Adam Sekuler is program director of Northwest Film Forum, where he's brought the organization into a national leadership position in alternative film exhibition, curating individual films, director retrospectives and film festivals since 2006. He has initiated and organized major traveling programs for films that have screened across the country, and has devised a network among arts organizations for distributing otherwise undistributed films.

His film work includes MERELY MOUTHPIECE, which he exhibited at several film festivals and adapted as an installation with unique sound design where the audio was broadcast over shortwave FM radio transmitters. His short film PATHE BALLET won a prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Before arriving in Seattle, Adam was programmer for the nation's first and only dedicated non-fiction theatre, The Bell Auditorium. He is also co-founder of Search and Rescue, an ongoing effort to present and preserve discarded archives of 16mm films.

After graduating from the University of Washington in 2000 with degrees in Community and Environmental Planning, Business Administration and Dance, Shannon Stewart co-founded music nonprofits the Vera Project and the All-ages Movement Project and toured nationally and internationally as a dance artist.

In 2010, she officially started her own path as a choreographer, receiving multiple local residencies and opportunities to be presented at northwest venues (Open Flight, Velocity Dance Center, Tacoma School of the Arts, Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, and Conduit in Portland). Shannon cureently dances with tEEth (2011-12), Salt Horse (2010-12), and has danced for Dayna Hanson (2010), zoe | juniper (2008-2010), Paige Barnes (2010), Kathleen Hermesdorf (2006-2008), and many others. She teaches contemporary technique, improvisation, is certified in Gyrokinesis®, and is a Teaching Artist with the Mark Morris Dance For Parkinson’s program.

Because of her consistent simultaneous work as an arts advocate and organizer, Shannon has been invited to write for Wiretap, the Nation, Americans for the Arts and Publicola. Between 2007 and 2010, Shannon wrote and compiled In Every Town, An All-Ages Music Manualfesto. Between 2008 and 2011 she acted as Velocity Dance Center’s Development Director and Interim Executive Director, helping the organization through a capital campaign, relocation, executive transition and strategic planning process.