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After the Birds/Po Ptakach was the product of collaboration between Earthfall and Polish theatre company Chorea, continuing the long-standing partnership between the two groups. Drawing on Aristophanes' comedy The Birds, the production combined ancient Greek choral song, contemporary music, vigorous dance, live music and film. Items comprise printed theatre programmes, posters and flyers; performance tickets; stage notes/directions; creative notes; printed volume charting the history of Chorea; article relating to Jim Ennis and Jessica Cohen; press notices; and reviews, including one featured in Planet magazine, October/November 2005 (bookmarked with printed Earthfall business card).

Stories from a Crowded Room was Earthfall's 25th anniversary production. The show was a highly sensory experience, involving vigorous dance, live music, text and encircling film. Items comprise printed theatre programmes and flyers; printed postcards for participating audience members; printed invitation to pre-show reception; and creative notes.

Script and photocopied poster relating to a talk titled The Relevance of Interdisciplinary Research at Jazz Heritage Wales, presented by Jen Wilson at the Alex Building, Swansea College of Art, 3 December 2015.

Prosiect celf gyhoeddus ar y cyd rhwng y beirdd Menna Elfyn, Nigel Jenkins, David Hughes a Rhys Owain Williams a'r artisitiaid Katie Allen, David Jones, Alan Goulbourne a Danielle Arbrey, gan gynnwys brasluniau, nodiadau a drafftiau, toriad papur newydd a gohebiaeth rhwng cyd-weithwyr y prosiect, yn bennaf oddi wrth Nigel Jenkins at eraill o'r cyfranwyr.

St Davids Award for Culture certificate awarded to Siân Phillips, 12 March 2015; together with awards ceremony dinner menu.

Letters, cards, printed emails and one fax (two letters incomplete, one juvenile card), [1960s]-2015, from the actress, producer, film attaché and reviewer Kate O'Toole to her mother Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and her third husband Robin Sachs. Most of the correspondence was written from Kate O'Toole's home in Ireland. One letter is annotated by Siân Phillips.

Undated note, [?1960s], to Kate O'Toole from arts administrator Greville Poke, founding member of the English Stage Company.

Personal correspondence, 2015 January-June, consisting of letters and cards, discussing mainly literary, political, and social matters, including correspondence from Ian McDonald (5); Emily Trahair (1); Bruce Clunies Ross (19); John Pickles (1); Anders Bune (3); Zoë Skoulding (1); Calvin Forbes (2); Nicholas Murray (10); Ned Thomas (1); Mike Parker (2); Peter Lord (2); Jen Wilson (1); Barry Butson (1); Jeff Titon (3); Jüri Talvet (2); Alan Barnie (3); Harriet Richards (2); Mike Wilson (1); Diane Bailey (1); Roynon Collings (1); Siân Melangell Dafydd (1); Helle Michelsen (1); Matthew Jarvis (1); and Manon Wynn Davies (1). The file also contains an order of service for the funeral of William Powell James; and a book report by John Barnie for 'Robert Graves, Wales & the White Goddess' by John Sharkey.

Personal correspondence, 2015 July-December, consisting of letters and postcards, discussing mainly social, domestic, and literary matters, including correspondence from Bruce Clunies Ross (18); Alan Barnie (1); Manon Wynn Davies (1); Calvin Forbes (3); Martin Leer (1); Knud Rasmussen (1); Ian McDonald (12); Alan Barnie (2); Barry Butson (5); Peter Lord (2); Richard Poole (3); Nicholas Murray (3); Margaret Lloyd (1); Raymond Williams (1); Ian Gregson (2); Mike Parker (1); and Anders Bune (1). The file also contains two book reports, for Diarmuid Johnson's 'Pen and Plough' and Simon Brook's proposed translation of 'Pam Na Fu Cymru'; book reviews for Jasmine Donahaye's 'The Greatest Need' and Horatio Clare's 'Down to the Sea in Ships'; and copies of articles featured in Poetry Wales from 1984-1985.

