November events at Calvin
The Calvin College Department of French will host Inter-Europe Spectacles, under the direction of Claude Beauclair, for the play La Leçon, by Eugene Ionesco. The performance will be in the Fine Arts Center on Wednesday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m. For ticket information contact the Calvin Box Office at 616 957-6282. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students. One free ticket will be issued for each group of six students accompanied by an adult.
The Calvin College Noontime Series, sponsored by the Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning, will host a lecture on Thursday, November 2 from noon to 1 p.m. in Gezon Auditorium on campus. Calvin musicians Carl Kaiser and Lisa Walhout will present "Two Music Master and their Protégé." Free and open to the public. Call 616-957-6142 for more details.
Calvin College will present Sister Helen Prejean in a talk called "Dead Man Walking: The Journey." The lecture begins at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 2 in the Calvin College Chapel and is free and open to the public. Prejean will recount her experiences working with prisoners on death row, experiences that were told in the award-winning film Dead Man Walking. Call 616-957-6229.
The Spoelhof Institute Lecture Series at Calvin College will present a talk on "America's Mission: Foreign Missions in American History" on Monday, November 6. The talk will be given by Dr. Kathy Long of the History Department at Wheaton College and will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall. It is free and open to the public. Call 616-957-6000.
On Thursday, November 9 at 3:30 p.m. the Calvin College department of philosophy and the Committee on Gender will sponsor a lecture by Michigan State University's Hilde Lindemann Nelson called "The narrative construction of transsexual identity." The lecture will be held in Spoelhof Center Room 301 and is free and open to the public. Call 616-957-6421.
The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College will host Jim Wallis of the Sojourners community in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 9 for a talk on the "Call to Renewal." Wallis is an author, preacher and activist who also is editor of Sojourners Magazine. His talk will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Commons Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public. Call 616-957-6706.
The Alarabara Arts Series at Calvin College will present a concert by Amina Claudine Myers on Thursday, November 9 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. Her music has been described as a mix of country, blues, soul and hip-hop. She has a lifelong involvement with gospel music and African American spirituals. Tickets are $10 for adults and $3 for students and available by calling the Calvin Box Office at 616-957-6282.
From Thursday, November 9 through Saturday, November 11 the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship will host a conference called "Will Civil Society Save the World? Christian Insights into the Role of the Third Sector in International Development." Various lectures will take place during the three days, including a keynote lecture on Thursday, November 9 at 8:15 p.m. in the Commons Lecture Hall by Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America. To learn more call the Center at 616-957-7162.
The Calvin College Noontime Series, sponsored by the Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning, will host a lecture on Thursday, November 16 from noon to 1 p.m. in Gezon Auditorium on campus. Grand Rapids city manager Kurt Kimball will speak on "Grand Rapids and the Challenge of Urban Sprawl." Free and open to the public. Call 616-957-6142 for more details.
The Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning sponsors the Passport to Adventure Travel Series, full-color films guided by live commentary from the film maker. On November 16 the film will be "Bali and the Spice Islands." Show time is 7;30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center at Calvin College. Season tickets for the five-film series are $16 while single tickets are $4 each. Call 616-957-6282.
Dr. Karin Maag will give a free, public lecture for the Calvin College 125th Anniversary Lecture Series on November 28, 2000, at 3:30 p.m. in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall. Her lecture title is "A Genevan Reformer in Grand Rapids: John Calvin and Calvinism at the Meeter Center." For more information contact the Meeter Center at 616-957-7081.