\nDescriptions provided by the artists \nDion Smith-Dokkie\, DECENTRALIZED TREATY 8 AUTHORITY\nVOLUME 3: UNCHAGA-ASINIYWACIYA CONFLUENCE APPENDIX A\, ENGLISH TRANSLATION 2207\, FEBRUARY\nText and digital illustrations printed on Duratrans and lightboxes\, 2018 \nI use Google Earth satellite images as source material for digital collages about land\, community and transformation. This image forms part of a series depicting northeastern British Columbia in the year 2207. The Nuclear and Oil Winters\, and the concurrent dissolution of the Canadian State\, triggered the development of the Decentralized Treaty 8 Authority (DT8A) as a sovereign\, Indigenous-led body in the region. Lingering environmental dangers necessitated the designation of large\, encompassing exclusion zones. This map and others illustrate how to safely navigate these saturated\, unnatural landscapes. One image in this work was commissioned by the Initiative for Indigenous Futures as part of the Illustrating the Future Imaginary series. \nInas Halabi\, We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction\nSingle channel digital video with sound\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 11:59 min\, 2019 \nWe Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction has an outward subject and an inward one. Via a gear-shifting combination of conversation\, interview and expressive location footage\, it probes the possible burial of nuclear waste in the South of the West Bank. But as the footage cycles between fragmented conversations with a nuclear physicist and landscapes that are uneasily underscored by what we hear (and sometimes tinted an ill-omened red)\, another context emerges. In various ways\, the delivery of information is thwarted\, withheld\, or delayed \, and the film comes to turn on issues of representation and conveyance. The isotope Cesium 137\, invisible but deadly\, could be seen as a synecdoche for a more ungraspable invisibility – the systemic networks of power and control in the region – and this work as a meditation on how to account for the un-filmable but inexorable. \nElizabeth Tannie Lewin\, Nuclear Set (Rough draft)\nDigital video\, 10 min\, 2017–present \nThe invention of the internal combustion engine and broadcast radio marks a dramatic shift in our inherent understanding of time and space. It also marks a moment in history when the conventions of war begin to rapidly change. \nNuclear Set interweaves Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel\, poetry by Maquis\, Rene Char\, the journals of Italian Futurist\, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti\, historical footage of the United States’ nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands\, and a 3D video game landscape of Bikini Atoll to speculate a future that will survive our extinction. \nHanae Utamura\, Spring Water\, Fault\, Body\nSingle channel digital video with sound\, Japanese with English subtitles\, 16:34 min\, 2021 \nThis work is based on performance workshops filmed during the fall 2019 residency at the Aomori Contemporary Art Center (ACAC)\, as well as footage shot at various locations in Aomori Prefecture and at the Horonobe Underground Research Center in Horonobe\, Hokkaido\, which conducts research and development on geological disposal technology for high-level radioactive waste. The structural video work Spring Water\, Faults\, and the Body is a performance piece. \nThis video consists of two parts. Superimposed onto the first part is the voice of the artist reading aloud the memoirs of her scientist father\, who used to be involved in the field of nuclear energy engineering. Utamura recounts how the “I” in the memoir grew up among animals and nature\, how he became fascinated with the phenomena of the natural world\, and how he chose nuclear energy as his specialty amid the turbulence of Japan’ s period of rapid economic growth. In contemporary society\, all issues are intricately intertwined with each other. Within this work\, representations of human beings\, nature\, and animals are equivalent substitutes for each other. “I\,” the father\, is represented as a tree\, while the family\, a unit connected by blood\, is linked to other species on this Earth. The temporal axis of human life is superimposed on the Earth’ s temporal axis\, which encompasses the 4.5 billion years since it came into being. \nThe scene of a goat giving birth that “I” saw as a child is superimposed onto the geological strata of the buried forest from the last glacial age in Dekijima\, Aomori Prefecture\, where coniferous trees from about 28\,000 years ago are preserved in the strata. The scene where the goat finishes giving birth and eats up the placenta is superimposed onto images of strata of reddish-brown cyanobacteria in a buried forest trickling with raindrops. Cyanobacteria were the first to photosynthesize and deliver oxygen to the Earth 3 to 2.5 billion years ago. \nThe tree as the “I” of the memoir is represented by silver ribbons flowing from the branches of the tree that represent light and invisible wind currents. In the memoir\, these silver ribbons might represent the trends of the times\, or instruments of experimentation. In the final scene in the sky overhead in the first part\, the artist walks on a mixture of ice and water that could break at any moment\, and encounters a tree with silver ribbons fluttering in her direction\, ending the first part. The scene of the spring water in Gudari Swamp in Tashirotai\, where melted snow from Hakkōda in Aomori gushes out\, represents an emission of the memories of life that have continued from our human ancestors\, a recurrence of the subject — circulating water released by tracing the path of a fault plane created by fluctuations in the Earth’ s crust. The work is recounted through the actions of the artist\, who became a mother during its creation\, as she reads aloud the childhood memoirs of her Father. The difference between the voice of the speaker and the subject of the story naturally raises the question of the history of gender differences. This reading aloud is an act of performance that imagines new subjects\, including non-humans\, in order to transcend the concept of the “individual” brought about by modernity. \nThe second part takes place underground\, where research is being conducted at the Horonobe Underground Research Center\, becoming a space-time where the past and future intersect\, with no humans as subjects. The subjects of the story are multiple “others\,” such as machines\, technology\, and geological formations. The only language involved is the English subtitles: the voices of the speakers disappear. The “fault” in the subtitle “Who is at fault?” is used with the double meaning of both a geological fault\, and responsibility. \nThe second part features vitrified nuclear waste to be disposed of in a geological formation. Glass is a material used in vitrification\, a technology for solidifying nuclear fission products (high-level radioactive liquid waste) together with glass materials. The glass materials of the future\, which store the energy waste that has sustained our civilization\, will be disposed of after passing through nuclear power plants and reprocessing plants\, hidden in deep geological strata. The fault planes of the strata distorted by human mining operations move with the howling of the Earth. They also provoke earthquakes caused by human activities that may occur in the future. \nFilming Location: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC)\, Aomori Hotoke-ga-ura seashore\, The Submerged Forest in Dekijima seashore\, Spring Water of Gudari Swamp Higashi Hakkouda Tashiro Highlands\, Hokkaido Horonobe Underground Research Center\nCoorporation: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre(ACAC)\, istyle Art and Sports Foundation\, Squeaky Wheel’ s Workspace Residency.\nParticipants of Performance and Workshop: Satoko Kawamura\, Sonoko Shibata\, Daisuke Sugiura\, Miho Izumida\nWorkshop filmed by: Masanori Yokoyama\nSound for Chapter 1: ‘Echo Fantasy I’ (Composed by Eva-Maria Houben\, Performed by Ensemble Ordinary Affects)\nSound for Chapter 2: Aaron Michael Smith \n
