\nThe total program length is ~85 minutes. Program notes courtesy of the artists.\n\nchampoy\, english is yr mother tongue\, 4 min\, 2020 \nWhen the American colonial education system in the Philippines imposed English as the sole language for teaching\, suppressing indigenous languages and turning classrooms into sites of linguistic dominance. How did we learn to embrace translation as a playful act? How did we reclaim our agency as a people and assert our own identities in the face of oppressive language policies? How How De Karabaw De Batuten. \nSaif Alsaegh\, 1991\, open captions\, 12 min\, 2018 \n1991 revolves around a conversation between the filmmaker\, an Iraqi asylum-seeker living in the US\, and his mother Bushra\, an Iraqi immigrant who was living in Turkey while she awaited approval to immigrate to the US. Both are in uncertain positions regarding their immigration statuses and have not been able to see each other for years. 1991 navigates the distance between them. Through a facetime phone conversation\, the film expresses the ways that a relationship becomes virtual and symbolic across forced distance. 1991 is set in a cabin where the filmmaker lives a semi-imaginary\, peaceful life\, building fires\, cooking\, and dancing. The central phone conversation details Bushra’s memory of the filmmaker’s birth in the middle of the 1991 Gulf War and the danger and suffering she went through. Through poetic juxtaposition of the virtual landscape of the phone\, the calm landscape of the cabin\, and the chaotic landscape of memory\, the film paints a cruel image of the horror of war\, displacement\, and separation. \nNadia Shihab\, Echolocation\, open captions\, 9 min\, 2021 \nThe rain in Oakland\, my grandmother’s home in Baghdad\, my aunts’ voices in What’s App\, my daughter learning to count to 10\, my brother playing the darbuka\, the cicadas in Texas\, the walls of my studio\, the search for new forms.\nNote: Dialogue in Iraqi Turkman is intentionally not translated / subtitled. \nJJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information\, open captions\, 15 min\, 2021 \nThis music-video-poem work centers on an 18th century newspaper advertisement for the recapture of a fugitive slave with “an impediment in his speech.” A handheld camera captures blurry conifers; a saxophone prays to a mountain. By rearranging the words of the advertisement to create lines of poetry\, I am seeking new meanings and sites of resistance in the archive. The work was commissioned by ISSUE Project Room in New York City. It premiered on Juneteenth\, a day that recognizes the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. In creating this work for the occasion of Juneteenth\, I wanted to celebrate Black freedom practices. I think these practices divinely exceed official proclamations\, emancipatory and otherwise. \nJohann Diedrick\, Dark Matters\, 2021 \nDark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. \nAstria Suparak\, On the Neon Horizon\, 8:27 min\, 2023 \nOn the Neon Horizon is a short video essay that takes one of the world-building tics of white science fiction — gratuitous signage in Asian languages — to consider its utopian potential and dystopian applications. \nFantastical mise en scène\, breathtaking B-roll footage\, and special effects deliriums from four decades of mainstream sci-fi by white American\, Australian\, Canadian\, European\, and New Zealander filmmakers craft an insidiously Asian futurescape — sometimes achieved by simply shooting in a present-day Asian country or a North American Chinatown. In aggregate\, these productions inextricably tether non-white cultures to criminality and contagion\, portraying Asian cultures and people as existential threats to white Western ideas of freedom. \nSky Hopinka\, wawa\, open captions\, 4 min\, 2014 \nFeaturing speakers of chinuk wawa\, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest\, this film begins slowly\, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly\, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled\, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity\, language\, and history. Courtesy of Video Data Bank. \nAlex Dolores Salerno\, El Dios Acostado\, 11 min\, 2020 \nEl Dios Acostado entangles conversations of rest\, care\, and colonialism\, and asks us to consider what the land has to teach us about rest. The video incorporates access as part of its aesthetic. Adding to the slow pace of the video\, all of the visual descriptions and narration are repeated twice\, once in Spanish and once in English\, with a doubling of large captions centered in the frame. The video begins with a nap alongside the mountain “Mandango”\, meaning “dios acostado” or “sleeping god”\, and describes the gentrification of the small town of Vilcabamba\, which was dubbed “the valley of longevity” by European and North American researchers in the 70s who the artist’s mother encountered as a child. The video then cuts to her hometown\, San Pedro de la Bendita\, a nearby town spared from worldwide recognition. Introduced through a view of family tombstones at the town’s cemetery\, the artist’s mother describes her relationship to her hometown\, highlighting the love and care that can flourish with a relationship to land and community. \nOlivia Ong Evans\, Identity Karma\, 11 min\, 2021 \nIdentity Karma is an abstract video project that emerged from a period of research and reflection on Suharto’s New Order Era in Indonesia. Creating the video was a way to reflect on the intergenerational consequences of cultural repression\, and the personal effects of anti-Chinese discrimination. It is an homage to my ancestors\, to my mother\, and to the land. The video was guided by the question: What happens to our cultural and racial identities when we are alone? It jumps between over-saturated\, multi-layered moments and landscapes removed from social context\, and scattered words in English\, Bahasa Indonesia\, Simplified Chinese\, and Hokkien. The distance and frustration of miscommunication co-exists with the closeness and familiarity that can be expressed through language. Footage from Bogor\, Indonesia and Haudenosaunee land in Buffalo and Western New York interact throughout the video. \n
\n\nAlex Dolores Salerno (b. 1994\, Washington D.C.) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. Informed by queer-crip experience\, community\, and culture\, they work to critique standards of productivity\, notions of normative embodiment\, 24/7 society\, and the commodification of rest. Salerno received their MFA from Parsons School of Design and their BS from Skidmore College. They have exhibited at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt)\, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Castellón (Castellón)\, ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts (Brussels)\, Art Windsor-Essex (Canada)\, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation’s 8th Floor Gallery\, the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC)\, among others. Salerno is a recipient of the 2022 Wynn Newhouse Awards\, and their work has been featured in the New York Times and Art in America. They recently participated in the Visual Artist AIRspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center (2022-2023)\, and they are currently in residence at BRIClab: Contemporary Art Residency Program at BRIC (2023-2024). \nAstria Suparak is an artist and curator based in Oakland\, California. Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism\, feminisms and gender\, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens\, such as science fiction movies\, rock music\, and sports. \nchampoy (pronouns: they/them/he/him/she/her/siya ) is a Filipinx interdisciplinary artist\, filmmaker and educator weaving historical and personal narratives through film\, installation and performance.” \nJJJJJerome Ellis is a proud stutterer. Through music\, literature\, performance\, video\, and photography he researches relationships among blackness\, disabled speech\, divinity\, nature\, sound\, and time. His body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone\, flute\, dulcimer\, electronics\, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants\, he lives in Norfolk\, Virginia\, USA with his wife\, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis. They like walking in the woods and drinking tea together. \nJohann Diedrick (he/him) is an artist\, engineer\, and educator who makes listening rooms for encountering new sonic possibilities off the grid. His performances\, installations\, and sculptures surface resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. \nNadia Shihab is an artist whose work explores the personal\, the relational and the diasporic. Her first feature documentary Jaddoland was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit “Truer than Fiction”” Award in 2020. Her recent short films include Sister Mother Lover Child (2023)\, Echolocation (2021) and Amal’s Garden (2012). Her work has screened internationally\, including at Cinema du Réel\, Walker Art Center\, Berkeley Art Museum\, Black Star Film Festival\, Images Festival\, DOXA\, Camden International Film Festival\, Kassel Dokfest and Cairo International Film Festival. Her creative practice is preceded by a decade of work as a community practitioner and housing advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. \nOlivia Ong Evans is an artist living in Buffalo\, New York on Haudenosaunee homelands. Her video art often explores themes of migration and identity construction through experimental glitch. To shape identity from change\, to find meaning in misunderstanding\, to imagine home. Her video Identity Karma was created as part of the Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency in the Summer of 2021. \nSaif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the indigenous Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s\, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in festivals including Cinéma du Réel\, Kurzfilm Hamburg\, Kassel Dokfest\, Aesthetica Short Film Festival\, and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Rochester Contemporary Art Center. \nSky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale\, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside\, California\, Portland\, Oregon\, and Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa\, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video\, photo\, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape\, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal\, documentary\, and non fiction forms of media. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Ann Arbor\, Courtisane Festival\, Punto de Vista\, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, the 2018 FRONT Triennial and Prospect.5 in 2021. He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He has had a solo exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies\, Bard College\, in 2020 and in 2022 at LUMA in Arles\, France. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019\, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019\, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019\, a recipient of a 2020 Alpert Award for Film/Video\, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, and was a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography\, and is a 2022 MacArther Fellow. \n \nAstria Suparak\, On the Neon Horizon\, 8:27 min\, 2023Saif Alsaegh\, 1991\, 12 min\, 2018Alex Dolores Salerno\, El Dios Acostado\, 11 min\, 2020Johann Diedrick\, Dark Matters\, 2021Nadia Shihab\, Echolocation\, 9 min\, 2021Olivia Ong Evans\, Identity Karma\, 11 min\, 2021JJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information\, 15 min\, 2021Sky Hopinka\, wawa\, 4 min 2014champoy\, english is yr mother tongue\, 4 min\, 2020\nImages from left to right\, top to bottom: Astria Suparak\, On the Neon Horizon (2023); Saif Alsaegh\, 1991 (2018); Alex Dolores Salerno\, El Dios Acostado (2020)\, Johann Diedrick\, Dark Matters (2021); Nadia Shihab\, Echolocation (2021); Olivia Ong Evans\, Identity Karma (2021); JJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information (2021); Sky Hopinka\, wawa (2014); champoy\, english is yr mother tongue (2020).\nBanner image: JJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information (2021). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/echolocations-films-in-translation-and-transcription/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/impediment-still-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:20231017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T200000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191524Z CREATED:20251230T191524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191524Z UID:10001117-1697565600-1697572800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Video Editing with DaVinci Resolve DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays and Thursdays\, 6:00 – 8:00 pm\nOctober 17- October 26\, 2023 (4 classes)\n$175 (10% discount for members)\nopen to ages 16+\n \nWe are very excited to offer this introduction to DaVinci Resolve\, a FREE (yes\, really) professional quality video editing software. Resolve combines video editing\, color grading\, motion graphics\, visual effects\, and audio post production into one tool. \nWhether you are new to video editing\, or considering switching over from another tool\, this workshop is for you! You’ll learn how to take raw footage and assemble it into a sequence\, whether for short films\, documentaries\, interviews\, promotional videos\, or experimental films. You’ll learn important foundational skills and best practices in DaVinci Resolve\, and also develop your personal editing style. \nNo video editing experience necessary\, but participants should be confident using a computer\, and interested in learning complex software. \nAll equipment provided. Squeaky Wheel’s classroom is outfitted with Mac computers. If you would like to bring your own laptop\, please download and install DaVinci Resolve before class. You can find it at this link. \nClass limited to 8 participants. Members receive a discounted rate. Not a member? Click here to sign up! \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Derrick Edgerton II \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-editing-with-davinci-resolve/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/resolve_screenshot.