organizing with Just Resisting since 2016\, a people of color community organization that focuses on social justice. She believes one of the greatest acts of resistance is finding healing through artistic expression. She currently co- facilitates Black Magnolias\, a Black and people of color creative writing workshop with Richie Willis. \nRichmond Wills (He/Him) is a poet\, storyteller and cultural organizer currently based in Buffalo New York. He co-founded Black Magnolias\, an ongoing creative workshop series targeting black/brown inner-city populations. He also coordinated outreach for Words on the Street\, an initiative to make literary arts more accessible to disenfranchised communities. From being a social justice activist with Black Love Resist in the Rust\, a not for profit grassroots organization currently involved in a lawsuit against the city of Buffalo over illegal checkpoints to being a sexual health advocate and tour de force for youth who identify as LGBT+\, Richmond hopes to mobilize and grow with Black & Brown communities to work towards collective solidarity and liberation. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. \nBanner image by Richmond Wills. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/futurism-now/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Futurism-Now.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T220000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191227Z UID:10000952-1544900400-1544911200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:POTHOLES / BACHES: An Evening in the Swamp DESCRIPTION:POTHOLES/BACHES: An Evening in the Swamp\nSaturday\, December 15\, 2018\n7–10pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for an interactive program that celebrates the end of the residency and the continuity of the Swamp. We begin with POTHOLES/BACHES\, a conversation between Buffalo’s East Side and Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Route that explores the possibilities between collective memory and history through film\, karaoke and participatory storytelling. This is followed by reflection\, communion\, and dancing\, as we usher the Swamp’s transition out of the physical space of Squeaky and into the lived experience of the community. – The North is a Lie \npothole: a depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence; a pond in a deep natural underground cavity\nbache: pequeño desnivel en el suelo o en el pavimento\, producido por la pérdida o hundimiento de la capa superficial; \nA disruption in the man-made design\, development or progress of something\nDisminución o interrupción pasajera en el progreso o desarrollo de algo \nA natural\, hidden\, sacred space\nUn lugar natural sagrado\, escondido \nA reliquary\nUn Relicario \nthere is no such thing / no hay tal cosa\nas empty property / como una propiedad vacía\nabandoned buildings / un edificio abandonado \nor vacant land / o una tierra vacante \ndrive-by relics / reliquias de paso\nthat sit in silence / que se sientan en silencio\nthunder with noise / son relámpagos\nfew choose to hear / que pocos decidieron oír \nwhat is built on the land / lo que se construyó \ndefines how we live / nos define \nbut it does not own the / pero no es dueño(a)\nstories of who we are / de nuestras historias \nThrough a swamp dream / a través de este sueño de pantano\nof present-past / de presente-pasado\nwe will fill the silence / llenamos el silencio\nof what was with the / de lo que fue \nsounds of what lives on / con el sonido de lo que es \nthrough conversation / conversando\nsong and dance / cantando y bailando \n////////// \nOn December 15\, The North is a Lie invites our friends\, families and community into the Swamp to explore the transcendent possibilities of solidarity and existence within our collective imagination\, as we meditate on space\, memory\, and identity. \nWe ask that those attending bring something special from a place that’s defined you\, but no longer exists in this current space and time. It can be a photograph\, an item from a childhood home\, a medicine or textile from where you are from\, a recipe or heirloom\, a memento or relic from an important period of time\, a natural element\, a sound\, a smell\, or anything else that feels right to you. \nThe items will be utilized during to ground the evening over the course of a three-part\, interactive program that marks the end of our physical residency at Squeaky Wheel and makes way for new existences outside the gallery’s four walls. \nEl 15 de diciembre\, El Norte es una Mentira invita a nuestra comunidad al Swamp a explorar las posibilidades trascendentes de la solidaridad y la existencia en nuestra imaginación colectiva\, mientras meditando acerca del espacio\, la memoria y la identidad. \nLe pedimos a los visitantes que traigan algún objeto o *algo* de algún lugar que te haya definidio\, pero que ya no existe en el espacio y tiempo presente. Puede ser una fotografía\, un objeto de una casa de tu juventud o niñez\, una medicina o un textil de tu pueblo o ciudad\, una receta\, una reliquia de algún periodo de tiempo\, un elemento natural y org´nico\, un sonido\, un olor\, o lo que crean que es lo correcto para contribuir al espacio. \nLos objetos se utilizarán en una intalación a través de nuestro programa interactivo de tres partes que marca el fin de nuestra residencia en Squeaky Wheel y que da paso a nuevos trabajos y existencias fuera de esta galería. \n////////// \n \n***Part I.