Nikiko Masumoto explores how memory, storytelling, and everyday rituals act as living practices that carry culture forward and help shape more hopeful futures.

In this episode of Beyond the Clock, Ash and Anna are joined by Brigid Reedy, musician, poet, storyteller, and artist from southwest Montana whose work is deeply rooted in the rural American West. In this conversation, they explore what it means to be of a place in a time of mobility, polarization, and cultural fragmentation, and how place lives not just in geography, but as something carried within us.

“Let the Light In” highlights how openness and vulnerability invite clarity, connection, and transformation. Even in difficult moments, choosing to let light in can spark renewal and meaningful change.

In this first episode of the 2026 Beyond the Clock (BTC) season, Anna and Ash are joined by Nikiko Masumoto, this year’s BTC Resident Artist, farmer, and memory keeper who invites us to explore memory as a living practice. In this episode, we reflect on the quiet rituals (personal and public) that carry culture forward and how, across rural communities, artists and cultural workers are tending something essential: memory and imagination.