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;VALUE=DATE:20231017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240226 DTSTAMP:20251230T191523Z CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001129-1697500800-1708905599@squeaky.org SUMMARY:[Speaking in Foreign Language] DESCRIPTION:[Speaking in Foreign Language] brings together several of Squeaky Wheel’s Fall/Winter 2023 activities–screenings\, presentations\, and a solo exhibition–within a curatorial framework on how voice and language function across borders and power. \nThe series was developed through an engagement with\, and brings together\, the work of several former Squeaky Wheel Workspace residents–including Emily Watlington\, Jordan Lord\, Johann Diedrick\, Olivia Ong Evans\, and Saif Alsaegh–within a larger media arts context\, including feature films by Sharlene Bamboat and Trinh T. Minh-ha\, and short films by Alex Dolores Salerno\, Astria Suparak\, champoy\, JJJJJerome Ellis\, Nadia Shihab\, and Sky Hopinka. Additional events TBA. \n\n \nScreening | Tuesday\, October 17\, 7 pm ET\, in-person and online \nEcholocations: Films in Translation and Transcription\nGroup screening with work by Alex Dolores Salerno\, Astria Suparak\, champoy\, JJJJJerome Ellis\, Johann Diedrick\, Nadia Shihab\, Olivia Ong Evans\, Saif Alsaegh\, and Sky Hopinka \n\n \n \nExhibition opening | Friday\, November 10\, 5–8 pm \nJordan Lord’s The Voice of Democracy\nOn view through February 10. Featuring a newly commissioned essay by Amy Ching-Yan Lam. \n\n \nScreening | Tuesday\, December 5\, 7 pm ET @ Journey’s End Refugee Services and online \nTrinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam\n\n \nScreening | Wednesday\, December 6\, 7 pm @ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and online \nSharlene Bamboat’s If From Every Tongue it Drips\nPresented by Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series at the University at Buffalo \n\n \nPresentation | Friday\, December 8\, 7 pm ET\, in-person @ Squeaky Wheel and online \nEmily Watlington presents The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (for Hearing People)\n\nImage descriptions from top to bottom:\nA still from Identity Karma by Olivia Ong Evans. A bright blue and turquoise video still. There are multilayered legal documents and forms that are abstracted and blurry\, with only some words visible. The legible text includes “Declares her wish to change her name\,” “Name\,” and “Surname.”\nA still from Impediment is Information by JJJJJerome Ellis. A video still shows conifers in a snowy Wyoming landscape. A saxophone rests in a stand in the snow. The words “they try to fell black being” appear in white text overlaid on the video. The sky is blue.\nA still from the film The Voice of Democracy shows a dim living room\, in which a tv hangs on the wall. The tv displays two older white people\, the filmmaker’s parents\, sitting with a gold lamp in between them. The filmmaker’s father looks angry and their mother looks concerned. The tv image is paused on a Youtube window\, which reads: “Mom and Dad interview selects\,” below which a series of other videos are recommended including “The Biggest Snubs of the Olivier Awards\,” “Top 25 Roller Coasters\,” and “Food & Wine Festival.” Reflected in a mirror below the television are the filmmaker’s parents sitting in the same set-up as their image on the television\, with the same gold lamp between them. They are looking across the room at the filmmaker\, a 30-something white person with a buzzcut and a beard\, who looks back at them with their arms folded and legs crossed\, with a serious and sympathetic look. Their father is pointing at the television\, saying something. In the center of the image\, between the mirror and the television\, is a caption that reads\, “Why?”\nA still from Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam. A mostly dark image\, with a barely lit woman with black hair looking to the left of the image.\nA still from If From Every Tongue It Drips by Sharlene Bamboat. A person sits on a wooden rocking chair in a bright orange room sunshine spilling in. The person in the chair is half out of frame arms holding a piece of paper. Yellow caption on screen reads: “hence\, matter is an infolding\, an in-volution. hmmmmmmmmmmm”. Image and description courtesy of the artist.\nLiza Sylvestre\, Captioned-Channel Surfing (still)\, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. A movie still\, close-up of a white man and woman wearing summer clothes in a rural setting looking excited in a phone booth. A caption reads “They are so young and excited and happy.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/speaking-in-foreign-language/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Event Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Identity_Karma_C.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:20231007T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T130000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191523Z CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10000876-1696672800-1696683600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Digital Art and Technology Access Fall 2023 DESCRIPTION:DATA is a media arts and technology program designed for neurodivergent individuals (such as individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder\, ADHD\, dyslexia\, dyspraxia\, etc.) ages 13-26. A series of year-round workshops builds creative and social skills. Students learn a range of media-based practices to suit all interests in technology and art.\nIn DATA we provide a minimum 3:1 student-to-instructor ratio\, noise-canceling headphones\, snacks or lunch\, and a separate sensory-friendly space outside the classroom for breaks. The lead Teaching Artists have experience in working with students with disabilities. The Teaching Assistant has a degree in social work and experience working with students with disabilities\, and can help you begin the process of applying for services through the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). Our Peer Mentor is a neurodivergent student or recent graduate from a digital media art degree program. \nDATA is now 100% free and space is limited.\nFall 2023 Registration Now Open\n\n \nSession 1: October 7 – October 28\nVideo Production and DIY Special Effects\n \nSession 2: November 4 – December 2 (no class November 25)\nVideo Editing\n\n \nSaturdays\n10am-1pm\nAt Squeaky Wheel\n \nScroll down to “tickets” to register. If you would like to join both sessions\, please select both tickets. If you registered early for 8 weeks with a single ticket\, don’t worry – you are still registered for both sessions! \nIf this is your first time registering for DATA\, you will receive a phone call from Caroline\, our Education Director\, to discuss the program in greater detail\, and to ensure that we are a good fit for your student. \nQuestions? Please email caroline@squeaky.org\, or call 716-884-7172. \n \n \nIn partnership with:\n \nAbout our generous funder The Golisano Foundation\nThe Golisano Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the U.S. dedicated to making the world a better place for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Foundation is devoted to opening doors to opportunity\, changing negative perceptions and stereotypes\, and forging unprecedented partnerships to ensure individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have pathways to personal dignity\, independence\, and the best possible expression of their abilities and talents throughout their lifetimes. Founded in 1985 by Tom Golisano—entrepreneur\, philanthropist\, civic leader\, and founder of Paychex\, Inc. —the Foundation “imagines the possibilities\,” advocating for families\, fighting for their dignity\, and giving people with IDD the opportunity to thrive in their communities. With more than $60 million in gross assets\, it awards about $3 million annually to non-profit organizations in Western New York and Southwest Florida. Learn more here.\n \nAbout our partner Children’s Guild Foundation Autism Spectrum Disorder Center at Oishei Children’s Hospital\nThe Children’s Guild Foundation Autism Spectrum Disorder Center at Oishei Children’s Hospital evaluates\, diagnoses and supports families with autism spectrum disorders. One component of the program includes identifying needs in the community and collaborating on the development of new resources and opportunities for families. Currently\, there are very few programs or social opportunities available for teens on the spectrum. Programs based on music\, art and technology allow teens to learn new skills and find different ways of expressing themselves in a creative\, social and supportive environment. Learn more here. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data-digital-art-and-technology-access/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:DATA,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Header2.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:20230928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T210000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191523Z CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001115-1695927600-1695934800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:The Animation Fest: A Retrospective @ North Park Theatre DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 28\, 7 pm ET\n$7\nPurchase tickets to in-person screening at North Park Theatre (or just show up!)\nPurchase tickets to online screening via Eventbrite\nJoin us at the legendary North Park Theatre for a special retrospective screening that brings together 10 short films from the past 20 years of our Animation Fest! The short films collected here exemplify our little fest’s promise and potential: Personal visions and experiments\, and surprising and poignant uses of tools and technologies; and social and political commitment and critique. Open to young people and adults\, this special screening is Squeaky Wheel’s big fundraiser for the year – we invite our communities near and far to join us in celebration! \nThe 10 filmmakers present a vital cross section of our many communities\, from legends of the field to former Squeaky Wheel students from Buffalo and beyond\, including films by Adele Han Li\, Amanda Bonaiuto\, Ayoka Chenzira\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Helen Hill\, Jazmyn Palermo\, Jodie Mack\, Leslie Supnet\, Maria Zjaia\, Miranda Javid\, and Robert C Banks. \nBegun as an outdoor screening in 2004\, the fest celebrates animation in all its forms. Often organized by emerging guest curators\, the fest has featured hundreds of classic and cutting edge animated works. All funds from this event go towards our award-winning exhibition\, education\, and equipment access programs. Join us! \nPlease note that the final two films\, X: The Baby Cinema and Second Sun feature flickering effects. Jodie Mack’s Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World will not be available online\, and will only be screened in person. The total duration of the in-person screening is ~53 minutes; the online screening duration is ~50 minutes. \n
\n\nMaria Ziaja\, One Speck in the Universe\, 1 min\, open captions\, 2013\nMaria Ziaja\, Flying Bird\, 1 min\, 2013\nMaria Ziaja created these two videos during her time taking a Stop-Motion Animation class as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Tech Arts for Girls program\, taught by Alice Alexandrescu; the two films were included in the 2013 edition of the Animation Fest\, programmed by Squeaky Wheel’s 2013 staff and interns\, including Jax Deluca\, Mark Longolucco\, and Ryan Crowley. \nHelen Hill\, Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century\, 10 min\, 2001\nMadame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques\, from camera less animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm. Helen Hill’s work was featured in the first edition of the Animation Fest. Special thank you to Mark Johnson and the Harvard Film Archive. \nHannah R.W. Hamalian\, The Golden Age\, 9:58 min\, open captions\, 2021\n“An experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream.” – Hannah R.W. Hamalian. The Golden Age was included in the 2022 edition\, curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh; her work was previously included in the 2017 edition guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo. \nAyoka Chenzira\, Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People\, 10:26 min\, open captions\, 1985\n“I was very concerned with the question of black women in this country and self-image aesthetics. If you look at all the commercials that come out and tell you how to fix yourself\, they are all based on the idea that there is something wrong with you. And so\, having a child\, these things became very glaring\, and I think that’s a part of Hairpiece. Hairpiece is funny\, but it comes from a position of real anger.” – Ayoka Chenzira. Included in the 2004 edition of the Animation Fest\, Hair Piece was one of the twenty-five films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2018. The film received a 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation\, which is the version that is on view. Film courtesy of Kino Lorber and Milestone Films. \nAdele Han Li\, Chella Drive\, 3:29 min\, digital video on projection\, sound on speakers\, 2016.