Events and production
Schedules, run-sheets, production documents and venues in one place — so on the day, everyone is working from the same plan.
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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.
Why we built 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
Grant and partner
Programme and event
People and delivery
Documentation and evidence
Report and board pack
Export and closure
What is inside
Schedules, run-sheets, production documents and venues in one place — so on the day, everyone is working from the same plan.
Team, roles, volunteers and artists, each with exactly the access their role needs and nothing beyond it.
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.
Event reports, season summaries and board packs assembled from work already recorded, instead of reconstructed the week a funder asks.
Arabic, Norwegian and English side by side, right-to-left included. Each organisation gets its own private managed instance.
Why Diwan is different
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
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
A short diagnostic. Worth doing even if you never speak to us again.
We look at it together and say plainly whether Diwan is right for you — including when it is not.
Scope, responsibilities, timeline and the criteria we will judge it by — agreed in writing first.
Setup, data mapping, training and support. We do the moving.
One full season, measured against the criteria we agreed and written up.
Security and trust
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
Tell us briefly about the organisation. We ask only about the organisation itself — never about your participants, volunteers or guests.
Send the pilot applicationApplying 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.