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SUMMARY:Layout - w/Photoshop & InDesign
DESCRIPTION:Members $135\, Non- Members $175 \nTuesdays and Thursdays 6 pm – 8 pm from February 12th – February 21s. \nThis introductory course will teach you how to use the powerful print and layout tool InDesign. This software is essential for all kinds of business and design fields. Learn to properly navigate and layout different types of print materials for all kinds of practical uses. The course will also touch a bit on Photoshop in relation to how it can be used to set up images and text for use in InDesign. No previous experience required. \n  \n \n\nOur Media Lab\, where classes take place\, is a Mac OS based lab. If you have any concerns please reach out to our Director of Education Kevin Kline via kevin@squeaky.org
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LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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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
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SUMMARY:Collage the Space
DESCRIPTION:February 9th – March 3rd \nSaturdays\, 10 am – 1 pm \n$60 Non-Members\, $40 Members \nThis hands-on keyframe animation workshop will immerse the students in the art of digital collage. Using found imagery and a mix of digital and analog image manipulation students will use animation software to create moving collages that explore the role of women in technology.   \n \n  \nMore on Tech Arts for Girls \n\nTechARTS for Girls has received generous support from Hodgson Russ LLP\, Children’s Foundation of Erie County\, Ronald McDonald House Charities of WNY\, Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation\, and the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/collage-the-space/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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SUMMARY:Video Editing
DESCRIPTION:Members $135\, Non- Members $175 \nTuesdays and Thursdays 6 pm – 8 pm from January 29th – February 7th. \nInstructor: Danny Pisari \nLearn the power of editing in this comprehensive introductory course and start editing your own work. This course will cover video editing interfaces and workflow. We will discuss different editing techniques to help you tell your story. No previous experience is required. \n  \n \n\nOur Media Lab\, where classes take place\, is a Mac OS based lab. If you have any concerns please reach out to our Director of Education Kevin Kline via kevin@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-editing-7/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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SUMMARY:BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM
DESCRIPTION:ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\nOpening January 25\, 2019\, 7–9pm\nConversation between Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) and Ineil Quaran at 7:30pm\nOn view through April 20\, 2019\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public \nClick here to download the brochure\, featuring Activating Retrocurrences and Reverse Time-Bindings in the Quantum Now(s)\, a new essay by Rasheedah Phillips. \nHow can one examine the unknown? How is this unknown shaped by its temporal realities? How does one resist\, recover\, when facing the erasure of memory? This may involve a reinvestigation and uncovering of hidden histories\, and a hacking into future histories where they have already been erased. \nUtilizing collage\, video\, text\, and sound installations\, this exhibition by Philadelphia-based Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother\, and Rasheedah Phillips aka The Afrofuturist Affair) draws from quantum physics\, speculative fiction\, and Black/Afro-diasporan cultural traditions of observing time and space. The works aim to break free into the unknown futures of past selves\, and to honor the ritual casualties and philosophies of Black ancestry\, culture\, and spirit. \nJoin us at Squeaky Wheel on Friday\, January 25th at 7pm for the opening reception of the exhibition and a conversation with Moor Mother at 7:30pm. \nPublic Programs\nFebruary 9\, 2–5pm | Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction: Discussion and Creative Writing Workshop\nApril 5\, 7pm | Worldline ⃝ Timeline: Screening of John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History\, and work by Dana McKnight and Amanda Strong \nBios of the artists and contributors \nBlack Quantum Futurism is an interdisciplinary creative practice between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips that weaves quantum physics\, afrofuturism\, and Afrodiasporic concepts of time\, ritual\, text\, and sound to present innovative works and tools offering practical ways to escape negative temporal loops\, oppression vortexes\, and the digital matrix. BQF has created a number of community-based projects\, performances\, experimental music projects\, installations\, workshops\, books\, short films\, zines\, including the award-winning Community Futures Lab. BQF Collective is a 2018 Solitude x ZKM Web Resident\, 2017 Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow\, a 2017 Pew Fellow\, 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow\, and a 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange. The Collective has presented\, exhibited\, or performed at Red Bull Arts NY\, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion\, Philadelphia Art Museum Perelman Building\, MOMA PS1\, Bergen Kunsthall\, Le Gaite Lyrique\, MOFO Festival\, and more. BQF Collective frequently collaborates with other Black Futurists Joy KMT\, Irreversible Entanglements\, Thomas Stanley\, and Metropolarity to produce literature\, present workshops\, lectures\, and performances. \nIneil Quaran is an afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist and ghetto organizer born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Through his fine art and multimedia collages he recreates memories and dreamscapes incorporating themes of self-preservation\, Black celebration\, imagination\, and grief. He developed his skill by blocking-out neighborhood sidewalks with chalk drawings and studying digital tutorials. Institutionally he attended Buffalo Academy of Visual Performing Arts and briefly\, Villa Maria College majoring in animation. Growing up Ineil indulged in: Walt Disney animations\, climbing trees\, the epics of ancient religions and folklore\, anime\, early 2000’s hip hop and R&B\, science fiction adventure\, and his gullah/geechee heritage.\nIn 2014 he co-owned\, graphic design business and zine distributor\, VENT. Soon after in 2015 he co-founded D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment)\, a Black youth-led anti-oppressive arts organization that aims to strengthen local resources for creative and exploited communities which resists through art forms and arts movements considered: white-washed\, extreme\, stigmatized\, political\, and/or experimental.\nIneil Quaran is now developing work for his first solo art show and is continuing to cultivate resources supporting the East Side\, melaninated creatives\, and all the black and brown *QTs! \nBanner image courtesy of Black Quantum Futurism.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blackquantumfuturism/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Video Production
DESCRIPTION:Members $135\, Non- Members $175 \nTuesdays and Thursdays 6 pm – 8 pm from January 15th –  January 24th. \nInstructor: Danny Pisari \nIn this introductory course\, participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of video production. The course will cover\, camera\, audio\, and lighting do’s and dont’s to get you started on producing your own videos for commercial\, documentary\, or narrative work. No previous experience is required. \n 
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LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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SUMMARY:Create the Space
DESCRIPTION:January 12th – February 2nd \nSaturdays\, 10 am – 1 pm \n$60 Non-Members\, $40 Members \nIn this design-based workshop\, students will engage in a series of projects that challenge them to create and design based on concepts of space and how we want to navigate it. The young creatives will learn Adobe Illustrator and collaborate to create a window installation at our Main Street location.  \n \n\nTechARTS for Girls has received generous support from Hodgson Russ LLP\, Children’s Foundation of Erie County\, Ronald McDonald House Charities of WNY\, Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation\, and the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/create-the-space/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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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.
