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Squeaky Wheel hosts gallery exhibitions, screenings, and other special events year-round, with visiting artists, special workshops, off-site events, and much more. We feature filmmakers and artists who make challenging and critical inquiries to media art: its possibilities, histories, and the communities it can hold and form.

Exhibitions are free for the general public. Our regular events admission is $10 for the general public and $7 for members of Squeaky Wheel unless otherwise noted.

Regular events are free for ArtsAccess Pass Holders. ArtsAccess can also provide free transportation if requested at least two weeks ahead of time. Squeaky Wheel is now an official ArtsAccess sign up location. Find out how to be a part of the ArtsAccess program here.

You can find accessibility information about our venue here. See individual event pages for event-specific accessibility, including ASL interpretation, virtual and hybrid events, and more.

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  • Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance

    Burning Books 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States

    Squeaky Wheel presents two films each by directors Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar that take on displacement, resistance, and the human toll of borders and settler-colonies.

  • Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer

    Burning Books 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States

    Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre – border walls, shantytowns, hi-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists – that it looks a lot like today.

  • Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL

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

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

  • Alex Rivera & Khaled Jarrar

    Virtual NY, United States

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

  • Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators

    Burning Books 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States

    A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.

Since 2017, Squeaky Wheel has been certified from Working Artists for the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), committing to paying all our artists fair wages.



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