A grand theater auditorium with red curtain and vintage seats

Arts & culture

This valley has been making pictures for a century — on movie ranches, mural walls and marquee stages. The show never stopped.

Rows of red velvet seats facing a lit stage at the Madrid Theatre

Antique Row · Canoga ParkMadrid Theatre

Center stage

The Madrid Theatre

A 440-seat performing-arts house in the heart of downtown Canoga Park, the Madrid anchors the West Valley's live scene — dance companies, jazz nights, community theater and touring acts, all under one historic roof.

Art in the wild

Murals, makers & movie ranches

A vibrant mural covering a city wall

Street art

Canoga Park Mural Mile

Sherman Way and its side streets carry one of LA's densest runs of murals — Chicano classics, new commissions and pop-up paste-ups. Self-guided, always free.

A visitor admiring a black-and-white doodle-style mural wall

Galleries

Studios & Small Galleries

Working artists have quietly filled the Valley's storefronts and industrial parks. Watch for open-studio weekends and First Friday pop-ups.

Sandstone formations once used as a film backdrop

Film history

Iverson Movie Ranch Country

From the Lone Ranger to countless Westerns, Chatsworth's rocks played every frontier Hollywood could imagine. Hike the Garden of the Gods and stand in the frame.

Culture calendar

Where culture happens

Historic theater stage

Canoga Park

Madrid Theatre

The Valley's marquee stage for dance, music and theater — 440 seats on historic Antique Row.

A stage washed in colorful lights and confetti

Woodland Hills

Summer Concert Series

Valley Cultural's free Sunday concerts at Warner Center Park draw thousands all season long.

Colorful mural wall

Canoga Park

Antique Row

Vintage dealers, mid-century finds and collectible ephemera line Sherman Way — a museum you can shop.

Horse in a ranch pasture

Chatsworth

Homestead Acre & Historical Society

An 1880s homestead cottage on the National Register keeps Chatsworth's pioneer story alive with living-history days.

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Arts venues & studios across the Valley

Valley Relics MuseumMuseum · Lake Balboa Encino Framing & Art GalleryFraming · Encino U-Frame-It GalleryFraming · Tarzana Framed LAFraming · Woodland Hills Color Me MinePottery studio · Encino Color Me MinePottery studio · Porter Ranch Creation Station DanceDance · Northridge West Valley Dance AcademyDance · Chatsworth SAMPUL Dance AcademyDance · Chatsworth School of RockMusic · West Hills 123 Rock School of MusicMusic · Woodland Hills Releve StudiosMusic & dance · Northridge

Artists: the West Valley wants your wall.

The Bureau connects muralists, performers and makers with venues and funding across all thirteen of our communities.

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