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Plan the work. Run the event. Keep the evidence.

Diwan is the multilingual workspace for small cultural and civil-society organisations. Grants, partners, events, people and reporting — connected, and working in Arabic, Norwegian and English. Built and run by Studio Turkmani in Oslo.

DIWAN / PILOT FLOW
  1. Grant
  2. Event
  3. People
  4. Report
3
interface languages
1
private workspace per organisation

Why we built it

The work is scattered. Diwan connects it.

The grant lives in one place, the plan in another, the volunteers in a chat thread, and the report in a spreadsheet nobody opens until the deadline. Nothing is wrong with the organisation. The tools simply never learned to talk to each other — and every hour spent carrying information between them is an hour taken from the programme itself.

Grants

Partners

Events

Volunteers

Reports

One connected workflow

From grant to report — in a single line.

01

Grant and partner

02

Programme and event

03

People and delivery

04

Documentation and evidence

05

Report and board pack

06

Export and closure

What is inside

Five areas, one workspace

Events and production

Schedules, run-sheets, production documents and venues in one place — so on the day, everyone is working from the same plan.

People and volunteer operations

Team, roles, volunteers and artists, each with exactly the access their role needs and nothing beyond it.

Funding and partners

Every grant, every partner and the full history of the relationship together — so you always know where an application stands and who spoke to whom.

Reporting and governance

Event reports, season summaries and board packs assembled from work already recorded, instead of reconstructed the week a funder asks.

Multilingual private workspace

Arabic, Norwegian and English side by side, right-to-left included. Each organisation gets its own private managed instance.

Why Diwan is different

Not a festival suite. A niche that holds.

Diwan does not try to match large festival systems feature for feature. It is built for the organisations those systems price out and over-serve:

A multilingual operating system for small cultural and civil-society organisations that connects grants and partners to programmes, people, delivery, and funder and board reporting — delivered as a private managed instance.

The narrowness is the point. Everything in Diwan is there because a small organisation needed it — not because a larger product listed it.

The readiness check

How much operational friction do you carry?

Select the statements that fit to see a preliminary profile.

Select what applies. Nothing is stored — the score is where a conversation starts, not a verdict.

How a pilot works

Five steps, no commitment until it fits

01

Readiness check

A short diagnostic. Worth doing even if you never speak to us again.

02

Fit review

We look at it together and say plainly whether Diwan is right for you — including when it is not.

03

Scoped pilot

Scope, responsibilities, timeline and the criteria we will judge it by — agreed in writing first.

04

Onboarding

Setup, data mapping, training and support. We do the moving.

05

Measured review

One full season, measured against the criteria we agreed and written up.

Security and trust

Your data, on terms agreed in writing

Diwan is built and operated by Studio Turkmani — one studio, answerable to you directly. Before a pilot touches any real organisational or personal data, we go through the security and data documentation together.

Individual user accounts and role-based access

Export or deletion of your data, whenever you ask

A retention schedule for every category of data

Privacy terms and a data processing agreement, signed before a pilot

We do not publish guarantees we have not tested. Every control is labelled implemented, tested, or planned — so you know exactly what you are getting before a single real record moves.

Apply for a pilot

Start with the organisation, not personal data.

Tell us briefly about the organisation. We ask only about the organisation itself — never about your participants, volunteers or guests.

Send the pilot application

Applying commits you to nothing and does not guarantee acceptance. We review fit ourselves and reply within two working days, using only the details you provide.