Multimedia Journalist
A controversial drug raid leads to the closure of a dance club in Manila, leaving a music subculture lost and scrambling.
Filipino food is gaining worldwide popularity. But as the diaspora grapples with the country's multicultural history, the cuisine's identity is yet to be established.
In Manila, Heritage Architecture Struggles to Survive
With the demolishing of Capitol Theatre, one of Manila’s last remaining art-deco theaters, the city’s cultural landmarks face a precarious future as it finds its footing in a transforming urban landscape.
CNN
Out of Print
To those who knew the artist, no headline could ever capture the complex truth of her humanity. But there are beautiful traces of it.
Photographer
01 — Editorial
01 — Editorial
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02 — Portraits
DJ
Dub and ambient techno
Featured on RA’s Mix Of The Day
Featured on RA’s Mix Of The Day
Dance film scores and soundtracks
R’n’B, hip-hop, soul, afrobeat
Biography
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Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist, specializing in culture stories. Based in Manila, her reporting often investigates the sociopolitical dynamics of creativity, exploring the everyday lives of people and their communities.
Under her DJ artist name Versailles, her radio shows are meticulous and referential, with club sets that shuffle through densely layered repetitions and piercing sound.
She is the curator of Cultural Learnings, an archivial project, newsletter, and radio show. Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” the Cultural Learnings show on Manila Community Radio explores cultural learnings to further your cultural learning through music, field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.
Master Selector is Versailles' monthly show on Refuge Worldwide, taking her spectral library outside the club and inviting guests to share music for chilling.
Sai earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist, specializing in culture stories. Based in Manila, her reporting often investigates the sociopolitical dynamics of creativity, exploring the everyday lives of people and their communities.
Under her DJ artist name Versailles, her radio shows are meticulous and referential, with club sets that shuffle through densely layered repetitions and piercing sound.
She is the curator of Cultural Learnings, an archivial project, newsletter, and radio show. Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” the Cultural Learnings show on Manila Community Radio explores cultural learnings to further your cultural learning through music, field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.
Master Selector is Versailles' monthly show on Refuge Worldwide, taking her spectral library outside the club and inviting guests to share music for chilling.
Sai earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Press
Feature
Vogue Philippines, 2023.
Feature
Mixmag Asia, 2023.
Podcast interview
Dead Air Podcast, 2022
Interview
Mixmag Asia, 2021.
Feature
Out Of Print, 2021.
Podcast interview
Monday Off Radio, 2020
Feature
nolisoli.ph, 2019.
Feature
Vogue Philippines, 2023.
Feature
Mixmag Asia, 2023.
Podcast interview
Dead Air Podcast, 2022
Interview
Mixmag Asia, 2021.
Feature
Out Of Print, 2021.
Podcast interview
Monday Off Radio, 2020
Feature
nolisoli.ph, 2019.