\n“A dreamlike memory of a teenager’s summer complacency and the luscious suburban environment that surrounds her. Made using hand drawn animations projected onto real life settings and rephotographed frame by frame.” – Adele Han Li. Chella Drive as included in the 2016 edition curated by Ekrem Serdar. \nJodie Mack\, Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World\, 2:50 min\, 2010\n…broken-hearted and mashed up. – Jodie Mack. This film was included in the 2012 edition of the Animation Fest; Mack’s films were included also in the 2016 edition of the fest. Film courtesy of Canyon Cinema.\n \nAmanda Bonaiuto\, Batfish Soup\, 5 min\, 2016\n“Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls\, boiling stew and a bang.\nDIRECTOR’S NOTES:\nBatfish Soup is a fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations with my grandparents. Though the film’s spark was autobiographical\, the film transformed over the course of its production into something more fictional. This film epitomizes my interest in the darkly humorous underpinnings of domestic drama. I produced this film as my first year film in the MFA Experimental Animation Program at California Institute of the Arts.”\nBatfish Soup was included in the 2017 edition of the Animation Fest\, guest curated by Jean Zhu. Bonaiuto work was additionally screened in the 2019 edition\, guest curated by Leanne Goldblatt. \nMiranda Javid\, What Humans Do\, 6:40 min\, 2023\n“A macro view of human-actions\, as told from within a singular body. The film is a catalog of homo sapien instincts; its sequences interlace extractive qualities of our species with embodied sensory experience\, in favor of a mindful awareness of what humans do to their habitats and planet Earth at-large.” – Miranda Javid. \nJazmyn Palermo\, Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland\, 9:54 min\, 2018\n“Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland is a stop-motion animation that explores a transgender perspective of finding oneself. As Teenie enters a world of fairies\, witches\, creatures\, ghouls and vampires\, they find themself on an adventure in the world of people they have only heard of in scary stories. They find friends and helpful hands along the way on their adventure of exploration and self discovery.” – Jazmyn Palermo. Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland was included in the 2020 edition\, guest curated by Tabia Lewis. \nRobert C Banks\, X: The Baby Cinema\, 5 min\, 1992\nDrawing by hand directly on 16mm film\, Banks challenges commercial appropriations of the image of Malcolm X. The film was included in the 2007 edition of the Animation Fest\, guest curated by Kerry Maeve Sheehan.\n \nLeslie Supnet\, Second Sun\, 3 min\, 2014\n“The rising sound of drums emphasizes flashes of lights\, images of the solar system and a post-apocalyptic imagining of the birth of our Second Sun.” – Leslie Supnet \n“Leslie Supnet’s hand-drawn animation piece is an extension of her previous work First Sun (2014)\, with the monochrome drawings of the latter giving way to bright primary pencil colours. Like its predecessor\, Second Sun extensively employs basic geometrical shapes to represent cosmic phenomena and is scored to an exhortative percussive soundtrack hinting at a ritual\, a summoning. The figures move strictly horizontally or vertically on checkered paper as though underscoring their mathematically precise cyclicity\, with the central solar circle spawning clone stars\, moons\, planets and an entire solar system. The overall impression is that of witnessing a trance-inducing cultic invocation.” – Experimenta India” \n
\n\nWorking in painting\, video\, and installation\, Adele Han Li explores creating immersive and evocative environments through mixing materials and colliding surfaces. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Beyond her own creative projects\, Adele was previously programmer and festival manager of the Slamdance Film Festival\, and is passionate about cultivating inclusive and nurturing spaces for fellow artists. She studied animation at CalArts and painting at Yale and is now playing with textiles\, projectors and ceramics in her home studio just outside Los Angeles\, California. \nAmanda Bonaiuto (b. 1990) is an animation director\, artist\, and educator living in New York. She is best known for her short films and commissioned pieces which have screened at film festivals and galleries worldwide. She’s inspired by humor and tilted realities. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston in 2012 and an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 2018. She is an assistant professor of Illustration at Parsons School of Design\, and makes films and commissions in her studio. \nMeet Ayoka Chenzira\, the multi-talented and award-winning filmmaker\, Emmy and NAACP nominated television director\, and digital media artist.\nAs a child\, Ayoka discovered her interest in storytelling while listening to women talk in her mother’s Philadelphia beauty parlor. With a background in modern dance\, photography\, and music\, she discovered her passion for filmmaking after being taken to every age-inappropriate movie that her cinephile parent could find. Since then\, Ayoka is known to work across a range of genres\, including drama\, science fiction\, documentary\, animation\, and interactive cinema. As an actor’s director\, able to work with various acting styles and degrees of experience\, Ayoka’s visionary style of storytelling and character development takes center stage as does her ability to emotionally and visually elevate a story. Read more here. \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions.\nHannah’s work has screened and shown at festivals internationally\, including ADF’s Movies by Movers\, KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival\, Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio\, USA)\, and the Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (New York\, USA). She received her BA from Carleton College and her MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, and she currently teaches at Lane Community College in Eugene\, OR. \nHelen Hill (1970 – 2007) was an experimental animator\, filmmaker\, educator\, artist\, writer and social activist who lived her last years in New Orleans\, Louisiana. A native of Columbia\, South Carolina\, Hill revealed her artistic talents at an early age\, making her first short\, animated Super 8 films when she was eleven. While studying English at Harvard (BS ’92)\, she minored in Visual and Environmental Studies where she made three 16mm animated short films: Rain Dance\, Upperground Show and Vessel. After receiving an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation\, Hill\, along with her husband Paul Gailiunas\, moved to his native Canada where he was studying medicine and where she continued to create films and teach film animation at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (now NSCAD University) and at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP). Soon after\, Hill and Gailiunas moved to New Orleans where Gailiunas would found a medical clinic for artists and low-income patients and where Hill\, meanwhile\, co-founded the New Orleans Film Collective and taught filmmaking. Read more here. \nJazmyn Palermo is a visual and expanded media artist living and working in Buffalo\, NY. They studied Fine Art at Alfred University with a focus in photography and video art. Their work explores a transgender perspective on fairy tales\, folklore\, and horror themes incorporating a stop-motion process and a lot of papier-mache. Their process includes asking their friends to put on a wig and move very\, very slowly. Jazmyn is inspired by the wonderful people they know and the beautiful place they live. They would like their work to create a comfortable place to enjoy the magic of finding yourself. \nJodie Mack (born 1983; London\, UK) is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility\, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.\nMack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, the New York Film Festival\, the Jeonju International 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 was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College. \nLeslie Supnet is an experimental filmmaker who creates media works that explore loss and change. Using animation\, live-action\, found footage and material exploration\, Supnet’s process is guided by lyricism and personal affect\, often bending analog and digital techniques. Leslie completed her MFA in Film at York University in 2016. Leslie’s works have screened at festivals such as TIFF\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)\, International Film Festival Oberhausen\,Images Festival\, Onion City\, The Edge of Frame Weekend at the London International Animation Festival and as part of special programmes at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec\, Art Gallery of Hamilton and the AGO. She has created commissions for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival\, ArtSpin/Pleasuredome\, Film POP!/POP! Montreal and Plug In ICA. \nMaria Ziaja is from Buffalo\, NY\, and is most passionate about Sustainability and Environmental Policy. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Environmental Studies and Russian and has worked in environmental consulting\, non-profit conservation initiatives\, and EHS policy for energy companies. She currently works at the Greenway Institute\, where she is helping reshape engineering education around goals of equity and sustainability. Before moving out of Buffalo for college\, Maria spent her formative years taking TechArts classes at Squeaky Wheel\, both at the Ansonia Building and Market Arcade locations. She feels that over the years these classes helped her grow creatively and develop an appreciation for the arts that still influences her work (now in the education sector). She is honored to be part of the Animation Fest! \nMiranda Javid (she/her) is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator currently living in Kingston New York. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. \nRobert C. Banks Jr. was born and raised in Cleveland\, Ohio in 1966\, and has attended Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland State University\, and has also served in the U.S. Air Force. Inspired by his father\, Banks is an experimental filmmaker\, cinematographer\, and teacher of filmmaking and photography at numerous colleges and universities. Banks’ films have been screened at numerous prestigious film festivals and art institutions\, both domestically and abroad\, such as Sundance Film Festival\, SXSW Film-Music Festival\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Museum of Modern Art\, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, Chicago Underground Film Festival\, and Ann Arbor. He is a recipient of numerous awards\, including Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmaker’s Conference\, and his film retrospectives have been featured at The BBC British Short Film Festival\, The Cleveland Cinematheque\, and The Walker Center for the Arts. One of Banks’ best-known works is the 1992 short film X: The Baby Cinema\, which chronicles the commercialization of Malcolm X’s image and legacy. Some of his other films include Motion Picture Genocide\, My First Drug\, the Idiot Box\, Outlet\, Goldfish and Sunflowers\, AWOL\, Autopilot\, and Don’t Be Still\, all of which were shot and edited on 16 and 35 mm film. Several of his short films have been added to the private collections of institutions such as The Yale University Film School and The Walker Center for the Arts. Most recently\, Banks has completed his first 35 mm feature film\, Paper Shadows\, which was seven years in the making. \nSponsors\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. The North Park Theater event is presented with generous support from Councilman Joel Feroleto. \n\nBanner image: Hannah Hamalian\, The Golden Age. Yellow\, green\, and black paint is smeared into an abstracted version of a familiar cartoon dog character. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-animation-fest-a-retrospective-north-park-theatre/ LOCATION:North Park Theatre\, 1428 Hertel Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14216\, United States CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hamalian_golden-age_02-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T235900 DTSTAMP:20251230T191523Z CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001122-1694563200-1696809540@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Apply to Saturday Cafe! New Deadline Oct 8 and Info session Oct 7 DESCRIPTION:Exciting news! For fall 2023\, Squeaky Wheel is accepting applications for Saturday Cafe!\nAre you a high school student who is passionate about film and/or media art? Do you love making things\, and experimenting with new ideas\, new software\, and new equipment? Do you already have some experience with media art? (Including but not limited to video\, animation\, digital illustration\, sound editing\, creative coding\, game design\, digital photography\, etc etc!) Do you want to spend your Saturday afternoons working on exciting new projects\, meeting other teen artists\, and working with amazing guest artists and mentors? Then Saturday Cafe might be the place for you! \n\nApply by October 8\, 11:59 pm\n \nFall 2023 dates:\nOctober 7 – December 16 (no class Nov 25)\nSaturdays 1:30-4:30 pm\n \n\nThe October 7 class will be an info session for new applicants.\nWe will also attend the Next Gen youth screening of the Buffalo International Film Festival.\nAll interested applicants are strongly encouraged to join us Oct 7\, 1:30-4:30!\nEmail caroline@squeaky.org to confirm your attendance!\n \nDaily bus passes available\nFREE to participate\nStipends for completing the program!\nField Trips!\nFinal screening at the Burchfield Penney Art Center!