BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://squeaky.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170120T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T130000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000638-1484917200-1494075600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Sondra Perry: flesh out DESCRIPTION:Sondra Perry. Wall 2 (2016). Video projection.\nOpening January 20\, 2017\, 6–9pm\n Public conversation with Sondra Perry at 7:30pm\n On View through May 6\, 2017 \nThe five works included in this exhibition of work by Sondra Perry are critical investigations into the way digital technology gives shape and encompasses representation. \nnetherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2.0 (2017) is a video work that establishes a sonority that is articulated throughout the exhibit with an examination of the Windows operating system’s “Blue Screen of Death\,” the screen that appears when the Windows operating system is frozen in error. A similar shade of blue—a chroma-key paint used for industrial special effects work—covers the gallery except for one wall\, which is covered by a manipulated video projection of the artist’s skin titled Wall 2 (2017). The same image of Perry’s skin is also used as the backdrop for her digital avatar in Ashes for Three Monitor Workstation (2017)\, a video installation mounted on a manual treadmill. Finally\, our window space features Wet and Wavy Looks—Typhon coming on: Fields (2017)\, a video piece that features a digitally-manipulated image of Joseph Turner’s 1840 painting Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on in an ocean modifier\, an ocean simulation tool in the free and open -source 3D computer graphics software Blender. The manipulated presence of the artist’s skin\, voice\, and person throughout the exhibition map an interface in which representation and refusal are utilized and fleshed out. \nPerry will be present for the opening\, and will be joined by Squeaky Wheel Executive Director Maiko Tanaka for a public conversation. A newly commissioned essay by art and art history scholar and critic Soyoung Yoon accompanies the exhibition. You can read her essay on our tumblr\, here. \n \nSondra Perry. Ashes for Three Monitor Workstation (2017)\n \nSondra Perry. flesh out. Installation view.\n  \nAbout the Artist \nSondra Perry was born in Perth Amboy\, New Jersey\, in 1986. Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. In 2015\, the artist’s work appeared in the fourth iteration of the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1. Other exhibitions include Disguise: Masks and Global African Art\, Seattle Art Museum\, Seattle\, 2015; A Curious Blindness\, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery\, New York (2015); Of Present Bodies\, Arlington Arts Center\, Arlington VA (2014); and Young\, Gifted\, & Black: Transforming Visual Media\, The Camera Club of New York (2012). Perry performed Sondra Perry & Associate Make Pancakes and Shame the Devil at the Artist’s Institute\, New York\, in 2015. The artist’s work has been screened at venues such as Les Voutes\, Paris\, France; Light Industry\, New York; Video Art and Experimental Film Festival\, Tribeca Cinemas\, New York; Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Museum\, Shenyang China; and LOOP Barcelona Media Arts Festival. Perry was a panelist at Black Artists on Social Media at the Brooklyn Museum\, NY. Perry has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Vermont Studio Center\, Ox-bow\, and the Experimental Television Center. Perry is currently based in Houston\, Texas as part of the artist-in-residence program CORE at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sondra-perry-flesh-out/ 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/2017/01/fleshwall.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:20170118T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170118T170000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000637-1484748000-1484758800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Nude on the Moon DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 18\, 2016\n7pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\nGeneral $7 | Free for Squeaky Wheel Members\nWith introductory remarks via Skype by Peggy Ahwesh \n\n“[Doris Wishman’s] films offer the prerequisite weirdness of the genre but they have a seedy underlying resonance of the fear of and hostility toward women in our world which Doris describes in her own profound and tawdry way. From my perspective\, she maintains a unique combination of proto-feminism (although she would strongly disagree with this term) and pop cultural criticism in the design of the films which is a consistent and pure look at what it means to be female.” – Peggy Ahwesh\n\n\n \n\n\nThis 1961 nudie-cutie classic by “the Queen of Sexploitation” Doris Wishman (1912-2002)\, portrays a rich scientist who organizes an expedition to the moon\, and discovers that it’s full of nude women. We are excited to present this film as the final event in our sci-fi series OTHERWORLDS\, with introductory remarks via Skype by filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh\, a long-time Doris Wishman fan.