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The Destiny

Spring 2025 Workshop and Program Series

Saturdays: March 29, April 16, April 26, 6:30 - 8:30pm — “Parable of the Sower” Book Club led by exhibition Curator Jaime Ransome

Saturday, April 5, 2:00-4:00pm — Storytelling through Mixed Media Collage Workshop with Destiny Arianna
Limit 12 participants. Reservations required: email Destinyariannastudio@gmail.com
       with full name and phone number

Saturday, May 10 — "Indigo Rising" Afrofuturistic Dance & Drumming by Rhythm of Water Productions featuring Psifire

Listen to The Destiny Curated Playlist on Spotify here.
Free public programming supporting ASG’s spring exhibition, The Destiny, includes engagements with guest curator Jaime Ransome and several regional artists, beginning with multiple book club meetings with Jaime for the “Parable of the Sower” on March 29.

Exhibiting artist Destiny Arianna will lead a workshop in April that invites the community to explore storytelling through mixed media collage.

In May will be a performance from Rhythm of Water Productions featuring Psifire titled “Indigo Rising”.


Parable of the Sower Book Club


Saturday, March 29, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, April 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Saturday, April 26, 6:30-8:30pm

The public is invited to join our spring exhibition guest curator, Jaime Ransome, at Ann Street Gallery for our first book club! Attendees will meet to discuss the themes and characters of Octavia Butler's “Parable of the Sower”. Jaime will guide the conversation and explore the concepts that inspired her curation of our current exhibition, The Destiny.

Jaime encourages attendees to bring topics for discussion to book club meetings in order to work through both the challenging and visionary content of the text in community.

The public is invited to attend one or all book club meetings. While reading the text sections indicated below prior to each meeting is encouraged, it is not required to be part of the conversation:

March 29 meeting will address the sections of text covering the years 2024 - 2025 (pp. 1 - 100)

April 16 meeting will address the sections of text covering the year 2026 (pp. 101 - 150)

April 26 meeting will address the sections of text covering the year 2027 (pp. 151 - 329)

RSVP requested, not required, to jransome.curation@gmail.com
The book club is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00-5:00pm through May 10.

The book can be purchased locally at Golden Hour Books.





Storytelling through Mixed Media Collage
Workshop with Destiny Arianna


Saturday, April 5, 2025
2:00-4:00pm
Ann Street Gallery  

RSVP required:
email Destinyariannastudio@gmail.com with full name and phone number
Workshop limited to 12 participants.
Age 15 and up.

Join us for a free hands-on workshop with exhibiting artist Destiny Arianna to explore storytelling through mixed media collage. Using materials like magazines, newspapers, recycled paper, natural materials, and markers, we’ll reflect on how art can help us reshape our identities, tell our stories, and reclaim our narratives. All materials will be provided.

How can cutting, layering, and rearranging your story reveal a new perspective?

In this workshop, we’ll explore themes of:

Place & Identity – How do the places you come from or feel connected to shape who you are?

Memory & Perspective – What is a memory tied to a specific place that has shaped you, and how might someone outside of that place see it differently? What overlooked truths or misconceptions can be revealed?

Power & Representation – Who controls the narratives about your community or identity, and what voices are missing?

Participants will leave with a mixed media collage that reflects their exploration of identity, memory, and place and a deeper understanding of how collage can be used to express and reshape personal and cultural narratives.










Indigo Rising

Performance, Talk & Workshop
A closing celebration of The Destiny exhibition at Ann Street Gallery

Saturday, May 10, 2025
4:00-5:30pm
Free & Open to the Public

Rhythm of Water Productions presents:
PsiFire Flo Arts Dance Collective & Baba Kazi

The public is invited to a free, celebratory performance of Afrofuturist-inspired dance and drumming in tandem with our spring exhibition, The Destiny, curated by Jaime Ransome.