\n\nDion Smith-Dokkie is a painter and visual artist who resides on Treaty 8 territory in the Peace River region of BC and Alberta. In broad strokes\, he is interested in location and place\, infrastructure\, and communication. Smith-Dokkie’s work has shown at a number of venues in Vancouver\, including the Polygon Gallery\, Gallery Gachet\, and Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery; he has also shown work at The Bows in Calgary and at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. Alongside art practice\, he enjoys writing about art\, having published in ReIssue\, Galleries West\, SAD Magazine\, and other venues. Dion is of mixed European-Indigenous (Dunne-za\, Cree\, Saulteaux) descent and is a member of West Moberly First Nations. \nElizabeth (Betsy) Tannie Lewin is a digital media artist interested in: technology\, landscape\, identity\, disappearance\, history\, and utopia. \nHanae Utamura is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist and an educator based in New York and Tokyo. Her work engages with historical memory\, questioning the notion of progress in modernity\, ecology and technology. Utamura’s media include video\, performance\, installation\, and sculpture. She connects human beings and earth\, using the physical human body as a conduit. She explores negotiations and conflicts between the human and the non-human\, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest such as in the field of science. By decentralizing the human perspective\, Utamura diversifies historical narratives\, and enters the imagination of nature. She received her Master of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design\, and her Bachelor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths\, University of London. Utamura has received support through numerous international residencies and fellowships including International Studio & Curatorial Program (NY)\, Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart\, Germany)\, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin)\, PACT Zollverein (Essen\, Germany)\, Art Omi (Hudson\, U.S.)\, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency\, Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Japan)\, National Museum of Contemporary Art\, Changdong Art Studio (Seoul\, S.Korea)\, Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON (Seoul\, S.Korea)\, Florence Trust (London\, U.K.) and more. She has been awarded NYSCA grant\, More Art Engaging Artist Fellowship\, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program\, Shiseido Art Egg Award\, Grant program by the Japanese Ministry of Culture\, the Pola Art Foundation\, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary Award\, and Axis/Florence Trust Award. She has been exhibited extensively in Asia\, Europe and U.S. She was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2019\, supported by Japanese Ministry of Culture\, Japanese government as a part of Japan – United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Art. \nInas Halabi (b.1988\, Palestine) is an Artist/Filmmaker. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Luleå Biennial (2024)\, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2023)\, de Appel Amsterdam (solo 2023)\, Showroom London (solo 2022)\, Europalia Festival\, Brussels (2021)\, Silent Green Betonhalle\, Berlin (2021); Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam (2020); and Film at Lincoln Center\, USA (2020). Her recent work has been supported by Amarte\, Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst (AFK)\, Mondriaan Fund\, and Sharjah Art Foundation. She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands. \n \nBanner image: Still of Inas Halabi\, We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction (2019). A red and pink tinted filtered image of a Palestinian landscape with white subtitles. The subtitles state “TO CAPTURE AN IMAGE OF THE AREA ACCORDING TO THE LEVELS OF CESIUM 137”. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/radiation-borders/ 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/2025/09/inas-halabi.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:20250918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T213000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20250916T153503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T215919Z UID:10001250-1758222000-1758231000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Latin American Film Festival: Sofía Gallisá Muriente DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 18\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to host the Latin American Film Festival with artist and filmmaker Sofía Gallisá Muriente! Muriente\, a visual artist from San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, will showcase her films that have been shown at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art\, the Smithsonian Museum\, and the Whitney Museum. She will screen her film Celaje (2020) . Ms. Muriente will take part in a conversation and Q&A following the screening\, including clips from her other short films such as Foreign in a Domestic Sense (co-directed with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo\, 2021). You can watch a profile of Ms. Muriente here. The 2025 Latin American Film Festival is organized by the University at Buffalo Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and CAS Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Belonging and is a three-night celebration of Latin American cinema! Each evening will feature powerful films that highlight the Latin American diaspora through people’s lives\, histories\, and cultures. For more information\, see the flyer here or contact Donte McFadden\, CAS Unit Diversity Officer at dontemcf@buffalo.edu. \nAttendees: Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nCelaje (Cloudscape)\n16mm and Super8 film with various treatments\, 41min\, 2020 \nCelaje (Cloudscape) oscillates between intimate chronicle\, dream and historical document. Combining images in Super 8 and 16mm\, hand development techniques and original music by José Iván Lebrón Moreira\, the piece weaves together en elegy to the death of the colonial project and the sedimentation of disasters in Puerto Rico. Memories move around like clouds\, images rot and age\, and the traces of the process are visible on the film and in the country\, like ghosts. \nIt is the third and final part of Assimilate & Destroy\, a series of works that examine the relationship between climate and memory in the tropics\, where nature imposes impermanence. \nBiography of the artist\nSofía Gallisá Muriente (b. 1986\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico) is a visual artist whose practice claims the freedom of historical agency\, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Her works employ text\, image and archive as medium and subject\, exploring their poetics and politics. Sofía has been a fellow of the Cisneros Institute at MoMA\, Smithsonian Institute\, Puerto Rican Arts Initiative\, US LatinX Art Forum and others. Her work has been recently exhibited in Documenta Fifteen\, MoMA\, the Whitney Museum\, the Smithsonian Design Triennial\, MoCA TAipei\, Savvy Contemporary\, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico\, and galleries such as Proxyco\, El Kilómetro and Embajada. She has participated in artistic residencies with the Vieques Historical Archive (Puerto Rico)\, Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago)\, Headlands Center for the Arts (California)\, FAARA (Uruguay)\, and Fonderie Darling (Montreal)\, among others. From 2014 to 2020\, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local in San Juan. She was invited to curate the exhibition In Dispersion at VisArts Maryland in 2022\, featuring image-based works from Puerto Rican artists negotiating diasporic experiences throughout the world. In 2023\, she published the artist book Observatorio de lagunas: notas de campo with Editorial Educación Emergente. She lives and works in Puerto Rico and is currently a United States Artist Fellow (2024) and Trellis Art Fund Milestone grantee (2025). \nImage: Photograph of the artist by Erika Rodríguez. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/latin-american-film-festival-sofia-gallisa-muriente/ 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/2025/09/SOFIA-GALLISA.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:20250910T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250910T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191649Z UID:10001245-1757529000-1757536200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:A/V Club DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 10\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Club studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \nSaturday\, September 6\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, September 10\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, October 18\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, October 22\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc. Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-11/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AV-Club-May-2025.