\n\n\n \n\n\nLimited copies of a “The Films of Doris Wishman”\, a zine by Peggy Ahwesh\, will be on sale. \n\n\n \n\n\n“Boasting sensational titles like Nude on the Moon\, Bad Girls Go to Hell\, and Keyholes Are for Peeping\, New York City-born director Doris Wishman became the queen of sexploitation filmmaking during the 1960s and ‘70s — one of the only women creating movies in the softcore subgenre that played the grindhouse theaters in cities across America. A self-taught writer and director\, Wishman became famous for her nudist camp romps and melodramatic B-film aesthetic… Unconventional editing choices\, including cutaways to paintings and ashtrays\, overdubbed dialogue\, gratuitous violence and nudity\, and the exploitation of innocent women aplenty\, a Doris Wishman film is titillating\, odd\, and endearing at the same time. Her films exist on their own terms.” – Alison Natasi\, Flavorwire\n\n\n \n\n\nPeggy Ahwesh was born in 1954. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Her work has been widely shown\, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, San Francisco; the Balie Theater\, Amsterdam; the Filmmuseum\, Frankfurt; the Rotterdam International Film Festival\, Rotterdam; Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA)\, Barcelona; the Wexner Center for the Arts\, Columbus\, Ohio; the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, among other venues. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts\, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship\, and grants from the Jerome Foundation\, Creative Capital\, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Bard College\, Annandale-on-Hudson\, New York.\n \n\nAbout The Series \nFrom cybernetic futures to voyages across space and time\, our Fall/Winter screening series OTHERWORLDS focuses on alternative science fiction\, including experimental films\, rare documentaries\, and cult classics. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/nude-on-the-moon/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NUDE-ON-THE-MOON2050.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:20150425T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150425T170000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000589-1429966800-1429981200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Point & Shoot DESCRIPTION:A young man on a 35\,000-mile journey across Northern Africa and the Middle East to uncover personal freedom serendipitously finds himself joining the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other\, Matt fought in — and filmed — the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. \nThis film\, directed by two-time nominee of the Best Documentary Award Marshall Curry\, won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival.  \n“A gripping non-fiction thriller. Riveting… suspenseful\, densely edited… an extraordinary and quietly disturbing film.” \n-David Rooney\, The Hollywood Reporter\nRead Article \n\n  \n\n“Marshall Curry’s ‘Point and Shoot’ manages a first. Here’s a film that captures the romance of war amongst today’s young. Want to know why young men from all over the world have flocked to fight for ISIS? ‘Point and Shoot’ explains it.“ \n-Roger Moore\, Movie Nation Read Article \n\n\nThis event is part of the ACCESS series\, showcasing landmark films that capture moments of transformation. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/point-and-shoot/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pointandshoot-e1425609269974.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:20150411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150502T170000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000607-1428778800-1430586000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Rachel Rampleman: Baby's On Fire DESCRIPTION:Rachel Rampleman is the inaugural artist for Squeaky Wheel’s new storefront window gallery—viewable 24 hours a day/7 days a week from Main Street. This storefront exhibition is a multi-media display to accompany her 4-floor exhibition and early career artist survey at CEPA Gallery entitled BABY’S ON FIRE\, on view through May 2. \nAdditional video works by Rachel Rampleman are on view inside Squeaky Wheel’s microcinema during public viewing hours\, Tuesday through Saturday\, noon to 5:00pm\, through May 2. \n  \nABOUT RACHEL RAMPLEMAN \nBorn and raised in the suburbs of the Midwest\, Rampleman’s various bodies of work explore subjects like gender\, artifice\, and spectacle through the tinge of a very American lens. Part directorial\, part curatorial\, and part anthropological\, she probes into oft–overlooked elements of American culture to reveal an expanded landscape of American life. Her astute observations— awash with empathy and rife with psychological complexity—hint at an underlying dissonance that straddles the absurd. \nRampleman’s work frequently showcases strong female personalities—women who are simultaneously aberrant and superhuman—who challenge the common clichés of masculinity and femininity and who often assume roles typically associated with men. This is a landscape where sexual braggadocio\, heavy-metal rock stardom\, or muscularity have become characteristic of feminine prowess. \nFor her survey\, Rampleman’s prolific body of work will be featured in every gallery of CEPA’s Market Arcade complex. \n  \nAll of the events below are free of charge. \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSATURDAY\, APRIL 11\, 2015\n7:00PM–10:00PM \nSTOREFRONT WINDOW & MICROCiNEMA SCREENINGS\nOn display until May 2 at Squeaky Wheel. \nSURVEY EXHIBITION\nAPRIL 11–MAY 30\, 2015 at CEPA Gallery. \nSQUEAKY WHEEL FILM & MEDIA ART CENTER and CEPA GALLERY\n617 MAIN STREET\nBUFFALO\, NY 14203 