\n \n \nIn addition to working on a range of smaller media art projects and building new skills\, this year’s Saturday Cafe participants will work on a longer term project called Stepping Into Your Light. For this project\, students from both Saturday Cafe and Just Buffalo Literary Center will work in response to the work of Buffalo-based artist Julia Bottoms\, whose work is on view at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Bottoms uses portraiture to express the nuance and complexities of Black identity beyond limiting\, reductive stereotypes. She has also been selected to fabricate a sculpture of Shirley Chisholm. As the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in 1968\, and the first Black woman to run for President of the United States\, Chisholm’s life and legacy are rooted in carving a place for her voice to be heard and to advocate for her community. \nThrough sessions at the Burchfield Penney and at Squeaky Wheel\, students will be inspired to imagine what it means to dream beyond imposed societal limitations\, and to define how they see themselves in history on their own terms. Through creative writing and multimedia video\, students are encouraged to consider how they find their voice\, to think through how the visual arts can be a catalyst for more expansive and meaningful representation. \n \nApply online at this link.\nClick here for more info about Saturday Cafe\nQuestions? Email caroline@squeaky.org\n\n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/apply-to-saturday-cafe-deadline-oct-1/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Call for youth applications,Education,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/anika-w-clapper.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:20230901T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T213000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191523Z CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001110-1693594800-1693603800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Zain Alam at Silo City: I am sounding a sacred space DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 1\, 2023\n7–8 pm: Performance at Silo City\, Marine A with Zain Alam\, Dayatra Amber\, and Zaimah Habeeb (aka Zaimah Beloved)\n8:30 pm: Refreshments and conversation with Zain Alam and S Shiraz Ali at Duende\nFree or suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to welcome back Zain Alam for a special performance of his work\, I am sounding a sacred space. Utilizing Silo City’s immense resonance\, Alam and Buffalo’s own Dayatra Amber and Zaimah Habeeb (aka Zaimah Beloved) will each recite the azaan (the Islamic call to prayer)\, which Alam will distill over its duration into tonal content alone. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Alam and scholar S. Shiraz Ali on the 2nd floor of Duende. \nI hope to bring a lived sense of sound in the Islamic tradition essential for the project’s aesthetic vision: drawing attention away from the meaning of the Arabic words alone and to the rich\, diverse traditions of recitation\, heard as music in and of themselves. How can sound create sacred space\, rather than vice-versa? In the long reverb and comforting resonances of Silo City\, the workshop performance revealed to me the healing properties of sound—particularly sound carried forward by natural echoes and amplified by nothing more than the resonant qualities of the space. I’m looking forward to incorporating this knowledge into a finalized performance\, thinking deeply about how vocal practices in religious tradition can be taken outside of their usual institutional context and used in pursuit of creating sacred\, healing spaces of our own. – Zain Alam \nThe performance will begin at 7 pm at Marina A in Silo City. Enter Marina A through the back door in the garden of Duende. After a brief break\, we invite you to the 2nd floor of Duende for a conversation between Alam and S. Shiraz Ali. \nDocumentation\nThe following video showcases excerpts from the live performance that took place on September 1\, 2023. \n\nAbout the artist\, featured performers\, and speakers\nZain Alam is an artist and musician of Indian-Pakistani origin based in Brooklyn\, NY. Described as “a unique intersection\, merging the cinematic formality of Bollywood and geometric repetition of Islamic art\,” his recording project Humeysha began during his year working as an oral historian for the 1947 Partition Archive. His work is a project of translation using contemporary pop forms\, found sound\, and oral history as means of investigating one’s position in an outside tradition or community. Alam’s practice extends his sonic vision into video\, performance\, and writing. His works are braided together by a passion for the borrowed voice\, re/de-contextualization\, and bricolage — for how a personal mosaic of sound can empower minority and marginalized to engage in self-creation on their own terms. His essays have been published in Miami Rail\, Buzzfeed\, and The New Yorker\, and Humeysha has been covered by the New York Times\, Vice\, and Village Voice. His performances have been staged at venues including Public Arts\, Webster Hall\, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Alam has most recently completed fellowships with Bruce High Quality Foundation\, Marble House\, and South Asian American Digital Archive. \nAlam was a Workspace Resident in Spring 2022\, where he first worked on the project at Silo City. See a brief video of him talking about the project here: \n\nDayatra Amber is an Artist\, Educator\, Word Holistic Practitioner and mother of three\, who resides in Buffalo\, NY. A delicate blend of Clinical Mental Health Counseling\, the Arts\, Astrology\, Metaphysics\, Restorative Trauma Informed practice\, self-reflection\, LOVE & Holistic Healing\, DayatraAmber is a whole vibe. As a military veteran\, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at SUNY Buffalo\, and Masters serves as a communitu in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Canisius. Dayatra Amber is a lifelong Performance Artist. She debuted as an actress at Ujima Theatre Company in 2009 and began teaching theatre in 2014. DayatraAmber has performed as a Spoken Word Artist since 1998. She published her first book of Spoken Word Art in 2016 entitled Liberta. Her passion for community has lead her to a movement & radio program called Project Access to AFreeKa\, where she serves as a community organizer and personality affectionately known as DJ Bullet. \nZaimah Habeeb\, aka Zaimah Beloved is a professional singer and songwriter. She has previously released 4 studio albums that utilize catchy and beautiful melodies conjoined with clever lyrics\, to tackle challenging subjects\, such as social justice issues and God consciousness. She is presently in the studio to complete her 5th studio album\, which she calls “an album of a lifetime”. Zaimah also works as an online elementary Arabic teacher with the Islamic Learning Institute\, as well as being in her first year as a Qur’an student pursuing her Ijaazah in Hafs. Zaimah has stated she is most proud of her work as creator of “Tajweed from the Cradle to the Grave”\, which is a tajweed and fluency tutoring service\, provided free of charge to children and elderly students who are currently at the beginning and intermediate levels of Arabic fluency and Tajweed. \nS. Shiraz Ali is a scholar of Islamic intellectual and cultural history. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California\, Berkeley\, where he researches the development of philosophy and rhetoric in Muslim South Asia. Ali has contributed to initiatives like PeaceNiche/The Second Floor\, Matnsaz\, Zer Zabar Paesh\, and the 2018 documentary Salam: The First ****** Noble Laureate. He holds a master’s in the study of religion from Harvard University. He was born and raised in Karachi. \nThis event is presented with Lyceum at Silo City. The Lyceum at Silo City is an urban land management nonprofit based at Silo City in Buffalo\, NY. Our modern-day lyceum captures Aristotle’s ‘walking and teaching’ and participatory method with our boots in the soil immersive approach to ecological training and experiential arts and cultural programming. Our work includes regional restoration ecology\, integrated site-responsive arts\, and intentional community-building that connects the public with Silo City’s unique urban landscape\, situated amongst the city’s largest collection of historical grain elevators. We create exceptional experiences for those who love learning\, collaborating\, and discovering. \nBanner image: Zain Alam walking with his back to the camera in a partially enclosed area on a sunny day. He is dressed in white. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/zain-alam-at-silo-city-i-am-sounding-a-sacred-space/ LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Zain-Alam-Silo-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 DTSTAMP:20251230T191523Z CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001114-1692921600-1696118399@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, August 25\, 5–8 pm\nOn view Tuesday–Fridays\, 12–5pm through September 30\, 2023\nFree and open to the public\nOrganized and curated by Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio\, and presented at Squeaky Wheel\, Buffalo Arts Studio\, and Buffalo Game Space.\nAmatryx Gaming Lab & Studio presents Creativity in the Time of Covid-19\, an exhibition of pandemic artwork and creative expression. The exhibition is the outcome of a three year project examining how people ranging from professional artists to first-time creatives used creativity during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project defined creative expression broadly\, including traditional and experimental art forms as well as creative hobbies such gaming\, baking\, crocheting\, and much more. \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 is on display August 25-September 30\, 2023\, with an Opening Reception on Friday\, August 25\, 5:00–8:00 PM. There will be a series of short talks starting at 6:00 PM in the Buffalo Arts Studio gallery space\, featuring speakers Natalie Phillips (Michigan State University)\, Lawrence Carter-Long (DisArt)\, and members of the Amatryx lab. A closing reception will take place on September 22\, 2023 at 3:00 PM in the Buffalo Arts Studio gallery space\, and feature a talk by speaker Tina Rivers-Ryan (Buffalo AKG Art Museum). The exhibition and receptions are free and open to the public. \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 began with experiences common to many during the pandemic lockdowns: being stuck at home without physical access to the spaces and communities people were used to\, and looking for ways to connect\, fill the time\, and process varied emotions. The project partners\, including faculty from Michigan State University\, University at Buffalo\, Washington University in St. Louis\, and United States Naval Academy\, noticed how many people tried out new forms of creative expression or began new creative projects in response to the difficulties of life in lockdown. With the financial support of the Mellon Foundation\, the project partners surveyed thousands of people across many states and sixteen countries (ranging from the US to Korea to Indonesia and beyond) about their creative expression during the pandemic. The result of this work is a collection of thousands of experiences\, stories\, and creative works from around the world that gives a broad\, diverse picture of the role creativity played in living during the pandemic. \nCreative works from the collection will appear in a series of online and physical exhibitions with each partner organization beginning in Fall 2023 and running through Spring 2024. The first of these exhibitions is Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio Presents: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19\, with community partners Buffalo Arts Studio\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\, and Buffalo Game Space. The Amatryx exhibition focuses particularly on LGBTQ+\, BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/Person of Color)\, and/or Western New York-based creative works. In doing so\, Director Cody Mejeur hopes that the exhibition will “prioritize the marginalized voices of communities often left out or forgotten in mainstream narratives.” As Mejeur notes\, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities were often some of the hardest hit during the pandemic\, and the Buffalo-based exhibition aims to start off the series by drawing attention to that trend and the people creating in these communities. \nAs part of the exhibition’s opening night\, the Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio will also be launching the first full release of their current video game project\, Trans Folks Walking. Trans Folks Walking is a 3D\, first person narrative game made with Unity that explores experiences of trans embodiment\, being\, and mobility. The game currently puts players in several situations drawn from the experiences of trans folks in contemporary America\, ranging from the everyday such as using the bathroom through the particular such as being trans in a Christian church. The game creates space for trans folks to share their stories and for players to experience small parts of what it means to be trans. The game is intentionally designed as an anthology of short experiences that will grow in collaboration with trans people and their communities. The game will release on August 25\, 2023 for PC and Mac on the game website itch.io\, with a Steam release to follow. \nThe Buffalo exhibition contains creative work in many forms\, including paintings\, photographs\, films\, songs\, video games\, crochet\, zines\, and mixed media sculptures. These works will be spread across multiple gallery spaces in the Tri-Main Center\, with visual and physical appearing in Buffalo Arts Studio; film\, video\, and digital media in Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center; and games and virtual reality in Buffalo Game Space. Participants are encouraged to explore works in each space on opening night\, and throughout the exhibition during each organization’s normal business hours. \nAmatryx Gaming Lab & Studio (AGLS) is a lab in the Department of Media Study at University at Buffalo dedicated to gaming\, virtual reality\, social justice\, and community storytelling projects. The lab combines cutting edge research on games\, culture\, and narrative with development projects in analogue\, digital\, and virtual reality games. Amatryx is committed to the diverse exploration of social justice narratives with intersectional queer and feminist values\, such as antinormativity\, relationality\, coalitionality\, and resistance. The lab thinks critically about play and narrative as means for imagining more equitable and transformative futures. \nFor more information\, please visit: \nAmatryx and Trans Folks Walking \nBuffalo Arts Studio \nBuffalo Game Space \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 is made possible by a Just Futures Initiative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Image: Loom by TD. Image courtesy Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/amatryx-gaming-lab-studio-creativity-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Partners ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Loom.