Zentralwäscherei is a cultural association, inhabiting the building of a former laundry factory in the center of Zurich. It is a space for culture, arts and politics, continuously organizing and hosting performances, club nights, political events, readings, workshops and concerts; creating a space for a broad variety of strong, local artists from Switzerland and like-minded internationals. Zentralwäscherei approaches concerts and club nights from an activist and non-profit perspective. Operating in a grassroot-basis democracy and non-commercially, with eventual surplus running back into the cultural program and the community.