The Nova Music Festival Exhibition Toronto

Toronto Exhibit Date: April 23 – June 8

The Nova Exhibition is an in-depth remembrance of the brutal massacre at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023. The installation sets out to recreate a festival dedicated to peace and love that was savagely cut short by a terrorist attack on that fateful day. The attack at the Nova Music Festival was the largest massacre in music history.

This powerful installation invites visitors to bear witness to the tragic events of October 7 and its aftermath.

After successful runs in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, the Nova Exhibition makes its Canadian debut in Toronto in April 2025, offering a vital space to witness, reflect, and heal in the wake of an unimaginable tragedy.

On Friday, October 6, 2023, thousands of music and arts fans gathered in Re’im, Israel, for the Nova Music Festival – a celebration of life, peace, and music. At 6:29AM on Saturday, October 7, Hamas terrorists launched a brutal attack, invading Israel and massacring 1,200 people. Among them, 411 were murdered at the festival, including four Canadians, and 251 were abducted, including 43 innocent festivalgoers.

The exhibit is experiential, educational and commemorative. Visitors will embark on a full sensory journey through the timeline of the Nova Music Festival, reliving the harrowing events of that fateful day. Attendees will move through re-created festival grounds, interact with recovered belongings, witness firsthand footage from the attack, and hear powerful testimonies from survivors and bereaved families present daily. Surrounded by the actual items from the festival—charred vehicles, bullet-ridden bathroom stalls, abandoned merchandise stands, and scattered personal belongings left behind in the aftermath—visitors will experience the raw, lingering impact of the attack. The exhibition honours more than the tragic events of October 7, 2023, it celebrates the resilient spirit of the Nova community in the immediate aftermath of that day, transforming profound loss into purposeful action.

The exhibit will be held in Toronto at a venue to be announced at a later date, utilizing 60,000+ square feet of space, making it one of the largest exhibitions in Canadian history.

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The Exhibition is recommended for ages 12+ due to some of its sensitive and graphic content. It includes gunshots, shouts, flickering lights, complex and challenging content to watch, and survivors’ testimonies. Bodies are blurred. Entry to the Exhibition is at the visitor’s discretion. The production has no responsibility for mental injury of any kind.

The exhibit will take place in Midtown, Toronto. The venue will be announced closer to the event date.