Culture is wide ranging. Sport, film, literature and the arts are all part of our culture, and much more.
This section is dedicated to exploring and writing about the culture that people are engaging in, in Australia and around the world.
Here are some tips for writing a review, courtesy of the Prison Journalism Project.
His message is simple but powerful: no matter how difficult life gets, we can choose to be kind, be grateful, and find joy.
Prison is a noisy place, yet at Risdon Prison, in Tasmania – nestled near bushland and close to the Risdon Brook Dam – the sounds of nature still break through. Despite the din, the calls of native birds are unmistakable.
A new children’s book addresses the incarceration of parents. It’s titled My Dad’s Gone Away and was written by Andrew Krakouer and Jacqueline Dinan.
Today About Time launches a regular sports column. Please let us know what you’d like to see covered.
A selection of classics!
Stuck with free-to-air TV? Here are some great shows to help time fly by.
Songs Inside received the Audience Award at the Adelaide Film Festival and Documentary Australia Award at the Sydney Film Festival. It’s touring around the country.
After running Australia’s first ever international prison art exhibition in Sydney in May last year, it was great to be able to finally tour the works to another city. We plan to bring the art to a new city each year.
Set in the period following ‘The Great War’ (World War I), Wicked Little Letters is a comedic re-telling of true events that took place in Littlehampton, England.
Even before going to prison, I was drawn to prison movies. Now, after my time inside, I’m even more captivated.
A new art exhibition in Melbourne calls attention to Indigenous incarceration in Australia. It’s on from April to July 2025 at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.
Dream Scenario is a deliciously quirky film by Director, Kristoffer Borgli. The audience is taken on an unexpected journey which travails the terrain between the conscious and subconscious mind.
Set on a quiet island in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a gripping mystery/thriller told from two perspectives.
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