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GREAT LOVE | The Gaza Monologues
Releasing weekly from July - October 2024
"It's kind of corny, but I think about this quote from Che Guevarra: ‘the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of great love’." – Aliya Pabani.
The Gaza Monologues by ASHTAR THEATRE (Ramallah) adapted by The Heart. Friends and friends of friends from Palestine and beyond read the famed monologues; layered with recordings, conversations, and creations from today.
“We relate with every single word in this monologue. [But] this is bigger than any war we’ve lived before.” --- Tarneem Jaber.
Music: Marj Ibn Amer - Muqata’a
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EPISODES
If the Sea Coule Talk
GREAT LOVE: EPISODE 4
Audio artist and organizer Aliya Pabani takes Gaza Monologue #19 and a binaural microphone with her to perform an action at a Toronto branch of the largest worldwide financier of weapons used by Israel. Aliya believes, as Che Guevara did, that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of GREAT LOVE.
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A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams
GREAT LOVE: EPISODE 3 Three siblings cross the Rafah border from the North of Gaza and end up performing monologues over the phone to a Canadian woman for a podcast they’ve never heard of. They want the world to know that this war is worse than any war they lived before.
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A Cup of Tea + The Horse of Jenin
GREAT LOVE: EPISODE 2
Comedian Alaa Shahada talks about artist life in Jenin, West Bank. He shares an intimate radio version of his one-man-show “The Horse of Jenin”. He talks about his dreams for the future of Palestine: an airport. He dreams of being able to travel without having to cross a border and several checkpoints to fly out of Jordan.
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Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks
GREAT LOVE: EPISODE 1
Ali's paternal grandfather left Jerusalem in 1948. "What happened in 1948?" KP asks. They both laugh. She apologises for her ignorance. He begins to explain.
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An audio mind trip about an Iranian-American woman, the family she carries around in her head, and the family that she wants to have.
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THE HEART
Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating lush radical love stories about all the invisible things between humans that we don’t know how to name.
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ASKING FOR IT
Asking For It is a darkly comedic series that follows a queer, femme singer whose herstory of violence finds her no matter how many times she runs away. From Film maker Drew Denny, Mermaid Palace and CBC Podcasts.
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