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ABOUT US

Breaking Down Walls
Through the Power of Music

OUR VISION

Equity Through Music

For more than two decades, Small World Music has been celebrating cultural diversity and showcasing a range of local, domestic, and international talent to audiences across the Greater Toronto Area. Our vision goes beyond simply presenting culturally-diverse artists to include finding ways of working with, showcasing, and supporting underrepresented, marginalized, and newcomer professionals onstage and behind the scenes to encourage sustainable careers, and become a leader in the music industry.

Engaging Audiences

To enable equity for culturally diverse artists and their work.
To create opportunities for emerging, newcomer and underrepresented artists.

Enabling Artists

To create human connections through shared musical experiences.
To be a resource that expands cultural horizons.

Enriching the Ecosystem

To be a catalyst for industry change by creating opportunities and building bridges.
To be a global ambassador of Canada’s multicultural identity.

MEET THE TEAM

Umair Jaffar
Chief Executive Officer
umair@smallworldmusic.com

Liberty Bhaloo
Director of Development
liberty@smallworldmusic.com

Reza Moghaddas
Programming Director
reza@smallworldmusic.com

Heather Kelly
Chief Marketing Officer
heather@smallworldmusic.com

Thao Nghiem
Community Engagement Manager
thao@smallworldmusic.com

Safura Nouman
Finance & Admin Manager
admin@smallworldmusic.com

Danielle Parris
Program + Production Coordinator
danielle@smallworldmusic.com

Shrishti Chouhan
Creative Lead
design@smallworldmusic.com

Nishar Mansuri
Content Marketing Strategist
nishar@smallworldmusic.com

Abdullah Jamal
Online Advertising Manager
abdullah@smallworldmusic.com

Paula Sofía
Community Development Coordinator & Incubator Lead
connect@smallworldmusic.com

Tudor Plopeanu
Development Officer
development@smallworldmusic.com

Donita Duario
Box Office & Programming Coordinator
donita@smallworldmusic.com

Nhu Le
Communication Coordinator
communications@smallworldmusic.com

Jieun Jung
Centre Coordinator
jieun@smallworldmusic.com

In loving Memory of Alan Davis
Founder, Small World Music
22 Sep 1961 – 25 Jun 2025

Alan holds over three decades of music programming and community development experience. As the Founder of Small World Music, since 1997 he has planned and presented concert and festival programming in Toronto, mounting in the order of eight hundred events, supporting the careers of thousands of artists and celebrating with tens of thousands of audience members from diverse communities. From the Small World Centre, to major concert halls and free outdoor stages, a legacy of artistic success and audience engagement continues.

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