Our History

The Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center is a non-profit organization that operates two spaces: the Bankhead Theater, and the Bothwell Arts Center. The mission of LVPAC is to offer a broad range of arts opportunities and experiences to engage our diverse community.

The Bothwell Arts Center has been an arts incubator, offering affordable and rentable classroom, rehearsal, performance, event, and studio rental space for artists, musicians, theatrical, acting, choral, and other individuals, groups or events with a cultural arts focus.

We invite you to join the Bothwell family! Over 40,000 people have benefited from classes, workshops, performances and events at the Bothwell Arts Center, from children to adults. Frequent renters include ABC Music Source, Sycamore Strings Academy, Livermore Opera, Shakespeare's Associates, Livermore Amador Symphony, and many others. The Bothwell sponsors an array of community arts activities including ArtWalk, Evenings on the Green - Art & Music, Tree Sweater Forest, New Orleans Bash at the Bothwell and Night of the Livermore Dead Zombie Pub Crawl.