Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

10/18/2026

A little creative fun happening at Hallwalls. Stop by, explore, and get inspired. 🎨✨

10/17/2026

🎬 Tomorrow at 7 PM, Squeaky Wheel presents Beyond Resolution: Short Films by Sabine Gruffat at Hallwalls, with support from the UB Department of Media Study. Stay after the screening for a Q&A with the artist. Don't miss this chance to experience Gruffat's innovative work and hear directly from her about the films!
The image is a still from the featured film.

10/16/2026

Come find the Hallwalls Camera Monitor at Old First Ward Arts & Heritage Festival on Saturday from 2-6PM under the beverage tent! 📺 🍻

10/16/2026

What an amazing group of creatives!! 🌟 Congratulations to our Executive Director, Parrish Gibbons (center) along with our previous Executive Director Edmund Cardoni (can you spot him? 😆 ) on their Spark Awards last week. WNY is lucky to be home to all of these amazing people.

Photo by Alana Adetola Arts Photography, LLC

10/16/2026

📚 Join us on October 21 at 6 PM as Charles J. Whalen, economist and author of Fighting for the American Dream, sits down with longtime labor advocate Richard Lipsitz for a conversation about defending working families and the future of economic opportunity.

This free event will be followed by a book signing, with books available from Talking Leaves.

10/16/2026

HAPPENING NOW 🎸

Ava Mendoza is LIVE at Hallwalls—an extraordinary guitarist, composer, vocalist, and improviser whose visceral, boundary-pushing sound has earned her acclaim around the world. Her collaborations include William Parker, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Nels Cline, Hamid Drake, and more.

Missed it? Watch the recording later on our YouTube. Allow up to one week for upload—and explore dozens of concerts, artist talks & more from the Hallwalls archives.

10/14/2026

We love this fest!

🚨 FILMMAKERS, THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE 🚨

Your film doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be submitted! Got a mostly finished cut? A few loose ends? We want to see what you’re making.

Today is the FINAL DAY to submit to the 65th Ann Arbor Film Festival! Get your submission in by 11:59 PM ET TONIGHT.

We hope to see you March 23–28, 2027, for another year of bold, weird, wonderful, and wildly imaginative moving-image art.

Now go start your submission at the link in our bio. Your future self will thank you. 🎬

📸 Hilary Nichols Photography

10/14/2026

🎥 Here's a quick look at Un Chien Andalou, a featured work in Kurt Treeby's exhibition, I've Got Next at Hallwalls.

Step inside, take a seat, and immerse yourself in the installation for yourself. Blending film, play, and participation, I've Got Next invites visitors to slow down, engage, and experience the work in an unexpected way.

🗓 On view through October 30 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.