The weekends you remember start here.

By evening, the waterfront turns into a moving mix of food-truck smoke, local makers, DJs, and people who only meant to stop by for dinner. The vendors change each month, so there is always some new object, snack, or set pulling you farther into the night.

Moving images meet textiles, ceramics, and glass in “Video Craft,” while the MakeArt Lab makes weaving something you can actually try with your hands. The best part is that a museum visit here can turn unexpectedly tactile.

A summer afternoon in the park gets louder, stranger, and more theatrical when a live musical takes over. It is the kind of performance that makes an ordinary patch of grass feel briefly transformed.

As dusk gathers over the Ferry Lawn, E.T. starts to glow in an open-air waterfront screening. The free setting makes this familiar movie feel newly sweet and a little more cinematic.

The closing day is made for losing track of time between small editions, strange publications, and tables full of things you did not know you needed. A conversation on ten years of the fair gives the browsing a little history without interrupting the discovery.

Two films bring disability history and creative life into focus, from the 1977 Federal Building occupation to editor Vivien Hilgrove’s experience with vision loss. Open captions, audio description, and ASL interpretation make the conversation as considered as the programming.

Three horns, flute, tres guitar, deep percussion, and two vocalists turn the room into a vintage Cuban dance floor. After the class and live set, musicians can rotate onto the stage for an open jam, so the night keeps changing shape.