***\nThe legacies of deindustrialization in Buffalo and Puerto Rico come to life in the sights and sounds of Buffalo’s East Side and Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Route during screenings and installations of La Ruta by Natalia Lasalle-Morillo and Home by Elisa Peebles.\nFood\, beer\, wine and coquito will be provided.\nDurante las proyecciones e las instalaciones de La Ruta por Natalia Lasalle-Morillo y Home por Elisa Peebles\, los legados de la desindustrialización en Buffalo y Puerto Rico cobran vida por las vistas y los sonidos del barrio East Side de Buffalo y la Ruta Panorámica de Puerto Rico.\nHabrá comida\, cerveza\, vino y coquito. \n \n***Part II.***\nThe artists and audience reflect on home and histories through karaoke-fueled storytelling. What’s made us\, what heals us\, what have we left\, and what do we carry? Audience participation is requested and strongly encouraged.\nLas artistas y el público reflexionan en casa y historias por medio de narración y karaoke. Qué nos formó ? Qué nos cura? Qué hemos dejado y qué llevamos? Se solicita la participación del público \n\n***Part III.***\nWe take our collective energies and memories to celebrate the Swamp\, Buffalo\, and all the possibilities of the present\, past and future through dance\, with sounds curated by DJ Chauncey Tails.\nLlevamos nuestras energías colectivas y recuerdos para celebrar el Swamp\, Buffalo\, y todas las posibilidades del presente\, el pasado\, y la futura a través bailando\, con sonidos curados por DJ Chauncey Tails. \n \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nNatalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. 1991\, Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico ) is a theatre maker\, filmmaker\, performer and visual artist. Her work focuses on the convergence of autobiography and re-imagined history in live and permanent artistic mediums.\nShe received her BFA from the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Miami Light Project and the Miami Theatre Center in Miami\, the Fonderie Darling in Montréal and Lake Studios in Berlin\, Germany. Her work has been shown in galleries and venues in Miami\, Berlin\, Los Angeles\, New York and Puerto Rico. She is currently based between Los Angeles\, California and Bayamón\, Puerto Rico.\nNatalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico) es una directora de teatro \, cineasta\, performer y artista visual. Su trabajo integra las la autobiografía y la historia re-imaginada en el teatro\, performance y video. Recibió su BFA del Experimental Theatre Wing the New York University. Ha sido artista en residencia en el Miami Light Project y Miami Theatre Center en Miami; Fonderie Darling en Montréal y Lake Studios en Berlín\, Alemania. Ha presentado su trabajo en galerías en Miami\, Berlín\, Nueva York\, Canadá y Puerto Rico. Actualmente está radicada entre Los Ángeles y Bayamón\, Puerto Rico. \nElisa Peebles is a Buffalo artist and activist currently a part of the North is a Lie residency at Squeaky Wheel.\nElisa Peebles es una artista y activista de Buffalo actualmente una parte del Norte es una Mentira residencia a Squeaky Wheel. \n– \nThis event is the closing event for The North is a Lie. On view through December 15. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/potholes-baches/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Home-Potholes.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T220000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191228Z UID:10000942-1544295600-1544306400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Dysfunctional Holiday Party DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel’s Dysfunctional Holiday Party is back! This time it features holiday sweater karaoke with Central Park Grill’s own DJ J Love!