Toronto 
Events Description
Marking its first time in Canada, the installation is a must-see experience, essential to remembering and understanding the events of the largest massacre in music history and empathizing with what happened and who it happened to.
On Friday, October 6, 2023, thousands of music and arts fans gathered for a celebration of life, peace, and music in Re’im Israel for the Nova Music Festival. At 6:29AM on Saturday October 7, the peaceful festival was savagely cut short when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, killing 1,200 people, including 370 from the Nova Music Festival, four of whom were Canadian, and abducting more than 250, including 44 innocent civilians attending the festival.
“The story of the Nova Music Festival is one of strength, survival, love and community,” said Jesse Brown, Lead Canadian Representative, Nova Exhibition. “This exhibit is to honour and remember the victims while also hearing the heart-wrenching stories of survivors who remind the world that we will dance again.”
The exhibit is interactive, experiential, immersive, and educational. Visitors will embark on a full sensory journey through the timeline of the Nova Music Festival, reliving the harrowing events of that fateful day. Moving through the re-created festival grounds with real artifacts and evidence on display and to interact with, attendees will witness first-hand footage from the attack and hear powerful, emotional testimonies from festival survivors and bereaved family members who will be onsite daily at the exhibit. Surrounded by the actual artifacts 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 Tribe of Nova community in the immediate aftermath of that day, transforming profound loss into purposeful action.
Toronto is the third-largest city in North America and home to the world’s third-largest Jewish community outside of Israel. With hate, intolerance, and antisemitism on the rise in Canada, Nova’s impact in Toronto will go far beyond the exhibit, sparking awareness, education and inspiring all human beings to stand together to ensure such an atrocity never happens again.
The Nova Music Festival Exhibition was created, curated, and directed by Reut Feingold. Since its opening in Tel Aviv in 2024 and runs in New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Miami, the exhibit has attracted over 300,000 visitors, including thousands of students, educators, political, faith-based and community leaders and members like the mayors of New York, Los Angeles and Miami, and the Archbishop of New York. Members of the music, sports and entertainment industry also attended the exhibit including Diplo, SIA, Usher, Jessica Alba, Will Ferrell, Kristen Bell, David Schwimmer and Cindy Crawford, to name only a few.
HOW MUCH
Tickets:
$24, $54, $80, $180, $360
plus tax and fees
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WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time:
April 23 – June 8, 2025
Tuesday to Sunday:
11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
(Last exhibition entry at 7:40 PM)
Friday:
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
(Last exhibition entry at 4:40 PM)
Closed on Mondays, except April 28 and May 19 (Victoria Day)
11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
(Last exhibition entry at 7:40 PM)
Venue:
1381 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON M6B 1G7
Located at the intersection of Castlefield Avenue & Caledonia Road.
Public Transit Accessible
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