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/storefront-gallery-opening-rachel-rampleman-babys-on-fire/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11072414_10153232298757008_2171614154829368359_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150409T230000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000595-1428606000-1428620400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Call Me Kuchu DESCRIPTION:This event takes place at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Launched in 2013\, REEL Queer is more than just film showings–it’s a community! Now in its second season\, REEL Queer has broadened its community partnerships to include Squeaky Wheel and the Pride Center of WNY\, in addition to maintaining its preexisting relationship with founding partner Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. \n\nIn Uganda\, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato\, Uganda’s first openly gay man\, and retired Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo work against the clock to defeat state-sanctioned homophobia while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world. There is a post-screening Skype Q&A featuring filmmakers Malika Zouhali-Worrall & Katherine Fairfax Wright. \n“Feels like PARIS IS BURNING by way of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS.” \n– The Village Voice \n\nCall Me Kuchu – Trailer from Call Me Kuchu on Vimeo. \n \n\n$8 – General Admission \n$6 – Students and Seniors \n$5 – Members of Squeaky Wheel and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center \nThis event takes place at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave\, Buffalo NY 14202) URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-me-kuchu/ LOCATION:Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, 341 Delaware Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Call_Me_Kuchu_Poster_1600_1200_85.jpg GEO:42.8937279;-78.8753531 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 341 Delaware Avenue Buffalo NY 14202 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=341 Delaware Avenue:geo:-78.8753531,42.8937279 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150425T200000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000605-1428084000-1429992000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Liz Bayan: HANDLE WITH CARE DESCRIPTION:OPENING: Friday\, April 3rd\, 2015\nLOCATION: Squeaky Wheel\, 617 Main St. \nThis multi-media interactive installation culls on the viewer’s responsiveness to play along with a set of parameters in order to activate the objects present within the gallery. The audience is left to their own devices\, so to speak\, as each member’s experience is then based on their own decisions. \nThis exhibition calls into question the intricacies between communication and the relationships that are embedded within the usage of technological devices\, and the objectifying gaze that is inherent. The artist is interested in how the body plays a role in the consumption of information\, and the figurative distance that the Internet has placed between individuals. As a bi-product of the 90s\, growing up in the new millennium\, her interests surround the growing debate of how the internet is contributing to the distancing of human interaction and the demise of the personal. \nLiz Bayan will be presenting an artist talk during the opening on Friday\, April 3 at 7:30pm. Handle With Care will be on view until April 25. The gallery will also be open on Saturday April 11 from 7-10pm during the opening reception of Rachel Rampleman’s exhibit at CEPA. Public viewing hours of the gallery are Tues-.Sat.\, 12-5pm. Squeaky Wheel is located on the first floor of the Market Arcade Building (617 Main St) in the downtown Theater district of Buffalo. \nLiz Bayan was born in Salem\, Oregon\, and graduated with a BFA from the University of Oregon. Currently she is an MFA Candidate in her last semester at University at Buffalo with future plans of staying local and teaching media art to youth. Handle With Care\, was generously supported by the Technē Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies\, a UB supported initiative. \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center’s gallery programming is generously supported in part by grants and awards received from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)\, City of Buffalo Cultural Funding\, Erie County Arts & Cultural Funding\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/liz-bayan-handle-with-care/ 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/2015/04/10577205_10153199605387008_4018694361579973935_n.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=DESCRIPTION:OPENING: Friday April 3rd 2015\n Squeaky Wheel 617 Main St. \nThis multi-media interactive installation culls on the viewer’s responsiveness to play along with a set of parameters in order to activate the objects present within the gallery. The audience is left to their own devices so to speak as each member’s experience is then based on their own decisions. \nThis exhibition calls into question the intricacies between communication and the relationships that are embedded within the usage of technological devices and the objectifying gaze that is inherent. The artist is interested in how the body plays a role in the consumption of information and the figurative distance that the Internet has placed between individuals. As a bi-product of the 90s growing up in the new millennium her interests