When telling the story of the Holocaust, one effective way to overcome our sheer inability to comprehend the scope and scale of such atrocities is to zoom in on one or two stories: share one particular experience, in all its brutal specificity, and we have at least a small way into the event—the small details illuminate the larger whole.

One theatre company from the Netherlands, Hotel Modern, takes a related approach in KAMP (CAMP). The production depicts a typical day at the Auschwitz concentration camp, but instead of zooming in into a closeup, it shrinks everything down, literally, into miniature. It’s the accumulation of thousands of small details that has the impact in this case.

Eleanor McMahon thinks it’s time to change the conversation around cycling in Ontario.

McMahon is the founder of the Share the Road Cycling Coalition, who will be hosting the fifth annual Ontario Bike Summit this week in Toronto. She says that we need to stop talking about things like bike lanes and other bicycle infrastructure as a zero sum game between cars and bikes.

“We do polling, and our polling tells us that 89 per cent of Ontarians are both drivers and cyclists,” she says. “The notion that it’s cars versus bikes is overblown, and it’s really not working anymore. Deciding to change the conversation means going out of our way to poke holes in that idea and say from the get go ‘We don’t buy into that philosophy, and just because you say it, doesn’t make it true.’ ”

Comic John Hastings. Detail of a photo by Tim Leyes.

LECTURE: Historian and storyteller Bruce Bell holds court this evening at C’est What. He’ll be telling stories of old Toronto. C’est What (67 Front Street East), 7:30 P.M., $20.

MUSIC: The Drake’s usual Elvis Mondays showcase has been postponed to Tuesday this week, in order to accommodate special guest Chelsea Wolfe, who’s in the middle of a North American tour. She’ll be playing an intimate acoustic set in the Underground, with opener King Dude. The Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen Street West), 8 p.m., $15 in advance.

COMEDY: Scrappy west-end stand-up showcase Laughable returns tonight, with a typically stacked roster of comics, including Alex Pavone, who just finished a four-night headlining stand at Yuk Yuk’s; cabaret curator and storyteller Paul Hutcheson; and John Hastings, who’s been making a name for himself in the U.K. Steph Tolev hosts. Unlovable (1415-B Dundas Street West), 9 p.m., PWYC.

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Sandro Perri plays the Tranzac tonight before heading out on tour. Photo by Jen Parker.

FUNDRAISER: Outdoor theatre company Shakespeare in the Ruff, which quietly dissolved in 2007, has been relaunched with a production of Two Gentlemen of Verona announced for this summer, and a youth mentorship program. To get the new/old company on its feet there’s some fundraising taking place, starting with tonight’s launch party, Ruffing it! Company members will be performing an abbreviated version of the play with no rehearsal, random role assignment, and bare bones “sides.” After the performance, there’ll be dancing and door prizes. The Ossington (61 Ossington Avenue), 8 p.m., $10–$15.

MUSIC: Sure, Leonard Cohen is being feted tonight by a bevy of noted Canadian musicians at Massey Hall, but for a less glitzy night of fine music, we’re going with Sandro Perri, who’s playing a “pre-tour” show at The Tranzac (a venue with some significance to him). Perri will be joined by opener Steve Kado, debuting a new composition with a nine-piece band, and closers The Spring Boners. Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue), 8 p.m., $12.

COMEDY: There is an excellent line-up of stand-ups at the Alt. Dot. Comedy Lounge this evening, a comedy showcase of over a dozen ladies who are potential subjects for an upcoming documentary—among them Rebecca Kohler, Amanda Brooke-Perrin, and Evany Rosen. Sara Hennessey is hosting the night, with “token” male comics Mark Little and Dave Merheje. The Rivoli (332 Queen Street West), doors at 8:30 p.m., PWYC (minimum $5).

Urban Planner is Torontoist‘s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com.