Thank you & see you soon from Santa
A final message from Santa ahead of his return trip to the North Pole, ready for his round the world trip on Christmas Eve 🎅🏻 Huge thanks to everyone who attended, supported and staffed Santa’s Grotto, Spires coffee shop and St Elvan’s this Christmas, and a massive thank you to The Works Aberdare for supporting the grotto and St Elvan’s Community Heritage Trust through their charity toy drive 🧸❤️ We wish all our visitors, friends and supporters a very Merry Christmas indeed 🎄 For details of all our Christmas services at St Elvan’s, St Matthew’s & St John’s, visit www.stelvans.com/events Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi gyd
A Message From Santa
Good Morning Everybody! Today, Monday December 23rd, is our final day with Father Christmas 🎅🏻 Join us here at St Elvan's from 10-4. Timeslots are available for booking at www.ticketsource.co.uk/stelvans See you there! Merry Christmas Everybody 🎄🎅🏻❤️
TODAY! Sunday December 22nd & Monday December 23rd, it’s your last chance to see Santa before his return to the North Pole and round the world trip on Christmas Eve! Santa will be at St Elvan’s from 12:30 to 5:00pm on Sunday and 10:00am to 4:00pm on Monday. For tickets and availability, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/stelvans See you there! 🎅🏻
A Message From Santa
We had a lovely day with Father Christmas yesterday with NEW! Breakfast With Santa and Santa's Grotto 🎅🏻 Join us today for two performances at 2:00pm and 4:30pm of The Snowman LIVE! with Father Christmas and Lewis Merthyr Band 🎅🏻🎺 plus music from Frozen ❄️ The Polar Express 🚂 and the full movie screening - with LIVE music - of The Snowman ☃️ For full details and tickets, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/stelvans As Santa said, we’re adding two full days of Santa’s Grotto next week, tickets for which will be on sale later today 👀 Merry Christmas Everybody! www.stelvans.com/christmas-events
Cwmbach at Christmas 🎄
Festive fun & games here with Cwmbach Male Choir 🎅🏻 Join us tomorrow, Saturday December 14th for The Glory of Christmas with Lewis Merthyr Band and Dare to Sing Ladies' Choir, performing in aid of Cynon Uchaf Ministry Area 🎺🎄 The weekend then closes with The Snowman LIVE!featuring music from Frozen ❄️ The Polar Express 🚂 and the full score with live movie screening of the animated British classic The Snowman ☃️ 🎬🍿All this, plus Santa's Grotto 🎅🏻 NEW! Breakfast With Santa 🥞 and more, this weekend here at St Elvan's, Aberdare 🏴 For tickets and full information for all our festive events, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/stelvans 🎟️ See you there!www.stelvans.com/christmas-events
The 2024 production of Cynon Valley’s amazing FREE live nativity Christmas The Story is underway 💫 together with our FREE live donkey visits🐴
Taking place throughout this week, Christmas The Story sees three FREE 20 minute nativity production, with large screen projection, live actors, sound & light, take place every day from Monday December 2nd to Friday December 6th at 09:30, 11:00 and 13:30, and on Saturday December 7th at 11:00, 13:30 and 15:00
*Please note, the 11:00am performances on Tuesday & Thursday and 13:30 on Saturday are Welsh language performances
Accompanying FREE activities at the church include bell plate ringing and colouring after each performance, plus visits to our resident live donkeys throughout each day from 09:00am to 3:00pm 🐴
Over 1600 school children and local people have already booked in to come and visit the production. Don’t miss out on your FREE tickets 🎟️ Visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/stelvans today
Join us together with Dai Woolridge and the Bible Society for The Romans Live, here at St Elvan's, Thursday July 4th ✝️ For full information, visit www.stelvans.com/events
Tonight, 7:30pm here at St Elvan's, Rhondda Cynon Taf’s own Avant Cymru and Lewis Merthyr Band with collaborate on Atgofion Aberfan, a deeply poignant and moving production about the tragic disaster at Aberfan
The evening is centred around "Hiraeth", the incredibly poignant real-life story of playwright Sue Bevan. Sue was a ten year old volunteer at Aberfan. Inspired by Sue's story, Avant reached out to the community. They heard in Tylorstown how recent landslides had affected people's lives; they heard from survivors of Aberfan about how they were told "not to talk about" the tragedy; grieving families who were encouraged not to speak, and not to share what they had experienced and saw...
Avant have been exploring how the disaster has shaped the lives of our community and, alongside Sue Bevan's incredible story, Avant are now ready to talk further, to share what they have, and what members of the community now want to be shared
"The Silent Volunteer" is a play about the voices that haven't yet found the words to speak, but who want the world to know the Aberfan disaster was not “an act of God”
The evening will also feature a performance of Welsh composer Gareth Trott's "Aberfan Requiem", an incredibly poignant work which received a standing ovation at its premiere performance by the award winning Lewis Merthyr Band at the prestigious Oriana Festival, hosted at St Elvan's in October 2023. This incredibly powerful work is reprised here especially for this production
An excerpt from the premiere performance of Aberfan Requiem, performed by Lewis Merthyr Band, is included below. Join us this evening to heard this incredibly beautiful and powerful work in full
Atgofion Aberfan
Thursday April 11th
7:30pm
St Elvan's, Aberdare
Tickets: £12 | £10 concessions
www.ticketsource.co.uk/stelvans
Spires coffee shop and our mezzanine gallery here at St Elvan's are open throughout the day from 10-4, Monday to Saturday. Pop in and browse our FREE visiting landscapes exhibition by Gigi Jones; enjoy a delicious jacket potato, toastie, cake, tortellini, a hearty bowl of soup, barista prepared coffee, hot chocolate or speciality tea; all in the glorious surroundings of St Elvan’s, Aberdare town centre. For additional information on all there is to enjoy here, visit www.stelvans.com