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:20250820T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191705Z UID:10001236-1755714600-1755721800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:A/V Club DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 20\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Club studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \nSaturday\, August 16\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, August 20\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, September 13\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, September 17\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc. Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-10/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AV-Club-May-2025.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:20250804T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250808T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191705Z UID:10001220-1754312400-1754668800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Podcasting DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Podcasting\nAugust 4-8 (Session 4B)\nMonday – Friday\n1:00pm – 4:00pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nLearn how to record and edit your own audio stories! From interview skills and narrative storytelling to experimental audio compositions\, this class will help you to learn explore what’s possible with sound. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: TBD \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-podcasting/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_8427.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:20250804T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250808T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191648Z UID:10001219-1754298000-1754654400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Filmmaking 2 DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Filmmaking 2\nAugust 4-8 (Session 4A)\nMonday – Friday\n9:00am – 12:00pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nDuring this all around video production and editing session\, you’ll work with a team to produce a super short (micro) film! You’ll write a short script\, rehearse it\, film it\, and edit the footage into a short film! It will be a fast paced week\, and you’ll leave with an amazing short film! Every summer this class is different\, so returning students are welcome and encouraged to take it again – you’ll build on your previous skills\, and the films will keep getting better! \nNOTE: Because we’ve had so many requests for video production workshops\, Digital Filmmaking is offered twice this summer (session 2B and session 4A). Both sessions will follow a similar structure\, but the experience will be completely different\, led by different instructors\, and it’s a-ok to register for both! \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Joan Nobile \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-filmmaking-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-07-at-3.13.24-PM.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:20250729T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250729T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191648Z UID:10001234-1753812000-1753815600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Kayleigh Young's To Looking DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 29\, 6 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nRSVP below\nTo Looking is a portrait of process and presence. Structured around a semester of hands-on assignments\, from tulip drawings to fingerprinting\, this short film explores the intersection of scientific inquiry and artistic expression. At the center of the story is the Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo\, where such boundaries are intentionally blurred. Through conversation with the center’s founder and director\, Paul Vanouse\, and close observation of his Art and Life class\, To Looking offers a glimpse into a distinctive kind of learning environment where undergraduates from both the sciences and the humanities are confronted with new ways of seeing and making. Created as a Master of Science thesis project\, To Looking invites viewers to reconsider the divide between objectivity and subjectivity; between what we know and how we come to know it. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nBiography\nKayleigh Young is a first-generation American photographer and filmmaker working at the intersection of art and science. Born in New Jersey and raised on a steady stream of science-fiction films\, Kayleigh developed a fascination with the strange and uncanny. She has a BS in Integrative Informatics from Allegheny College and is a candidate for an MS in Media Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Kayleigh draws from her background in the critical study of natural sciences\, posthumanism\, and media theory to create emotionally resonant films that support public understanding of complex scientific topics. Kayleigh’s work is centered on the belief that documentary film is a powerful tool for scientific literacy and civic engagement. She uses filmmaking to not only tell stories\, but to investigate the systems and interfaces through which knowledge is shared. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/kayleigh-youngs-to-looking/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Thesis presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Young-Film-Screening-Image.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:20250728T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191648Z UID:10001218-1753707600-1754064000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Stop Motion Animation DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Stop Motion Animation\nJuly 28-August 1 (Session 3B)\nMonday – Friday\n1:00pm – 4:00pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nWhether you are new to stop motion animation or have some experience\, this workshop is for you! We will start with the basics\, using clay\, paper\, and other physical materials to animate motion and effects. Then we will go wild and experiment with techniques and materials\, creating amazing and original animated short films! \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Kolya Kishinsky \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-stop-motion-animation-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-07-at-2.31.16-PM.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:20250728T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191648Z UID:10001216-1753693200-1754049600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Game Design DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Game Design\nJuly 28-August 1 (Session 3A)\nMonday – Friday\n9:00am – 12:00pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nLearn about games and game mechanics\, play games\, and design and make your own playable analog and video games! New and returning students of all experience levels welcome. \nClass limited to 10 participants. \nInstructor: Joan Nobile \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-game-design-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/heic:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5413-scaled-e1738955408389.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:20250723T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191648Z UID:10001235-1753295400-1753302600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:A/V Club DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 23\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Club studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \nSaturday\, July 19\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, July 23\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, August 16\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, August 20\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a new monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc. Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-9/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AV-Club-May-2025.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:20250721T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191648Z UID:10001215-1753102800-1753459200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: 2D Animation DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: 2D Animation\nJuly 21-25 (Session 2B)\nMonday – Friday\n1:00pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nFrom character design to storytelling\, this workshop empowers young artists to express their creativity using frame-by-frame animation. Our instructor will guide beginner and more advanced students through the animation workflow\, from animating shapes and actions to developing more complex characters and movements. You’ll learn a range of 2D techniques\, including hand drawn animation on paper and digital animation. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Kolya Kishinsky \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-2d-animation-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-07-at-1.46.55-PM-scaled-e1738954133954.