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:20230824T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T200000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001112-1692900000-1692907200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:2D Stop-Motion World Building with Photoshop with Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, August 24\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Computers with Adobe Photoshop provided.\nIn this hands on workshop\, Workspace Resident Maggie Hazen will lead participants as they create their own stop motion animations. Maggie will first cover the basics of world-building and the process of designing a visual language that represents the world you want to create. Students will then learn to use 2D stop motion animation and Photoshop to create unique worlds. Participants will work in teams to make short animated films\, which will be screened at the end of the workshop. Laptops or desktops with Adobe Photoshop will be provided. \n \nBiography of the artist\nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/2d-stop-motion-world-building-with-photoshop-with-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2.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:20230822T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T200000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001113-1692727200-1692734400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Weaving the Magic Back into Reality: Writing Speculative Fiction for Film with Alicia Solstice Hawkins DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 22\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Journals and writing material provided\nIn this lecture and workshop\, Workspace Resident Alicia Solstice Hawkins will present on how speculative fiction offers subversive narratives that challenge oppressive worldviews\, while reimagining powerful and liberatory counter-narratives. This will be followed by exercises on how participants can incorporate speculative fiction into their documentary or fiction film projects. \nSpeculative fiction is an umbrella term for artworks that include fantastical aspects and can incorporate sub-genres such as science fiction\, horror\, fantasy\, and magical realism. This workshop will examine speculative fiction in contemporary film\, with an emphasis on BIPOC creators. Although initially associated with works focused on Eurocentric sensibilities\, speculative fiction has become a compelling genre for filmmakers to use to offer social critiques\, reclaim spaces stolen by oppressive practices\, dismantle the logics of oppression\, and explore liberation. \nDuring the first half of the workshop\, we will watch example films\, discuss specific strategies filmmakers use to integrate fantastical elements into their films\, and analyze what critiques their narratives offer. Then\, Alicia will lead a mini-writing workshop. A discussion of some foundations for expanding a cinematic storytelling toolkit through speculative fiction will be included\, such as world-building\, structural techniques\, developing a visual language\, and research. \nBiography of the artist\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nBanner image: Alicia Solstice Hawkins standing on a beach. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/weaving-the-magic-back-into-reality-writing-speculative-fiction-for-film-with-alicia-solstice-hawkins/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1.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:20230818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T210000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001109-1692385200-1692392400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 18\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2023 Workspace Residents! Alicia Solstice Hawking (Los Angeles\, CA) and Maggie Hazen (Hudson Vallery\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on media art projects with significant ties to Buffalo’s history and current landscape. Alicia Solstice Hawkins will work on Don’t Go Back to Sleep\, a a poetic and observational 15-minute documentary about Bob\, an elder\, almost 80 years of age\, who attempts to re-engage his art practice while contending with the aftermath of a major stroke. Charting Bob’s life starting from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood\, the city’s East and West Sides\, and Los Angeles\, where he resides now\, the film will follow several different timelines of his life through his poignant\, witty\, and moving voiceover paired with poetic imagery and sound. Maggie Hazen will work on Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape\, a mixed reality project made in collaboration with DW. DW\, who lives in Western New York\, is a formerly incarcerated young artist who was recently released from Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in New York’s Hudson Valley; Hazen met her while teaching art classes at the facility in 2019. Night Moth revolves around Luna\, a 3D digital avatar for DW\, and Luna’s journey of self-discovery\, liberation\, and healing. Night Moth will culminate in four artworks\, including a video installation exhibition\, a documentary\, a sketchbook\, and an interactive concept website. \nIn-person attendees can enjoy food\, including vegetarian options\, from Ali Baba Kebab. Learn how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. \n Online attendees can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo learn more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Portraits of Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen superimposed on a blue red backgrop. Alicia Solstice Hawkins is standing on a beach in her photograph. Next to her is a portrait of Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-alicia-solstice-hawkins-and-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Alicia-and-Maggie.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:20230731T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230731T160000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001103-1690808400-1690819200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation: 16mm Camera-less Filmmaking DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 4B\nJuly 31 – August 4\nMonday – Friday\n1:00 pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nCreate your own handmade animation on film! \nJoin us to learn about motion picture film\, and manipulate the surface of the film using a variety of camera-less techniques: painting\, scratching\, masking\, and tape-lifting to create an original\, collective experimental animated film on 16mm. Each technique creates a different effect\, with a range of textures\, colors\, and opacities. This process is an especially wonderful way to combine media art with traditional arts like drawing and painting. The possibilities are endless\, and each film is a surprise\, only revealing its magic when projected. \nClass limited to 10 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Scott Puccio \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. \n \n \n \nForever\, hand drawn animation on 16mm film by instructor Scott Puccio \n \n \n \nCircle\, hand drawn animation on 16mm film by instructor Scott Puccio URL:https://squeaky.org/event/16mm-camera-less-filmmaking/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC00535.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:20230731T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230731T120000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001102-1690794000-1690804800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Stop Motion Animation: With Humans! DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 4A\nJuly 31 – August 4\nMonday – Friday\n9:00 am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nStop motion animation is often used to animate things like cut paper\, clay figures\, puppets\, and ordinary objects at a miniature scale. In this workshop\, students will instead learn how to use stop motion techniques with real live human actors\, and full-scale objects. The results are often surreal\, or other worldly\, and there is infinite space for experimentation with practical visual effects. We will work together to develop characters and stories\, and then build a set in our studio. Students will learn to photograph scenes and edit their animations\, and then add sound effects and music. Everyone will leave class with a finished short film! \nClass limited to 8 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Salem Browning \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/stop-motion-animation-with-humans/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot-2023-05-12-at-2.04.01-PM.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;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231104 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001119-1690502400-1699055999@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel is celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest and you’re invited! Ahead of the 20th edition taking place this November\, you can visit Squeaky Wheel to see highlights from our past editions in the Retrospective Exhibition\, and join us on September 28 at the North Park Theatre for the Retrospective Screening. Click the links below for all the details! \n \nAnimation Fest at 20: A Retrospective Exhibition\nOn view through September 30 at Squeaky Wheel\, Tuesday–Friday\, 12–5pm and by appointment \n \nThe Animation Fest: A Retrospective @ North Park Theatre\nThursday\, September 28\, 7 pm ET @ the North Park Theatre and online \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s 20th Animation Fest\nFriday\, November 3\, 6 pm ET @ Buffalo AKG Museum and online. The full lineup will be announced in August. Stay tuned! \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/celebrating-20-years-of-our-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Event Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AnimationFestBanner.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;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 DTSTAMP:20251230T191506Z CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001107-1690502400-1696118399@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation Fest at 20: A Retrospective DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, July 28\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nOn view through September 30\, 2023\, Tuesday–Friday\, 12–5 pm and by appointment\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring five key works drawn from the history of our annual Animation Fest. Begun as an outdoor screening in 2004\, the fest celebrates animation in all its forms. Often organized by emerging guest curators\, the fest has featured hundreds of classic and cutting edge animated works from Buffalo and across the globe. In anticipation of the 20th edition of the Fest taking place this Fall\, Squeaky Wheel presents a retrospective exhibition of the fest\, featuring five artists who have screened in prior editions\, interspersed with posters\, program notes\, documentation\, and other ephemera from the Fest’s history. \nOpening as our summer youth workshops are taking place\, the exhibition intends to inspire generations young and old with the possibilities of the genre. All movies are\, technically\, physiologically\, animation: film frames flicker\, pixel turn on and off\, our eyes create the movement between the frames. The moniker of “animation” is a Trojan horse for radical visions. The short films exhibited – by Adele Han Li\, Ayoka Chenzira\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Jazmyn Palermo\, and Maria Ziaja – include works made by legendary figures and former Squeaky Wheel students\, from Buffalo and beyond. They exemplify some of the Animation Fest’s promise and possibility: personal visions and experiments; surprising and poignant uses of tools and technologies; and social and political commitment and critique. \nThe exhibition will be open Tuesdays through Fridays 12–5 pm and by appointment. Click here for visit\, transportation\, and access information for our new location. To make an appointment\, including fully masked visits\, or inquire about group tours\, email ekrem@squeaky.org. \nWorks in the exhibition\nAccess: See films with open captions below; written audio descriptions are provided for films without captions on their respective wall labels. The films in this exhibition are suitable for ages 13 and up. \n\nAyoka Chenzira\, Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People\, 10:26 min\, 16mm film presented on digital video\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 1985.