Media

Below can be found a number of videos centred around or recorded here at St Elvan's, including the recent BBC Wales | It's My Shout short film "Saving St Elvan's", additional television coverage of and from St Elvan's, and more

Additional videos are available on the St Elvan's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@stelvans1852

Saving St Elvan's

BBC Wales | It's My Shout short film - "Saving St Elvan's"

Aberfan Requiem

Aberfan Requiem by Gareth Trott, performed by Lewis Merthyr Band, conductor: Craig Roberts. This moving and atmospheric work received it's premiere performance here at St Elvan's, as part of the Oriana Festival in October 2023. The performance here was filmed live at St Elvan's, by Gavin Owen Media as part of the partnership project with Avant Cymru "Atgofion Aberfan" on Thursday April 11th 2024
www.stelvans.com/oriana-festival

From Ravensburg To Rhondda Cynon Taf

From Ravensburg To Rhondda Cynon Taf was a joint concert celebrating the international twinning between Rhondda Cynon Taf and our twin town of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The performance took place at St Elvan's on Sunday May 17th 2026 and featured the joint forces of Lewis Merthyr Band, and the Jugendblasorchester and Jugendsinfonieorchester of the Musikschule Ravensburg

Festival of Unity Highlights

Highlights reel by Gavin Owen Media of the 2023 Gwyl Undod | Festival of Unity at St Elvan's
www.stelvans.com/festival-of-unity

S4C television Gwyl Undod | Festival of Unity

S4C television coverage of the 2023 Gwyl Undod | Festival of Unity
www.stelvans.com/festival-of-unity

Cwm Cynon Christmas The Story

Annual FREE live sound & light nativity - Christmas The Story
www.stelvans.com/christmas-the-story

The Coal Beneath Our Feet - The Wind Above Our Heads

"The Coal Beneath Our Feet, The Wind Above Our Heads" is a film by Jeremy Clancy, commissioned by Beth Winter, and dedicated to Tower Colliery's Tyrone O'Sullivan

The film received its premiere screening here at St Elvan's, as part of our year long Shared Prosperity Fund supported "Cosmos, Collieries, Cynefin" and Miners Strikes 40th anniversary Voices From Underground projects

St Elvan's was then a distribution partner for the film, making this powerful documentary available to former coalfield communities and venues across Wales and wider, a tour of which took place during 2025 / 2026. If you would be interested in organising a FREE screening in your community, please contact us here

The film can be viewed in its entirety below