Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on Aug. 14

Join a social dance, 6:30-10 p.m. Friday at the Myrtle Beach Base Recreation Center, 800 Gabreski Lane, near Farrow Parkway and The Market Common. File photo

Movie, dance at rec hall

The Myrtle Beach Base Recreation Center, 800 Gabreski Lane, near Farrow Parkway and The Market Common, has two special events on this day:

▪ A free movie at 3 p.m. for adults, “With This Ring.” Details at 918-2380.

▪ Social dance, 6:30-10 p.m., with music by DJs Jack and Rosalie Drust, for $7, including buffet and beverages. 570-881-0244, or email rosalie182@att.net.

Author visits library

Becky Billingsley will sign copies of her new book, “Wicked Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand.” Details at 918-1295 or www.chapinlibrary.org

Details: 10 a.m.-noon at Myrtle Beach’s Chapin Memorial Library, 400 14th Ave. N., at Kings Highway.

Learn about telescopes

A free program will cover telescopes and electromagnetic waves. Details at 910-575-0033 or www.museumplanetarium.org.

Details: Noon at Ingram Planetarium, 7625 High Market St., Sunset Beach, N.C., open 10:30 a.m. Mondays-Fridays and 12:30 p.m. Saturdays, also with various Sky Theater dome shows daily, each $9 ages 13-61, $8 ages 62 and older, $7 ages 3-12, and free ages 2 and younger.

Many free concerts, movies

Free and outside, weather permitting:

▪ Creampuffs & Bourbon duo, 1-5 p.m. at La Belle Amie Vineyard, 1120 St. Joseph Road, Little River, just west of North Myrtle Beach Middle School. 399-9463 or www.labelleamie.com.

▪ Mark Roberts Band, 6:30-8 p.m. outside Museum of Coastal Carolina, 21 E. Second St., Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. (910-579-1016 or www.museumplanetarium.org). oceanislebeach.com.

▪ The Lucky Girls, 6:30 p.m. at Middleton Park Soccer Field, on S.E. 46th Street in Oak Island, N.C.; and movie at dusk, “Annie,” dusk at Garrison House in Southport, off Davis Street. 910-253-2031 or bcparks.recdesk.com.

▪ “Paddington” movie, 8:30 p.m. North Myrtle Beach’s McLean Park, 93 Oak Drive, south of Main Street, between First and Second avenues south. 280-5594, ext. 3; or parks.nmb.us/Page.aspx?news=true&id=6.

▪ “Finding Nemo” movie, 8:45 p.m. in Myrtle Beach’s Valor Memorial Garden, on Farrow Parkway, at The Market Common. 839-3500 or www.marketcommonmb.com.

▪ Natalie Stovall, 9 p.m. at The Boathouse Waterway Bar and Grill, 201 Fantasy Harbor Blvd., just west of Myrtle Beach, off U.S. 501, next to Clarion Hotel. 903-2628 or boathousemb.com.

Join Strand Cinema

The Strand Cinema group begins a new weekend of movies: You’re Not You,” from 2014, at 2:30 p.m., and “1,000 Times Good Night” (2013)7 p.m.; also, Saturday: “The Road Within” (2014) 2:30 p.m., and “A Tale of Winter” (1992) 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.

Water park series ending

The “Live After Five” series, with extended hours until 9 p.m., concludes with a wave-pool concert by Jukebox Elly. Details at 238-3787 or www.wild-water.com.

Details: 5-9 p.m. at Wild Water & Wheels, 910 U.S. Business S., Surfside Beach, for $9.95 plus tax ages 3 and older; park opens 10 a.m. daily, with all-day rates available.

This story was originally published August 13, 2015 at 11:00 AM with the headline "Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on Aug. 14."