Inspiring Person

(What You’ll Find) On the Way to Becoming is not a play that explains itself. It creates a shared space and observes what happens when people are trusted to arrive on their own terms. Participation is invited, never required. Stillness is as valid as movement. What unfolds is not spectacle, but attention — collective, unranked, and quietly transformative.

To go beyond the frame is to recognize that the power of storytelling lies not only in what is shown, but in what is left unsaid — in the silences that demand to be heard.

Adaku. In Igbo, it means “first daughter.” In Zürich this week, it means something else too: a gathering, an experiment, a pop-up that insists food is never just food. When Naomi Adaku Biaduo said the word to me, it felt less like a brand than a confession — rushed but intentional, unprepared yet honest. Adaku is her second name, but also her claim: the first-born of a vision years in the making. From a sold-out cookbook in 2017, co-created w/chefs across West Africa, to Uch