\, beer by 12 Gates Brewing Company\, photo ops with Surveillance Santa and Elf on a Shelf (brought to you by the legendary Holly Johnson & Brian Milbrand)\, our famous themed basket raffle (including comedy\, comic books & self care survival packages)\, delicious food (cooked by our wonderful board members)\, and much more! \nPurchase Tickets: $10 | $7 members (email martina@squeaky.org for member discount code) \nFunds raised at this event will support the free and low-cost media equipment access\, education programs\, and art exhibitions that Squeaky Wheel offers to Western New Yorkers every day. \n \nSpecial thank you to Dysfunctional Holiday beer sponsor: \n \nAdditional thanks to Buffalo Barkery\, Sasmita Batik\, SUSC\, Paradise Wine\, and more! URL:https://squeaky.org/event/dysfunctional-holiday-party/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dysfunctional-Holiday-Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181111T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191208Z UID:10000732-1541937600-1541955600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon! DESCRIPTION:***Please note the new date!*** \nSunday\, November 11\, 12–5pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\nFree and open to the public\nClick here to RSVP. \nFor the 5th Art+Feminism Wikipedia campaign\, we will host an Edit-a-Thon to improve coverage of cis and trans feminist artists on Wikipedia. Art+Feminism teaches all genders to edit Wikipedia. The Fall event will take place at Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library. Childcare and refreshments provided. Instructions and exercises will be released periodically preceding the Edit-a-thon starting in early October; RSVP now! \nPresented in partnership with Just Buffalo Literary Center & The Public\, and supported by Buffalo State University’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Departments of Art and the Department of Media Study\, and funds from the Wikimedia Foundation. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-2/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ArtFeminism.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191207Z UID:10000719-1536397200-1536436800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's Excellent Adventure DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is a family-friendly social media scavenger hunt taking place city-wide on September 8th\, 2018. This exciting day-long event offers our community a chance to participate in a fun and media infused social activity and win prizes! Encouraging media literacy and cultural awareness\, participants will use social media to practice their creativity and interact with Buffalo’s many treasures. \nFunds raised at this event will support the free and low-cost media equipment access\, education programs\, and art exhibitions that Squeaky Wheel offers to Western New Yorker’s of all ages and backgrounds every day. \nFact Sheet: Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure \nWhat: City-wide social media scavenger hunt \nWhen: Saturday September 8\, 2018 \n8-11am: Team sign-in at Squeaky Wheel\n9am: Head Start @ Squeaky Wheel; List of tasks unveiled\n9am–5:30pm: Embark on your adventure!\n5:30-8pm: Photo Finish Event @ EXPO Market\n6:30pm: Winners announced! \nWhere: Head Start at Squeaky Wheel\, 617 Main St. #107\, Buffalo\, NY 14203; Photo Finish at Expo Market\, 617 Main St. #200\, Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nWho: Individuals and teams of up to 4 \nPrizes: Weekend extravaganza package including access to unique activities in the city (to be announced!) \nWhy: To enjoy a fun-filled day of adventure and raise funds to support media literacy\, arts\, and education in Western NY \nHow: Assemble your team and sign up by clicking the PURCHASE TICKET button on this page. \n \nRegister by Friday September 7th and save!\nPurchase your tickets by September 7th at 5pm for $25/person; $25/person for groups up to 3; and $20/person for groups of 4. After that\, all ticket prices (including tickets for teams of 4) are raised to $30/person. \n\n \nHow the Excellent Adventure works:\nTraveling by foot\, bicycle\, vehicle or assistive device\, participants will race to document the tasks in photos or videos\, and upload them with the hashtag #squeakyadventure. Thanks to Reddy Bikeshare\, participants will also have access to 50% off bicycle share passes for the day. For those new to Instagram or are in need of technical support\, a tech-help desk will be available at Squeaky Wheel for the duration of the event. \nExcellent Adventure tasks will be revealed in-person at Squeaky Wheel (617 Main St. #107) at 9 a.m. at the “Head Start” event\, where coffee and energizing breakfast snacks will be on hand. Rack up bonus points with special Head Start task opportunities. Late risers can still play by picking up the task list until 11:00 a.m. \nA panel of judges will review the uploaded imagery in real-time\, assigning points for completion of tasks\, with bonus points for creativity. Teams who make it to the finish line by 5:30 p.m. will collect bonus points at the spectacular “Photo Finish” after-party at the Expo Market (617 