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:20250721T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191646Z UID:10001214-1753088400-1753444800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Experimental Digital Photography DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Experimental Digital Photography\nJuly 21-25 (session 2A)\nMonday – Friday\n9am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nUsing smartphones and digital cameras\, you’ll learn to compose compelling original photographs. Then\, you’ll learn to use Adobe Photoshop to cut apart\, remix\, manipulate\, and reassemble your images to make imaginative and unique new collages and animated GIFs. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Mikayla Kempski \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-experimental-digital-photography/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-06-at-4.43.40-PM-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:20250714T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250718T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191647Z UID:10001213-1752498000-1752854400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Filmmaking 1 DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Filmmaking 1\nJuly 14-18 (session 1B)\nMonday – Friday\n1:00pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nDuring this all around video production and editing session\, you’ll work with a team to produce a super short (micro) film! You’ll write a short script\, rehearse it\, film it\, and edit the footage into a short film! It will be a fast paced week\, and you’ll leave with an amazing short film! Every summer this class is different\, so returning students are welcome and encouraged to take it again – you’ll build on your previous skills\, and the films will keep getting better! \nNOTE: Because we’ve had so many requests for video production workshops\, Digital Filmmaking is offered twice this summer (session 1B and session 4A). Both sessions will follow a similar structure\, but the experience will be completely different\, led by different instructors\, and it’s a-ok to register for both! \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: TBD \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-filmmaking-1/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SQedu_FilmProd24__IMG_0066__web-e1738877036666.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:20250714T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250718T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191647Z UID:10001211-1752483600-1752840000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Comics! DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Comics!\nJuly 14-18 (session 1A)\nMonday – Friday\n9am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nAges 11-15 \nStories and comics and zines oh my! Learn to use Krita\, an incredible free drawing and animation program\, to develop\, draw\, and color your own digital comics and zines! Students of all levels are welcome in this playful class where you can start something new or build on ideas you’ve been working on. You’ll learn with professional tools – our computer lab is outfitted with Apple desktop and laptop computers\, and Wacom digital drawing tablets. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Mikayla Kempski \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \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***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-comics/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer camp,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SQedu_Digital-Illustration24__0931-Enhanced-NR_web.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:20250618T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191647Z UID:10001233-1750271400-1750278600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:A/V Club DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 18\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Club studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \nSaturday\, June 14\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, June 18\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, July 19\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, July 23\, 6:60-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a new monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc. Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-8/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AV-Club-May-2025.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:20250524T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191647Z UID:10001210-1748088000-1748707200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Postponed: Place & Process: Video Experiments with Jodi Lynn Maracle DESCRIPTION:This class has been postponed.\nIf you are interested in receiving email updates about the new dates\, please contact caroline@squeaky.org\n\nSaturdays\, May 24 & 31\n12-4pm\n$175 (10% discount for members. Scholarships may be available – email caroline@squeaky.org for info) \n \nIn this two session\, process-focused workshop\, participants will meet with artist and educator Jodi Lynn Maracle\, Tyendinaga Mohawk and Polish/Irish settler descent\, to produce a short film based on relationship to place. We will develop a practice of connecting with specific places while recording video and audio\, helping us to stay physically and mentally present. We’ll utilize all of our senses – from sight\, to sound\, to touch\, to smell – and we are just as interested in the process and experience of physically being in a specific location as we are in the final product. \nFor the first class\, on Saturday May 24\, we will meet briefly at Squeaky Wheel\, where Jodi will share their work and give insight into their art practice. Then we will travel together to Woodlawn Beach\, where we will consciously engage with the site\, recording video and audio with personal smartphones and digital cameras. Participants are encouraged to bring any recording equipment they have as well as notebooks\, writing utensils and weather appropriate clothing. \nDuring the week between classes\, participants are encouraged to apply what they learn with Jodi to a place that is personal to them\, in order to gather additional footage and audio. \nThe second session\, on May 31\, will be held at Squeaky Wheel\, where we will begin reviewing and editing the footage gathered during our time at Woodlawn on the first day\, as well as additional materials gathered independently. \nTogether we will consider:\nWhat does it mean to slow down and become fully present in a specific place?\nHow does this translate to an audio and video based practice?\nWhat do we experience in our bodies in specific locations that can inform both our practice and our product?\nHow can we deepen our relationship with place through a process of slow and thoughtful observation – observation of specific sites and observation of ourselves? \n \nClass limited to 8 students. No video editing experience is required\, but participants should be open to experimentation\, comfortable using smartphone cameras\, and confident using a computer. Squeaky Wheel’s classroom is outfitted with Mac desktop computers. \n \nQuestions? email caroline@squeaky.org or call 716-884-7172 \n \nInstructor bio: \n \nJodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka/settler artist\, language teacher\, parent and hide tanner. Born and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, their work is influenced as much by an upbringing in Western New York as it is by Kanien’keha:ka culture\, language and material objects. Jodi’s work centers reclamation of space and memory in the face of settler-colonial occupation through contemporary representations of Indigenous cultural legacies and lived realities. Jodi blends traditional Haudenosaunee skills\, symbols\, forms\, and language with modern forms of making to articulate historical and contemporary relationships to place\, land\, and community. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/place-process-video-experiments-with-jodi-lynn-maracle/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Media Art Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jodi-Maracle-A-Song-To-The-Water.avif 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:20250522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250628 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191647Z UID:10001232-1747872000-1751068799@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Call for submissions: Squeaky Wheel's 22nd Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Deadline: June 27\, 2025\, 11:59 PM\nNotification Date: August 22\, 2025\nSqueaky Wheel announces the call for submissions for our annual Animation Fest! Celebrating its 22nd year\, we are proud to continue a festival showcasing short films and artworks made in a diverse variety of animation techniques\, including stop-motion\, claymation\, 3D animation\, hand-painted film\, motion graphics\, and more. All genres are welcome. Past festivals have showcased work from both rising artists as well as established artists. \nThe 22nd Animation Fest will be held online and in-person in Fall 2025. 