Audio Journeys
with podcast host, Jasmine Low
An open call for Peace in the South China Sea, Listen by Heart podcast goes in search of 99 women with heritage from countries surrounding the South China Sea to submit readings of their own works; poetry or short stories to be featured in this podcast. #peacebuilding #peace
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Listen in to conversations with women of Southeast Asian heritage in search of one common thread — life purpose… Podcast host Jasmine Low speaks with women hailing from countries surrounding the contentious South China Sea, shares their stories and in the process, delves into her own 10-year research into sound frequencies and how that got her to “Listen by Heart” in finding her own purpose. Were all of the women before her in search of the same goal? It’s telling in the daily greeting by Nanyang migrants in their own dialects, “Have you eaten?”. Is this why so many people share food pics because it’s a trophy for survival?
#ListenbyHeart is PILLAR 2 of the Move8 METHOD’s 8 pillarS of wellness, making mental health a priority by ARTistic expression & Storytelling.
Sarimah Ibrahim
Che Puan Sarimah Ibrahim is a woman with many talents. She is an Actor, TV Host, Model, Voice Over, Emcee, Singer, Presenter, Mental Health Spokesperson, Fitness model and recently, loving wife and mother to a three-year-old (now four-year-old).
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Amanda Nell Eu
Amanda Nell Eu, a Malaysian film director and scriptwriter known for her recent body horror film Tiger Stripes – set in a Malaysian jungle in which a girl experiences a strange metamorphosis as she comes of age. The film won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize (Semaine de la Critique Cannes) when it was shown at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in France in May 2023, and it was then selected as the Malaysian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Amanda runs Ghost Grrl Pictures with a cofounder, Foo Fei Ling.
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Su-Lin Tan
Su-Lin Tan is an Australian journalist. She joined the South China Morning Post in 2020 after the Australian Financial Review where she covered housing and commercial property and Asian investments. She is a qualified accountant and worked in financial services both in London and Sydney before becoming a journalist.
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Shivani Sivagurunathan
Shivani is a Malaysian author and educator. Her latest work of fiction, What Has Happened to Harry Pillai?: Two Novellas follows the release of her first novel, Yalpanam (2021) and a collection of short stories, Wildlife on Coal Island (2011/2012). Shivani’s stories take place on mythical Coal Island.
Episodes
- S5E2 Shivani Sivagurunathan on Indian diaspora and contemplative pedagogy
- S5E1 Poetry readings from “Being Born” by Shivani Sivagurunathan
Karina Robles Bahrin
Karina Robles Bahrin is a Malaysian author and hotelier. Karina’s first novel, The Accidental Malay was written during the Covid-19 pandemic while in lockdown in Langkawi Island and she is the recipient of the 2022 Epigram Book’s Fiction Prize.
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Dr. Chuah Guat Eng
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Dr. Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian novelist and professional writer. Her experience spans three fields of writing; commercial and corporate, academic and literary. She read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. In 2008, she received a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) for her thesis, ‘From Conflict to Insight – A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction’. From January 2011 to March 2013, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at University Putra Malaysia, focusing on Malaysian novels in English. Most of her professional life was spent in the corporate world as writer and as a creative communication consultant.
Episodes
- S3E1 [INTRO] Dr. Chuah Guat Eng, Malaysian Novelist
- S3E2 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on finding her cultural identity
- S3E3 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on her PhD Thesis, From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-based Approach to Reading Fiction
- S3E4 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on equal opportunity, and how there’s no such thing as being another’s equal
- S3E5 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng narrates excerpts from her Malaysian novel, Echoes of Silence
Dr. Ann Lee
Born in Tawau, Malaysia, Ann Lee is a playwright, researcher and lecturer. Her plays are published in Sex, Stage & State: Kuali Works plays (Parama Adhi Perkasa, 2011) and Southeast Asian Plays (Aurora Metro, 2016). She was Artistic Director of Kuali Works, an all-women theatre group, for over a decade, is immediate past Protem Chair of the Women Writers Committee, PEN Malaysia (chapter of PEN international). She is also a committee member of ReformARTsi, an independent coalition of over 100 Malaysian arts organisations and individuals, advocating reform in arts education, arts funding, and freedom of expression.
Episodes
- S2 [Intro] Dr. Ann Lee, award-winning playwright & researcher
- S2E1: Dr. Ann Lee | A career including national newsreader to PR & advertising consultant working on a Voter Education Campaign for Nelson Mandela
- S2E2: Dr. Ann Lee | Award-winning playwright & co-founder of Kuali Works Malaysia’s pioneer all-women production house
- S2E3: Dr. Ann Lee | BOH Cameronian award-winning play Tarap Man, plays & their mobility
- S2E4: Dr. Ann Lee | My grandmothers, their resilience and growing up in Sabah
- S2E5: Dr. Ann Lee | Gender & Sexuality
- S2E6: Dr. Ann Lee | Su & her natural love for swiming
Pilot Season One
Jasmine H. Low
Penang-born Jasmine H. Low is a writer, producer & podcast host of Listen by Heart Podcast, inspired by her mother Shirl. Jasmine juggles her creative escapades, while running a creative agency. A runner-up at the Motion Picture Association APAC Script-to-Screen Pitch Competition (Malaysia) for Kurang Manis, the documentary that is now also a podcast and newsletter. For a decade, she hosted 100+ music and spoken word events in Kuala Lumpur. She created the Penang In-between Arts Festival, was a moderator at the Georgetown Literary Festival (2014-2015). She received a VIMA Hall of Fame Award in 2009 for her contribution to the independent music scene.
