Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on April 10

Two special events in Murrells Inlet open for two days through Saturday:

▪ Low Country Herb Society’s Spring Garden Festival, benefiting the group’s scholarship/grant fund, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily at Inlet Culinary Garden, 5071 U.S. 17 Bypass. Details at lcherbsociety.info.

▪ “Battle at the Beach” barbecue, benefiting The Outreach Farm at Hobcaw Barony, just north of Georgetown. 6-8 p.m. Friday with wings, and 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday with barbecue, at The Beaver Bar, 3534 U.S. 17 Business. All you can eat $10 daily or 10 tickets for $50 (advance only). 314-1331 or www.theoutreachfarm.org.

Catch a free movie in three places:

▪ “Dumb and Dumber To,” starring Jim Carrey, at 1:30 p.m., for adults, in Myrtle Beach’s Chapin Memorial Library, 400 14th Ave. N., at Kings Highway. 918-1281 or www.chapinlibrary.org. (Also, everyone’s encouraged to stop by 12:30-4 p.m. to wish happy retirement to longtime children’s librarian Sue Ellen Wilson, after 20 years of service – details at 918-1293.)

▪ “The Good Lie,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Corey Stoll, at 3 p.m. for adults, at Myrtle Beach Base Recreation Center, 800 Gabreski Lane, near Farrow Parkway and The Market Common. Details at 918-2380.

▪ “Friday Night at the Movies,” with host David Zinman, “The Horse Whisperer,” starring Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas and Scarlett Johansson, 7 p.m. at Georgetown County Library’s new Waccamaw Neck branch, 41 St. Paul Place, Litchfield Beach, off Willbrook Boulevard. 545-3623 or georgetowncountylibrary.sc.gov.

The Strand Cinema group begins a new weekend of movies, all from 2014: “Two Days, One Night” at 2:30 p.m. and “Boyhood” 7 p.m.; and on Saturday: “As It Is in Heaven” at 2:30 p.m. and “Cyber Seniors” 7 p.m. Details at 527-2924 or www.strandcinema.org.

Details | at Strand Theater, 710 Front St., Georgetown; each $5 for members, otherwise $7.

See the local premiere of “The Heartbeat of Sunset Beach,” a documentary by a theater arts class at Massey Hill Classical High School in Fayetteville, N.C., in a benefit for the Old Bridge Preservation Society (whose Old Bridge Museum, at the Old Sunset Beach Swing Bridge, 109 Shoreline Drive W., Sunset Beach, N.C., is open 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, for free). Details at 910-363-6585 or oldbridgepreservationsociety.org.

Details | 6 and 7 p.m. at Ingram Planetarium, 7625 High Market St., Sunset Beach (open at 11:30 a.m. Fridays-Saturdays – 910-575-0033 or www.museumplanetarium.org), for $15 advance or $20 at door.

Planning continues with women’s events Friday and Saturday for registered participants in the fourth annual Divas Half-Marathon and 5K in North Myrtle Beach. Details at www.runlikeadiva.com.

Details | Culminating with 13.1-mile and 5-kilometer races at 7 and 7:10 a.m. respectively on Sunday on North Myrtle Beach’s Ocean Boulevard, just south of Main Street, finishing on Main Street.

For a complete list of upcoming events, festivals and shows, visit MyrtleBeachOnline.com/kicks.

This story was originally published April 9, 2015 at 11:00 AM with the headline "Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on April 10."