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The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories about love, bodies and all of the things between humans that we don’t know how to name. Creator Kaitlin Prest works with her friends, idols and all kinds of loved ones to bring you into an expansive sonic universe that challenges what we think we know about relationships.

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  • EPILOGUE | Letter to Gaza

    In 2024 Ashtar Theatre started a new project: letters to Gaza.  During the Leo Season Birthday extravaganza, KP, Tarneem and Ahmad all created audio art in what they called "Mermaid Palace: the Cairo Office" aka: the very spacious air...
  • AHMA-NOLOGUE | An Anniversary + A Birthday

    This episode was named months ago: a prayer, a wish shared by one Tarneem Jaber and one Kaitlin Prest. "THE GENOCIDE IS A MEMORY, NOT AN ANNIVERSARY". The genocide has gotten even more terrifying as we mark an entire year of slaughter,...
  • MONOLOGUE#10 | Whatever You Build + Empty Cans

    Artist and business owner Doreen Toutikian, founder of Beirut Design Week (and many other beautiful things that she’s had to leave in her past due to war) sits down with KP on February 23rd 2024 and performs monologue #10: Taima Okasha....
  • MONOLOGUE #19 | If the Sea Could Talk

    Audio artist and organizer Aliya Pabani takes Gaza Monologue #19 and binaural in-ear microphones (be sure to listen for the 3-dimensional effect: listen in headphones and you will walk with her) to a Toronto branch of the largest...
  • IN THIS MONOLOGUE | A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams

    “Before, you could count how many buildings they destroyed. Now, you count how many buildings they didn’t destroy” — Tarneem Jaber Tarneem Jaber (19 yrs old)  was starting her first week of med school on October 7th. Her brother Ahmad ...
  • MONOLOGUE#22 | A Cup of Tea + The Horse of Jenin

    Comedian Alaa Shahada talks about artist life in Jenin, West Bank. We hear a radiomagic excerpt of his one-man show "The Horse of Jenin". He talks about his dreams for the future of Palestine and performs Gaza Monologue #22 Mahmud Abu...
  • MONOLOGUE#1 | Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks

    Ali Dajani grew up in Jordan and studied in Canada, where he met KP, the friend that sits down with him in his Amsterdam home to read Gaza Monologue #1: the story of Ahmad El Ruzzi. Ali's paternal grandfather left Jerusalem in 1948....
  • TRAILER: Great Love | The Gaza Monologues Revisited

    "It's kind of corny, but I think about this quote from Che Guevara: "the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of great love." Aliya Pabani, artist, organizer and collaborator.  A glimpse into the friends and friends of friends that...
  • PROLOGUE | The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had

    In this update-isode, we follow KP's whereabouts and goings-on since the Processing Palestine episode and the events that led to the genesis of our upcoming series: GREAT LOVE: The Gaza Monologues Revisited.  Responding to Ashtar...
  • Ode to Sound

    KP says sweet nothings about the great love of her life: SOUND.  A shared moment and meditation: recorded at 4AM in Athens Greece with the window open as the rain fell, gazing at the Athenian mountains aka: former home of the Gods. Use...
  • End

    The love story underneath the love story. We finally meet the real-life Charlie Park. Audio artist and friend Brendan Baker : the sound genius who inspired and supported KP to be the artist she is today. Real moments from the real...
  • An Argument That Should Be Simple

    The original unpublished title was “Anatomy of a Resentment”. This episode chronicles the era of a relationship wherein every minor annoyance is a symbol of the very major sacrifices we make to accommodate the shortcomings of the person...