The Calvin College English Department invites anyone interested in book artists and authors to attend "A Conversation with Authors and Illustrators" on Friday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Gezon Auditorium. The conversation will include three prominent presenters at the May 5 Young Authors Festival: Louis Sachar, Miriam Bat-Ami, and Janet Stevens. Sachar won the Newbery Medal in 1998 and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for "Holes." That book also won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award. Miriam Bat-Ami is the winner of the 1999 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book, "Two Suns in the Sky," a compelling love story of an American Catholic girl and a Jewish refugee from Yugoslavia. Janet Stevens is an award-winning illustrator and writer, well known for her Caldecott Honor Book, "Tops and Bottoms," and many others. All are welcome. For more information, call Don Hettinga at 616-957-6520. 
Calvin College will host its 11th annual Spring Classic 5K Run/Walk Road Race on campus Saturday, May 6. The entry fee is $15 until May 4 and $20 thereafter. There is a Fun Run for all ages, but only participants 12 and under will receive a t-shirt and race packet. The Fun Run is $7 per person or $25 maximum per family. Lots of great prizes for all participants -- including five $100 bills. The race is USATF certified and completely run on Calvin's flat but picturesque campus. Call 616-957-6142, e-mail 5k@calvin.edu or see www.calvin.edu/classic. 
The 16th Annual Calvin College Senior Design Projects Night and Banquet will be held on Saturday, May 6. The public is invited to the activities, which will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the new Vermeer Engineering Projects Center and Prince Engineering Design Center. On display will be projects and prototypes developed by Calvin's senior engineering major design teams. Dinner in the Commons Dining Hall at 6 p.m will follow. After dinner there will be presentations of all the Senior Engineering Design Projects from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Gezon Auditorium, the Chapel Undercroft, and room B30 in the Science Building. Reservations are required for the dinner at a cost of $12.50 per person. The rest of the activities are open and at no charge. If you have questions, call Michelle Krul at 616-957-6071. 
On Monday, May 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall (library lobby), the Calvin College Meeter Center will host a book reception for Professor Robert M. Kingdon, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The reception will mark the publication of the first volume of the Genevan consistory records from John Calvin's time, translated into English, and published by Eerdmans. Professor Kingdon will speak about the scope of the work in the context of the Genevan Reformation. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact the Meeter Center at 616-957-7081.
The 52-voice Calvin College Alumni Choir, Pearl Shangkuan, conductor, will present two West Michigan concerts. On Friday, May 19 the concert will be presented at the Heritage Christian Reformed Church, 2857 S. 11th Street, Kalamazoo at 8:00 p.m. An offering will be received. On Sunday, May 21 at 8:00 p.m., the concert will be presented at the Calvin College Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $8 and $10 at the Calvin Box Office. Call 616-957-6282. These concerts will premiere the title song "Many Colors Paint the Rainbow" which was written by choir member and Calvin alum Roy Hopp for the choir's summer 2000 Asian tour. 
Calvin College will hold its annual Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 20 at 3 p.m. The event will be held in the Calvin College Fieldhouse with overflow seating in the Fine Arts Center Auditorium. Tickets are needed. For more information call 1-800-560-6391 or see www.calvin.edu/commencement 
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship will host a conference May 24-26 called "Welcoming New Christians." The event will provide a model for integrating evangelism, small group ministry, hospitality and worship. It is sponsored by the Worship and Theology Unit of the Presbyterian Church, the Worship Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Reformed Church in America. For more information, call 616-957-6088 or e-mail worship@calvin.edu 
The Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College will host two spring conferences. The first, "God and Evil," will be May 23-25 and led by Dr. Peter van Inwagen of Notre Dame. Guest speakers will be Paul Draper, Richard Otte and Alvin Plantinga. Registration fee is $40. Open to the public. Call 616-957-8558 for details. The second is "Realism and Antirealism" with Dr. William Alston of Syracuse University and will be held May 25-27. Guest speakers will be Ernest Sosa and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Registration fee is $40. Open to the public. Call 616-957-8558 for details.