Big City, Small World
with Garvia Bailey

Desifest is a fun filled FREE 12 hour South Asian music festival taking place on May 26th. Desifest takes place in the heart of the city at Yonge and Dundas Square. The event runs from 10am-10pm. Don't forget to bring your dancing shoes!

The story of a Korean-Canadian family and their downtown Toronto convenience store is a must see. The play first hit the stage at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2011. After playing to sold out crowds and enjoying critical success, Kim's Convenience is back for another run at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Until June 16 2012 Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

Toronto R&B songstress and multi-juno nominee Kreesha Turner performs hist from her new album Tropic Electric. Sunday, May 27 2012 Church at Berkeley

There is still time to check out this incredible, city wide celebration of photography. A couple of picks for this week... Eamon Mac Mahon with his ruminations on our strained relationship with nature Circuit Gallery at Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Ave. Until May 26, 2012 Bruce Gilden and his visceral street photography Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen Street West. Until May 30, 2012

A Sinting is a happening; a chance to get together, as Jamaicans love to dance and have fun. Summer Sintings are a weekly series of free-to-the-public interactive flash-mob-style events around the Greater Toronto Area that bring the fun to YOU! For all the listings of the ongoing sintings in celebration of Jamaica's 50th Anniversary hit up the Jamaica 50 website.

Pick up the anthology TOK 7, from the fine group of writers who all represent the diversity of this city.

This award winning show choir caps off a year of fine performances with the musical Hairspray. Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts May 23 - May 26

Our Show

Big City, Small World is your cultural connection to life in Toronto, this country's mecca of music and performance. Every Saturday at 5 p.m., Garvia Bailey will cover Toronto's arts scene like it's never been covered before on radio.

Whether it's music, dance, theatre, books, film, spoken word or visual art, Garvia will feature Toronto's top talent. She'll check out some of the more daring and unusual events around town, and she'll mine the scene for the bright lights of tomorrow.

To find out more about a song you heard on our show, check our Music Playists.

About the Host

Garvia Bailey moved from the world of independent video production into the world of radio because she wanted to hear voices like her own: the voices of young, socially, culturally and politically active women of color. Five years ago, without any prior radio experience she pitched a story to CBC Radio's personal documentary program Outfront. She had the chance to tell her story and has been helping others tell their stories at the CBC ever since, honing her skill both as a producer and as an on air personality.

Over the past few years her path has veered towards the cultural end of storytelling, covering the vibrant arts and music scene for both CBC Radio and TV. Garvia sees her role as host of Big City, Small World as the perfect way to continue in her passion for uncovering emerging talent and telling the stories of Toronto artists that are flying under the big media radar.

Garvia lives in Toronto.