The Bucks County Performing Arts Center
was founded in 1978 by Mary Borkovitz, a former music teacher. Their first venue was the Community Room of the Lower Makefield Township Building.In 1985, the organization was recognized by the National Recreation and Park Association and was honored with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council Dorothy Mullen Arts & Humanities Award for a program that exemplified outstanding efforts in the arts among park and recreation departments. Twenty nine years later, the organization has grown in numerous directions.

Concerts
are held in the historic Yardley Community Centre, mostly on Saturday evenings, and the organization continues to bring top notch performers to its stage. In 1998, BCPAC established a vital partnership with the Pennsbury School District’s “Pennsbury Partners Program (PPP)”, For the last 18 years, BCPAC has assisted Pennsbury’s students in fulfilling the National Standards for Arts Education by bringing artists into the classroom. Bringing professional artists into the school environment enables students to recognize the arts as an authentic means of expression as part of classroom learning. Since 1998, over $350,000 in grant money has been raised for both the Arts in Education Program at the school district, and the local concert series now at the Yardley Community Centre.