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SUMMARY:The Big Picture: A Member Community Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event has been POSTPONED!!!!!!!!! \nScreening date: December 15\, 2018\, 4 pm \nJoin the creative community on Saturday\, December 15 at 4 pm for The Big Picture at Squeaky Wheel!  Producer Fred Massey Jr. will be talking about his new project Breakin’ Legs\, a video series showcasing overlooked music scenes incubating in equally overlooked cities.  The first episode focuses on Benny the Butcher from Buffalo\, NY.  Come check out the project’s progress and\, if you yourself are a maker\, how you can get your own Big Picture event here at Squeaky Wheel!\n\nThe Big Picture is an access program initiative designed to provide local artists a platform to showcase their projects and to receive feedback; to impact and be impacted by the community of makers\, viewers\, critics & supporters and to grow from the experience. So join us on Saturday\, December 15 at 4 pm and become part of The Big Picture!\n\nIf you have any questions please contact Mark Longolucco via mark@squeaky.org \n\n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-big-picture-a-member-community-screening/
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CATEGORIES:Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T190000
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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!
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 2\, 2018\n2–4pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin members of Decolonize this Place\, Amin Husain\, Amy Weng and Marz Saffore\, along with Jodi Lynn Maracle and Caitlin Blue\, for an afternoon of discussion on the urgency of decolonization\, and exploring strategies\, tactics\, and art-making in the struggle for freedom and liberation in Buffalo. Moderated by Nitasha Dhillon. This event is presented on the occasion of The North is a Lie\, on view through December 15\, 2018. \n\nAs a historian and researcher\, Caitlin Blue is focused on making history accessible to the public. Her interests include the African Diaspora in Early Modern Europe\, decolonization\, and repatriation of historical artifacts. Studying through the lens of decolonization\, Caitlin recognizes that it is an ongoing process because colonization continues to happen today. Caitlin currently works as a Visitor Specialist at the new Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In the fall of 2019\, she hopes to be at the University at Buffalo pursuing her Master’s degree in History so she can eventually go on to get her PhD. Professionally\, Caitlin wants to end up working in a university setting. \nAmin Husain has a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science\, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law\, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. He practiced law for five years before transitioning to art\, studying at the School of the International Center of Photography and Whitney Independent Study Program. Nitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Together\, Amin and Nitasha are MTL Collective\, a collaboration that joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action in its art practice. MTL is a founder of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, and most recently MTL+\, the collective facilitating Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, scholar and activist currently pursuing her dreams of building her Kanien’keha language proficiency. She received her MA from the University of Buffalo while completing the first year of a Mohawk immersion program in Buffalo\, NY. As an artist\, Jodi has shown work throughout Dish with One Spoon territory working primarily in textile and earth based installations invoking Haudenosaunee material forms and language combined with modern forms of making to interrogate multiple experiential realities of specific locations and landscapes. She works as a consultant and presenter with many arts organizations and academic institutions to foster greater understanding of Haudenosaunee philosophies\, languages\, material culture and contemporary realities. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Buffalo. Of her many accomplishments\, she is most proud of hearing her son excitedly speak his Mohawk language each day. \nMarz Saffore is an artist\, organizer\, and educator born and raised in Richmond\, Virginia. In 2015\, she earned her B.A. in Studio Art and Film & Media Studies from University of Rochester\, and she earned her M.F.A. in Studio Art from NYU in 2017. Her multimedia art practice blurs the line between that which is art/culture\, political/personal\, and private/public through video\, performance\, and installation. Marz is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a group of artists\, writers\, and educators who combine research and aesthetics in political action. MTL+ Collective founded and facilitates Decolonize This Place\, a collaboration between cultural producers and political organizers across struggles and borders. This Fall\, Marz returned to New York University (NYU) for her 4th semester of teaching and her first year as a PhD student in Media\, Culture\, and Communication. \nAmy Weng has a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College\, and a M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University. While working in early childhood education\, she participated in group art exhibitions and performances in Brooklyn and Berlin through Lucky Gallery\, now known as De-Construkt Projekts. She has organized with A New World in Our Hearts\, Occupy Sandy\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Asians for Black Lives – NYC and Justice for Akai Gurley Family. She is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a f She is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a facilitating group of Decolonize This Place\, a decolonial\, action-oriented movement that centers Indigenous struggle\, Black liberation\, free Palestine\, wage workers and de-gentrification. \nBanner image: Decolonize This Place\, Anti-Columbus Day Tour: Decolonize This Museum\, digital video\, 2016
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:SHAKEDOWN
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 1\, 7pm\n@ Varsity Theatre (3165 Bailey Ave)\n$10 Screening\n$20 Screening + After-party benefitting Dreamland\nClick here to buy tickets. \nAs Buffalo’s LGBTQ+ spaces face closings and erasure\, Squeaky Wheel presents Leilah Weinraub’s SHAKEDOWN (2017). Documenting a series of Black lesbian dance and strip parties in the 2000s\, Weinraub’s film is a tender\, hilarious\, and utopic portrait of a space and community. Join us at Varsity Theatre for the screening of this vital film with director and Hood by Air co-founder Leilah Weinraub in person\, followed by a benefit party for Dreamland at Sweets Lounge featuring a performance by burlesque troupe Femme Noire. \nAs a director\, Weinraub resists operating as a liaison between viewer and subject; she seems more interested in the play between voyeurism and fantasy. Shakedown is neither an experimental art film nor an anthropology of gay\, black femme performance in L.A. Rather\, Weinraub sought to capture a moment and turn it into cinema. – Cassie da Costa\, New Yorker \nIt’s a dreamy glimpse into a scene subjected to outrageous pressures — from the spectral cop of homophobia and even more from the real cops — that was a wellspring of fun\, love\, desire and good times regardless. – Hannah Black\, Dazed \nLeilah Weinraub’s bold\, immersive documentary\, SHAKEDOWN (2017)\, both enthralls and makes us question how we think about sex and its presentation on camera. A tribute to Weinraub’s talent\, the film takes us into the eye of the spectacle — the dance club floor with dynamic\, erotic figures of Black female dancers who strip for women — and then elegantly pulls us back. Weinraub finds a place of distance and subtle re-calibration where nothing is what it at first appears. This is a fitting approach for a film that celebrates a communal physical and symbolic space in which one can create a perfectly fluid\, slippery identity to be desired and worshipped for — a state of grace\, as we come to understand\, that still rarely exists outside subaltern club culture. – Ela Bittencourt\, Hyperallergic \nSHAKEDOWN presented in collaboration with Dreamland\, Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project. Thanks to our sponsors at the Varsity Theatre\, and Sweet Lounge. \nBanner image: Leilah Weinraub\, Shakedown. 2017. Still courtesy Leilah Weinraub.
