Online: Beyond the Clock with Nikiko Matsumoto

In this session, Nikiko will share reflections from “On the Mend,” a year-long project of healing with a former ‘home’ community that wounded her deeply as a queer person and how she co-created a mending process for liberation. She will also share a sneak peek of her upcoming “queering traditions” workshop and excerpts from the zoom baby shower she and her wife hosted, including a mash-up of queer/mixed race family education through games based off The Price is Right!

Event is free: registration required at: https://dopt.rsvp/BTC2023September

Nikiko Masumoto (she/her) is an organic farmer, memory keeper, and artist. She is Yonsei and gets to touch the same soil her great-grandparents worked in California where Masumoto Family Farm grows organic nectarines, apricots, peaches and grapes for raisins. With her family, she’s co-authored 2 books: Changing Season and The Perfect Peach, and has a children’s book forthcoming. She activates her facilitation, leadership, and creative skills as a performer and leader in Yonsei Memory Project and as staff of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Her most cherished value is courage and most important practice is listening.

Learn more about Nikiko at: www.masumoto.com

Beyond the Clock is a monthly digital learning exchange for rural connectors and cultural workers hosted by Department of Public Transformation and Voices for Rural Resilience, in partnership with the Rural Assembly.