Salish Lodge & Spa
Salish Lodge & Spa featured in the 12TH Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
Presenter Gift Collections
Snoqualmie, WA (Date)- Salish Lodge & Spa has been selected by Backstage Creations, specialists in award
show gifts and custom backstage talent retreats, to be included in the Presenter Gift Collection for the 12th
Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 8
p.m. ET/ PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT.
The individual Salish Lodge & Spa Experience packages for presenters include four nights at the award-winning
resort, along with dining, spa treatments and an adventure excursion. The Salish Experience package invites
presenters and a guest to begin each morning with a breakfast for two either in the Lodge’s Dining Room or
delivered to their suite, and includes nightly dining in the Dining Room or the Attic Bistro. During their stay, they
may partake in one of the many outdoor activities featured in the resort’s Adventure Center, such as white water
rafting at the base of Snoqualmie Falls or a guided fly-fishing excursion to one of the Northwest’s premier fishing
destinations. Guests can then unwind by indulging in one of six individual spa treatments at The Spa at Salish
Lodge.
Benjamin Bratt and Ellen Pompeo are just a few of the actors expected to receive a collection of custom
designed gifts that are given as a thank you to the presenters at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®.
Gift collections like the one received by the presenters as well as other SAG Awards™ one-of-a-kind items will
be auctioned online Thursday, Jan. 5 to Thursday, Feb. 2 at www.sagawards.org/auction to raise money for the
Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation provides a meaningful way for SAG members to contribute to the literacy
of children in their communities through BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools) and its online
component, Storyline. SAG Foundation programs provide emergency relief to members in economic distress,
video and audio preservation of the creative legacy of SAG members, scholarships for performers and their
children and emergency funds for members with catastrophic illnesses. (For details, visit sagfoundation.org and
bookpals.net.)
About Salish Lodge & Spa
Consistently ranked among the best small resorts in the world, the AAA Four Diamond Salish Lodge & Spa
overlooks the 268-foot Snoqualmie Falls. Each of its 91 guest rooms has a bedside wood-burning fireplace,
two-person whirlpool tub, goose-down comforter, feather bed and balcony or window seat. The resort offers a
variety of recreational activities, treatments at the award-winning Spa, Chef Roy Breiman’s “neoclassic cuisine
with a Northwest flair,” an award-winning wine list and personalized service. The resort is located 30 minutes
east of downtown Seattle, within 40 minutes from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and three hours from
Vancouver, B.C. and Portland, Oregon.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards®, the only industry accolades for acting selected exclusively by actors
peers, honor outstanding performances in five film categories and eight television categories, including the
distinctive ensemble awards.
BACKSTAGE CREATIONS was created in 2000 by Karen Wood, formerly a talent coordinator on over 50 award
shows, to give major corporations as well as up-and-coming designers the exclusive opportunity to personally
introduce their products and services to celebrities. BACKSTAGE CREATIONS has created celebrity retreats at
various industry honors including the Sundance Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild Awards®, People’s Choice
Awards, Essence Awards and Billboard Music Awards. Karen Wood’s Backstage Creations Retreats and Gift
Baskets are regularly featured on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Extra, E!, TV Guide and in People,
Entertainment Weekly, Women’s Wear Daily, US Weekly, Variety and many other publications.
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