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 and stills from your film. \n\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.\nFilms must have been completed within the past ~2 years.\n\nArtists who face systemic and structural barriers are encouraged to apply. Please direct any questions about the application process and your submissions to Ekrem Serdar at ekrem@squeaky.org \nClick here to submit your films\nImage description: Documentation from the 20th Animation Fest retrospective at North Park Theater. A projection in a darkened movie theater. On the screen is the word “Filmmakers!”\, which is from Helen Hill’s 2004 short film Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-submissions-squeaky-wheels-22nd-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/2024/05/North-Park-Helen-Hill.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:20250521T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191632Z UID:10001231-1747852200-1747859400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:A/V Club DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 21\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Club studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \nSaturday\, May 17 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, May 21 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, June 14\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, June 18\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a new monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc. Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-7/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AV-Club-May-2025.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:20250430T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191631Z UID:10001228-1746037800-1746045000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:A/V Club DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 30\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Club studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \nSaturday\, April 26 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, April 30 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, May 17 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, May 21 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a new monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc. Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-6/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AV-Club-March-2025-21.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:20250430T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191631Z UID:10001202-1746018000-1748014200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:NEW DATE: Afternoon Filmmaking Workshop: Dreams\, Objects\, and Memoir DESCRIPTION:April 30 – May 23\nWednesdays and Friday\, 1–3:30 pm (4 weeks\, 8 sessions)\n$30 members/$60 nonmembers\n(scholarships available! email caroline@squeaky.org)\nWe are excited to announce this weekday afternoon workshop for older adults. The workshop is open to students of all levels. \nIn this playful and experimental video workshop for older adults (ages 55+)\, participants will create short films inspired by memories\, personal artifacts (objects\, photographs\, etc)\, and dreams. Participants will work individually and collaboratively to record and edit sound and video\, learning fundamental skills while exploring the artistic potential of free association\, repetition\, and layering. The instructor will guide students of all levels in using smartphone cameras\, audio recorders\, and video editing software. The resulting short films may question the line between dream and memory or lead to a narrative story. The workshop will end with a screening and celebration of the finished work. \n \nNo filmmaking experience is required\, but participants should be confident using a computer. The primary software used will be Adobe Premiere Rush\, an intro video editor with a free version. Students with prior experience using Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro may opt to use those instead. \n \n*While this session has some similarities to the Dreams\, Gestures\, and Memoir filmmaking workshop Avye taught in winter of 2023\, much will be new\, and returning students are welcome to attend. \n \nAll equipment provided. Squeaky Wheel’s computer lab is outfitted with Apple desktop and laptop computers. Space limited to 8 participants. \nScroll down to “Get Tickets’ to register\, or contact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions. Not yet a member? Click here for more info: https://squeaky.org/membership/ \n \nInstructor: Avye Alexandres (www.avye.art) \n \nAvye Alexandres is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work bridges film\, photography\, experimental media\, sculpture and performance. She earned her MFA from The University at Buffalo and a BFA from Southern Methodist University. Producing and exhibiting nationally since 2005 her work has been hosted at venues such as: The Soap Factory\, The Burchfield Penney Art Center\, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts\, Concordia University\, Red Eye Theatre\, Silo City\, and the Weismann Art Museum among others. \nSelect fellowships\, grants and residencies that have supported her projects include: 2008 Art(ist) on the Verge grant from Northern Lights and the Jerome Foundation\, which commissions artists working at the intersection of Art and Technology\, as well as residencies including: Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, Saltonstall Foundation residency\, Spatial Inquiry at Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology in Central Mexico\, and Wohnungsfrage (The Housing Question) Academy\, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt [HKW] in Berlin. \nIn 2023 a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts\, through the Buffalo International Film Festival\, kickstarted the development of her next project\, Compass\, which is now in pre-production with support from The Fendrick Theatre Fund\, and the TRI-M Foundation through fiscal sponsorship with the New York Foundation for the Arts. \nShe is co-founder of gatheringspace\, a new entity to excite and enable cross-disciplinary experimentation for WNY artists\, with initial support from BICA’s Generator Fund Potential Grant. \n \n \nThis Afternoon Filmmaking Workshop is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This activity is made possible by a grant provided by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in partnership with E.A. Michelson Philanthropy and supported by Lifetime Arts. \n \nBanner image: A photograph of the adult students in a classroom with computers. An image of a shadow is projected on the wall. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/afternoon-filmmaking-workshop-dreams-objects-and-memoir/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop,Older Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Avye-Creative-Aging-2023-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:20250423T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191631Z UID:10001227-1745434800-1745440200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Songs of Memory and Forgetting: Films by Assia Djebar\, Inas Halabi\, Onyeka Igwe\, Tiffany Sia DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 23\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nGet tickets below\nSongs of Memory and Forgetting brings together three short films by Inas Halabi\, Onyeka Igwe\, and Tiffany Sia\, along with Assia Djebar’s essential 1982 anti-colonial classic\, The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting. The artists in this screening take on archives and collective memories: where we search for and see them\, their possibilities and limitations in crafting a collective future. Part of the public programs of The Image in its Absence\, the screening complements the works in the exhibition. Catering\, including vegetarian options\, will be provided by Ali Baba Kebab. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nThe screening is funded by Teiger Foundation. The films are courtesy of the artists and Video Data Bank (for Tiffany Sia)\, Lux (for Onyeka Igwe)\, and Arsenal (for Assia Djebar).’ \nStills\nA still from Onyeka Igwe’s No Archive Can Restore You. A blue bunch of 16mm film on a dusty floor.A still from Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting. A French person shooting with a 16mm camera. An Algerian man wearing a burnous is to his right\, looking at him. The French mans gaze and lens is past the Algerian.A still from Inas Halabi’s MNEMOSYNE. A woman sitting on a couch outside. The subtitles state “they placed all the young men from the village on a truck and took them to the Lebanese border”A still from Tiffany Sia’s What Rules the Invisible. Five people looking at a landscape in an old home movie.\nProgram\nTotal duration ~90 minutes. Descriptions courtesy the filmmakers and distributors. \nInas Halabi\, Mnemosyne\nDigital video\, 14 minutes\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 2016-2017 \nThe title of the work is borrowed from the Titan goddess of memory and the ‘inventress of language and words.’ The starting point for the project is a scar on the forehead of the artist’s grandfather. The scar was a result of a bullet shot in his direction by an Israeli soldier in the late 1940’s. Focusing on the sagas of myth and the construction of memory\, members of the same family are filmed individually as they narrate their version of the same event. By scratching the surface of family history\, the project explores the scar as a foundational hinge that arranges reality. The project also considers how one can play the role of a historian when the primary source is no longer there. ‘We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.’ As such\, recollection becomes an act of transformation rather than reproduction. \nTiffany Sia\, What Rules the Invisible\nDigital video\, 9:50 minutes\, English and Cantonese\, 2022 \nWhat Rules The Invisible is a short film that upends archival travelog footage shot in Hong Kong. Spanning reappropriated amateur footage across the 20th century\, the sojourner’s gaze—distanced\, distorted and even voyeuristic—shows tropes and patterns. The same shots repeat across decades\, from landscape to cityscape to street scenes. Sometimes the footage reveals more about the traveler himself\, such as a sequence where the camera curiously tracks the hips and bare legs of women wearing cheongsam crossing a busy intersection. Sia’s essay film studies these travelogs to find indignant subjects glaring back at the camera\, or figures on the edges of the frame who appear pixelated and phantasmic\, showing the patina of the footage’s circulation. Meanwhile\, intertitles intermittently puncture this footage with an oral history of Hong Kong\, as told by Sia’s mother who describes colonial police\, excrement and hauntings in Kowloon of the postwar era. The viewer is left to imagine these scenes there are no images for. \nOnyeka Igwe\, No Archive Can Restore You\nDigital video\, 5:54 minutes\, 2020 \nThe former Nigerian Film Unit building was one of the first self-directed outposts of the British visual propaganda engine\, the Colonial Film Unit\, stands empty on Ikoyi Road\, Lagos\, in the shadow of today’s Nigerian Film Corporation building. The rooms are full of dust\, cobwebs\, stopped clocks\, and rusty and rotting celluloid film cans. Amongst these cans\, a long-lost classic of Nigerian filmmaking\, Shehu Umar (1976) was found in 2015. The films housed in this building are hard to see because of their condition\, but also perhaps because people do not want to see them. They reveal a colonial residue\, that is echoed in walls of the building itself. Taking its title from the 2018 Juliette Singh book\, No Archive Can Restore You depicts the spatial configuration of this colonial archive\, which lies just out of view\, in the heart of the Lagosian cityscape. Despite its invisibility\, it contains purulent images that we cannot\, will not\, or choose not to see. The film imagines ‘lost’ films from the archive in distinctive soundscapes\, juxtaposed with images of the abandoned interior and exteriors of the building. This is an exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate. \nAssia Djebar\, La zerda et les chants de l’oubli (The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting)\n16mm film on digital video\, 59 minutes\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 1982 \nFor La zerda et les chants de l’oubli\, Algerian writer Assia Djebar changed her field and recapitulated the colonization of the Maghreb using French newsreels. Through editing\, the film seeks in these “images of a killing gaze” the truth they precisely don’t reveal\, the “resistance behind the mask.” The soundtrack combines polyphonic chants and experimental music to create a furious elegy to colonial violence. Djebar creates a complex picture of Algeria’s colonial history\, focusing particularly on the role and portrayal of women during this period. Screenplay by Malek Alloula. \nBiographies of the filmmakers\nAlgerian-born\, Muslem raised\, Paris-educated\, Assia Djebar (1936- 2015) tackled all genres: poetry\, plays\, short-stories\, novels and essays. In her books Djebar explored the struggle for social emancipation and the Muslim woman’s world in its complexities. Several of her works deal with the impact of the war on women’s mind. She wrote\, directed\, and edited her own films\, winning the Biennale prize at the 1979 Venice Film Festival with her very first attempt\, La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua (The nouba or “ritual” festival of the Women of Mt. Chenoua). She staged her own plays and both translated and directed the plays of others (Amiri Baraka’s\, for example). In 2000\, she authored an operatic libretto\, Filles d’Ismaël dans le vent et la tempête (Daughters of Ishmael\, through wind and storm). Based on her 1991 narrative on the life of the Prophet\, Far from Medina\, this oratorio was performed to excellent reviews in Rome and at the Palermo Arts Festival. A second version\, in classical Arabic this time\, is commissioned for future performance in Holland. Djebar is one of North Africa’s most famous and influential writers\, and was elected to the Académie française on June 16\, 2005\, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. She won the following awards: Peace Prize of Frankfurt Book Fair (2000); International Prize of Palmi (Italy); Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for Literature (Boston\, MA); International Literary Neustadt Prize (1996); International Critics Prize\, Biennale of Venice\, for the film “La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua.” (08/18) – Biography via Women Make Movies \nInas Halabi (b.1988\, Palestine) is an Artist/Filmmaker. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Luleå Biennial (2024)\, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2023)\, de Appel Amsterdam (solo 2023)\, Showroom London (solo 2022)\, Europalia Festival\, Brussels (2021)\, Silent Green Betonhalle\, Berlin (2021); Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam (2020); and Film at Lincoln Center\, USA (2020). Her recent work has been supported by Amarte\, Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst (AFK)\, Mondriaan Fund\, and Sharjah Art Foundation. She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands. \nOnyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. She is born and based in London\, UK. In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance\, voice\, archives\, sound design and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’\, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. The work comprises of untieable strands and threads\, anchored by a rhythmic editing style\, as well as close attention to the dissonance\, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound; in the work as much in life\, what is said and what we see are not always the same thing. www.onyekaigwe.com \nTiffany Sia (b. 1988) is an artist\, filmmaker\, and writer. Sia’s films have screened at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, MoMA Doc Fortnight\, and elsewhere. She has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space\, New York; Maxwell Graham Gallery\, New York; and Felix Gaudlitz\, Vienna. Sia is the author of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information\, 2024)\, a compendium of essays that makes a case for fugitive\, exilic cinema\, moving beyond national identity and the politics of place as a critical lens. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Fondazione Prada\, Milan; Seoul Museum of Art\, Seoul and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in Film Quarterly\, October\, and more. The recipient of the Baloise Art Prize in 2024\, Sia has given talks at Dia Art Foundation\, Stanford University\, and has taught at Cooper Union. The artist and filmmaker’s work at its core challenges genre. Working across mediums\, her multidisciplinary practice materializes across multiple forms from films\, video sculptures\, artist books\, scholarly essays\, and more. Sia’s work blends nonfiction with poetics and theoretical inquiry. Her formal explorations confront questions about the representation of memory and place\, relating especially the imaginaries of exceptional and irregular polities beyond the national (from Hong Kong to elsewhere). Throughout\, her conceptual focus remains in the struggle to represent historical time\, geography\, and the limits of official records. Sia currently lives and works in New York. \nBanner image: A still from Onyeka Igwe’s No Archive Can Restore You (2020). A blue and green bunch of 16mm film on an uneven\, dusty\, and mud encrusted floor. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/songs-of-memory-and-forgetting/ 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/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-13-at-3.40.11-PM-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:20250416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191632Z UID:10001223-1744826400-1744833600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Found-Footage and Archival Experimental Filmmaking with G. Anthony Svatek and Kaija Siirala DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 16\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Limited capacity.\nRegister below\nIn this special workshop led by G. Anthony Svatek (Brooklyn\, NY) and Kaija Siirala (Hamilton\, ON)\, participants will learn about creative approaches and strategies for making experimental films using no-cost archival\, found\, and/or reappropriated materials. Resources for both image and sound archives will be explored\, as well as examples of historical and contemporary artists who work with such materials\, including work by Bruce Conner among others. Students will also gain basic knowledge of legal frameworks for re-appropriating images and sounds\, including acquiring material releases\, credit attribution\, and frameworks such as Creative Commons among others. Open to anyone new to making artist-driven and non- commercial found-footage filmmaking. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nThis event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. \nBiographies of the artists\nHaving grown up at the foot of the Austrian Alps\, G. Anthony Svatek is awed by the living world and how it is increasingly impacted by our techno-urban lives. Anthony’s work screened at NYFF\, Intl FF Rotterdam\, Ann Arbor\, Big Sky\, Prismatic Ground\, DOCNYC\, amongst others. Supporters include NYSCA\, Simons Foundation\, Austrian Cultural Forum NY. He is the recipient of the New Visions Golden Gate Award at SFFILM. Commissioned work includes projects for NYS Parks\, BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, and Pioneer Works. He has staffed seasonally at the Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Climate Museum\, and the American Museum of Natural History. \nKaija Siirala works in documentary media as a picture editor\, sound designer and educator. She has a keen interest in process-based collaboration and storytelling that pushes against the bounds of classical narrative structures. Films she has worked on have screened at the National Gallery of Canada\, True/False Film Festival\, Camden International Film Festival\, MoMI First Look\, Hot Docs\, DOC NYC\, Big Sky\, AFI fest\, IDFA\, DOK Leipzig\, Flaherty Seminar 2023\, Prismatic Ground and as a New York Times Op-Doc. Her audio work has appeared on the BBC\, On Air Fest and in installation contexts. She was a member-in-residence of the Meerkat Media Collective in Brooklyn\, NY from 2016-2018. In May 2018\, she completed her MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College (CUNY) and is now based in Hamilton\, ON. \nBanner image: Audience of seated men attending a petroleum conference in the 1950s overlaid with a waterfall in a National Park. Courtesy of G. Anthony Svatek URL:https://squeaky.org/event/found-footage-and-archival-experimental-filmmaking-with-g-anthony-svatek-and-kaija-siirala/ 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/2025/03/Workshop-Still.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:20250411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191632Z UID:10001208-1744398000-1744405200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: G. Anthony Svatek & Kaija Siirala\, Kyla Kegler\, Sue Ding DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 11\, 7 pm ET\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel and online\nFree or suggested donation\nGet tickets below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Spring 2025 Workspace Residents! G. Anthony Svatek & Kaija Siirala (Brooklyn\, NY and Hamilton\, ON)\, Kyla Kegler (Buffalo\, NY) and Sue Ding (Los Angeles\, CA) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Catering from Ali Baba Kebab\, with vegetarian options\, will be provided. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nDirector G. Anthony Svatek & editor and sound designer Kaija Siirala will be working on the post-production of Humboldt USA\, an experimental documentary about the legacy of 19th century queer German geographer Alexander von Humboldt. Long before today’s globalized world – rapid travel\, the internet\, artificial intelligence\, etc. – Humboldt made a radical proposal while reflecting on his travels through the Americas: nature as “one great whole\,” an interconnected web-of-life. His ideas planted the seeds for Western environmentalism and information science\, earning him such global notoriety that no other person’s name has been given to as many places\, species\, and things – none of which Humboldt ever saw or named himself. The film was shot in three locations across the United States\, including Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway\, with key protagonist Terry Robinson of the East Side Parkways Coalition\, highlighting the community’s struggle against solidifying the expressway with the “toxic tunnel” project\, as proposed by the New York State Department of Transportation. \nKyla Kegler will be working on Care-Core\, a multi-channel video installation examining self-care\, collective care\, somatic knowledge\, and utopian responses to individualistic culture. Drawing on historical\, contemporary\, and embodied care practices\, the project will explore how people want to give and receive care\, imagining post-capitalistic and sustainable structures for interdependent living. The research considers the tension and incongruities between collective ideals and individualistic agendas; between ego and altruism. It investigates the mechanisms of human prosperity and happiness — mapping alternative ways of living with and for one another in the face of an ever escalating global eco- political catastrophe. \nSue Ding will be working on The Spectacle of Her Appetites\, a two-channel video installation exploring female hunger and its portrayal on screen. Appropriating footage from popular films and television\, the project interrogates the cinematic language of women and food\, tracing intersections of desire\, shame\, and discipline. \nWorkspace Residency is supported by Teiger Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thank you to Kiesha Lillian Adamczyk-Bennett at Faith Real Estate Services\, Inc. and William Marcus Bennett at Bennett Home Inspection for sponsoring this session of the residency. Learn more about the program here: squeaky.org/workspace-residency \nBiographies of the artists\n \nHaving grown up at the foot of the Austrian Alps\, G. Anthony Svatek is awed by the living world and how it is increasingly impacted by our techno-urban lives. Anthony’s work screened at NYFF\, Intl FF Rotterdam\, Ann Arbor\, Big Sky\, Prismatic Ground\, DOCNYC\, amongst others. Supporters include NYSCA\, Simons Foundation\, Austrian Cultural Forum NY. He is the recipient of the New Visions Golden Gate Award at SFFILM. Commissioned work includes projects for NYS Parks\, BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, and Pioneer Works. He has staffed seasonally at the Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Climate Museum\, and the American Museum of Natural History. \nKaija Siirala works in documentary media as a picture editor\, sound designer and educator. She has a keen interest in process-based collaboration and storytelling that pushes against the bounds of classical narrative structures. Films she has worked on have screened at the National Gallery of Canada\, True/False Film Festival\, Camden International Film Festival\, MoMI First Look\, Hot Docs\, DOC NYC\, Big Sky\, AFI fest\, IDFA\, DOK Leipzig\, Flaherty Seminar 2023\, Prismatic Ground and as a New York Times Op-Doc. Her audio work has appeared on the BBC\, On Air Fest and in installation contexts. She was a member-in-residence of the Meerkat Media Collective in Brooklyn\, NY from 2016-2018. In May 2018\, she completed her MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College (CUNY) and is now based in Hamilton\, ON. \n \nKyla Kegler is an artist and filmmaker who’s work explores desire and connection between people\, place and purpose. