The Emporia State Center for Great Plains Studies’ annual Friends of the Plains Dinner will feature an Oscar Award winner.
Noted writer and director Kevin Wilmott will be the keynote speaker for the dinner, set for April 26. A Junction City native, Wilmott won Best Adapted Screenplay for his work as a writer on Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.” Wilmott also has 11 films to his credit as a director, including “The Battle of Bunker Hill,” “Jayhawker,” “CSA: The Confederate States of America,” and “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” an independent film about Emporia Gazette publisher William Allen White.
The Friends of the Plains Dinner will be held at the Memorial Union KSTC Ballroom. Tickets are $30 and are available by emailing the Friends of the Plains at cgps@emporia.edu.
