A table of eight costs eight seats
Oregon's Arts and Culture Awards and Summit runs 1 and 2 December 2026 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Registration sells four prices. The group product is an Awards Dinner table of eight at $712. Eight single dinner seats cost $712 as well, at $89 each.
The combined ticket for both days is $129. Eight combined tickets come to $1,032, and the form sells no table for that tier. The summit alone is $69 a head, so eight summit places total $552, with no group line.
What the four prices buy
The dinner runs 1 December from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. It honours peer-nominated cultural leaders, organisations, businesses and communities, and marks the Oregon Cultural Trust's 25th year. The summit runs 2 December from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It carries the release of a new Creative Economy Report and breakout sessions on education and cross-sector intersections. Both days sit in the Portland Ballroom.
Eight delegates from one organisation face three separate purchases. A delegation that wants both days pays $1,032. A delegation that wants the summit pays $552. The dinner table at $712 seats eight for the evening alone.
What the ladder prices against
The Oregon Cultural Trust publishes its own numbers: 1,641 nonprofits, $5,200,000 donated in 2025, and an average donation of $493 across 10,570 donations. At $129 a head, a delegation of eight spends $1,032, which is 2.1 times the average donation the Trust records.
Summit attendance is a budget line for a rural arts council or a small heritage group. The published ladder applies one rate to one person and the same rate to each of that person's seven colleagues.
Where a group rate belongs
Two lines would answer the delegation. One is a combined table of eight priced below $1,032. The other is a summit-only group rate, on the tier that carries the larger share of the programme.
The organiser holds the number. The case for a lower group price rests on what the two days are for. The published purpose is alignment across organisations, and eight people from one organisation arrive already aligned. That delegation is the one the breakout sessions and the cross-sector programme serve.
Who convenes
The summit is an effort of Oregon's Arts and Culture Program, which runs through the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust. Six organisations sit on the partner list beside the commission and the Trust: Oregon Humanities, the Oregon Heritage Commission, the Oregon Historical Society, the State Historic Preservation Office, Business Oregon and the State of Oregon.
The venue page describes the audience as cultural organisations, funders, policymakers and statewide partners. For a delegate who answers to several of those bodies, one trip covers the set.
The 20 November close
The registration form closes on Friday, 20 November 2026. That is 11 days before the dinner. Delegations collect names, manager approvals and purchase orders internally. The closing date sets the window for that work, and an organisation sending eight people needs the group line published before it starts.
Registration runs on the Trust's RegFox form. The venue page carries the summit under Portland Ballroom 251 and 257-258 and points registration to culturaltrust.org/summit/.
What to ask for
Ask the organiser for a fifth line on the form. Name the number of delegates it covers, state the rate, and place it beside the existing four options so a buyer sees it at purchase. Ask for the same on the summit tier.
A summit that fills its breakouts with eight-person delegations builds the cross-organisation work the programme describes. The price ladder is one lever the organiser controls.