Main Street\, #200)\, where they can view all teams’ media submissions\, enjoy delicious platters (courtesy of Expo Market) and find out who the winners are! \nThe Grand Prize winning team will be announced with additional prizes awarded to those completing tasks with humor\, innovation\, media savvy\, and other special categories. Top prizes include a weekend entertainment extravaganza package that contains accommodations\, special event tickets\, meals and access to fun and unique activities in the city that can be used individually\, in pairs\, or groups of four! \nBe sure to follow us on Facebook\, Instagram and Twitter @SqueakyBuffalo for updates. \n\n\nPrize Packages\nGrand Prize Package – Weekend Adventure on the Town Value $1000 +\n1 Night at Hotel Henry (2 double beds in room)\n1 Night at The Mansion on Delaware (2 double beds in room)\n$150 gift card for 100 Acres at Hotel Henry\n4 tickets to the Kavinoky Theater\nBuffalo Audubon Owl Prowl for 10 at Buffalo Audubon Preserve\n(or Owl Outreach Program for 20 people at location of choice)\n1 Year Membership to Reddy Bike Share\n4 tickets to Yelp Elite Events \n2nd Prize – Not Your Ordinary Weekend – $500 Value\n$100 Dinosaur BBQ\n4 tickets to Torn Space Theater\n1 Hello Buffalo Urban Hikes and Bikes Gift Certificate for Private Hike for 8 People for a hike and/or bike tour of choice \n3rd Prize – Cozy Weekend – $200\n$50 gift card to Daddio’s Pizza\n4 Tickets to Torn Space Theater\n$50 Delta Sonic \nSpa Gift Card \nTeam Spirit Prize \n4 tickets to Darien Lake \nMost Creative \n$100 gift card to Pineapple Company\n$40 gift card + 4 x Memberships at El Museo\nMerchandise + Membership to Western New York Book Arts Center \nMedia Savvy\n4 $50 gift cards at B&H Photo Video\n4 Squeaky Wheel Memberships \n\nSponsors and Support\nFunds raised at this event will support Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center’s programs in access\, education\, and exhibition. The event could not be possible without the generous support of our event sponsors: Catholic Health\, Eleven Twenty Projects\, Rigidized Metals\, Buffalo Spree\, The Challenger\, Allen Street Consulting\, Hodgson Russ\, Larkin Square\, Putman Insurance Agency\, Lumiflux Media\, Buffalo Copy\, Expo Market\, Reddy Bikeshare\, Inspired Buffalo\, and John McKendry. A big thank you to our prize sponsors to date: Hotel Henry\, 100 Acres at Hotel Henry\, The Mansion on Delaware\, B&H Photo Video\, Buffalo Audubon Society\, Pine Apple Company\, Reddy Bikeshare\, Hello Buffalo! Urban Hikes & Bikes\, Torn Space Theater\, Kavinoky Theater\, Daddio’s Pizza\, El Museo\, Western New York Book Art Center\, Yelp Buffalo\, and others! URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeakyadventure/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/websiteBanner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180623T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180623T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z UID:10000713-1529762400-1529780400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 23\, 2018\n2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nRSVP here \nSqueaky Wheel will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to take place 2-7pm on Saturday\, June 23\, 2018 at 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY. This all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women\, gender\, feminism\, and the arts on Wikipedia. \nWhy we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved\, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement! \nWe provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian\, ongoing editing support\, reference materials\, childcare\, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate\, particularly transgender and cisgender women. \nSqueaky Wheel invites back Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers to facilitate tutorials and discussions. This summer\, we are also excited to host Heather Gring\, archivist at the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, who will be speaking about the woman artists in their collection. \nIf you require childcare\, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care\, their ages\, and what time you plan on attending. \nPlease create a Wikipedia account before the event\, click here to learn how! And remember during the event to hashtag and post online so everyone around the world can see what you’re working on: #artandfeminism #noweditingaf @squeakybuffalo . \nAbout the instructor\nZeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist. She teaches programs for digital illustration\, animation and video through community groups in Toronto\, and facilitates workshops on contributing to Wikipedia as part of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. During her 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society\, she produced This Could be You\, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. She has performed and exhibited internationally\, and has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan)\, Palomar5 (Berlin)\, the Banff New Media Institute\, and Studio XX (Montreal). In Toronto\, Powers has worked on several community-based project with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts\, Axis Music and the Toronto Public Library. Currently\, she is working on a Canada Council and Chalmers Fellowship funded project on how consumer surveillance impacts how we relate to ourselves and others. She lives in Toronto. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/afediting.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180303T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z UID:10000911-1520085600-1520103600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon! DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nRSVP here \nSqueaky Wheel will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to take place 2-7pm on Saturday\, March 3\, 2018 at 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY. This all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women\, gender\, feminism\, and the arts on Wikipedia. \nWhy we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved\, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement! \nWe provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian\, ongoing editing support\, reference materials\, childcare\, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate\, particularly transgender and cisgender women. \nSqueaky Wheel invites back Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers to facilitate tutorials and discussions. New this year is a collaboration with the Albright Knox Art Gallery\, who will provide reference materials on the artists featured in their exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women\, 1965–85 (on view from February 16–May 27). \nIf you require childcare\, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care\, their ages\, and what time you plan on attending. \nPlease create a Wikipedia account before the event\, click here to learn how! And remember during the event to hashtag and post online so everyone around the world can see what you’re working on: #artandfeminism #noweditingaf @squeakybuffalo . \nThis event is co-presented with Peach Mag\, with partnership support from Buffalo State College’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Department of Art\, and UB Department of Media Study. Thank you to our sponsors at the Western New York Book Arts Center & Tipico Coffee. \nAbout the instructor\nZeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist. She teaches programs for digital illustration\, animation and video through community groups in Toronto\, and facilitates workshops on contributing to Wikipedia as part of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. During her 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society\, she produced This Could be You\, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. She has performed and exhibited internationally\, and has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan)\, Palomar5 (Berlin)\, the Banff New Media Institute\, and Studio XX (Montreal). In Toronto\, Powers has worked on several community-based project with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts\, Axis Music and the Toronto Public Library. Currently\, she is working on a Canada Council and Chalmers Fellowship funded project on how consumer surveillance impacts how we relate to ourselves and others. She lives in Toronto. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism2018/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/afediting.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180217T220000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191110Z UID:10000910-1518894000-1518904800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:The Love & Sex(bot) Show DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel’s valentine’s erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show\, returns with a sexy cyborg twist! \nOn February 17th join us for a “fully-functional” Valentine’s featuring films\, installations\, and live & virtual performances by local and international artists including Bhakti Brown\, Maya Ben David\, Seoungho Cho\, Yvette Granata\, Faith Holland\, Shawné Michaelain Holloway\, Lernert & Sander\, Georges Jacotey\, and Margaret Rhee. Don’t miss a live skype performance by Jacotey as well as Rhee’s interactive performance and reading from her new book Love\, Robot! \nBring two dates and get the “Threesome” Special and you’ll be automatically entered in a raffle