Beyond the Clock Happy Hour
Meet our 2026 Resident Artist: Nikiko Masumoto!
Tuesday, February 10 | 4 – 5 PM CST
Online via Zoom
Please join us for a very special Beyond the Clock Virtual Happy Hour!
At this informal event, we will introduce our 2026 Beyond the Clock Resident Artist, Nikiko Masumoto, and we will share updates for this year's BTC season! Nikiko will also be reading from her most recent book(!) and leading us in exercising our muscles of questioning to open up the portals of humanity!
About Nikiko:
Nikiko Masumoto (she/her) is an organic farmer and artist. She is Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American, and stewards the same soil her great-grandparents worked in California where Masumoto Family Farm grows organic fruit. She’s co-written several books, including most recently a children’s book, Every Peach is a Story, with her father David Mas Masumoto. Nikiko is an arts-leader and co-founder of Yonsei Memory Project, an arts-based initiative to activate Japanese American history in the Central Valley. She served on USDA’s State Committee, and volunteers on various non-profit boards. Her most cherished value is courage and most important practice is listening.
Beyond the Clock is an online gathering and podcast that fosters fellowship, shared learning, and community care for rural connectors and cultural workers, presented with our partners from Voices for Rural Resilience and Rural Assembly. Join us on February 10th with a beverage of your choice!