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Conferences & Workshops

Oregon Heritage coordinates several different opportunities for trainings, workshops, and conversations supporting heritage preservation efforts in Oregon. We do this through the following:

​This conference is an opportunity for those involved in preserving Oregon's heritage to gather together for three days of workshops, sessions, conversations, and more to help support their efforts and provide opportunities for conversation about larger heritage related issues. The conference also includes the annual Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards.

2026 Dates and Location Set!

See you in Woodburn, April 29, 30 and May 1, 2!

Thanks to the City of Woodburn for partnering with us.

2026 Oregon Heritage Conference
Stories, Culture, Place - Weaving Community Heritage
April 29- May 2, 2026

​In the off year of the conference, Oregon Heritage hosts a summit. The purpose of the summit is to be single issue focused and to provide an opportunity for larger scale discussions to take place at the state-wide level and regional level. Previous year summits have focused on fundraising (2017), Board development (2019), collaboration (2021), volunteers (2023), and advocacy (2025).

Information for the 2026 Oregon Heritage Summit in Spring will be coming soon.  

​This conference provides the opportunity for those engaged in downtown revitalization efforts to connect to resources, partners, and their downtown to help get work done in their community. Typical attendees include staff and volunteers focused on downtown historic preservation and economic development, downtown business and property owners, government leaders, chamber of commerce professionals and volunteers, and others with an interest in the future of downtown will benefit from attending this conference.

2025 Oregon Main Street Conference | October 8-10

Dedicated to the Long Game



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2025 Fall Workshop Series

​Our 2025 Fall Workshop series is still being workshopped. Check back later this summer to see what we have in store. 




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​Oregon Heritage offers sponsorship opportunities of events over the course of the biennium for the period of July 2025 through June 2027. Remaining events include:

  • Oregon Main Street Conference, October 2025
  • Oregon Heritage Conference, April 2026
  • Oregon Main Street Deep Dive, October 2026
  • Oregon Heritage Summit, April 2027
For information including descriptions of the events, target audience, number of attendees, sponsor levels, and benefits, view the following:


If you'd like to commit to being a sponsor for an event fill out the following form:



Contact

Kuri Gill
(503) 383-6787
kuri.gill@oprd.oregon.gov