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SUMMARY:Intro to 3D Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Intro to Blender: Animation & 3D Modeling \nThis workshop will introduce participants to the powerful open source software Blender. This class will cover the basics of how to use the environment and camera tools for basic animation and graphics. \n  \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-3d-modeling/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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SUMMARY:Symposium | Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 16\, 7–9pm | Screening & Performance\nSaturday\, November 17\, 11am–7pm | Artist Presentations + Discussions\n@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (341 Delaware Ave)\nFree and open to the public.\nClick here to RSVP (limited seating available. RSVP by 11:59pm on Thursday\, November 15.) \nSqueaky Wheel presents a convening of artists and scholars from several nations from North America for a convening exploring the interwoven histories of textile arts and media arts from early cinema to the current digital age. Topics include: a participatory media arts project focusing on the lives of Chinese immigrant garment workers; how Lakota hair weaving practices point towards alternative interfaces; and a “biomythography” of Black life through an epic project about a seamstress. \nTaking place in the theatre of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, Punctures functions as a public platform that will inform Squeaky Wheel’s large-scale\, multi-site exhibition of the same name\, opening in late 2019. Using the concept of needlework—sewing\, stitching\, weaving and other textile practices—as a material and metaphorical underpinning\, the symposium and eventual exhibition of Punctures will explore questions regarding gendered labor in domestic\, industrial\, and artistic fields\, along with the material and immaterial threads of 20th and 21st century art and industry. \nThe symposium opens on the evening of November 16th with a screening of films by Jodie Mack\, Laura Huertas Millán\, Abraham Ravett\, and a multi-media performance by Kite followed by presentations and panel discussions on November 17th. Contributors include: Terri Francis\, Kyla Gordon\, Kite\, Beryl Korot\, Chris Lee\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, Tiona Nekkia McClodden\, Stephen Monteiro\, Tina Rivers Ryan\, Ekrem Serdar\, Jasmina Tumbas\, Kelly Walters\, the WASH Project\, and Betty Yu. \nSeating is limited and RSVP is required. Click here to RSVP and confirm your attendance. \n\nSchedule\nFriday\, November 16\, 2018 \n7pm | Digital and Material Time\nFilms and performance\, including Point de Gaze (2012) by Jodie Mack\, La Libertad (2018) by Laura Huertas Millán\, Tziporah (2007) by Abraham Ravett\, and a multi-media performance titled Listener by Kite.\nThe opening of the symposium features a screening of works meant to ground us in the histories and images around the connections between textiles and media art\, while also looking at how textile practices have formed political\, material\, and epistemological points of departure for media artists. \nPoint de Gaze\nJodie Mack\n5min\, 16mm film\, silent\, 2012\nNamed after a type of Belgian lace\, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest. – Jodie Mack \nTziporah\nAbraham Ravett\n7min\, 16mm film\, silent\, 2008\nTziporah is the Hebrew word for “bird.” This is another cinematic response to grief and loss. – Abraham Ravett \nLa Libertad\nLaura Huertas Millán\n29 mins\, HD video\, Spanish with English subtitles\, 2017\nProduced out of Harvard´s Sensory Ethnography Lab\, Laura Huertas Millán´s masterful La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico\, whose backstrap loom – a pre-Hispanic technique preserved for centuries by Indigenous women in Mesoamerica – provides the formal structure for the film´s exploration of handicrafts and their ties to freedom. With echoes of the influential ethnographic work of Chick Strand\, La Libertad combines astute observation\, testimony\, subtle transfers in scale\, space and texture\, as it weaves its own singular study of labour\, creativity\, and the mysterious traces that circulate between them. – Andréa Picard \nListener\nKite\nLakota-Sys (L-Sys)\, 2018\nListener is a science fiction story told through a performance artwork. The story is about a woman wandering alone in the future\, receiving transmissions from the Far Place on her Listening devices. During the live performance\, Kite uses a hair-braid with sensors to control sound and video. The hair-braid changes a synthesizer\, which sends sound to machine learning software\, which manipulates the video. This image is a still from the ‘Lakota-System (L-Sys)’ visual interface. The artist asks\, “How can Lakota understandings of hair effect the design of technology? What does a Lakota data-visualizing interface look like?” – Kite \nSaturday\, November 17\, 2018 \n11am | Registration\nCoffee and light refreshments. \n11:30am | Underpinnings\nEkrem Serdar & Kelly Walters. Moderated by Chris Lee.\nThe history of media arts\, of film and electronic arts\, is interwoven with influences\, material\, sociological\, and metaphorical with textile arts. Mirroring the gendered reception of craft in art contexts through the 20th century\, the debt of media arts to textiles remains under-acknowledged. How can a focus on textile arts help us think differently about how we practice media arts? In the opening panel\, curator Ekrem Serdar will chart the research that’s leading to Squeaky Wheel’s exhibition opening in 2019\, while Kelly Walters\, the designer of Punctures\, will speak of her design and textile practice. \n12:30pm | Quilted Americana\nTerri Francis & Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Moderated by Kyla Gordon.\nTextiles are embodied knowledge: their fabrics and patterns\, represent an accumulation of practices through history\, and mark their moment. The way we engage with them are not dissimilar to how we engage with home movies: we watch the flickering images of our families\, studying the bonds between our generations. The following panel features an artist project that aims to mythologize biography\, and a research project that finds the myths in daily life. Dr. Terri Francis will present on her upcoming book Quilted Films: African American Home Movies and Historical Memory\, 1924–1975\, which reframes personal family films as both art and historical artifact. Tiona Nekkia McClodden will speak about her upcoming work The Seamstress\, which forms the second part of her project Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic. \n1:30pm | Break \n3pm | Weaving an Interface\nKite & Stephen Monteiro. Moderated by Jodi Lynn Maracle.\nThe influence of textile practices expands into the current day\, from how Jacquard looms influenced early computing to the very way our fingers interact with our smartphones. What is often forgotten in how these practices are implemented are the histories embedded within them. Bringing together two guests both based in Montreal\, scholar Stephen Monteiro will speak of how textile practices have influenced modern interface designs\, while artist Kite will be talking about Listener\, performed as part of the symposium the night before. \n4pm | Garment Workers\nBetty Yu & the WASH Project. Moderated by Jasmina Tumbas.