for a gift from Primrose Path Boutique! Come dressed up as a “lovebot” for your chance to win a prize! \nFebruary 17\, 2018\n7pm door | 7:30pm show\n$10 General\n$25 Threesome Special \nClick here to buy tickets\nOnline sales end February 15\, 2018. Get them before they sell out! \n \n \nMaya Ben David\, POKÉMORPH ME\, digital video\, 2016\n \nShawné Michaelain Holloway\, EXTREME SUBMISSION : SUBMIT (?) OR SURRENDER (??) (AWARENESS ALERT) . MP4\, 1996\, 2016\n \nLernert & Sander\, Elektrotechnique\, digital video\, 2011\nSponsors and Partners\nPrimrose Path Boutique provides quality sex products for all genders\, sexual orientations\, and identities. In addition to our online store and pop-up shops\, we offer private parties in the Western New York area.\nAll of our products have been hand-selected to ensure quality\, endurance\, and satisfaction. Each toy is made with body-safe materials and chosen with aesthetic appeal in mind. We hope you find something that inspires you\, piques your curiosity\, or expands your sexual horizons. \nThin Ice opened in March of 2006 to provide a location for local and regional artists to sell their work to the local community. Striving to have something for everyone\, Thin Ice sells one of a kind jewelry\, hand blown as well as fused glass\, hand turned wood bowls\, hand made scarves\, hand sewn leather items\, decorative wall art\, kaleidoscopes\, cards\, mugs\, wind chimes\, and much\, much more. \nEvergreen Health fosters healthy communities by providing medical\, supportive\, and behavioral services to individuals and families in Western New York – especially those who are living with chronic illness or who are underserved by the healthcare system. \nImage: Yvette Granata\, Clone\, augmented video\, 2018 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/loveandsexbot/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Auto-Mate.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T220000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191108Z UID:10000885-1508598000-1508623200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PEEPSHOW: SCARY-OKE! DESCRIPTION:Karaoke Fundraiser & Halloween Party\nOctober 21st\, 2017\, 7:00pm-1:00am\nDNIPRO Ukrainian Cultural Center (562 Genesee St\, Buffalo) \nPre-Sale Tickets $15 | Door $20\nPre-Sale is now over! If you bought a ticket online\, we will have your name at will-call. Please have your ID’s ready.\n\nLet your inner rock star shine and show off your Halloween threads at Squeaky Wheel’s biannual fundraiser party! \n\nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center’s wildly popular fundraiser-art show\, Peepshow\, returns on October 21st\, 2017. Part Halloween Costume Ball\, part Legendary Singer’s Hall\, this year’s Peepshow: Scary-oke! offers multiple rooms and activities where you can immerse yourself in an audio-visual extravaganza\, just in time for Halloween and with a karaoke twist! \nPeepshow: Scary-oke! offers a unique opportunity to sing your favorite songs while celebrating Halloween. Partygoers can perform in five themed karaoke rooms designed by local artists.Themed rooms include: Vamp it up! featuring show-tunes with Holly Johnson; NSFW Room (Not Safe For Work or Werewolves) with black-light face painting by Tom Holt; White Noise karaoke installation by Brian Milbrand; Melt & Move\, a psychedelic delirium of visuals by UVB-76; and an auto-tuned karaoke Robo Room populated by lo-fi/sci-fi robots by Jeff Mace. The immersive karaoke rooms will showcase an impressive list of karaoke DJ’s including DJ Blue Lazer\, DJ J Love\, and DJ Rick Vallone. Watch for special cameo performances by local celebrities and karaoke superstars\, including\, Curtis Lovell & MaDamn Noire\, Max Darling\, Cersei Lannister\, Vidalia May\, and more! \nIn the ballroom and on the main stage\, party goers will have the chance to experience a carnival of participatory activities and spectacles. Silently dance the night away with Silent Disco against a dazzling green-screened backdrop; experience Live Band Karaoke as you belt out your best onstage accompanied by local band Fernway; bid on exciting work by local and regional artists such as Kyle Butler\, Mickey Harmon\, Shasti O’leary Soudant\, and Virocode in a Silent Art Auction; enjoy Burlesque performances by Femme Noire and a Thriller Dance-Off by Cat Sinclair’s Boolesque Ensemble; enter for your chance to win a costume contest hosted by the artists of The Pine Apple Company; take part in ghoulish carnival games by Esther Neisen\, and much more! Be sure to stick around for the collective Epic Song Sing-a-long and a GLDN GIRLS-deejayed dance party to cap off the night. \nEarly arrivers will enjoy a Trick or Treat Happy Hour from 7pm-8pm courtesy of local confectionary Blue Table Chocolates. Local pop-up\, Yey’s Food will serve