The return of the Return the Gift curated series (Series 2) continues with the third of four great shows with three great performing artists featuring S'Hells Gate, Heavy Arts Ensemble, and X Medianoche.
S'Hells Gate
Heavy Arts Ensemble
X Medianoche
Doors: 7:00 PM; Starts 7:30
Donation: $10-25
S'HELLS GATE:
S’hells Gate emerges from love, rage, and resistance, confronting pervasive cultural violence, genocide, and predatory capitalism through a volatile release of energy, where devotion and collective catharsis are forged into a sonic weapon against hate. They'll be joined by their projectionist, Fyusha.
Instagram: instagram.com/s__hellsgate
HEAVY ARTS ENSEMBLE:
Heavy Arts Ensemble is a collective of Bay Area musicians and media artists. Through a collage of extended melodic improvisation, live sampling, modular synthesis, live visuals, the outer edges of experimental beat culture, avant-garde jazz, drone and radical software, Heavy Arts Ensemble seeks to push deep grooves into trance-inducing states. The collective features a rotating lineup alongside core members: Joel Reber- reeds // percussion David Alvarez - reeds // percussion Tommy Wong- reeds // percussion Melanie Marie- live visuals // percussion Justin Esposito- double bass // percussion Diego Munguia- modular sampler // reeds // percussion
heavyartsensemble.com
X MEDIANOCHE:
X Medianoche is an artist & sound designer. They create multichannel feeling spaces, places to practice the erotic tool of presence through the use of sound as a prayer for a less numbed out, more available to revolutionary visions world. X designs and curates sound environments for screen, performance, visual arts & events grounded in deep body listening. They have collaborated on sound design projects with Anamika Singh at the Chazen Museum of Art, OYSTERKNIFE at Grace Cathedral and Paz G at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2025, X shared a series of 4.4 works ~ Film for Listening (Treasure Map) for Ears of Moss at SutroFM and Film for Listening (Ferrofluid) at The Ever Afters Campout. Their work is made possible by god, spirit guides, angels, love, friends, teachers, time travel, strangers, music, mistakes, saturn, sound healing, synchronicities, pdfs, and probably you.
xmedianoche.com; Instagram: @experimentsatmidnight
Cost: $10-25