\nAny discussion on art has the potential for a romanticization of women’s labor\, ignoring the sweatshops and gross exploitation of workers\, displacement\, and other factors inherent in global capitalism. Artist and activist Betty Yu will present on her interactive installation work The Garment Worker (2014) that focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships they encounter working in a sweatshop\, providing a rare look into garment working conditions that Chinese immigrants face in New York City through the personal story of the artist. Yu is joined by representatives from Buffalo’s The WASH Project\, who will present on how their organization establishes an outlet for simple\, open & free practice of creativity\, play\, and human engagement\, while serving as a human services hub for the immediate Burmese community & beyond. \n5pm | Binding History \nBeryl Korot in conversation with Tina Rivers Ryan.\nMade thirty years after the Holocaust\, Beryl Korot’s haunting Dachau\, 1974 owes its rigorous formalism to the visual structure of woven cloth. Documenting tourists visiting Nazi Germany’s first concentration camp\, the work aims to grapple with both what is there\, and what was. Korot’s life and pioneering practice has been dedicated to finding the material and immaterial threads binding the practice of textiles and media art practice\, elucidating how this relationship can bind histories. The artist is joined in this panel by Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan for a conversation on her life and work. \n\nBiographies of the presenters\, moderators\, and filmmakers\n \nTerri Francis directs the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University\, Bloomington.  She guest edited a close-up on Afrosurrealism in film and video for the 2013 fall issue of Black Camera: A International Film Journal. She published her path breaking study of Jamaican non-theatrical films in “Sounding the Nation: Martin Rennalls and the Jamaica Film Unit\, 1951-1961” in Film History in 2011. Her book Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism\, a study of how the entertainer used humor to master her conundrums\, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. \nKyla Gordon is a scholar and curator. She is the Curatorial Research Assistant at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Centre. She received her MA in Visual Culture from New York University\, has studied Modern Art at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne\, and has BAs in Art History and English from the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. She has a background in curatorial work\, archives\, and arts administration. She has worked in galleries and cultural institutions around the world\, including Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Interview Magazine\, Hallwalls\, 80WSE\, Shakespeare and Company\, and Re:Voir Film Gallery. Her scholarly interests include textiles\, costume studies\, film\, kitsch\, and British history. \nKite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist\, visual artist\, and composer raised in Southern California\, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition\, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School\, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance practice. Recently\, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances\, carbon fiber sculptures\, immersive video & sound installations\, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint\, Unheard Records. \nBeryl Korot is a pioneer of video art. By applying specific structures inherent to loom programming to the programming of multiple channels of video she brought the ancient and modern worlds of technology into conversation. This extended to a body of work on handwoven canvas in an original language based on the grid structure of woven cloth\, as well as to works on paper that combine ink\, pencil and digitized threads. Two early multiple channel works\, Dachau 1974 and Text and Commentary works have been seen at the Whitney Museum (1980\,1993\, 2000\, 2002); the Kitchen\, New York\, NY (1975); Leo Castelli Gallery\, New York\, NY (1977); Documenta 6\, Kassel\, Germany (1977); The Köln and Düsseldorf Kunstvereins (1989 and 1994); the Carnegie Museum\, Pittsburgh\, PA (1990); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, Ridgefield\, CT (2010); bitforms gallery\, New York\, NY (2012/2018); the Whitworth Gallery\, Manchester\, England (2013); Museum Abteiberg\, Mönchengladbach\, Germany (2013); Art Basel\, Basel\, Switzerland (2014)\, The Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston\, MA (2014); Tate Modern\, London\, England (2014); Center for Media Art (ZKM)\, Karlruhe Germany (2008/2017); The San Francisco MOMA (2016)\, and The Museum of Modern Art\, NYC (2017/18) amongst others. Two video/music collaborations with Steve Reich\, The Cave (1993) and Three Tales (2002) brought video installation art into a theatrical context\, and have been performed worldwide since 1993. Korot’s work is in both private and public collections including MoMA\, NYC\, the Kramlich collection’s New Art  Trust shared with the Tate Modern\, MoMA NYC and SF MoMA\, the Sol LeWitt Collection\, and the Thoma Art Foundation. \nChris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based Buffalo\, NY\, and Toronto\, ON. He is a graduate of OCADU (Toronto) and the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam)\, and has worked for The Walrus Magazine\, Metahaven and Bruce Mau Design. He was also the designer and an editorial board member of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. Clients\, primarily in the cultural sector\, have included cmagazine\, Art Museum\, grunt gallery\, the Aga Khan Museum\, and Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons\, among others. Chris collaborates with designer/developer Seungyong Moon\, under the banner of MuyongJiyong 무용지용 (無用之用). Chris’ research explores graphic design’s entanglement with power\, standards\, and legitimacy. He has contributed projects and writing to the Decolonising Design\, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest\, The Copyist\, Graphic\, Volume\, and Counter Signals. Chris is the guest-co-editor of the “Graphic Design” issue of cmagazine along with Ali Shamas Qadeer. He has facilitated workshops in the US\, Canada\, Scotland\, the Netherlands and Croatia\, and has been invited to lecture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie\, ArtEZ\, The Sandberg Instituut\, The Design Academy Eindhoven\, CalArts and OCADU. Chris is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY\, and a member of the programming committee of Gendai Gallery and Squeaky Wheel. He is a graphic design research fellow of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2017/18)\, participant of the fifth edition of the Summer University of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Cairolexicon.com \nJodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film\, video\, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres\, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling\, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life. Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Images Festival\, Projections at the New York Film Festival\, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival\, Anthology Film Archives\, BFI London Film Festival\, Harvard Film Archive\, National Gallery of Art\, REDCAT\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale\, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum\, Cinema Scope\, The New York Times\, and Senses of Cinema. She is an Associate Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College and a 2018/19 Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University. \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, scholar and activist currently pursuing her dreams of building her Kanien’keha language proficiency. She received her MA from the University of Buffalo while completing the first year of a Mohawk immersion program in Buffalo\, NY. As an artist\, Jodi has shown work throughout Dish with One Spoon territory working primarily in textile and earth based installations invoking Haudenosaunee material forms and language combined with modern forms of making to interrogate multiple experiential realities of specific locations and landscapes. She works as a consultant and presenter with many arts organizations and academic institutions to foster greater understanding of Haudenosaunee philosophies\, languages\, material culture and contemporary realities. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Buffalo. Of her many accomplishments\, she is most proud of hearing her son excitedly speak his Mohawk language each day. \nLaura Huertas Millán is a French-Colombian artist and filmmaker. Entwining ethnography\, ecology\, fiction and historical enquiries\, her moving image work engages with strategies of survival\, resistance and resilience against violence. Building complex visual and sonic worlds infused by the real\, her cinematographic practice circulates between contemporary art venues and international film festivals. Part of the official selections of the Viennale (Vienna)\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, the New York Film Festival\, La Habana or Cinéma du Réel (Paris)\, her films have earned prizes in Locarno\, FIDMarseille\, Doclisboa and Videobrasil\, among others. She has participated in screenings and exhibitions in institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York)\, the Centre Pompidou (Paris)\, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris)\, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín\, Les Laboratories d ́Aubervilliers\, Western Front (Vancouver) and Instituto de Visión (Bogotá). Retrospectives of her films have been held at the ICA (London)\, Mar del Plata Film festival\, Toronto ́s Cinematheque (TIFF Lightbox) and the Flaherty Seminar. Her works are part of public and private collections as the Kadist Foundation (Paris-San Francisco)\, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami). She is currently preparing her first feature film\, after completing in 2017 a PhD between PSL University (SACRe program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). \nStephen Monteiro is the author of The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media\, Design\, and Gender (MIT Press\, 2017) and editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury\, 2017). He is an affiliate assistant professor of communication studies at Concordia University\, Montreal. \nTiona Nekkia McClodden\, an artist and curator\, has looked critically at intersections of race\, gender\, sexuality and social commentary through an interdisciplinary practice that includes documentary film\, experimental video\, sculpture\, and sound installation. McClodden is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, among them the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work at many venues internationally\, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Museum of Modern Art\, MOCA LA\, MCA Chicago\, MOMA PS1\, the Kansai Queer Film Festival in Osaka and Kyoto\, Japan\, and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. \nAbraham Ravett holds a B.F.A and M.F.A in filmmaking and photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty-five years. He was born in Polandand raised in Israel and the U.S.A. Mr. Ravett received grants for his work from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Foundation for Jewish Culture: Fund for Documentary Filmmaking; National Endowment for the Arts; The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; The Japan Foundation; The LEF Foundation; The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation; and a 1994 filmmaking fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His films have been screened internationally\, including at several one-person shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. His work has won “Top Prize” at the Viennale 2000\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, and Onion City Film/Video Festival. In 1999\, he collaborated with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones on his solo performance “The Breathing Show.” A retrospective of Ravett’s films was shown at the 2014 Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta\, Indonesia. \nDr. Tina Rivers Ryan is Assistant Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo\, New York. As a curator\, scholar\, and critic\, her work focuses on the histories of art and technology from the 1960s to the present. Her writing has been commissioned by museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Walker Art Center\, and the Albright-Knox\, and regularly appears in Artforum. \nEkrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\, where he is responsible for the organization’s exhibitions\, public programming\, and artist residencies. He is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017). His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail\, Millennium Film Journal\, 5harfliler\, among other publications. \nJasmina Tumbas (PhD\, Art History\, Duke University) is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History & Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her teaching and research fields focus on modern and contemporary art history and theory\, histories and theories of performance\, body and conceptual art\, art and activism\, feminist art\, critical theory\, and contemporary East European art history. She is currently finishing her first book\, The Erotics of Dictatorship: A Visual Exegesis of Gender & Sexuality under Yugoslav Socialism\, and her second\, Media Violence\, Ethnic Roma\, and Gender: Feminist Resistance Beyond Citizenship\, and serves as co-editor for the anthology Radical Art in Transition: Counter-Culture\, Protest\, Resistance and Contemporary Art in the Balkans since 1968. Her research has appeared in ArtMargins\, Camera Obscura: Feminism\, Culture\, and Media Studies\, ASAP Journal\, and Art and Documentation/Sztuka i Dokumentacja\, and in the anthologies Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance and Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere. \nKelly Walters is a designer and educator whose work investigates the intersection of black cultural vernacular in mainstream media. She feels her role as a designer is to understand how socio-political frameworks and shifting technology influence the sounds\, symbols and style of black people. She has worked as a designer for SFMOMA\, the RISD Museum\, Alexander Isley\, and Blue State Digital. She has produced websites\, digital social campaigns\, books and other printed matter for clients such as: Google Fiber\, Google for Entrepreneurs\, FairTrade USA\, Hillel International\, and PayPal. From 2015–2016\, she was awarded an Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship in the Graphic Design program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Kelly received dual degrees at the University of Connecticut\, earning a BFA in Communication Design and a BA in Communication Sciences. She completed her MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Kelly was most recently an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Connecticut. \nUsing the arts as a common denominator\, the WASH Project establishes an outlet for the simple\, open & free practice of creativity\, play\, and human engagement. WASH also serves as a human services hub for the immediate Burmese community & beyond: a neighborhood access point for information regarding a wide range of community services & cultural opportunities. From this effort\, we continue to cultivate the development of a small\, yet dynamic center of local community life\, a place that people of all ages & walks of life come to; a place\, that by the way it is designed & the way it is operated\, strengthens its neighborhood\, collaboratively\, via a model of creativity & open engagement. \nBetty Yu is a multimedia artist\, filmmaker\, educator and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu’s documentary “Resilience” about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions\, screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival.  