surround the growing debate of how the internet is contributing to the distancing of human interaction and the demise of the personal. \nLiz Bayan will be presenting an artist talk during the opening on Friday April 3 at 7:30pm. Handle With Care will be on view until April 25. The gallery will also be open on Saturday April 11 from 7-10pm during the opening reception of Rachel Rampleman’s exhibit at CEPA. Public viewing hours of the gallery are Tues-.Sat. 12-5pm. Squeaky Wheel is located on the first floor of the Market Arcade Building (617 Main St) in the downtown Theater district of Buffalo. \nLiz Bayan was born in Salem Oregon and graduated with a BFA from the University of Oregon. Currently she is an MFA Candidate in her last semester at University at Buffalo with future plans of staying local and teaching media art to youth. Handle With Care was generously supported by the Technē Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies a UB supported initiative. \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center’s gallery programming is generously supported in part by grants and awards received from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) City of Buffalo Cultural Funding Erie County Arts & Cultural Funding individual members businesses and supporters.;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:20150401T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150401T220000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000587-1427914800-1427925600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:The Filmballad of Mamadada DESCRIPTION:This event has a special introduction by celebrated Dada scholars Elizabeth Otto & Sarah Bay-Cheng\, a live performance by experimental poet Mike Basinski\, and post-screening filmmaker Skype w/ Lily Benson and Cassandra Guan. \nThe Filmballad of MAMADADA tells the story of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven\, unsung member of the New York Dada movement. A poet\, artist\, model\, and public provocateur\, the Baroness defied the social and artistic codes of her time. As with many of her female contemporaries\, the Baroness’s cultural legacy has been obscured\, and in some instances appropriated into the oeuvres of better known male peers. Accounts of her personal life are scarce and often conjectural. \nAccording to recent scholarship\, the Baroness was born Else Hildegard Plötz in 1874. At age 18\, she ran away from her middle-class Prussian home and survived as a vaudeville performer in Berlin. After a series of bohemian lovers and three failed marriages\, she found herself penniless in New York City\, a widow with the impressive title of Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven. The Baroness was notorious for wearing outlandish costumes and cross-dressing in public\, and her overtly sexual poetry caused such scandal that she was blacklisted from the most avant-garde publications. She pioneered an assemblage aesthetic\, making sculptures and clothing from everyday objects. Many believe she gave Marcel Duchamp the porcelain urinal that later became Fountain. An important figurehead for the fledgling Dada movement in America\, the Baroness was a close friend of avant-garde luminaries such as Djuna Barnes\, Berenice Abbot\, William Carlos Williams\, and Ezra Pound. \nThe Baroness died under mysterious circumstances in 1927. In 2012\, Lily Benson and Cassandra Guan recruited a group of over fifty artists and filmmakers to produce a collective biopic about her life. Participants were invited to interpret specific biographical fragments and create filmic adaptations on their own terms. The results varied wildly in style and content: from a re-contextualized Jane Fonda interview\, to an animation depicting the effects of syphilis\, to a reconstruction of a lost 16mm film by Duchamp and Man Ray. Benson and Guan then assembled the vignettes into a feature-length film. Unfolding like an exquisite corpse\, the final narrative reveals a gloriously conflicted historical portrait. A myriad of contemporary feminist voices confront the viewer with more questions than answers. Directed by Lily Benson and Cassandra Guan. (2013\, runtime 109 minutes) \nThe Filmballad of Mamadada (trailer) from Cassandra Guan on Vimeo. \n\nThis event is part of the monthly SqueakEasy Film Series\, featuring films that highlight outlaws of popular culture and encourages individuals to challenge the status quo. \n  URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-filmballad-of-mamadada/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/21168-1.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:20150326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150326T230000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000594-1427396400-1427410800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Club King DESCRIPTION:This film takes place at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Launched in 2013\, REEL Queer is more than just film showings–it’s a community! Now in its second season\, REEL Queer has broadened its community partnerships to include Squeaky Wheel and the Pride Center of WNY\, in addition to maintaining its preexisting relationship with founding partner Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. \n\nFor the past 20 years\, Mario Diaz has crafted his own iconic image as the premier LGBT nightlife king\, throwing some of the sexiest and wildest parties from New York to LA\, including the insanely appealing Hot