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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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  • Workspace Residency, Summer 2026

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

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

  • Dark City Beneath the Beat

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

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

  • Khaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement

    Burning Books 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States

    Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since the age of 12. Now she has to evacuate Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a new life.

  • Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators

    Burning Books 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, United States

    The Infiltrators tells the true story of a radical group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – who get themselves detained in order to infiltrate a shadowy detention center and help other immigrants get free.

  • 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.

  • 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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