About Cultural Learnings

Cultural Learnings is a newsletter offering cultural learnings to further your cultural learning.

Each newsletter starts with a “think piece,” sandwiching glimpses of the writer’s life with conversations, word vomits, and brain farts.

The Cultural Learnings show has been broadcasting on Manila Community Radio since August 2020. Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” it explores genres and artists through assortments of music, field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.

Manifesto

  1. We are people positioned at a specific time and place in history, which lends us to a specific type of insight.

  2. We must strive for truthfulness, accuracy, and accountability for what we see, experience, and understand.

  3. We cannot claim absolute objectivity, only openness.

  4. It is our duty to study the ways people understand culture and how this understanding creates politics so divisive that it changes the course of history.

  5. We must care about these issues because if we're not willing to respond to the emergencies in our culture, how can we steer the world into a direction of positive change?

About the Curator

Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist and the curator of Cultural Learnings. 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.

In 2019, Sai earned an MPhil in international development from the University of Oxford.

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