The file contains promotional and performance material, 1999-2015, relating to other music and poetry groups of which John Barnie was a member, including the groups Sportin' Life, T-Model Ford, and Hollow Log. The file also includes a licence agreement for Sportin' Life (2001); four photographs ([2000]x[?2006]) of various group members, including John Barnie; and a letter from the Poetry in Presteigne Festival regarding a performance by Hollow Log (2015).

Material relating to Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales, including newsletters, agendas and minutes, annual reports, conference schedules and correspondence.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid conference 2015, titled Still We Rise: Preventing violence against women in Wales, held in Cardiff, 27-28 March 2015.

Printed email from Gillian Somerville-Large, daughter of Freda Aykroyd, to her sister Juliet Lacey, containing notes titled 'Memories of Alun Lewis by Gillian Somerville-Large'.

Deunydd yn ymwneud â gwobrywon ac anrhydeddau a ddaeth i ran Menna Elfyn yn ystod ei gyrfa, y rhan helaeth ohono yn deillio o'i chyfnod fel Bardd Plant Cymru (penodwyd 2002), gan gynnwys erthyglau yn y wasg, llyfrynnau gwybodaeth a phosteri Planed Plant; ynghyd â deunydd yn ymwneud â gwobrwyon ac anrhydeddau eraill, er enghraifft Prif Wobr Cymru Greadigol 2007-8, Cymrodoriaeth Coleg Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth (yn cyd-weithio gyda Elin ap Hywel) (2002-2006), Cymrodoriaeth y Royal Society of Literature (2015) a llywyddiaeth PEN Cymru (2015), yn ogystal â llythyr, 2012, yn ymateb i gais Menna Elfyn i fod yn Gymrawd o'r Academi Gymreig.

Deunydd yn ymwneud â gweithdai ar gyfer plant ac oedolion a gynhaliwyd gan Menna Elfyn, un a'i ar ei phen ei hunan neu ar y cyd â beirdd neu lenorion eraill, rhai ohonynt dramor dan nawdd y Cyngor Prydeinig, gan gynnwys llyfrau nodiadau (yn bennaf ar gyfer cyrsiau yn Nhŷ Newydd, Llanystumdwy), rhaghysbysebion am gyrsiau, cynlluniau ac amserlenni dysgu, enghreifftiau o waith myfyrwyr ac adborth myfyrwyr, gohebiaeth, torion o'r wasg a gwybodaeth gefndirol.

Letters and cards, 1986-2015 and undated, from personal, business and development coach Pat O'Toole to her mother Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and her third husband Robin Sachs. One item shows a child's paint-smeared handprint, with, on reverse, in Pat O'Toole's hand, a note purporting to be from Jessica (Jessica Shayle O'Toole, daugher of Pat and granddaughter of Siân Phillips), then aged two and a half.

Material relating to the accounts and expenditure, 1945-2014, of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association; includes ledger book containing Welsh Beekeepers' Association accounts, 1968-1989. Together with documents outlining recommended practice for accounting and reporting on the part of charitable bodies.

Material relating to the support and protection of children and young people living with their mother in Women's Aid refuges, with particular reference to Women's Aid's Children Matter campaign, which tackles domestic and sexual violence and other forms of abuse against children and young people. Included are children and young people's information and activity booklets, children's own responses to domestic violence and to living in a refuge and photocopied photographs of children's day-to-day lives within a refuge, together with a report relating to awareness campaigns aimed at schools.