\n“I was very concerned with the question of black women in this country and self-image aesthetics. If you look at all the commercials that come out and tell you how to fix yourself\, they are all based on the idea that there is something wrong with you. And so\, having a child\, these things became very glaring\, and I think that’s a part of Hairpiece. Hairpiece is funny\, but it comes from a position of real anger.” – Ayoka Chenzira. Included in the 2004 edition of the Animation Fest\, Hair Piece was one of the twenty-five films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2018. The film received a 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation\, which is the version that is on view. Film courtesy of Kino Lorber and Milestone Films.\nMaria Ziaja\, One Speck in the Universe\, 1 min\, digital video on LCD monitor\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 2013.\nMaria Ziaja\, Flying Bird\, 1 min\, digital video on LCD monitor\, sound on headphones\, 2013.\nMaria Ziaja created these two videos during her time taking a Stop-Motion Animation class as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Tech Arts for Girls program\, taught by Alice Alexandrescu; the two films were included in the 2013 edition of the Animation Fest\, programmed by Squeaky Wheel’s 2013 staff and interns\, including Jax Deluca\, Mark Longolucco\, and Ryan Crowley.\nAdele Han Li\, Chella Drive\, 3:29 min\, digital video on projection\, sound on speakers\, 2016.\n“A dreamlike memory of a teenager’s summer complacency and the luscious suburban environment that surrounds her. Made using hand drawn animations projected onto real life settings and rephotographed frame by frame.” – Adele Han Li. Chella Drive as included in the 2016 edition curated by Ekrem Serdar.\nJazmyn Palermo\, Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland\, 9:54 min\, digital video installed on CRT monitor\, sound on headphones\, 2018\n“Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland is a stop-motion animation that explores a transgender perspective of finding oneself. As Teenie enters a world of fairies\, witches\, creatures\, ghouls and vampires\, they find themself on an adventure in the world of people they have only heard of in scary stories. They find friends and helpful hands along the way on their adventure of exploration and self discovery.” – Jazmyn Palermo. Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland was included in the 2020 edition\, guest curated by Tabia Lewis.\nHannah R.W. Hamalian\, The Golden Age\, 9:58 min\, digital video on LCD\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 2021\n“An experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream.” – Hannah R.W. Hamalian. The Golden Age was included in the 2022 edition\, curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh; her work was previously included in the 2017 edition guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo.\n\nStills\n\n \nBiographies of the artists\n Adele Han Li Working in painting\, video\, and installation\, Adele Han Li explores creating immersive and evocative environments through mixing materials and colliding surfaces. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Beyond her own creative projects\, Adele was previously programmer and festival manager of the Slamdance Film Festival\, and is passionate about cultivating inclusive and nurturing spaces for fellow artists. She studied animation at CalArts and painting at Yale and is now playing with textiles\, projectors and ceramics in her home studio just outside Los Angeles\, California. \n Ayoka Chenzira \nMeet Ayoka Chenzira\, the multi-talented and award-winning filmmaker\, Emmy and NAACP nominated television director\, and digital media artist.\nAs a child\, Ayoka discovered her interest in storytelling while listening to women talk in her mother’s Philadelphia beauty parlor. With a background in modern dance\, photography\, and music\, she discovered her passion for filmmaking after being taken to every age-inappropriate movie that her cinephile parent could find. Since then\, Ayoka is known to work across a range of genres\, including drama\, science fiction\, documentary\, animation\, and interactive cinema. As an actor’s director\, able to work with various acting styles and degrees of experience\, Ayoka’s visionary style of storytelling and character development takes center stage as does her ability to emotionally and visually elevate a story.\nAyoka’s indie films highlight stories about Black women and have been exhibited at international film festivals\, around the world\, and acquired by prestigious institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is one of the first African American women to write\, produce and direct a 35mm feature film\, Alma’s Rainbow\, which was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences\, along with her short film collection. Set in Brooklyn\, the comedy/drama follows the interior lives of a budding teenage girl\, her no-nonsense mother and a glamorous globe-trotting aunt.\nAs a self-taught stop motion and digital media animator\, Ayoka has used these techniques to explore American history and concepts related to identity and standards of beauty for Black women. In 2018\, her animated film Hair Piece was one of twenty-five films inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress along with Jurassic Park\, The Shining\, and Brokeback Mountain. Her film\, Zajota & the Boogie Spirit was one of the first to use frame-by-frame video and blend cell and computer animation\, and for which she was honored with the Sony Innovator Award. As of 2022\, Bowie State University’s first stop-motion animation studio now bears the name Studio Ayoka Chenzira.\nIn 2018\, Ayoka’s television career took off when Ava DuVernay tapped her to direct episodes of OWN’s hit family drama Queen Sugar\, starring Rutina Wesley\, Dawn-Lien Gardner and Kofi Siriboe\, for which she garnered an NAACP nomination for directing. Since Queen Sugar\, Ayoka has worked non-stop as a television director\, drawing on her years of experience as a filmmaker. She is known for her visual style\, inventiveness\, and technical skills while being a creative partner and collaborator.\nRecently\, Ayoka directed episodes of the CBS reboot of the iconic series Dynasty\, starring Elizabeth Gillies and Grant Show\, who reprised the role of Blake Carrington. As a director of young adult fiction\, Ayoka directed episodes of the award-winning Netflix drama Trinkets featuring Quintessa Swindell and Brianna Hildebrand and helped to navigate the complex world of teenage identity.\nThen pivoting to the carefully crafted world of period drama series\, Ayoka was one of four directors selected by Sony/Amazon to direct the period sports comedy-drama\, A League of Their Own\, based on the beloved Penny Marshall film of the same title and starring Abbi Jacobson\, Nick Offerman\, D’Arcy Carden\, and Chanté Adams\, and for which she received an Emmy nomination for directing.\nBlending history and science fiction\, as one of four directors of the FX series Kindred\, Ayoka navigated two time periods for the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s celebrated and critically acclaimed novel. Working with historians\, Ayoka introduced visual representations of culture and intimidation in inventive ways that became part of the narrative.\nA lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy\, in 2022 Ayoka directed the Spectrum/AMC psychological thriller Beacon 23\, a Canadian production based on the novel by The New York Times best-selling author\, Hugh Howey and starring Lena Headey and Stephan James. Ayoka’s episode was filmed entirely across four sound stages and included substantial visual effects and face replacements for body doubles. Working with a choreographer\, she developed a unique sign language; with composers Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim\, Game of Thrones\, Iron Man)\, and William Marriott (Westworld\, Game of Thrones\, Jack Ryan) she created chants sung by an outer space community of rebels.\nAyoka broke new ground with her production of HERadventure\, a sci-fi/fantasy interactive cinema project that uses gameplay to navigate the story. The project was first presented in 2013 at South-by-Southwest where it was projected onto a building as players navigated the coming-of-age story featuring a reluctant young woman from another planet who comes to Earth to find her sister and ends up a superhero.The first interactive cinema project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts\, HERadventure features a first for the interactive cinema genre — a woman of color as a superhero. The project led to an invitation by TEDxAtlanta where Ayoka presented the Power of Diverse Sci-fi/Fantasy Storytellers\nAyoka earned a BFA in Film from New York University\, an EdM Adult and Higher Education from Columbia University/Teachers College\, and is the first African American to earn a PhD in Digital Media from the George Institute of Technology. She served as the Division Chair for the Arts at Spelman College\, where she created majors in documentary filmmaking\, photography\, and dance performance & choreography\, the firsts at an HBCU. In addition\, she helped to raise funds for a new\, the March Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation in the Arts\, currently under construction where a documentary film production lab will bear her name.\nWith an impressive track record of success and dedication to storytelling\, Ayoka Chenzira is a filmmaker\, television director\, and digital media artist to watch.\nAyoka Chenzira lives in Atlanta and is dedicated to centralizing women protagonists and elevating stories by and about women.\n \n Hannah R.W. Hamalian \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions.\nHannah’s work has screened and shown at festivals internationally\, including ADF’s Movies by Movers\, KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival\, Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio\, USA)\, and the Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (New York\, USA). She received her BA from Carleton College and her MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, and she currently teaches at Lane Community College in Eugene\, OR.\n \n Jazmyn Palermo \nJazmyn Palermo is a visual and expanded media artist living and working in Buffalo\, NY. They studied Fine Art at Alfred University with a focus in photography and video art. Their work explores a transgender perspective on fairy tales\, folklore\, and horror themes incorporating a stop-motion process and a lot of papier-mache. Their process includes asking their friends to put on a wig and move very\, very slowly. Jazmyn is inspired by the wonderful people they know and the beautiful place they live. They would like their work to create a comfortable place to enjoy the magic of finding yourself.\n \n Maria Ziaja Maria Ziaja is from Buffalo\, NY\, and is most passionate about Sustainability and Environmental Policy. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Environmental Studies and Russian and has worked in environmental consulting\, non-profit conservation initiatives\, and EHS policy for energy companies. She currently works at the Greenway Institute\, where she is helping reshape engineering education around goals of equity and sustainability. Before moving out of Buffalo for college\, Maria spent her formative years taking TechArts classes at Squeaky Wheel\, both at the Ansonia Building and Market Arcade locations. She feels that over the years these classes helped her grow creatively and develop an appreciation for the arts that still influences her work (now in the education sector). She is honored to be part of the Animation Fest! \nBanner image: Adele Han Li\, Chella Drive. A pencil-drawn girl is falling\, sinking into a speckled blue abyss. Above her are vague upside-down reflections of a grecian column\, a sculpture\, and some regal looking planters. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-animation-fest-a-retrospective-exhibition/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ChellaDrive_still5.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;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230829 DTSTAMP:20251230T191506Z CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001111-1690502400-1693267199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Call for submissions: Squeaky Wheel's 20th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Deadline: August 28\, 2023\, 11:59 PM\nNotification Date: October 1\, 2023\nSqueaky Wheel announces the call for submissions for our annual Animation Fest! Celebrating its 20th year\, we are proud to continue a festival showcasing artworks made in a diverse variety of animation techniques such as stop-motion\, claymation\, 3D animation\, hand-painted film\, special effects\, and motion graphics. Past festivals have showcased work from both rising artists as well as established artists. \nThe 20th Animation Fest will be held online and in-person on Friday\, November 3\, 2022\, an in-person screening at the Buffalo AKG Museum and a virtual screening through Squeaky Wheel. Films in the virtual program will be accessible for 24 hours thereafter for general audiences\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. If selected\, you will be asked for a downloadable copy of your film. \nEach individual submission should not exceed ~10 minutes.\nThere is no submission fee.\nAll selected artists will receive a screening fee of $100 per selected film. (International applicants must have a Paypal account to receive their screening fee).\nAll selected artists will receive a one year membership to Squeaky Wheel.\nMultiple submissions per artist are accepted. Multiple submissions per artist are accepted. Artists who are African/Black\, Indigenous / Native / Aboriginal\, POC\, creatives with disabilities\, women\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, and artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply. \nClick here to submit\nPlease direct any questions about the application process and your submissions to Ekrem Serdar at ekrem@squeaky.org \nBanner image: An illustration of a red film projector against a starry backdrop. