Editing Port Talbot (section)

==Arts and culture==
Port Tablot has been called "fertile ground for movie stars" with former residents including Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton and Ronald Lewis.<ref name="lewis">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|access-date=22 March 2025|date=22 March 2025|title=Not Quite Movie Stars: Ronald Lewis|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/not-quite-movie-stars-ronald-lewis/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJLF8pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ9L44bX5dNB1oxxdYxdWbb_dGjt_JLq7-Cl-X7MC2-DaBHqHiM7u7IHvA_aem_6p_ROmGJ15dwMGA-RXX6mg}}</ref> 
===South Wales Miners' Museum===
The [[South Wales Miners' Museum]] is located in Cynonville, [[Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot|Cymmer]].

===Margam Stones Museum===
The nearby [[Margam Stones Museum]] has early Christian inscribed stones and Celtic crosses, including four from the area now under the Steelworks. A Roman milestone, an 8th-century pillar, and two Celtic crosses from the 10th century were all rescued from the steelworks site by the Talbot family and taken to Margam, where they are now in the museum, in the care of [[Cadw]].<ref name=boards>Sign boards at the Margam Stones Museum, undated, viewed in the Museum in June 2012</ref>

=== The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence===
[[The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence]] is a [[private museum]] in Port Talbot.<ref name="Hunter Davies">{{cite book |last=Davies |first=Hunter |title=Behind the scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans: My search for Britain's Maddest Museums|url=https://archive.org/details/behindscenesatmu0000davi |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2010 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/behindscenesatmu0000davi/page/59 59–72] |chapter=Chapter 4: The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence, Port Talbot |isbn=978-0-7535-2213-4}}</ref>

===Banksy mural===
In December 2018 the artist [[Banksy]] confirmed that he produced a [[mural]] painted on the corner of a garage close to Port Talbot steelworks. On one side it depicts a boy playing in what appears to be snowfall, but the other side shows the snowfall is ash falling from a bin fire.<ref>{{cite news |title=Banksy confirms Port Talbot 'Season's greetings' piece is his |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46617742 |access-date=20 December 2018 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> In May 2019, the mural was moved to a gallery in the town's Ty'r Orsaf building.<ref name="Fyfe-29May2019">{{cite news |last1=Fyfe |first1=Will |title=Port Talbot Banksy mural: Artwork arrives at new home |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48434084 |access-date=11 June 2019 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=29 May 2019}}</ref>

===''The Passion''===
{{Main|The Gospel of Us}}

In April 2011, actor [[Michael Sheen]] led a 72-hour [[National Theatre Wales]] production of a modern retelling of [[Passion play|The Passion]]. The play began at 5:30&nbsp;am on [[Good Friday]] with a seafront scene, inspired by John the Baptist's baptism of Jesus, which was watched by hundreds who had heard about it by word of mouth.

By the time the first main part of the play was performed on [[Aberavon Beach|Aberafan Beach]] at 3:00&nbsp;pm, organisers estimated up to 6,000 people had gathered to watch.

On Saturday, there were sequences in Llewellyn Street, the Castle Street underpass, [[Aberafan Shopping Centre]], the Seaside Social and Labour Club<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seasidesociallabourclub.co.uk/|title=Seaside Social & Labour Club|website=www.seasidesociallabourclub.co.uk|access-date=4 September 2014|archive-date=18 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218182747/http://seasidesociallabourclub.co.uk/|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[Sandfields, Port Talbot|Sandfields]] and nearby Abbeyville Court.

On [[Easter Sunday]], the production returned to Aberafan Beach as part of the finale. A trial was performed on Civic Square before a procession from Station Road, with the final scene, "the cross", at Aberafan seafront. By the time the procession had reached the seafront close to where it had begun 72 hours earlier, organisers estimate over 13,000 people had come to watch on the small roundabout.

In April 2012, [[Michael Sheen]] returned to attend the world premiere of the feature-length film ''[[The Gospel of Us]]'' based on The Passion. The premiere was held at the [[Apollo Cinemas|Apollo Cinema]] (now the [[Reel Cinemas, UK|Reel Cinema]]) on the Aberafan seafront close to where The Passion took place. Tickets for the premiere sold out weeks before the showing; all six screens showed the film simultaneously. The film was also shown daily from Easter Sunday to the following Thursday prior to its UK-wide release the next day.