up Cambodian inspired cuisine in DNIPRO’s kitchen and Lloyd’s Taco Truck will also be on site. \nTickets \nGet your tickets now and save $5 off the door! Scary-oke tickets can be purchased at:\nOnline – https://squeaky.org/scaryoke\nSqueaky Wheel – 617 Main St. Buffalo\,14203\nThe Pine Apple Company – 224 Allen St\, Buffalo\, NY 14201\nSpot Coffee – 765 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14222\nTerrapin Station – 1172 Hertel Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14216 \nSponsors & Supporters \nPeepshow: Scary-oke! is Squeaky Wheel’s 2017 fundraiser\, supporting activities in access\, education\, and exhibition of media arts and is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors: Clover Management\, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP\, Allen Street Consulting\, Block Club\, Blue Table Chocolates\, BreadHive Bakery & Cafe\, Buffalo Spree magazine\, Cafe 59\, Challenger News\, Cosmetic Vein and Laser Center\, Communication Department at Buffalo State College\, eco_logic STUDIO\, FGI Landscaping\, Fuse Salon & Gallery\, Hodgson Russ LLP\, Hurwitz & Fine\, P.C.\, Law Office of Dominic Saraceno\, Lumiflux Media\, The Pilates loft\, The Public\, SE²\, Sinatra & Company Real Estate\, Thin Ice\, UB Department of Art\, UB Department of Media Study. \nAbout Squeaky Wheel \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center has a mission to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses electronic media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Established in 1985\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center is the only organization in Western NY to offer education\, equipment access\, and exhibition programming dedicated to exploring film & digital media arts. Squeaky Wheel’s reputation in the media arts field continues to grow nationally and internationally. More information on current programs can be found at www.squeaky.org. \n \n\nBe a STAR in our event and become a sponsor today! Find more information here. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/peepshow-scary-oke/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SCARYOKEEVENTIMAGE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170812T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170812T140000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191051Z UID:10000860-1502535600-1502546400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Ad Hoc Tactical Networks Masterclass with Tony Yanick DESCRIPTION:Ad Hoc Tactical Networks Masterclass with Tony Yanick\nSaturday August 12th\, 3-6pm\n$7 members / $10 general \nArtist Tony Yanick will lead a workshop on how participants can build their own tactical local networks using a raspberry pi\, while exploring how other artists and activists have utilized such structures and systems. Topics covered will include programming in python programming (scripting)\, network protocol & diagnostic procedures\, building basics of an ad hoc social network\, and simple encryption techniques. Tony has recommended that participants bring their own laptop if possible. \nThe following materials are recommended but not required to participate: Raspberry Zero or Raspberry Three \n\nRequired Software Installation Instructions:\nMac: \n1.) Go to https://brew.sh/ and follow instructions \n2.) Download Python 2.7.x and follow instructions (make sure to follow the correct instructions for 2.7.x and not 3.0) \nFurther notes: http://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python.html \nFor Windows: \n1.) Download and install the mini Console Terminal Application \n2.) Download Python 2.7.x (64bit) or Python 2.7.x (32bit) and follow instructions (make sure to follow the correct instructions for 2.7.x and not 3.0) URL:https://squeaky.org/event/ad-hoc-tactical-networks-masterclass-with-tony-yanick/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/tonyyanickfeatbanner-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170603T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170603T180000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z UID:10000658-1496502000-1496512800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Silo City Reading Series (with Mary Helena Clark) DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 3\, 2017\n 7pm\n @ Silo City \nSqueaky Wheel co-presents an edition of Just Buffalo’s signature summer reading series with a special screening by artist Mary Helena Clark. Clark will be journeying to Buffalo to present her hypnotic\, uncanny 20 minute film Delphi Falls\, which recently had its premiere at the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, and which Clark worked on during her Workspace residency at Squeaky Wheel in 2016. Join us at Silo City as we welcome back the artist for a night of dreamy music\, poetry\, and