Yu’s multi-media installation\, The Garment Worker was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive. She worked with housing activists and artists to co-create Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing that was featured in the Agitprop! show at Brooklyn Museum. Betty was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident and received the 2016 SOAPBOX Artist Award from Laundromat Project.  In 2017\, Ms. Yu has been awarded several artist residences from institutions such as the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Skidmore College’s Documentary Studies Collaborative and SPACE at Ryder Farm. In 2015\, Betty co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade\, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. Betty won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Documentary Award for her film\, Three Tours. Ms. Yu is currently 2017-18 fellow of the Intercultural Leadership Institute.  Betty is also an adjunct assistant professor teaching new media\, film theory\, art and video production at various colleges in NYC which include The New School\, John Jay College\, Marymount Manhattan College and Hunter College. In addition Betty Yu sits on the boards of Third World Newsreel and Working Films\, two progressive documentary film organizations. Ms. Yu holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. \n  \n\nPunctures logo design by Kelly Walters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/symposium-punctures-textiles-in-digital-and-material-time/
LOCATION:Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, 341 Delaware Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposia & Panels
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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/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Future Voice
DESCRIPTION:(Please Note that the class runs for 4 sessions during this time. There will be a break in the schedule on November 24th for the Thanksgiving weekend. ) \n  \nFuture Voice – A Message to Us. \nIn this Audio based workshop young makers will explore the idea of a lost transmission sent into space and received many years later by people who are alive then. Using audio production and design students will make their own podcast style message in a bottle. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/future-voice/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T180000
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SUMMARY:Video Editing
DESCRIPTION:Video Editing- October 30th – November 8th \nLearn the art of taking raw footage to assemble shots together to form a narrative piece for experimental films\, documentaries\, interviews\, advertisements\, or short films. The class will collaboratively create a short narrative work to learn these skills. \n  \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating video editing interface\nStructuring your workflow for ease and efficiency\nUtilizing continuity editing and juxtaposition to create meaning\nExporting your videos for sharing on various platforms\n\n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-editing-6/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T200000
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SUMMARY:Video Production
DESCRIPTION:Video Production \nThis project-based workshop will dive into the form and techniques involved in the construction of videos. Using existing forms the class will break down videos to their pre and post-production elements to create a short work. Gain the skills you’ll need to light\, shoot\, and record your own videos and advertisements. \nTopics include: \n\nManipulating a camera to properly expose shots\nBasic audio recording for film\nCommunicating ideas with cinematic grammar\nPreparing footage for editing\n\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-production-10/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181103T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140918
CREATED:20251230T191206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191206Z
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SUMMARY:Future Selves
DESCRIPTION:Future Selves – Speculative Video Essays \nIn this video based workshop students will explore what their future will look like in 50 years. They will speculate about the world they will have and the people they will become and create video essays that explore this subject. Using a mix of production and editing techniques students will be able to envision a future they want to see themselves in. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/future-selves/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181006T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181006T170000
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SUMMARY:Buffalo International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 6\, 10am–7pm\nPurchase Tickets Here  \nBuffalo International Film Festival returns to Squeaky Wheel for its twelfth year with a special showcase of films by students in our youth education initiatives. BIFF presents a juried selection of films with regional and global perspectives. \n10am: BIFF Shorts: Youth by Squeaky Wheel (1hr) FREE!\n11am: Panel: Make Your Movie in WNY (1hr)\n12:15pm: Panel: Women in Film (1hr)\n1:30pm: Panel: What Kind of Producer are You?(1hr)\n3pm: Geometry of Desire (1:31hr)\, with The Girls Were Doing Nothing Wrong (17min)\n5:15pm Playing Frisby in North Korea (1:20hr) with\, The Pledge (7min)\, Black (4min)\, and Unforgivable (30min) \nMore information on the films can be found at the festival website
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/buffalo-international-film-festival-3/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T200000
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SUMMARY:Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Before the set is lit and cameras roll\, almost every film production has a script in place to guide the project. This workshop will cover the basics of screenwriting\, one of the greatest creative influences on the filmmaking process. Learn how to create and properly format your script. \n  \nTopics include: \n\nResearching story ideas\nDeveloping a narrative\nWriting a screenplay\nStrategies for pitching screenplays to producers\n\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/screenwriting/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T210000
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SUMMARY:Super/Quick! Presentations by UB Grads
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 26\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nWelcome back Super/Quick!\, organized by University at Buffalo grad students in the Department of Art and Department of Media Study. Presenters speak for 5-7 minutes on their current research in a variety of arts-related topics. Join us for stimulating talks with local scholars. \nSpeakers include:\nLee Cannarozzo\nMartin Chittum\nPatrick Facemire\nBrandon Giessmann\nBob Jones\nBenjamin Kersten\nJames Pollard\nDarya Warner \nImage: Van Tran Nguyen\, Super/Quick presenter 2016.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/super-quick-presentations-by-ub-grads/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T200000