Indigo Rising is a transformative performance by Psi Fire Flow, a Hudson Valley–based Black flow arts dance collective, whose mission is rooted in spreading joy, love, and inspiration, while cultivating safe, empowering spaces for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. Their work celebrates the resilient, regal, and radiant essence of Black culture, brought to life through the dazzle and dynamism of flow dance.

Flow arts—a form of movement using props for self-expression with roots in festival culture—has been reimagined by Psi Fire Flow as they merge hip-hop, Afrocentric rhythms, and contemporary dance. With glowing wands, fluttering fans, and rhythms echoing from our ancestors, this unique event invites you to witness and experience power, beauty, and purpose in motion. Indigo Rising is not just a show—it’s a movement!

The event will include several flow arts dance performances alongside an original DJ mix and live African drumming, a conversation between Ransome and Rhythm of Water Productions co-founder, Nick Jackson, and a participatory workshop including movement, prop work and drumming, giving attendees an opportunity to move together in community and feel the power of dance and drumming in their own bodies as a practice of freedom, joy, and empowerment.

Indigo Rising is a story about love as a tool for transformation. In a world overwhelmed by negativity, love becomes our resistance—not by tearing down what exists, but by nurturing and uplifting one another. Indigo Rising is a call to action: to rise, to create, and to unite. The term Indigo—in metaphysical traditions—refers to those with hidden, world-changing abilities. Indigo Children are believed to be a generation born to bring profound change. This performance is both an invocation and a message: it is time for the Indigo generation to rise and build community.

Rhythm of Water Productions
  • Nick Jackson
  • Kaela Miller

PsiFire
  • NicoWav (Nick Jackson)
  • Zee Liberation (Zanyell Garmon)
  • Timbre La (Amber Brashears)
  • The Provider (Glenda)
  • KaeLaNiCole (Kaela Miller)

Accompaniment
  • Nate Jackson (Producer/DJ)
  • Baba Kazi Oliver (African Drummer Extraordinaire/Educator)



Photo credit B. Wolfe Photography

Nick Jackson & Kaela Miller Baba Kazi Oliver Timbre La The Provider Zee Liberation

About Rhythm of Water Productions:

We create one-of-a-kind pieces that are never repeated—maximizing creative freedom and delivering unforgettable experiences. Using dance, music, content creation, and performance, we tell stories of the resilience and brilliance of Black culture.

Timbre La is a Renaissance unicorn entrepreneur likely to be found dancing through decadent dimensions and painting between the lines.

The Provider is a top-notch engineer who derives pleasure from the execution of creative visions.

Meet Zee (she/they) @zeeliberation uses hoops and fans primarily but enjoys dabbling in other props. "Flow arts has given me a way to be embodied and free in a way I had not known before. This feeling is something I hope to share with others to either witness or join and feel for themselves."

Kazi has been teaching for 20 years and performing for over 45 years. He is also the musical director of the Kazi Oliver Drummers and Dancers, an ensemble of artists from this continent and the continent of Africa.


Curated Playlist


  1. “Deep in the Bottom - of Africa” by Monique Bingham, Black Coffee
  2. “Astronomy (8th Light)” by Black Star, Weldon
  3. “Weary” by Solange
  4. “As If We Existed” by Solillaquists of Sound
  5. “Above the Clouds” by Gang Starr, Inspectah Deck
  6. “Sound and Color” by Alabama Shakes
  7. “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” by Digable Planets
  8. “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding

Listen to The Destiny Curated Playlist on Spotify here.


Curated Reading List


Jaime Ransome’s Curated Reading List 008 has been commissioned to coincide with the exhibition The Destiny at Ann Street Gallery in our Open Reading Room. Lauren’s reading list includes an introduction, title list, and annotations for each title. 

View or download the list here.


Safe Harbors' Ann Street Gallery programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and with funding from the Cowles Charitable Trust, Dominican Sisters of Hope, M&T Charitable Foundation, and TD Charitable Foundation.