INK TOGETHER Looking to get into design? Zone 3’s Test Print Tuesday event allows you to try your hand at screen printing equipment for a night of poster making. Local printmaker Jay LaCouture will teach the basics of working with screens, emulsions, and squeegees before attendees are free to explore the craft. Create your own designs, work with existing images, or collage elements of both to make posters you can take home. RSVP is suggested, and all supplies will be provided. Sept. 23, 6-8 p.m. Zone 3, 267 Western Ave. Allston-Brighton. zone3westernave.com
ARTFUL APPETITES One Thursday each month, the Institute of Contemporary Art hosts an Art-Making After Dark event, a hands-on art lesson led by local artists. This week, Laurel Greenfield, a Boston-based painter who specializes in still-life artwork of classic New England foods — think lobsters, oysters, Cape Cod chips — will lead attendees through basic watercolor techniques featuring their own favorite local foods. Aspiring creatives can drop in at any time during the session. Brushes, watercolors, and paper provided. Sept. 25, 6-8:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art, 25 Harbor Shore Drive. icaboston.org
SPEND ‘TIME’ TOGETHER Catch a free outdoor screening of the 1979 sci-fi cult classic “Time After Time,” directed by Nicholas Meyer, at the Kendall/MIT Open Space. The film follows a fictional version of sci-fi author H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) as he travels through time in search of Jack the Ripper (David Warner). The screening is the first of four in the MIT Museum’s “Time Travel on Screen” series. Sept. 26, 7 p.m. Kendall/MIT Open Space, 292 Main St., Cambridge. openspace.mit.edu
‘SEAS’ THE DAY The Seaport Spectacular wants all hands on deck for this neighborhood celebration featuring robot caricature artists, carnival games, a bead bar, and live track by the Hot Tamales brass band, Symphony of Soul, and A Trike Called Funk. Darts bar Flight Club will host a prize wheel with merch and gift cards, and Korean pocha-inspired Nowon will offer tiger-themed face painting. Plus, select Seaport restaurants will serve complimentary bites and Grace by Nia’s The Gracenotes will close out the night with a live performance. Sept. 26, 4:30-7:30 p.m. 400 Summer St. bostonseaport.xyz
ARIA 2.0 Aficionados can catch the world premiere of local opera company White Snake Projects’ new original production, “White Raven, Black Dove,” for free this week. The opera, written by founder Cerise Lim Jacobs and composed by Jacinth Greywoode, blends live performances with animated backgrounds and CGI avatar projections for a cutting-edge work of modern theater about a dystopian world. Sept. 26-28, various times. Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Dorchester. whitesnakeprojects.org
FLAMING HOT The 13th annual Ignite Festival, a food festival presented by the Somerville Arts Council, will celebrate all things spicy, grilled, and generally fiery — and delicious. From 4-5:30 p.m., catch four mini cooking lessons from local chefs and learn to make masala spice mix, Haitian griots, and pikliz. Later, test your tolerance at a curry-eating contest hosted by Somerville’s Masala Square, where the first participant to finish a bowl of curry rice will win a prize. The night closes with a 7 p.m. fire show from performers from the Boston Circus Guild. Sept. 27, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Union Square Plaza, 90 Union Square, Somerville. somervilleartscouncil.org
BIG SCREEN SAVINGS The Alamo Drafthouse sells tickets to most movies — excluding special events — for $7 every Tuesday. This week, check out new releases, including “The Long Walk” and “The History of Sound,” for a discounted cost. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Boston, 60 Seaport Blvd. drafthouse.com
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Ryan Yau can be reached at ryan.yau@globe.com.
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