Sissy Spacek to be keynote speaker at Tapestry

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)  Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Sissy Spacek will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 Tapestry: A Day for You. The event is scheduled for Friday, April 26 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.

Spacek first came to international attention as the lead character in Brian De Palma’s film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Carrie. A few years later, she won an Academy Award for her portrayal as country superstar Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter. Since then she has appeared in numerous films for both the big and small screens, most recently in the Oscar nominated film adaptation of the New York Times bestseller The Help. To top all that off, she has also written a memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, which was released in May of this year.

Registration for Tapestry: A Day for You begins Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.

Tickets are $65 per person for open seating or $700 for a reserved table of ten. Tickets include breakfast, two breakout sessions, the noon luncheon, presentation of the Parkview/Tapestry Scholarships, and Spacek’s keynote address, as well as shopping in the many booths lining the perimeter of the Coliseum Expo Center.