SHAKEDOWN

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Please note: The screening is FREE if you have an ArtsAccess pass. Just bring it to the door! For more information about ArtsAccess, go to: https://www.asiwny.org/arts-access/ (The ArtsAccess pass does not include free entry to the afterparty which benefits our friends at Dreamland.) As Buffalo’s LGBTQ+ spaces face closings and erasure, Squeaky Wheel presents Leilah Weinraub’s SHAKEDOWN (2017). Documenting a series of Black lesbian dance and strip parties in the 2000s, Weinraub’s film is a tender, hilarious, and utopic portrait of a space and community. Join us at Varsity Theater for a special screening for this vital film, which will be followed by a Q&A with director and Hood by Air co-founder Leilah Weinraub and artist Elisa Peebles. Join us for an unforgettable evening. As a director, Weinraub resists operating as a liaison between viewer and subject; she seems more interested in the play between voyeurism and fantasy. Shakedown is neither an experimental art film nor an anthropology of gay, black femme performance in L.A. Rather, Weinraub sought to capture a moment and turn it into cinema. – Cassie da Costa, The New Yorker It’s a dreamy glimpse into a scene subjected to outrageous pressures — from the spectral cop of homophobia and even more from the real cops — that was a wellspring of fun, love, desire and good times regardless. – Hannah Black, Dazed After the screening be sure to come out for a Dreamland benefit party at Sweets Lounge (2 Schreck Ave, Buffalo, NY 14215), featuring DJs, and a performance by burlesque troupe Femme Noire.

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