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The Heart

Mermaid Palace, Radiotopia & Kaitlin Prest

The Heart is an audio art project and podcast about intimacy and humanity.

Episodes

20 of 137 episodes

Suburban Paradise | Bewilderment and a Bar Called Cassette

Summer is over. Fall begins. Out of a reverence, romance and preparation for Canadian winter: we go back in time to January when KP was trap...

20:07Sep 24, 2026

Suburban Paradise | The Hitchhiking Summer of '09

SUMMER ADVENTURE THROWBACK SPECIAL FROM ANCIENT HISTORY 2009. Circle K Max protection. Three women hitchhike across NewFoundland. Three soon...

23:21Aug 19, 2026

Suburban Paradise | The Yellow Line, and the Rabbit Hole

Stealing the car to drive to a fancier suburb for yoga and coffee. Micro-dosing mushrooms. Reflections on rules broken and rules followed. S...

21:27Jul 19, 2026

Suburban Paradise | Madness, Hell, and the Eternal Fire

One year ago in June 2025 wearing combat boots in bed I watch Man on the Moon. A mad genius performs as a mad genius. Mozart dies writing de...

18:21Jun 27, 2026

Suburban Paradise | Water, Honour, Anger, Grief

The sound of the water in a river in Wissahickon, Philadelphia. An episode in honour of organizers. Greg aka my dad learns that most of the...

55:11Jun 4, 2026

Suburban Paradise | Canada Geese, Perfect Circles and Crying Messes

Is done still better than perfect? Is the Canada goose a swan in less glamourous clothing? Are people who need people lucky or unlucky? The...

18:28May 26, 2026

Suburban Paradise | The Bike Ride, the Abortion and the Swans

A driveway moment. Time travel back to October 2020; the lover that Aliya Pabani once joked I was doing "straight womanhood" fetish play wit...

20:19Apr 18, 2026

Suburban Paradise | All Kinds of Blue

Typewriter ribbons, shutters, jays, french, dusty, periwinkle, the desk of a currently abandoned short film, a door that isn’t really blue....

17:59Mar 18, 2026

Suburban Paradise | Suburban Where-a-dise?

Parenthood vs Adulthood. Birds singing. Pen on paper. Play first work later. Admin avalanche. The customer is always right on hold. Daddy (a...

16:06Feb 18, 2026

Welcome to Suburban Paradise

A series of episodes quietly created from her parents' garage in the sleepy government city of Ottawa. In an era of well-crafted tightly edi...

14:39Jan 15, 2026

NO: Questions + More Questions

[Ep 4 of 4 and more to come] We were all left with burning questions after the first three episodes. In the final installment of the origina...

42:01Oct 8, 2025

NO: Answers + Updates

[Ep 3 of 4] Answers: Kaitlin’s search asking why coercion is so omnipresent lands her in one obvious place. Straight, cis-gendered men. In t...

53:41Sep 5, 2025

NO: Inheritance + Reality Check

[Ep 2 of 4] Why listen to this series now? KP's schpiel. And then: we catch up with our shero in her mid-twenties, waiting to fall in love....

41:18Aug 13, 2025

NO: Advance + Advance

[Ep 1 of 4] Inside a locked diary are the hopes and dreams of a little girl who wants one thing more than everything else: this little girl...

28:33Jul 26, 2025

NO: Again? Again.

Revisiting NO: after 8 years and several disappointing hook-ups wherein KP found herself wondering if the world forgot the lessons that shoo...

08:17Jul 11, 2025

EPILOGUE | Letter to Gaza

In 2024 Ashtar Theatre started a new project: letters to Gaza. When Tarneem sat down to write a letter to her home, this work of poetry emer...

11:22Oct 19, 2024

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 ANN...

01:04:07Oct 15, 2024

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 pa...

01:03:10Sep 23, 2024

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 ef...

31:57Sep 14, 2024

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 J...

01:12:52Sep 3, 2024