Thursday evening (Oct. 18) offers the opening reception for the Arts Summit (5-8 p.m.) at the Nicolaysen Art Museum and the "President's Reception" for the Casper College Literary Conference from 5-7 p.m. at Fort Casper's Izaak Walton Clubhouse.
Entertainment at The Nic includes the Impact Dance Company and music by The Tremors. Music will be provided by the Jeff Finlin Band at the literary conference, followed at 7 p.m. with readings by conference presenters Ekiwah Adler-Benendez, Nick Flynn, Valzhyna Mort, and Chad Hanson. These events are free and open to the public.
For more info on the Summit, go to http://wyoarts.state.wy.us. For literary conference information, go to http://www.caspercollege.edu/events/literary/. The schedule for the WyAA conference can be found at http://www.wyomingarts.org/.
Don't forget that ARTCORE offers Frank Ferrante as "Groucho" on Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., at the Natrona County H.S. auditorium.