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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Culture, organised with care.
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.
Two pilot places per season — the capacity is real, not rhetorical.
- Grant
- Event
- People
- 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
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 for cultural organisations
Keep calm. Keep evidence. Keep trust.
Small cultural teams lose hours ferrying the same facts between tools. Diwan holds grants, events, and people in one workspace — so the programme stays calm and funders get evidence without a scramble. Built and run by Studio Turkmani; Diwan is the product, not a company.
Trust one shared plan
Stay calm across three languages
Gather funder evidence as you work
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.
Fit, not a feature war
Built for small cultural teams — not a festival suite
Diwan Care is a calm cultural-ops desk: about 35 000 NOK establishment, then about 1 500 NOK a month — guided with you, not self-serve. Crescat Festival lists about €1 499–6 999 a month for an all-in-one festival production suite. Different buyer; we stay with trust, calm, and funder evidence in Arabic, Norwegian, and English.
Peace of mind for small cultural and civil-society teams
Evidence for funders gathered as you work
Guided setup and pilot — no fake self-serve install
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.
Calm desk for cultural teams
Private workspace, with the studio.
Culture, organised with care.
Establishment
35,000 NOK
One-time. Private workspace set up with you — guided setup.
Care
1,500 NOK / month
Guided with you. Evidence as you work. Hosting and updates included.
Private EN/NO/AR workspace — one next step, not a festival suite.
Amounts excl. VAT. We set the workspace with you. No self-serve install. Applying for a pilot commits you to nothing.
How a pilot works
Five steps, no commitment until it fits
Readiness check
A short diagnostic. Worth doing even if you never speak to us again.
Fit review
We look at it together and say plainly whether Diwan is right for you — including when it is not.
Scoped pilot
Scope, responsibilities, timeline and the criteria we will judge it by — agreed in writing first.
Onboarding
Setup, data mapping, training and support. We do the moving.
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.