film\, including Aidan Ryan\, Cages\, and Colorado-based poet and operator of the Dream Delivery Service\, Mathias Svalina. \nMary Helena Clark is an artist working in film\, video\, and installation. Her work uses the language of collage\, often bringing together disparate subjects and styles that suggest an exterior logic or code\, to explore dissociative states through cinema. Clark’s films have screened at the 2017 Whitney Biennial (New York)\, the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus)\, Grazer Kunstverein (Graz\, Austria)\, Anthology Film Archives (New York)\, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC)\, the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm)\, and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, the New York Film Festival\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, BFI London Film Festival\, the Hong Kong International Film Festival\, and BAMcinématek\, among others. She has curated film programs at Altman Siegel (San Francisco)\, The Nightingale (Chicago)\, and Bridget Donahue (New York). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-reading-series-with-mary-helena-clark/ LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ClarkDelphi.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170526T180000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z UID:10000654-1495724400-1495821600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:[Noo Phone in the Black Space]: or How to Avoid Roaming Charges DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 25 + Friday\, May 26\n7pm\n@ Silo City\nFree and open to the general public \nSqueaky Wheel is proud to present an augmented reality performance by Buffalo based media artist Yvette Granata and San Jose based artist and performer Andrew Blanton. For two consecutive evenings the artists will install and perform in a visual\, sonic performance that transforms the grand halls of Silo City through emerging technologies. \nCan augmented reality be used as the creation of new forms of collectivity? Or does it produce new forms of spatio-temporal apartheids? Through their respective approaches to performative augmentation and mobile media\, Andrew Blanton and Yvette Granata’s works inquire into the manner in which augmented reality and media performance can be framed as a critical dialogue between the alliances and the vacuoles of mobile realities. \nInterpreting augmented reality as performance space\, their works are audiovisual performances and variations on collective and un-collective space. The works form a critical dialogue on augmented life\, collecting performances of sound and image — an ambient group text message\, a vertical disorientation through camera-apps\, a hand-held sonic immersion\, and a modulation of ambient feedback of the Silos. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/noo-phone-in-the-black-space-or-how-to-avoid-roaming-charges-2/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/YvetteGranata_Still.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170429T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170429T130000 DTSTAMP:20260502T041400 CREATED:20251230T191017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191017Z UID:10000825-1493460000-1493470800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Feminist Cybersecurity Workshop with Yvette Granata DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 29\n 2–5pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $10 | $7 for Squeaky Wheel Members\nTo reserve a seat\, email alex@squeaky.org \, or call (716) 884 7172. \nIn this 3 hour workshop\, multi-media artist\, media scholar and film designer Yvette Granata will introduce encryption practices of PGP and other methods for digital safety. Following methods from the DIY Feminist Cybersecurity Guide\, participants will cover personal cybersecurity for mobile phones\, social media\, web browsers\, TOR options\, and everyday tactics for digital safety for various individual needs. The workshop will also include a look at how artists and activists have used encryption and their tactics for digital security as part of a trans-media practice\, including the reproducible workshop of Dalit Diva and the documentary practices of Laura Poitras. Bring your own laptop. No encryption experience necessary. \nYvette Granata is a Phd Candidate at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study’s theory and practice program. She explores ultra-terrestrial superpositions and encounters between media art\, technology and philosophy. \nTo reserve a seat\, email alex@squeaky.org URL:https://squeaky.org/event/feminist-cybersecurity-workshop-with-yvette-granata/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cybersecurity-1.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR