Arts in the South End: January 2025 Roundup [Video]

Ah, January. It’s the month when many of us are burned out from winter holiday celebrations and are now faced with a whole new year pregnant with possibility and haunted by gray skies. But this is no time to huddle inside and bat off invitations to things — there is much to do. Be a part of planning a new Black Panther Park, attend Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebrations, and tune into a lauded author’s Town Hall event. 

Jan. 5–25The Beacon Cinema4405 Rainier Ave. S.

The Beacon Cinema’s latest screening series is shaped off the momentum of a CEO slaying late last year that captivated a nation. “Potentially Ill-Advised: Films About Assassinating Your Political Leaders” culls together eight works about political assassinations, radical ideology, terrorism, and capitalistic tyranny. I’m most looking forward to David Cronenberg’s underappreciated work The Dead Zone, which follows a man with psychic abilities determined to kill a candidate who poses a dangerous threat should he assume power.

Jan. 11, 2–4 p.m.Skyway …