Jasmine’s initial intention with this project was just to record conversations with Shirl, but she has found that in the doing, it was important and necessary to document and archive voices of other women like her on an open platform. Voices of women on a quest for peace, prosperity and purpose. If you are such a woman with a tale to share, do reach out to her via email.
Episodes
- S1E1: Welcome to the Listen by Heart Project | A message from Jasmine H. Low
- S1E2: I am not loud by nature | Jasmine H. Low
- S1E3: Murmurs | Written and Narrated by Jasmine H. Low
- S1E4: The Magpies by Denis Glover | Read by Jasmine H. Low
- S1E5: Don’t go so busy | Written & Narrated by Jasmine H. Low
- S1E6: Liminality 001 | Conversations with Shirl
- S1E7: Girl Gungho: Identity | Written & Narrated by Jasmine H. Low
- S1E8: Liminality 002 | Conversations with Shirl by Jasmine H. Low
- A Merdeka Special: from little things big things grow (written & narrated by Jasmine H. Low)
- A Fiction Special: Dancing to the gongs of the South China Sea (written & narrated by Jasmine H. Low)
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Our purpose
#ListenbyHeart
Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.
Mission
Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the voice of Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace.
Contributions help fund the production of the project, keeps it going so these tales are recorded, archived and never lost.
An open call for peace in the South China Sea
The South China Sea is surrounded by the following countries; Brunei, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan (Republic of China/ROC), Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
News headlines on #southchinasea
- SCMP: Opinion | Why Chinese think tanks’ South China Sea reports targeting Vietnam, Indonesia will only escalate tensions
- CCTV: China rejects U.S., Japan, Philippines concern on South China Sea
- CGTN: Experts on the Philippines’ threat of new South China Sea arbitration
- Reuters: Malaysia says it will protect its rights in South China Sea
- ABC News Australia: The South China Sea has been contested for decades, so what does China’s new map mean?
- Council on Foreign Relations – Global Conflict Tracker: Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
- Nikkei Asia: Mahathir’s message: World must promote ‘peace and stability’ – Nikkei Asia
- Pearls and Irritations (johnmenadue.com): An Open Letter to the Australian Government from concerned scholars regarding the AUKUS Agreement – Pearls and Irritations (johnmenadue.com)
- Channel News Asia Insider: The Exiles — My Stolen Chinese Father Victims of UK’s racist past.
- Pearls and Irritations (Johnmenadue.com): Dear reader, are we unwelcome in this white man’s nation?
- Asia Sentinel: Taiwan and the Thucydides Trap
- Nikkei Asia: U.S. guards undersea superiority with Australia-U.K. nuclear sub deal – Nikkei Asia
- Fox News: Pompeo highlights threat from China after Air Force general predicts war by 2025 | Fox News
- CGTN: China builds first unmanned offshore oil rig in South China Sea
- The Drive-War Zone: The war zone China’s manmade island fortresses like you’ve never seen them before
- Manila Bulletin: Marcos to raise South China Sea issue if he meets Xi at ASEAN Summits
- VOA News: How Vietnam quietly built up 10 islands in Asia’s most disputed sea
- CGTN: South China Sea not a fighting arena
- SCMP: South China Sea: Manny Pacquiao to form peace panel to resolve row with Beijing if elected Philippine president
- Xinhua: China denounces Australia’s false remarks regarding South China Sea
- 9News/CNN: American $143 million stealth fighter, US Navy F-35C, crashing into South China Sea
- FMT: US Nuclear sub damaged in underwater collision
- OWP: How did we get here – the decline of the Australia China relationship
- CSIS Babel: The Global Energy Transition, interview with Dan Yergin, author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power & The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations.
- China Daily: Current features and trends in the South China Sea
- The Diplomat: The global South China Sea issue
- The Straits Times: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi urges countries to safeguard peace in South China Sea
- 7News.com.au: India deploys warships in South China Sea
- News.com.au: Australia’s tough decision in South China Sea dispute
- The Guardian: UK says it has no plans for South China Sea confrontation after Beijing warning
- Asia Times: More of the same Biden’s hybrid war against China
- RT: China lashes out after US Navy warship sails through Taiwan Strait for seventh time under Biden
- Al-Jazeera: Malaysia protests, summons envoy after China aircraft intrusion
- Al-Jazeera: China military drove away US warship in South China Sea
- DW: Philippines fully restores military pact with United States
- DW: Pentagon Chief in Vietnam to boost security ties
- Defence Blog: US Navy deploys Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group to South China Sea
- Defence Blog: U.S. Navy sends USS Barry guided-missile destroyer to South China Sea
- Policy Forum: Russia in the South China Sea
Video links:
- Workers World Party: Commentary by Sara Flounders: US Threats in the South China Sea
Interesting links:
- No Cold War
- Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative
- The Organization for World Peace
- The National Interest
- Lowy Institute
- The Organisation for World Peace
- Asia and the Pacific Policy Society
An open-source peace project archiving Voices of Women from the South China Sea: her story.
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narrated by Jasmine H. Low
Recorded at Sydney Podcast Studios
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