The Squeaky Wheel will screen Shakedown (Leilah Weinraub, U.S. 2018, 72 min.) with director Leilah Weinraub in person.

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 Theatre for the screening of this vital film with director and Hood by Air co-founder Leilah Weinraub in person, followed by a benefit party for Dreamland at Sweets Lounge featuring a performance by burlesque troupe Femme Noire.

[source: Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center website, 2018-Nov-26]