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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?

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Che Puan 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.

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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.

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Dr. Ann Lee
NOW STREAMING – trailer out on July 29, 2021, with the episodes released from August 1st – 6th.

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.

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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.

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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.

SUPPORT

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.

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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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