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.’ ”

NXNE is an embarrassment of musical riches, but it can be hard to find the best acts. Even so, don’t panic. We have put together a comprehensive guide to the festival.

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Sometimes, when the world just doesn’t understand, all you want to do is let loose by ripping off your constricting T-shirt and mashing your body against a swarm of others in the throes of a mosh pit. Here’s how to maximize your potential for anarchy at NXNE.

What to Bring: The amazing thing about crowds at these types of shows is that they are all about accepting the outcasts. That means you can get away with bringing almost anything to this outing. Do you have shoulder pads with spikes on them? No sense leaving those in the closet. A pet iguana that hangs out on your shoulder? Yep, he’s welcome too.

Where to Go: Thursday night is your best bet. A lot of the biggest names at the festival this year are stalwarts from the California punk-rock scene. Bad Religion (9 p.m.) is headlining a free show at Yonge-Dundas Square on June 14 that also features No Use For A Name (7 p.m.) and Good Riddance (8 p.m.). If you find yourself wanting something even harder, check out local boys Protest The Hero (Lee’s Palace, midnight) for some face-melting math metal.

Dos and Don’ts: It may not come again, so do take the opportunity to crowd surf and head bang with abandon. Whatever you do, though, don’t let the loud and angry music turn you into that aggressive jerk who starts a fight.