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls. Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of theater\, “Zuhause” (Berlin\, Germany). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me\, video installation exploring the mindfulness industry; The House on Fire Show\, teen web-drama about the climate crisis; Mountains: a tragicomedic puppet soap opera; Relationships don’t finish\, they change\, a video and sculpture installation exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College\, Ithaca\, NY\, 2024. \n \nSue Ding is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race\, gender\, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture. In her research-based practice\, she emphasizes process\, form\, and deep readings of both media and landscapes. Sue’s work has screened internationally at venues including SXSW\, IDFA\, Antimatter [Media Art]\, and Copenhagen Contemporary\, and can be found on platforms including PBS\, Netflix\, and The New York Times. Sue’s interdisciplinary practice spans film\, installation\, and emerging media\, and she consults and lectures widely on filmmaking and media arts. In 2023\, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-spring2025/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Announcing-Squeaky-Wheels-Spring-2025-Residents-YouTube-Horizontal-Ad.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:20250409T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191630Z UID:10001225-1744221600-1744228800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Collage Aesthetics: Working With Found Footage with Sue Ding DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 9\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Limited capacity. Open to ages 16+\nRegister below\nIn this special seminar with visiting artist Sue Ding (Los Angeles\, CA)\, participants will learn about creative strategies for working with photographic and moving image archival\, with a focus on popular media. The workshop will showcase a variety of approaches for remixing archival materials\, including stop-motion animation\, supercut editing\, and sound interventions. The artist will share clips from found footage and collage-driven works by herself and others\, followed by a discussion with participants. \nRemixing allows us to critique and contextualize popular media texts\, as well as to transform them into new creative works. This workshop aims to instill in participants a greater sense of agency with regards to media imagery and narratives\, empowering them to deconstruct and reimagine popular media in creative ways. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nThis event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. \nBiography of the artist\nSue Ding is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race\, gender\, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture. In her research-based practice\, she emphasizes process\, form\, and deep readings of both media and landscapes. Sue’s work has screened internationally at venues including SXSW\, IDFA\, Antimatter [Media Art]\, and Copenhagen Contemporary\, and can be found on platforms including PBS\, Netflix\, and The New York Times. Sue’s interdisciplinary practice spans film\, installation\, and emerging media\, and she consults and lectures widely on filmmaking and media arts. In 2023\, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” \nBanner image: Collage of retro tv screens and makeover movie images on notebook paper background. Image courtesy of Sue Ding. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/collage-aesthetics-working-with-found-footage/ 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/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-4.09.45-PM-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:20250407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191630Z UID:10001224-1744048800-1744056000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Somatic and Devised Performance Workshop with Kyla Kegler DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 7\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Limited capacity. Open to ages 16+\nRegister below\nSqueaky Wheel presents a special performance based workshop with Workspace Resident Kyla Kegler (Buffalo\, NY) based on her project Care-Core that examines self-care\, collective care\, and somatic knowledge. Participants will be guided through a series of somatic / embodiment exercises\, journaling in response to prompts\, group sharing\, culminating in the collaborative development and ultimately performance of a Sesame-Street-esque song and dance responding to what emerges from this process. The workshop is suitable for all bodies and levels of experience. \nAttendees: For the workshop\, please: \n\nWear comfy clothes / footwear you can move in\nBring a reference object: anything at all that you’re interested in looking at and thinking about\nBring a notebook + pen\nSqueaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information.\n\nThis event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. \nBiography of the artist\nKyla Kegler is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores desire and connection between people\, place and purpose. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls. Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of theater\, “Zuhause” (Berlin\, Germany). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me\, video installation exploring the mindfulness industry; The House on Fire Show\, teen web-drama about the climate crisis; Mountains: a tragicomedic puppet soap opera; Relationships don’t finish\, they change\, a video and sculpture installation exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College\, Ithaca\, NY\, 2024. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/somatic-and-devised-performance-workshop-with-kyla-kegler/ 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/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-3.31.15-PM-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:20250405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T165117 CREATED:20251230T191630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191630Z UID:10001222-1743879600-1743886800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 5\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel is proud to present a poetry reading by Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall as part of the public programs accompanying our exhibition\, The Image in its Absence which features an installation by Ebeid. Catering from Ali Baba Kebab\, with vegetarian options\, will be available to attendees. Special thank you to Judith Goldman and Laura Marris. This program is funded by Teiger Foundation\, and co-sponsored by the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nBiographies of the artists\nCarolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. She is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press\, 2016) and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts (Albion Books\, 2023). Her next book Hide is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in winter of 2026. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University\, CantoMundo\, the NEA\, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She is the current Bonderman Assistant Professor of poetry at Brown University. A longtime editor\, she currently edits poetry at The Rumpus\, as well as the multimedia zine Visible Binary. Carolina grew up in West New York\, New Jersey in a Cuban and Palestinian family. \nJoe Hall is a Buffalo-based writer and researcher. His six books of poetry include Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean 2023) and People Finder\, Buffalo (Cloak 2024). Current Affairs on Fugue & Strike: “a remarkable poetic project\, unlike anything else in literature today.” Hall has performed and delivered talks nationally at bars\, squats\, universities\, and rivers. Protean\, The Cleveland Review of Books\, Eighteen-Century Fiction\, Poetry Daily\, Fence Digital\, mercury firs\, dollar bills\, and an NFTA bus shelter have all featured his writing. He has taught community-based writing workshops for teachers\, teens\, and workers. Community Mausoleum recently featured his essay “PEN America: Cultural Imperialism’s Avant-Garde.” Find more at http://joehalljoehall.com. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/carolinaebeidandjoehall/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Carolina-and-Joe.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