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Free Tate Modern Workshop

Abbas Zahedi: Begin Again

1 November 2025 at 15.00–17.00
6 December 2025 at 15.00–17.00

Installation photography of Abbas Zahedi, Begin Again 2025 as part of Gathering Ground at Tate Modern, 2025. © Tate Photography (Luana Burton)

Join us every month for the Begin Again support group

On the first Saturday of each month Abbas Zahedi hosts a support group for the collective processing of ecological grief. In collaboration with thinkers, artists and musicians, participants are invited to consider ‘How can we make sense of a world increasingly shaped by loss and disconnection?’.

The discussions take place in a new commission entitled Begin Again. As part of the installation, instruments and playback devices have been plugged into Tate Modern’s utility pipes and deeper architecture. The sound composition shifts between moments of harmony and disintegration. Each sonic collapse prompts the piece to rebuild, emphasising the power of renewal and beginning again.

The commission creates a space for collective listening and discussion where participants can reflect on how to protect and restore ecological connectivity.

Begin Again is part of the exhibition Gathering Ground which explores threatened ecologies.

Join Abbas Zahedi, Saverio Cantoni, Sahera Khan, Asad Raza and Sally Davies in exploration of collective resonance and reverberation.

Saverio Cantoni

Saverio Cantoni is a Berlin-based, white-passing cyborg, oral Deaf artist. Exploring the “aesthetics of access”, their work seeks to counter ableism through an intersectional approach to sonics. Drawing upon crip and queer theory, they practice radical solidarity and redistribution to destabilise power structures and rethink normative understandings of sensorial experience.

Sahera Khan

Sahera Khan is a Deaf and BSL actress passionate about storytelling. She performs in acting, poetry, and comedy, and also writes short stories and poems. Khan creates videos that bring BSL poetry, comedy sketches, and other short films to life, sharing stories in a fun and creative way.

Asad Raza

Often focussing on local ecosystems, planetary ecologies and the entanglement between humans and their environments, Asad Raza’s practice emphasises art’s participatory and performative aspects. His recent exhibitions and public art projects, such as Prehension (2024) and Diversion (2022), enable interactions with natural elements such as wind, rivers, soil and trees.

Sally Davies

Sally Davies worked as an NHS psychiatrist and psychotherapist for 20 years, leaving in 2017 to pursue clowning and poetry. She created Queer Family Cabaret, a workshop exploring play’s therapeutic potential. Davies currently uses clown and tarot to create connection and community, devising tarot decks using London’s historical characters and psycho-geography.

Abbas Zahedi

Abbas Zahedi engages with systems of care, thresholds of experience, and the creation of communal spaces for dialogue. Often uniting personal narratives and broader collective concerns, his work uses sound and materiality as conduits for reflection and connection. Zahedi is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

The support group session is drop-in and will last 120 minutes. You can join and leave at any point during the session.

This event is live audio captioned.

There will be fluctuations in sound levels, including high and low frequencies.

Spaces will be reserved for wheelchair users and companions. Please let us know if you would like a space reserved for you by emailing community@tate.org.uk.

You will be seated for the support group. Seats are hard. Some soft-floor seating will also be set up. You are also welcome to move around the space, and leave and return, during the session.

The support group takes place in the Gathering Ground exhibition, on Level 4 in the Natalie Bell Building at Tate Modern. All Tate Modern entrances are step-free. You can enter via the Turbine Hall and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner Street.

There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Natalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.

  • Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
  • A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
  • Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.

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1 November 2025 at 15.00–17.00

6 December 2025 at 15.00–17.00

Support groups take place every month and run throughout the year. All sessions are free and drop in.

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