Dog\, BFD and Full Frontal Disco. Filmmaker Jon Bush combines Diaz’s personal reflections with candid interviews and archival footage from the East and West Coast’s hottest queens (including Jackie Beat)\, go-go boys\, and singers like Justin Vivian Bond\, resulting in a dizzyingly wild ride. Directed by Jon Bush. (2014\, Runtime 70 minutes) URL:https://squeaky.org/event/club-king/ LOCATION:Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, 341 Delaware Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ClubKingMarioDiazJonathanSirandRollingBlackouts.jpg GEO:42.8937279;-78.8753531 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 341 Delaware Avenue Buffalo NY 14202 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=341 Delaware Avenue:geo:-78.8753531,42.8937279 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T210000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000603-1426874400-1426885200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:You Are In Nearly Every Future DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center presents YOU ARE IN NEARLY EVERY FUTURE is an adapted hybrid poetry/dance/new media performance of a book-length poem by local Buffalo poet\, Noah Falck. The performance includes a live reading of the text by Falck\, on top of layers of processed audio by Flatsitter with special guests Frank Napolski and Jim Abramson and an accompanying dance performance — starring artist Liz Bayan — featuring choreography from Jax Deluca and costumes designed by Tommy Nguyen. \nThe performance coincides with the Spring Equinox\, and is conceived as a collective moment to mark the passing of ice-steeped winter and welcome a spring of abundance. Two performances will take place: 6:00pm & 8:00pm.

\n//// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ \nWhat will or will not \nlet you in. A large percentage of \nwinter craves the dark. The sky. \nA bruise of ghosts in the baby’s first dream. \nSome primed rainfall in the changing light \nof a foreign city framed. You start off \nwith everything you need \nand then everything happens. \nA pack of teenagers storm the alleyway \nas an encore. Your mixtape is on repeat \nin heaven and in heaven there is only \nthe right kind of dancing. \n//// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ \n  \n— \nhttp://everyfuture.flatsitter.com/ \n  URL:https://squeaky.org/event/you-are-in-nearly-every-future/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/COMP2.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:20150228T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150228T150000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190936Z CREATED:20251230T190936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190936Z UID:10000588-1425128400-1425135600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country DESCRIPTION:Undercover Video Journalists in Burma\, armed with handycams\, keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. This award-winning documentary from Anders Ostergaard offers a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar\, including the chaotic events involving the rebellion of Buddhist monks against Burma’s military junta. This event includes special appearances by former political prisoners Zaw Wen\, of The Wash Project\, and U Pyinya Zawta\, Executive Director of All Burma Monks’ Alliance\, with a post-screening Q&A to discuss the “Saffron Revolution” and the current political situation within Burma. Burmese snacks and tea provided. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/burma-vj-reporting-from-a-closed-country/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Burma-VJ.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:20150225T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150225T180000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190934Z CREATED:20251230T190934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190934Z UID:10000590-1424872800-1424887200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meridian 7 & Patrick Cain DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural season of the Sound Series\, co-curated with Buffalo’s own Adrian Bertolone (aka Ay Fast). This event features a double bill with live performances by Meridian 7 and Patrick Cain. The event begins with with a hands-on homemade synthesizer demonstration by Meridian 7 followed by audio and visual performances from both artists. \nAbout Meridian 7\nMeridian 7 (NYC) is a solo artist project based in Brooklyn\, New York. Her live audio/visual performance of Tone/Vacant Level retrofits obsolete switchboards into audio synthesizers. The piece\, completed during a recent residency at Harvestworks Media Art Center\, explores the sonic terrain of analog switching networks punctuated with rhythmic signal pulses\, crosstalk\, static\, messages between the wires. The event will include a hands-on demonstration with the homemade synthesizers. Visit website! \nAbout Patrick Cain \nPatrick Cain\, a Buffalo native\, has shared bills with countless experimental music luminaries and has toured the Midwest and East Coast with the Freeman/Borden/Cain trio. His audio-visual performances features meticulous hand-painted 16mm films set to a live soundtrack that includes a saxophone\, tapes and a no-input feedback loop. Visit website! \n\nThis event is part of the monthly Sound Series\, which showcases sound-based media artists and toolmakers and acts as a forum for artists to share and demystify their techniques with audiences. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meridian-7-patrick-cain/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/handsbw2.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:20150212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T220000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190935Z CREATED:20251230T190935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190935Z UID:10000593-1423767600-1423778400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Pride DESCRIPTION:This film takes place at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Launched in 2013\, REEL Queer is more than just film showings–it’s a community! Now in its second season\, REEL Queer has broadened its community partnerships to include Squeaky Wheel and the Pride Center of WNY\, in addition to maintaining its preexisting relationship with founding partner Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. \n\nPride\, based on a true story\, depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists in Maggie Thathcher’s UK who raised money to help families affected by the British miners’ strike in 1984\, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. The National Union of Mineworkers was reluctant to accept the group’s support due to the union’s public relations worries about being openly associated with a gay group\, so the activists instead decided to take their donations directly to Onllwyn\, a small mining village in Wales\, resulting in an alliance between the two communities. Directed by Matthew Warchus. (2014\, runtime 120 minutes) \nThe conversation continues after the screening with a panel discussion facilitated by long-time LGBTQ activist and founding member of REEL Queer Paul Morgan. \nPost-screening Panelists include:\nColin Dabkowski\, Arts Critic\, The Buffalo News\nDr. Ruth Meyerowitz\, Professor of American Studies/Feminist Labor Historian\, SUNY at Buffalo\nMark Higgins\, Board Member\, New York State Workers Compensation Board \nThis licensed nontheatrical public screening is sponsored by both the Pride Center of Western New York and the WNY Area Labor Federation. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/pride/ LOCATION:Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, 341 Delaware Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/maxresdefault.jpg GEO:42.8937279;-78.8753531 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 341 Delaware Avenue Buffalo NY 14202 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=341 Delaware Avenue:geo:-78.8753531,42.8937279 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150321T170000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190933Z CREATED:20251230T190933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190933Z UID:10000599-1423245600-1426957200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Sangjun Yoo: Distant Light DESCRIPTION:View this installation at Squeaky Wheel’s gallery during public hours\, Tuesday-Saturday\, 12:00-5:00pm. \nSang Jun\, Yoo is a new media artist based in United Sates and South Korea. In search of artistic forms in phenomenology and self-consciousness that transcend genres in design and art fields\, his projects engage visible and invisible matters in between people and their surroundings\, such as dialogues in a loss of certain way of seeing\, making apparentness\, and particular feelings created by a coincidental approach. Sangjun has designed interactive installations in both digital and physical spaces to amplify human relationships by traveling superficial layers of reality. \nStatement from the Artist:\nAlthough light makes everything visible\, light itself is not usually noticed because we see things reflected against it. When I look toward the sun\, everything in my vision turns into visible and invisible. This is nature’s rule: an object is only visible when light reflects it. Under the light source\, every subject is illuminated in human perception because light amplifies our vision. Ultimately\, relationship between light and shadow becomes the threshold of human perception. A sheer curtain wall slowly rocks by a wind current. Light reflects the moving curtain wall\, and makes the curtain visible. A low breeze sound and a stream of reflection drive the viewer’s motivation to discover their distance to the light. \nOpening Reception\, February 6\, 6:00pm. Artist talk at 7:00pm. \nOn view until March 21. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sangjun-yoo-distant-light/ 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/2015/01/458632476_1280x720.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:20150204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150204T230000 DTSTAMP:20251230T190934Z CREATED:20251230T190934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T190934Z UID:10000586-1423076400-1423090800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Radio Unnameable DESCRIPTION:Legendary radio personality Bob Fass used his radio show to pioneer free expression on the airwaves and revolutionize late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music\, politics and audience participation. Introductions by Sam McGavern of Partnership for the Public Good & weekly radio show\, “The Public Good” on WUFO 1080AM and Needles Numark of the Upstate Soundscape on 91.3FM URL:https://squeaky.org/event/radio-unnameable/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/93327_gal.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