It then shows full-screen previews of relevant festivals that you can save to a calendar.
Like Shakespeare events in most venues, the synopses of each play, the cast list, characters in each play, relevant articles, festival news and "happenings" are listed.
The opportunity to experience uniquely all the Bruckner symphonies, for example, and study a composer in depth is both particularly relevant to the festival experience and one that audiences respond to.
I was going to write about how I dreamed I was in a metal band called Hot Bits with my old English teacher and Sandra Bullock, but it's not really relevant to my festival experience, although I would like to know what it means.
With such a highly saturated market as Toronto's electronic music industry, keeping relevant as a festival can be difficult.
Is there is a distinctly Jewish art today, and what is its connection to Yiddish?" Mr. Rosenbaum, who moderates an annual series of discussions on Jewish culture and politics at the 92nd Street Y, predicted that Folksbiene's "interest in memorializing Yiddish culture and making it relevant" will turn the festival into a "pep rally" for the more than 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old
The Queer Palm was founded by journalist Franck Finance-Madureira in 2010 to recognise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-relevant films at the festival.
Which is pretty much what Lift is about and why the biannual festival remains as relevant as ever.
"Not every film requires the airing-out of issues, but for a festival to be relevant, to be more than simply an entertainment, that's part of our function, especially for community-specific festivals," said Mr. Stein.
Whether it is rightwing press campaigns that stigmatise asylum seekers and Muslims, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, or the gains made by the far right in the local elections, anti-racist politics - including music festivals - are as relevant as ever.
