IT STARTED WITH A SIMPLE IDEA
Back in 2013, two students and a designer in Maastricht wondered whether a party could do more than fill a room, and whether it might fill a glass of water somewhere else in the world while it was at it (spoiler, it can). That's how Love Foundation was born, a bunch of activists and artists who throw parties for clean water, with hubs from Berlin to Cape Town. We still believe that clean water is a human right and that dancing is allowed to mean something.

OUR CoSy HOME NEAR BERLIN
Three years ago that belief moved into Schloss Dornburg, a baroque palace in Saxony-Anhalt with Catherine the Great in its family tree (long story, ask us at the bar). Once a year a crew of volunteers turns the palace, its garden and the meadows around it into CoSy Festival, a small non-profit festival for downtempo and midtempo music and fine and intermedial art, where collectives from Berlin to Vienna build their own floors and fill old stucco halls with art, light installations and workshops.

NOW WE'RE FLOATING OVER TO AMSTERDAM
For one night CoSy and Love Foundation move into Waterhouse Studios, and we'd like to bring along everything that makes our little palace festival what it is, from the slow grooves and the art to the feeling that everyone in the room somehow belongs together. It also feels a bit like coming home, since Love Foundation first sprouted just down the road in Maastricht, and we're more than happy to dig our toes back into Dutch soil and get a little closer to our roots again, from sunset over the IJ until the city goes quiet(er).