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-submissions-squeaky-wheels-20th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AnimationFestBanner.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:20230724T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T160000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191506Z CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001101-1690203600-1690214400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Believe it or not: Hoax Photography DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 3B\nJuly 24 – July 28\nMonday – Friday\n1:00 pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nWhat does it mean for an image to be “real”? Students will consider this question as they investigate the cultural implications of hoaxes. Beginning with a survey of UFO photography\, we will make physical models and create photographs of UFOs\, and then use Photoshop to remove any signs of trickery from the images. Students will build media literacy skills as they learn about AI and other new developments in image generating technology. \nClass limited to 8 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Robert George \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/believe-it-or-not-hoax-photography/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Center-UFO-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:20230724T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T120000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191522Z CREATED:20251230T191522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191522Z UID:10001100-1690189200-1690200000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Interesting Decisions: Choice Based Game Design DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 3A\nJuly 24 – July 28\nMonday – Friday\n9:00 am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nLearn how to make interactive games! Using the free Inky engine\, you will build a text-based game that takes into account player choices when progressing its narrative – like a choose your own adventure. Design characters\, write stories\, and develop all the action! Inky is a very simple tool for building games that can be played in a web browser or integrated into other programs\, like Unity. You’ll leave the class with your own playable game! \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Famous Clark \nFamous Clark is a current MFA student at the University at Buffalo’s Media Study program. His specific field of study is an interweaving of mythology and folklore\, queer and feminist scholarship\, and interactivity and portrayal within games. Famous’s research and projects to date aim to develop queer allegories of being\, utilizing tropes of fantastical narratives in folklore and fairytales. These allegories\, in turn\, are injected into game mediums\, facilitating the embodiment\, interactivity\, and portrayal of non-heteronormative realities. \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/interesting-decisions-choice-based-game-design/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/game_image.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:20230721T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T123000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191504Z CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001106-1689939000-1689942600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: hiba ali with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 21\, 2023\, 11:30 am ET\n@ online and viewable for 24 hours\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin us for a virtual event celebrating the closing of hiba ali’s solo exhibition\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. hiba ali will be joined by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham to have a conversation on the histories\, themes of their exhibition\, followed by a brief Q&A. The exhibition utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nAudiences are invited to join live\, or can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive a code to view the event for 72 hours. \nYou will see the Zoom link after you checkout and receive it in your email inbox within 24 hours. If you have issues registering\, please email ekrem@squeaky.org \nRead more about hiba ali’s exhibition at Squeaky Wheel here. \nBiographies\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi); Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others. \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: documentation of hiba ali\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. The video in the cyclone (rough as silk) is projected on a wall; a green wavelike video is projected on a canvas on the floor. There are two green chairs facing the wall. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-hiba-ali-with-beheroze-shroff-and-zavier-wingham/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hibaaliroughassilk-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230717T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230717T160000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191504Z CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001099-1689598800-1689609600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Video Production: Color and Light DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 2B\nJuly 17 – July 21\nMonday – Friday\n1:00 pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels \nAges 11-15 \nIn this workshop\, students will learn the fundamentals of production design: the art of creating the overall aesthetic\, or look\, of a film. We will create simple sets\, and learn how to use color and lighting to make them feel vibrant and alive. We will also learn or improve camera and video editing skills\, and create a short film together! \nClass limited to 8 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Avye Alexandres \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away. \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-production-color-and-light/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/a0bcfe32-ec42-4ffa-a88e-b1a6fb900653_rw_1920.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:20230717T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230717T120000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191504Z CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001098-1689584400-1689595200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Interactive Musical Instruments DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 2A\nJuly 17 – July 21\nMonday – Friday\n9:00 am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nIn this workshop\, students will work together to create an interactive musical instrument. Using Arduino devices and basic coding\, we will learn how to connect and activate electronic components to react to inputs like sound\, touch\, or motion. Ordinary objects and materials will gain extraordinary properties! \nClass limited to 8 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Bello Bello \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/interactive-instruments/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_9857-e1687030032409.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:20230710T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T160000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191504Z CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001097-1688994000-1689004800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Video Production: Live Stream Experiments - Be a Video DJ! DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 1B\nJuly 10 – July 14\nMonday – Friday\n1:00 pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels \nAges 11-15 \nThis workshop is about working with real–time video effects to create a live performance! Students will learn new methods of video production that are different from the standard approach of shooting and editing films. Using both analog and digital technologies\, we will create interactive video performances! \nDuring the first half of the session\, we will learn about the tools and processes used to make interactive video performances. Then\, during the second half of the session\, students will break into groups to plan and design their own live stream video set. On the last day\, we will perform our work live! \nNo prior knowledge of video or programming is required. \n \nClass limited to 8 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Michael Chernoff \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/live-stream-experiments/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Chernoff_Clip_1_AdobeExpress.gif 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:20230710T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T120000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191504Z CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001096-1688979600-1688990400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Video Production: DIY Special Effects DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth Session 1A\nJuly 10 – July 14\nMonday – Friday\n9:00 am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels \nAges 11-15 \nBefore computers\, filmmakers used practical effects to create incredible illusions\, all done on set and in the camera during filming. In this workshop\, you will learn to create your own amazing DIY effects! You will also learn or improve your camera skills\, write a short script based on a favorite film\, and learn or improve your editing skills with Adobe Premiere. You’ll finish the week with a completed short film! \nClass limited to 8 participants.\nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Joan Nobile \n \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n \nAll online registrations will be confirmed via email. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for this email to arrive. \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-production-diy-special-effects/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/makinmovies.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;VALUE=DATE:20230619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230620 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001105-1687132800-1687219199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Now Hiring: Lead Teaching Artist\, West Side Studios DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center is seeking a media arts instructor for our Summer 2023 West Side Studios program.\n \n2023 Summer Program dates: \nJuly 10 – August 18\, 2023 (6 weeks) \nMonday – Friday \n10am – 2pm \nContract includes paid prep time in addition to teaching hours. \nCompetitive hourly rate\, based on experience. \nApply by Monday June 19; interviews to be held June 20-23. \n \nWest Side Studios (est.2015) is a media arts education and workforce development program partnership between Squeaky Wheel and PUSH Buffalo that provides year-round\, quality out-of-school opportunities for West Side residents ages 13-19. This unique program centers hands-on experience in video production and digital filmmaking and fine-tunes skills to create a pipeline to secondary education and employment. \nCandidates for the Lead Teaching Artist position should have strong experience in camera operations and audio recording; video editing and audio mixing; knowledge of art history\, film\, and contemporary media art. Experience in screenwriting\, cinematography\, documentary filmmaking\, audio/radio production\, digital storytelling\, and/or experimental film/video are all relevant to this position. Industry experience is also welcome. \nCandidates should be able to organize\, plan\, and teach a dynamic\, hands-on\, project-based curriculum for a group of 10-12 young people\, ages 13-19. Must be able to communicate\, collaborate\, and share responsibilities with a Teaching Assistant. Must be confident creating structure within an informal classroom environment. Must be comfortable maintaining relationships with community partner organizations. Candidates must also possess a positive attitude\, a sense of humor\, and a willingness to learn from students and Teaching Assistants. \n \n Minimum required skill sets include: \n\nVideo Production & Post-Production\n\nproficiency in prosumer level DSLR camera operations\, lighting\, file handling\, and software including Premiere\, Final Cut Pro\n\n\nAudio Production & Post-Production\n\nproficiency in prosumer level audio recording with devices like Zoom or Tascam audio recorders\, external microphones\, and software like ProTools\, Audacity\, or Adobe Audition\n\n\nExperience teaching and inspiring groups of middle/high school age youth and/or young adults\nAbility to guide students in the process of generating ideas\, developing a project\, and following through to completion and presentation of work.\n\nIdeal qualifications (but not required) \n\nNew media production skills (motion graphics\, animation\, coding\, etc)\n\n \nPreference will be given to those who demonstrate cultural competence and a genuine desire to produce student-led work on a range of topics\, from playful narrative fiction to complex social issues. \nThis call is specific to the 2023 WSS Summer Program. For the right candidate\, this opportunity may extend into the school year\, with the possibility of year round part-time employment. \nTo apply\, please send a letter of intent and resume to caroline@squeaky.org. Your letter should tell us about you as a teacher and as an artist\, and should explain what skills and experience you have to share\, and why you want to teach in this program. \n \n \nSqueaky Wheel is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race\, color\, sex\, religion\, sexual orientation\, national origin\, disability\, genetic information\, pregnancy\, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal\, state\, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization\, including hiring\, recruiting\, promotion\, termination\, layoff\, recall\, leave of absence\, compensation\, benefits\, training\, and apprenticeship. