Things to know in Myrtle Beach: Week of Jan. 30

Art museum celebrates Chinese New Year – The Rooster

A Chinese New Year “Free Family Day” celebration, for the Year of the Rooster, is 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, 3100 S. Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach.

All-day events will include your name in Chinese calligraphy, paper folding and cutting, and new year cake and chopsticks, and such children’s workshops as lanterns, a rooster hand print mural, and rooster masks.

Scheduled activities are a parade and lion awakening opening ceremony with Mint Hill Kung Fu School at 11 a.m., storytelling with Joan Leotta 11:30 a.m., tai-chi demonstration at noon, vegetable carving with Eric Wagner and Nan Black 12:30 p.m., musical performances 1 p.m., “Why the Soldier Smiled” talk with Leotta 1:15, ice sculpture demo with Wagner 1:30, chi gong demo with Jimmy Revell 2 p.m., acupuncture talk with Jennifer M. Kiser 2:15, martial arts demo with Mint Hill 2:30, and lion-goes-to-sleep closing ceremony 3 p.m.

Details at 843-238-2510 or myrtlebeachartmuseum.org.

Divers will be freezin’ for a reason Saturday

Annual “Myrtle Beach Polar Plunge – Freezin’ for a Reason” – benefiting Special Olympics South Carolina, based in Irmo (so-sc.org) – 2 p.m. Saturday (festivities open at 10 a.m., with costume parade and contest at 12:30 p.m.) at Sands Ocean Club, 9550 Shore Drive, Myrtle Beach. Registration $50 minimum donation. 843-446-5820, polarplungesc.com, or email marcusrhodes@live.com.

Chocolate and Champagne event planned for SC CARES

Ninth annual “Chocolate & Champagne for the Creatures,” benefiting SC-CARES (S.C. Coastal Animal Rescue and Educational Sanctuary), near Georgetown, 5-9 p.m. Saturday at Flo’s Place, 3797 U.S. 17 Business, Murrells Inlet. $30 individual, $50 couple 843-546-7893 or www.sc-cares.org.

Cooking demonstration set for Living Farm

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. On Thursday, staff will show how chicken and rice was prepared outside, over an open fire. Often done in the forest in the winter for lunch when a farm family would work all day sawing fire wood, this would be a simple chicken bog without extra ingredients. The young chicken cooked fast and had a simple flavor and it was easy to take the necessary utensils and ingredients in a wagon to the forest to make a complete one-pot meal.

Observers will learn about building a fire outdoors for cooking, the advantages of cooking with a cast iron pot, including cleaning and the ability to heat food evenly. This free demonstration will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Groundhog Day set for Thursday

Groundhog Day will be celebrated Thursday.

It is a part of American folklore that if it is cloudy when the groundhog exits burrow, then spring will arrive early. If it’s sunny, however, winter is expected to stick around for six more weeks.

Punxsutawney Phil, of Punxsutawney, Penn., is arguably the most well-known groundhog to participate in this day.

Super Bowl scheduled for Sunday

Super Bowl 51, the National Football League’s championship game, pits the New England Patriots versus the Atlanta Falcons. The Patriots finished the regular season as the top team of the AFC, and the Falcons were the No. 2 seed of the NFC.

Country superstar Luke Bryan will sing the National Anthem, and Lady Gaga will perform during the Pepsi halftime show. The game kicks off from Houston at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

This story was originally published January 29, 2017 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Things to know in Myrtle Beach: Week of Jan. 30."