«Everything is Fine with Us» by Zarina Tadjibaeva

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Zurich, 2026. A woman on the phone: «Can you hear me? How are you? Did you receive my letter?» And again and again: «Everything is fine with us». In her new piece, Zarina Tadjibaeva explores how closeness can be maintained over several thousand kilometers. What do communication, empathy, and care look like when people live in different places? Based on her own migration story – from Tajikistan through Germany to Switzerland – Zarina Tadjibaeva tells personally and with humorous distance about the collapse of the Soviet Union, the civil war, the experience of political and economic transition, as well as migration, loneliness, and connectedness. Through storytelling, an individual experience becomes a collective one, which remains relevant in 2026. Participants and additional information: by and with Zarina Tadjibaeva