General material collected by John Pikoulis in relation to his research into the life and work of Alun Lewis, including: Original and photocopied press cuttings of published work by Alun Lewis; original and photocopied press cuttings and articles relating to Alun Lewis; John Pikoulis's notes on Alun Lewis taken from published or broadcasted sources; John Pikoulis's notes on unpublished works by Alun Lewis (kept in marked envelope); biographical notes, mostly rough handwritten jottings, relating to Alun Lewis and to members of his family (notes on the Reverend Melchisedec Evans, father of Alun Lewis's mother Gwladys, and handwritten Lewis and Evans family trees drawn by John Pikoulis kept in marked envelopes); copy of Alun Lewis's birth certificate (kept in marked envelope); photocopied press articles noting the death of Alun Lewis (kept in marked envelope); notes made by John Pikoulis on letters of Alun Lewis (kept in marked envelope); material relating to events marking the centenary (in 2015) of Alun Lewis's birth, which includes letters to John Pikoulis, published poetry and prose by Alun Lewis (photocopies), minutes of meetings and details of a conference and a symposium (kept in marked folder); unsigned pencil portrait of Alun Lewis (kept in marked envelope); photocopy of The Heart's Assurance (1951), a song cycle by Sir Michael Tippett on poems by Alun Lewis and fellow Second World War poet Sidney Keyes (kept in marked envelope); copies of poems written in tribute to Alun Lewis by R. S. Thomas ('Alun Lewis'), John Tripp ('A Quest for Light') and Lovita J. R. Morang ('Lewis on Nilgiri Hills'); and rough notes taken by John Pikoulis during interviews with those who knew or were otherwise associated with Alun Lewis (see also interview notes under various categories elsewhere within the archive).
This section also includes a bound typescript thesis in two volumes by Keith Picton Evans titled 'Alun Lewis: The Development of a Writer', submitted as part of an MA degree at the University of Lancaster, September 1971.

Deunydd yn ymwneud â gweithiau llwyfan a gyd-grewyd gan Menna Elfyn ac eraill, gan gynnwys: sgript 'cyflwyniad/drama lwyfan' gan Menna Elfyn o'r enw Y Garthen (dim dyddiad, ond arnodir yn llaw Menna Elfyn fod y gwaith yn rhagddyddio'r sioe Rhyw Ddydd, a gyd-grewyd gan Menna Elfyn ac a lwyfanwyd yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Llanbedr-Pont-Steffan 1984 (https://mennaelfyn.co.uk/cy/project/rhyw-ddydd/; gweler hefyd dan y pennawd Rhyw Ddydd, gan Menna Elfyn, Eirlys Parri, Llio Silyn a Judith Humphreys o fewn yr archif hon); sgript o ddrama'r geni amgen o'r enw Trefn Teyrnas Wâr, a berfformiwyd yn wreiddiol ar lwyfan ym 1990 gan Theatr Taliesin ac a ddarlledwyd fel drama deledu dan y teitl Ar Dir y Tirion ar S4C ym 1993; poster ar gyfer y ddrama gomedi gymunedol Malwod Mawr! (2004), a sgriptiwyd gan Menna Elfyn, gyda cherddoriaeth gan Iwan Evans, gŵr Fflur Dafydd, merch Menna Elfyn; sgript opera neu operetta o'r enw Y Gath Wyllt/Wild Cat (2007) a sgrifenwyd gan Berlie Doherty a Julian Philips ac a gyfieithwyd gan Menna Elfyn; a phoster ar gyfer yr opera aml-ieithog Gair ar Gnawd (2015), y libretto gan Menna Elfyn a'r gerddoriaeth gan yr Athro Pwyll ap Siôn, darlithydd yn Adran Gerddoriaeth Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Bangor.
Ambell eitem wedi'u harnodi yn llaw Menna Elfyn.

Am Trefn Teyrnas Wâr/Ar Dir y Tirion (1990), a hefyd am Y Forwyn Goch (1992), drama am yr aflonyddwraig, diwinydd ac athronydd Simone Weil a sgriptiwyd gan Menna Elfyn, gweler hefyd dan Am Menna Elfyn: Erthyglau, adolygiadau a datganiadau i'r wasg a dan benawdau Tref[e]n Teyrnas Wâr, Y Forwyn Goch a Drama deledu: Ar Dir y Tirion o fewn yr archif hon.
Am y dramâu radio Dim Byd o Werth (2009) a Colli Nabod (2012), gweler dan Darllediadau cyfryngol.