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FEB 20-21: GBK TO HOST "CIRCUS OF THE SENSES" OSCARS GIFT SUITE IN HONOR OF 2009 ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINEES AND PRESENTERS
GBK Gift Suite is INTRODUCING A NEW WAY TO GIVE: Attending Celebrities Will Also Have Amazing Opportunity to Gift Back Their GBK Gift Bag to The Charity of THEIR Choice. 20% of proceeds will be gifted Benefiting Charitable Organizations: Director Antoine Fuqua’s FUQUA FILMS PROGRAM; HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS; HOLLYWOOD DREAMZ and WORLDTEAM FOUNDATION
GBK , Gavin Keilly’s luxury lifestyle gift suites and special events company, will honor the 2009 Academy Award Nominees and Presenters with its 4th Annual GBK Academy Award Gift Suite - “Circus of The Senses” - on February 20 & 21, 2009 in Beverly Hills at the SLS Hotel on La Cienega Boulevard.
GBK, the recipient of BizBash’s 2006 Award for Emmy’s “Best Gift Bag,” will offer its exclusive list of invited celebrities, VIPs, and Media, including writers from OK! Magazine, an opportunity to experience ‘A Circus of The Senses’ as they touch, feel, see, smell and taste their way through this Academy Awards Themed Gift Suite.

With help from Freshwata (a boutique design company), each gift room will represent a 2009 Academy Awards Nominated Best Film: “Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Reader,” and the décor, drink and surprise elements in each space will be specifically tailored towards each film. Also provided: hors d’oeuvres and sweets from famed chef José Andrés, including homemade Bon-Bon’s topped with “Oscar” Gold Dust.
In addition, all the goods and services gifted in this year’s suite will also bring in the 5 Senses in one form or another. With a trendsetting array of products, services and health & beauty treatments, Nominees and Presenters will to walk away with more than $35,000 in gifted luxury.
And a little something from Nourot Glass Studio of Benicia, California: a wonderful small vase in the “Scarlet Nova” or “Red Satin” pattern. On Hand will be Ann Corcoran Nourot and Rachel Tucker of the famed Nourot Studio of blown glass. Known for excellence and imagination in one of a kind art glass works since 1974. The Nourot artisans have been glass makers to the Pope and US President as well as major corporations, and the USAF and US Navy. Their new area of expertise is lighting and awards.
GBK Oscar Gift Suite Academy Awards Nominees & Presenters will receive goods & services totaling as much as $35,000.
Slated to attend are Kate Hudson and Dev Patel among others.

INDULGENT ESCAPES, Spa Packages, and Plastic surgery as well as crystal andsports club memberships will be in the Oscar Gift bags.
The SLS Hotel, not to be outdone by the other gifters will offer a “GOLDEN” TREATMENT”, as a treat the 2009 Oscar Nominees and Presenters: A one-night stay at the Philippe Stark-designed SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, dinner for two at The Bazaar by José Andrés, and any spa treatment of choice at the newly launched Ciel Spa at SLS. ($1,000 Value);

And, lastly, to honor its continued commitment to charitable giving, GBK will donate 20% of its proceeds from this year’s Oscar suite in the name of all celebrities in attendance to these specially chosen charities: FUQUA FILMS PROGRAM, Noted Film Director Antoine Fuqua (The Shooter, Training Day, King Arthur and this year’s big hit at Sundance Brooklyn’s Finest.
Other charites benefiting will be , HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS, an organization dedicated to providing dental care to the homeless; HOLLYWOOD DREAMZ, a charity dedicated to improving children’s lives by providing crucial support for children’s education, arts, and character development programs in the greater Los Angeles area, and WORLDTEAM FOUNDATION committed to the education and prevention of human trafficking.


GBK, formerly GBK Productions, is a luxury lifestyle gifting and special events company, specializing in entertainment marketing integration. Formed in 2000 by Gavin B. Keilly, the company’s Founder and CEO, GBK consists of five divisions: GBK Celebrity Gifting Lounges; GBK Events; GBK Weddings; GBK Charitable Consulting; and GBK Marketing/PR. Widely known in the entertainment industry for bringing that little extra something into the Gifting Suite environment, GBK offers its clients a full range of marketing services. For more information on Gavin B. Keilly or GBK, please go to GBK'S site.

Beverly Hills SLS Hotel

Here is some more about the venue where the GBK Oscar Gift Suite will be held in February. Nourot Glass Studio is invited to attend and will be gifting the "Scarlet Nova" glass and other of their hand blown glass patterns to the celebrities that attend Oscar Gift Suite 2009.
The SLS is the latest global destination of the Stanwood Hotel Chain, a luxury hotelier with the reputation of being on the cutting edge of style and design.
SLS Hotel, Beverly Hills is a, Luxury Collection Hotel in
the highly desirable and dynamic heart of Los Angeles. Frits Van
Paasschen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Starwood Hotels &
Resorts, says "The hotel's leading-edge design by Philippe Starck,
unparalleled epicurean offerings by Chef Jose Andres and innovative
retail concept by Moss, make it an ideal setting for our latest hotel
within The Luxury Collection brand, offering global explorers a portal
to one of the world's most exciting cities."

Design mastermind Philippe Starck has created the look and feel of SLS under a 15-year design exclusive with SBE for the U.S., Caribbean
and Mexico. SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills is the first truly luxury hotel
that Starck has designed in North America, having single-handedly
redefined every aspect of the hotel experience in the 1990s and
spurred the 'boutique hotel' movement.

The guest rooms are said to have a"floating bed" on a plexi glass stand and bare side tables with i-pod dock and a simple pen and pad. Across from the bed is a flat screen TV ingeniously embedded in a black slab ala 2001. Hotel review sites call it "crazy cool."
The hotel features a unique dual guest lobby concept where one area caters exclusively to hotel guests, while the other is a lively, multi-faceted public dining and retail environment
called The Bazaar by Jose Andres.

Glass Blowing is Easy

Attention friends, while we mull over this Hollywood thing, we offer you this intriguing video from an artist who has done the Oscar Suites with GBK Productions.
Funny, funny.
Click on the title to go to You Tube to see: Glass Blowing is easy with Robert Kendall.

Send Nourot to the Oscars

 

Celebrity watchers know that the upcoming Oscars is a time of freebies for the stars. Nourot Glass has been asked to participate in Oscar Gift Suite at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 20 and 21st. The Phillipe Starck designed SLS Hotel is the newest of the Starwoods Luxury Hotel Chain. GBK Productions is the show producer. Shown are some of Micheal Nourot's red blown glass that will be gifted to the nominees at Oscar Gift Suite 2009.
Believe it or not we are trying to just survive here at the Nourot Studio and did not expect to have this expense so early in the year. Everbody says: GO to the Oscars! Yes we can?
Hitch: It costs $5,000 to get a table space.
They "include" photographers (4), pre-and show publicity, pre show press, at party press; guarantee some celebrity attendance (don't understand how that works) The hotel is hooo hooo cool.
See the hotel/promo group site and judge for yourself:
http://www.GBK Productions
The Nourot Family will be in Baltimore doing retail at the ACC Craftfair.
Rachel Tucker, our 30 something assistant she will go with retail help.

The big Nourot Glass pieces will be there. Let's hope this pans out. If you buy a piece of our special Oscar Glass your name will be put on a special Oscar Award we will have in the vault later in the year. Where's your bailout piece you ask? Well we will work on that one. Locals can also contribute to a special Oscar Suite account in the Wells Fargo Bank here in town. Thanks to all our loyal fans for your support and good wishes. We'll give your best to Leonardo, George and Brad. XXO Rach