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/now-hiring-lead-teaching-artist-west-side-studios/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Open position ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/MG_0461-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;VALUE=DATE:20230531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230616 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001104-1685491200-1686873599@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Now hiring: Communications and Development Manager DESCRIPTION:Compensation: $40\,000\, plus benefits\, including health insurance and retirement contribution.\nStart date: July 1\, 2023; however\, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.\nDeadline to apply: Submit cover letter and résumé by June 15\, 2023 to jobs@squeaky.org\nSqueaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center is looking for a creative and experienced Communications and Development Manager to join the team. The Communications and Development Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing a communications strategy that supports Squeaky Wheel’s activities and mission and spreads awareness of our impact to a wide variety of audiences. This role will also support development efforts in collaboration with the Executive Director to drive fundraising goals and communicate the organization’s mission to potential supporters\, grantmakers\, and other key stakeholders. \nCommunications Responsibilities:\n\nAssists in developing the organization’s internal and external communication strategies in partnership with the Executive Director and Marketing & Communications Committee.\nBuild on these communication strategies and the organization’s history and mission to create a style guide to support the brand identity of the organization.\nCoordinates production and/or produces content in support of programs (education\, exhibitions\, events\, and equipment access) in collaboration with interns and staff for all communications platforms including web content\, e-newsletters\, brochures\, and any other supporting materials.\nMonitors web and social media content to ensure program descriptions are current and comments are responded to.\nCoordinates production and/or produces content for communications to promote the organization’s mission\, membership\, and fund development.\nPrepares reports\, marketing\, and event-related materials for Marketing & Communications Committee\nDesigns or adapts graphics\, images\, and videos for a range of formats (website\, social media\, print materials)\nManages social media updates\, including\, but not limited to\, Instagram\, Facebook\, and Twitter\nCreates and distributes press releases\, media advisories\, and press kits\, and develops relationships with local and national media.\n\nDevelopment Responsibilities:\n\nImplement annual fund development plans\, including the annual giving campaign\, fundraising events\, membership management\, and grant applications.\nDevelop\, manage and grow relationships with community stakeholders\, donors and prospective donors\nManage the donor management tracking system\nManage all special events\, including sponsorship and in-kind solicitations\nOversee the organization’s membership program\nContribute to writing grant proposals\nWork closely with Development Committee to coordinate organization-wide fundraising activities.\nWith the Executive Director\, establish measurable outcomes for all development activities and create dashboards to communicate progress\n\nSkills & Experience:\n\nBachelor’s degree and 2+ years of experience in a marketing or communications role\, or equivalent relevant experience\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills\nAbility to work effectively both independently as a part of a team\nHighly organized\nExemplary people skills\nProficiency in Adobe Creative Suite\nProficiency in Microsoft Office\nSkilled in photography and graphic design\nComfortable with social media platforms\nExperience and interest with databases or CRMs; Salesforce knowledge a plus.\nDemonstrated success in developing and implementing communications strategies for small nonprofits that utilize limited resources for maximum impact.\nIdeal candidates also have experience implementing an existing identity framework to inform marketing and design decisions\n\nCompensation\n$40\,000/year plus benefits\, including health insurance and retirement contribution. \nHow to apply\nTo apply for this position\, submit cover letter and résumé by May 31\, 2023 to jobs@squeaky.org\nThe goal start date for this position is July 1\, 2023; however\, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. \nEqual Opportunity Employer\nSqueaky Wheel is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race\, color\, sex\, religion\, sexual orientation\, national origin\, disability\, genetic information\, pregnancy\, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal\, state\, or local laws.\nThis policy applies to all employment practices within our organization\, including hiring\, recruiting\, promotion\, termination\, layoff\, recall\, leave of absence\, compensation\, benefits\, training\, and apprenticeship. \nAbout Squeaky Wheel | Buffalo Media Resources:\nSqueaky Wheel is the only organization in Western New York with programming entirely dedicated to media arts. We collaborate with other cultural organizations\, institutions\, and schools throughout the city. The organization’s long-standing history of providing community-based media art related programs has established an expansive network of national and international artists\, scholars\, and media arts practitioners. Our mission continues a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. \nWe center diversity\, equity\, access\, and inclusion in the work we do and the people we serve. This commitment is reflected in our hiring practices\, board recruitment\, programming\, and the communities with which we work. We strive to listen to those impacted by racial\, economic\, and environmental injustice\, in order to learn how we might help support our communities better. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/now-hiring-communications-and-development-manager/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open position ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Cart.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:20251230T191505Z 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:20230418T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T200000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191505Z CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10000873-1681840800-1682625600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Intro to Video Editing with Adobe Premiere DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays and Thursdays\, 6:00 – 8:00 pm\nApril 18 – April 27\, 2023\nTotal price for all 4 sessions: \n$135 members/$175 non-members\nClick here to register\nLearn to manipulate story and meaning with the art of editing. In this workshop you’ll learn how to take raw footage and assemble it into a narrative\, whether for short films\, documentaries\, interviews\, promotional videos\, or experimental films. You’ll learn important foundational skills and best practices in Adobe Premiere\, and also develop your personal editing style. \nNo experience necessary\, beginners welcome! All equipment provided. \nClass limited to 8 participants. Members receive a discounted rate. Not a member? Click here to sign up! \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Joseph Scordo \nJoseph Scordo is a local video editor and production assistant who has worked on projects such as “Movin’ On\,” an upcoming music video by Drea D’nur\, and interned on “Niagara\,” a PBS Nature documentary premiering in March. Joseph double majored in media production and public relations and advertising at SUNY Buffalo State University. He is currently a production assistant at Buffalo Toronto Public Media\, where he previously held an editing-focused digital media production internship. \n \nImage: An angled\, over the shoulder shot of a computer screen showing a work in progress on the Adobe Premiere editing timeline. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-video-editing-with-adobe-premiere/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Thumbnail-no-text.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:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T210000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191451Z CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001093-1681408800-1681419600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Soon-rye Yim's 와이키키 브라더스 (Waikiki Brothers)\, with Molly Hyo Kim DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 13\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\n@ Journey’s End Refugee Services (2495 Main Street\, Suite #530)\nFree or suggested donation\nPresented as the opening of the symposium Genre\, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama\, Soon-rye Yim’s 와이키키 브라더스 (Waikiki Brothers\, 109 min\, 2001) is about high school friends who form a band and struggle to find success\, relationships and happiness. The screening will be followed by a lecture by Molly Kim of Hanyang University about the film’s writer and director\, Soon-rye Yim. The lecture\, “Korean Cinema and The Single Woman: Korean Women Filmmakers through Yim Soon-rye\,” will be the opening keynote lecture of UB Asia Research Institute’s Korean studies symposium\, followed by a Q&A with Margaret Rhee\, assistant professor of Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo and The New School\, and Ekrem Serdar\, curator at Squeaky Wheel. Special thank you to Kathy Spillman and Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nMolly Hyo Kim is Adjunct Professor of the College of Humanities at Hanyang University. She earned a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University\, and a B.A. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University at Bloomington. She has published her works in Acta Koreana\, the Journal of Cultural Studies\, the International Journal of Korean History\, and more. \nMargaret Rhee is a poet\, scholar and new media artist. Rhee’s debut poetry collection\, “Love\, Robot\,” was published in 2017 and has been named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. \nAs a new media artist\, her project The Kimchi Poetry Machine is exhibited at the Electronic Literature Review Volume III and included in the anthology Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change(Routledge\, 2022). From 2008 – 2018\, with collaborators from the San Francisco Department of Public Health\, she co-lead the participatory project From the Center which focused on digital storytelling\, women of color\, and HIV/AIDS education in the San Francisco Jail. \nRhee is an assistant professor at The New School in the School of Media Studies. Prior to The New School\, Rhee held a faculty appointments at the University at Buffalo-SUNY\, Harvard\, and University of Oregon. Rhee earned her Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley in ethnic studies with a Designated Emphasis in new media studies\, and her B.A. in Creative Writing/English from the University of Southern California. \nThis symposium Genre\, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama will feature scholars from the U.S\, Asia and Europe examining a wide range of topics in Korean film and television\, including sexuality\, LGBTQ representation\, translation\, violence\, and popular productions like Squid Game and Parasite. This event is sponsored by the UB Asia Research Institute\, Academy of Korean Studies\, and Squeaky Wheel. Cosponsors include the UB Departments of Media Study\, English\, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Art\, and Linguistics\, UB Asian Studies Program\, Global Film Studies Minor Program\, and Gender Institute. \nImage: A still from Waikiki Brothers. Four young people looking off to the side of the camera lens on a sunny day. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/soon-rye-yims-%ec%99%80%ec%9d%b4%ed%82%a4%ed%82%a4-%eb%b8%8c%eb%9d%bc%eb%8d%94%ec%8a%a4-waikiki-brothers-with-molly-hyo-kim/ LOCATION:Journey’s End Refugee Services\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite #530\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/waikiki-brothers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T210000 DTSTAMP:20251230T191451Z CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000878-1681236000-1681246800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:16mm Camera-Less Filmmaking with Dena Kopolovich DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 11\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin visiting artist Dena Kopolovich for a special workshop on cameraless filmmaking with 16mm film! Intended for ages 16 and up\, participants will learn about motion picture film\, and manipulate the surface of film using a variety of camera-less techniques: painting\, scratching\, masking\, and tape-lifting to create an original\, collective experimental film on 16mm. The workshop will culminate with a screening at Squeaky Wheel where we’ll watch the film on loop. A light dinner will be provided; you can indicate dietary restrictions during checkout. \nBio of the instructor \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Dena Kopolovich. Several strips of 16mm film against a lighttable. Some are in color and some are in black and white. Some of the films have hand scratched lettering on their emulsion. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/16mm-camera-less-filmmaking-with-dena-kopolovich/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Dena-Kopolovich-film-strips.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