Nova Exhibition

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Background information on the event

The Nova Musica Festival Exhibition is an in-depth remembrance of the brutal massacre at the Nova Music Festival on October 7th, 2023. The installation sets out to re-create 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 groundbreaking installation is presented as a way to empower visitors to responsibly explore and bear witness to the tragic events of October 7th and its aftermath.

The exhibit will be in Toronto for six weeks from April 23 through June 8. It 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, attendees will witness first-hand footage from the attack and hear powerful testimonies from festival survivors and bereaved family members who will be onsite daily at the exhibit.

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. Now the exhibit will give Canadians the opportunity to reflect on the horrors of that day.

The proceeds from the exhibit will be used to commemorate the victims, rehabilitate the survivors of the festival, support the Tribe of Nova community, promote education and call for the return of the hostages. You may make additional donations HERE - https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donation-form/nova-exhibition.

Booking your tickets

Our event is for members and members of their families.

Please book your ticket HERE - for Sunday, June 8 at 12 noon.

There are 450 tickets available each hour. 

Our (City Shul) office does not know who is booking tickets, so as a courtesy, please email the office HERE to let us know how many people, and their names, are attending.

Rabbi Gottlieb will be leading a talk-back session after the exhibition. We are estimating that it will take individuals 60 to 90 minutes to walk through, and are planning for the talk-back to be held between 1:30 and 2:30 PM.

Location - Parking - TTC

The event will be held at 1381 Castlefield Avenue, the SW intersection of Castlefield Avenue & Caledonia Road.

There is no parking on-site at the venue, however parking is available nearby. There are various ways you can get to the venue, including:

Nearby Parking Lot Locations - Located across street directly by the venue.

Uber/Lyft/Taxi - Set address to - 1381 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON M6B 1G7

TTC - The closest subway stop is Eglinton West Station (2.7 km away). The second closest subway stop is Yorkdale Station (4.2 km away)

Subway -> Bus - all bus routes operate on the weekend

- From Eglinton Station -  take the 32 Eglinton West Bus

- From Yorkdale Station - take the 47 Lansdowne Bus

- From Glencairn Station, take the 14 Glencairn Bus

Where will we meet?

We will meet outside the admission gates 15 to 30 minutes in advance. The event will be busy, so if you are late, please just walk through and find our City Shul group.

Where and when will Rabbi Gottlieb hold the talk back session?

The event organizers cannot offer us a private room, as the event is open to the public, and they have reserved spaces for private bookings - ours is a public booking. They have assured us that there will be space for us to meet - but at this time, we don't know if this is indoors or outdoors, or if there is seating, or standing room only.

We are estimating that it will take 60 to 90 minutes to walk through the exhibit, so we plan on meeting at 1:30 PM.  

Additional Information - Admission & Tickets

Your ticket is valid for the entire day, so there is no need to reschedule your ticket for June 8 - please arrive at the exhibition entrance, and your ticket will be scanned.

Please arrive at the event venue in advance of your ticket time.

Tickets are only available online. No ticket can be reserved at the event but you can scan a QR code to reserve tickets online.

Entry into the exhibition requires a government-issued photo identification (a driver's licence or passport) to be presented for entry.

DATE CHANGE - If you need to change your ticket date to another day? Please click the following link HERE. Note that June 8 is the last date of the exhibit, though it may be extended, based on demand.

Ticket Delivery

Your tickets will be emailed to you shortly after you complete your order.  If you do not receive your confirmation email & tickets within 30 minutes, please check your spam/junk folder.  Please present and display your tickets on a mobile device OR print them to be scanned to gain entry to the exhibition.

Additional information:

The exhibition is recommended for ages 12+ due to the sensitive and graphic nature of some of the content. This exhibition includes gunshots, shouts, flickering lights, complex and difficult 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 venue will be announced approximately one week before the exhibition opens to the public.

Please be aware that security bag checks and a metal detector check will be conducted before entry is permitted.

Prohibited Items:

- Any weapons

- Any liquids

- Any large bags

- Any non medically essential face coverings