Village Arts
Faith Presbyterian Church of Valley Village, 5000 Colfax Ave., Valley Village, CA 91601
About
Village Arts offers Mini-Musicals, Teen Ensembles, Broadway-style theatrical productions, acting and drama classes, sketch comedy, dance, and high-energy movement games. The program also includes visual arts classes where students work with watercolor and acrylic paints, explore 2D and 3D art, sculpt with air-dry clay and other clay projects, create ceramics, experiment with graffiti and intro to graffiti, and build cardboard costuming. Village Arts provides Visual and Performing Arts Camps, theatrical productions, and homework support as part of its after-school offerings.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: From school dismissal until 6:00 PM
Village Arts is a non-profit dedicated to theatre, dance, and visual arts with a mission of building an inclusive community through teaching performing and visual arts that supports personal development of children in an environment where families of Valley Village and the greater San Fernando Valley region can connect and create. The organization describes its visual arts program as dedicated to nurturing the “total artist,” with a focus on observation, composition, and self-expression, and students create and share sketches every day and film commercial parodies, song parodies, and a short silent film together. The program balances technical skill-building with a fast-paced, professional rehearsal environment and offers seamless transitions from the after-school program to theatre rehearsals, with a walking chaperone service from Colfax Charter and dedicated teacher support for homework followed by daily enrichment.
Village Arts was founded in 2011 on the campus of Colfax Charter Elementary School, and in 2018 it established its own arts space across the street from Colfax Charter. A central goal of Village Arts is to collaborate with Colfax Charter to help address the longstanding gap in arts education that many Los Angeles schools have experienced for years, and it also offers programs at Colfax Charter Elementary School and other independent schools in the North Hollywood area. Village Arts has collaborated with neighbors and the El Pueblo De Niños Head Start program, and it has been described as the heart of the children’s arts community in the Valley Village area, with Village Arts Day declared in Valley Village by the Neighborhood Council Valley Village.
Co-founders Pam Shafer Moser and John Moser lead the organization, with Pam Shafer Moser serving as co-founder and Parisa Stepanek as Chairperson, Lindsay Gamache as Secretary, and Karla Patricia Avelino as Board Member At Large. Pam brings over 20 years of experience developing and teaching performance arts programs in addition to being an actor and mother, Parisa Stepanek holds a Bachelor’s of Music from New York University, and Lindsay Gamache is a professional actress in Los Angeles who earned her BFA in musical theatre from Penn State University. Village Arts collaborates with local artists to help teach and create programming and is developing design and technical theatre programs with local schools and professional local designers.
Village Arts has received an Educational Achievement Award from State Assemblyman Mike Feuer for an educational theatre program used in LAUSD schools, an award from The United Nations Society of Writers for an international theatre exchange with the former Soviet Union’s theatre arts school GITIS, an Emmy award-winning adaptation of Ira Glass’s This American Life, and multiple Daytime Emmys, the Peabody, the Humanitas, and awards from a variety of film festivals for family films for Showtime. The organization offers scholarships to families in need and runs an Annual Giving Campaign with a goal of $60,000 focused on building confidence and community through collaboration, creativity, connection, communication, and compassion. Village Arts envisions a home for all children 5 to 105, described as “a place for everyone” to experience and explore all art disciplines.
Co-founder Pam Shafer Moser states that she wants each of her students to experience their own personal best, whether that is a natural little star who is going to get up there and take the world by storm or a shy child whose big moment is having a line, standing confidently on stage, and looking out into the audience. The Board and Student Committee of Neighborhood Council Valley Village formally acknowledged the contributions of Village Arts and declared April 29, 2026, as Village Arts Day in Valley Village, commending Pam, John, their staff, volunteers, and supporters for their service to the community.
Last updated April 1, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: From school dismissal until 6:00 PM
Village Arts is a non-profit dedicated to theatre, dance, and visual arts with a mission of building an inclusive community through teaching performing and visual arts that supports personal development of children in an environment where families of Valley Village and the greater San Fernando Valley region can connect and create. The organization describes its visual arts program as dedicated to nurturing the “total artist,” with a focus on observation, composition, and self-expression, and students create and share sketches every day and film commercial parodies, song parodies, and a short silent film together. The program balances technical skill-building with a fast-paced, professional rehearsal environment and offers seamless transitions from the after-school program to theatre rehearsals, with a walking chaperone service from Colfax Charter and dedicated teacher support for homework followed by daily enrichment.
Village Arts was founded in 2011 on the campus of Colfax Charter Elementary School, and in 2018 it established its own arts space across the street from Colfax Charter. A central goal of Village Arts is to collaborate with Colfax Charter to help address the longstanding gap in arts education that many Los Angeles schools have experienced for years, and it also offers programs at Colfax Charter Elementary School and other independent schools in the North Hollywood area. Village Arts has collaborated with neighbors and the El Pueblo De Niños Head Start program, and it has been described as the heart of the children’s arts community in the Valley Village area, with Village Arts Day declared in Valley Village by the Neighborhood Council Valley Village.
Co-founders Pam Shafer Moser and John Moser lead the organization, with Pam Shafer Moser serving as co-founder and Parisa Stepanek as Chairperson, Lindsay Gamache as Secretary, and Karla Patricia Avelino as Board Member At Large. Pam brings over 20 years of experience developing and teaching performance arts programs in addition to being an actor and mother, Parisa Stepanek holds a Bachelor’s of Music from New York University, and Lindsay Gamache is a professional actress in Los Angeles who earned her BFA in musical theatre from Penn State University. Village Arts collaborates with local artists to help teach and create programming and is developing design and technical theatre programs with local schools and professional local designers.
Village Arts has received an Educational Achievement Award from State Assemblyman Mike Feuer for an educational theatre program used in LAUSD schools, an award from The United Nations Society of Writers for an international theatre exchange with the former Soviet Union’s theatre arts school GITIS, an Emmy award-winning adaptation of Ira Glass’s This American Life, and multiple Daytime Emmys, the Peabody, the Humanitas, and awards from a variety of film festivals for family films for Showtime. The organization offers scholarships to families in need and runs an Annual Giving Campaign with a goal of $60,000 focused on building confidence and community through collaboration, creativity, connection, communication, and compassion. Village Arts envisions a home for all children 5 to 105, described as “a place for everyone” to experience and explore all art disciplines.
Co-founder Pam Shafer Moser states that she wants each of her students to experience their own personal best, whether that is a natural little star who is going to get up there and take the world by storm or a shy child whose big moment is having a line, standing confidently on stage, and looking out into the audience. The Board and Student Committee of Neighborhood Council Valley Village formally acknowledged the contributions of Village Arts and declared April 29, 2026, as Village Arts Day in Valley Village, commending Pam, John, their staff, volunteers, and supporters for their service to the community.
Last updated April 1, 2026.
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