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SUMMARY:Illustrator
DESCRIPTION:Brand awareness is essential in today’s competitive marketplace. Learn what makes a logo effective and walk away from this class with your very own logo creation. Class focus will be in the industry standard software Adobe Illustrator. \n  \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating Adobe Illustrator interface\nDesign Principles\nBranding concepts\nFormatting for print or web\n\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/illustrator-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180915T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T140918
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SUMMARY:Future Protests
DESCRIPTION:Future Protests – 3D modeling with Blender \nOur ability to express ourselves via protest and support our beliefs is a fundamental expression. This class will explore the history and visual language of protest signs and design. Students will use this knowledge to create and animate their own forms of protest signs of the future. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/future-protests/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T210000
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SUMMARY:The North is a Lie
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, September 14\, 7–9pm\nOn view through December 8\, 2018\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public\nThis exhibition is accompanied by public programs featuring guests announced throughout the season. Follow Squeaky Wheel on Facebook\, Instagram and Twitter\,  @squeakybuffalo for updates!\n \nThe North is a Lie is a claiming of space against the myth of a tolerant and more equitable “North.” Thinking about the futures and histories of communities who have suffered most at the hands of this myth\, The North is a Lie present a series of performances\, installations\, screenings\, and potlucks\, with the participation of guest artists. This collaboration between Nitasha Dhillon\, Rhys Hall\, and Elisa Peebles will utilize Squeaky Wheel to gather and provoke questions towards liberation and the possibility of a decolonial existence. This exhibition is accompanied by a brochure featuring newly commissioned writing by Dana McKnight.\n\n— \nThe North is a Lie. We know it because we live it. Your grandmother knew it. Latin American refugees separated from their children know it. Marooners running away from plantations into swamps and mountains knew it. \nThere is no North. If you know\, you know. \nIf there were\, racism would stop at the Mason Dixon line. \nIf there were\, fascism would not be on the rise again. \nIf there were\, there’d be no: \nStolen land \nPolice lynchings \nGentrification \nForced eviction \nRed lining \nDeportations \nThe North is a Lie is not a conclusion\, it is a starting point. During the course of this three month residency\, we seek to overcome the growing desire to escape and begin answering the questions of “where to?” and “what’s next?” by examining the truth of what’s been\, rethinking the possibilities of what can be\, and empowering the imaginary. The North is a lie celebrates the histories\, present and futures of people and communities that have suffered the most at the hands of the Northern myth. It brings these narratives together in hopes of building structures that are imagined and tangible\, for the nourishment and survival of these communities. We begin by acknowledging the land we stand on is stolen land\, this was and is haudenosaunee territory. We base the residency at Squeaky Wheel\, and open the space as a commons for the movements of Buffalo. We will create relations with each other through a series of events that include but are not limited to performances\, parties\, potlucks\, screenings\, conversations\, actions and experiences. The attempt is to create conversations that give us better questions to challenge the Northern myth\, and to create a compass that directs us towards better answers for liberation and decolonial existences. – Nitasha Dhillon\, Rhys Hall\, Elisa Peebles \n  \nAbout the Artists and Contributors \nNitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Nitasha’s practice joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action as part of MTL Collective with Amin Husain. As MTL\, they are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Occupy Strategy magazine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, the direct action arm of Gulf Labor Artists Coalition\, Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Decolonial Cultural Front\, and most recently\, Decolonize This Place\, a movement space and formations in New York City that combine cultural events with organizing\, art\, and action around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nRhys Hall is an aspiring medicine man from various parts of Bailey and East Ferry\, in Buffalo NY. Between making ends meet\, he raps\, sings and makes films. This has been a pattern for 18 years now\, which is probably why he doesn’t have kids. He tried to escape Buffalo for the military\, but The Universe wasn’t having it. Fortunately\, the B.A. he received in African American studies from SUNY at Buffalo helped him survive as an Assistant Dean in Queens and an emcee and singer with Grand Phee as the Hip Hop duo\, We Stole The Show. 5 years and 5 grams of mushrooms later\, he returned to Buffalo and helped start the artist collective\, The United Melanin Society\, with several other accomplished vocal and visual artists. An avid meditator\, you might see Mr. Hall walking at a snails pace through Delaware Park\, or finishing his Masters degree in Film and Media Studies at the University at Buffalo. \nDana McKnight is a multidisciplinary Black/Queer artist and writer. She is the founder of Dreamland Arts in Buffalo\, NY. She lives in Austin\, TX. \nElisa Peebles is an artist\, activist and producer originally from the East Side of Buffalo\, NY. After receiving a B.S. in Media\, Culture and Communication Studies from New York University\, Elisa has spent the past several years living\, working and creating in Buffalo and New York City. Her most recent exhibition\, Bodies of Light: Exit Strategy\, at the gallery pop up Decolonize This Place\, brought artists of color from both cities together around the themes of resistance and perseverance. Prior to this\, Elisa created and co-directed the Buffalo Myth Project\, and was a producer on the Sundance and SXSW – selected short Actresses\, as well as several other independent and commercial short films. A hip-hop performer\, Elisa was selected to perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2015 Everybooty Pride Festival. She uses music\, film\, audio and other methods of storytelling to contemplate issues around collective memory\, urban development\, social justice\, and the intersection of race\, gender and sexuality. Currently\, Elisa is a producer of the satirical web-series Dark Justice.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-north-is-a-lie/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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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/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Premiere Screening: A Long\, Long Now
DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by: Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\, Buffalo Center for Art & Technology \nPowered by AT&T \n \nJoin us at The Burchfield Penney on Thursday\, August 30th at 1 pm for the premiere screening of our Buffalo Youth Media Institute’s film\, A Long\, Long Now. The film will be presented with the students and a Q&A with the young filmmakers after the screening. \nDescription\n\nIn this hybrid documentary/narrative film\, students of the Buffalo Youth Media Institute explored different possibilities of future and technology and how they relate to current uses and equity of those technologies. The film is a combination of interviews with future thinking artists and elected officials mixed with fantastical skits offering up machines that can cure social\, economic\, or cultural ills of our communities. The film’s premise is that this project exploring hopes and fears about the future of technology is found 300 years in the future by the people who exist then. The film then is put back together by the people of that time and presented to the best of their understanding of our culture is at that time. This film is part fiction and part truth-seeking meant to leave us all thinking of what our role is when it comes to the future and equitable technologies that can benefit us all. \n \n-Zaire Goodman\n2nd year Buffalo Youth Media Institute Student\n\n\n\nInterviews with\n\n\nAmerican Artist: Interdisciplinary Artist whose work extends dialectics formalized in Black radicalism and organized labor into a context of networked virtual life. Their practice makes use of video\, installation\, new media\, and writing to reveal historical dynamics embedded within contemporary culture and technology. \nStacey Robinson: Designer\, Illustrator and Professor of Art at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His art speculates futures where Black people are free from colonial influences. Along with John Jennings\, he is part of the collaborative duo ‘Black Kirby\,’ which explores Afro Speculative existence via the aesthetic of Jack Kirby. Robinson’s work is rooted in traditional comic illustration and is calm and beautiful. Subtly expressing a desire for an equitable future for bodies and identities of color. \nDevin Hentz: is a researcher and writer based in Dakar\, Senegal. She recently participated in the second session of the RAW Academie\, directed by Chimurenga\, at RAW Material Company before working there as a librarian and researcher. She is the founder of the B/Look Club which meets once per month to activate the archive of RAW Base (RAW’s Library). Her writings have been published in LESS Magazine and the upcoming issue of Something We Africans Got. Her areas of interests include\, Afro/African futures\, development narratives in Africa\, dress practices\, and radical pedagogy. \nPhillip Stearns: is the creator of the Year of the Glitch\, a yearlong glitch-a-day project\, and Glitch Textiles\, a project exploring the intersection of digital art and textile design. Stearns’ work is concerned with our relationships with technologies. Through deconstruction and reconfiguration the technologically mediated environment is approached as an assemblage\, where human activity plays a role of equivalent importance to environmental agency. From this perspective\, the development and application of our technologies\, machines and tools reveals our perceptual biases\, desires\, dreams and fears—both conscious and unconscious. Cultural values and meaning\, then\, can be viewed as derivative\, shaped by the particular conditions facilitating the distribution of agency through cascading exchanges of mediated interactions. \n\nCrystal People-Stokes: Assemblymember Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes has faithfully served New York State’s 141st Assembly district since 2003. An advocate with clear and principled service\, she has always put people and policy before politics. She was appointed as Chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Governmental Operations in 2015. This committee maintains oversight on ethics reform and FOIL requests\, state police\, homeland security\, disaster and emergency preparedness\, MWBE\, crime victims\, human rights\, and military and naval affairs. In June 2017\, she was voted by her colleagues to be Chair of the New York State Legislative Women’s Caucus which is a bi-partisan and bi-cameral group.\n\nSean Ryan: Assemblymember Sean Ryan serves the people of the 149th District in Buffalo\, NY. Sean’s broad legal experience includes work for Neighborhood Legal Services\, private law practice collaboration with the Learning Disabilities Association of WNY\, concentrating on the rights of disabled students\, and the Legal Aide Bureau of Buffalo. His legal career highlights include a record award for a victim of housing discrimination\, a successful challenge to a school district’s denial of special education services to children enrolled in parochial schools\, and an action to compel enforcement of Buffalo’s Living Wage Ordinance.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/premiere-screening-a-long-long-now/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Summer Youth Exhibition & Fall Open House
DESCRIPTION:Check out work created by CEPA Gallery and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center summer youth programs and find more information about our fall workshop offerings! \n  \nBanner: Still From film: Frear – Breanna Roberts\, Buffalo Youth Media Institute\, 2017
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/youth-summer-exhibition-fall-open-house/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180824T200000
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SUMMARY:Silo City: The Average Attendee Live in Person
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 24\, 2018\n@ Marine A\, Silo City (Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203)\n8pm\nFree and open to the public \nSqueaky Wheel returns to the legendary halls of Silo City for the premiere of The Average Attendee Live in Person! An absurdist take on housing market educationals\, The Average Attendee Live in Person features projections\, live and virtual performance\, costumes\, resounding in Silo City’s famous space. Interactive art works in Silo A and a structured\, improvised performance converge for a transformational evening on how anyone\, even you\, could be a master the real estate market. Join us at Silo City for this exciting 40 minute performance by Avye Alexandres\, our Summer 2018 Silo City Workspace Resident! \nAvye Alexandres was born in Athens\, Greece\, and moved to the United States at the age of six. Her multidisciplinary art practice\, which investigates the psychosocial ramifications of structures and space\, stems from her background in photography and theatre. Evolving from site-based performances her work now encompasses immersive sculpture\, locative media\, experimental digital narratives\, conceptual works\, photography and video\, as well as participatory experiences and installations. In 2015\, she received her MFA in Art and Emerging Practices from the University at Buffalo\, and has exhibited at venues such as the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, The Soap Factory\, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts\, and the Weismann Art Museum. \nAbout the program\nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency which supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Founded in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-the-average-attendee-live-in-person/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Illustrator
DESCRIPTION:Brand awareness is essential in today’s competitive marketplace. Learn what makes a logo effective and walk away from this class with your very own logo creation. Class focus will be on the industry standard software Adobe Illustrator.  \n  \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating Adobe Illustrator interface\nDesign Principles \nBranding concepts \nFormatting for print or web\n\n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/illustrator/
LOCATION:NY
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