Now through February 16
Join Temple Beth Sholom for a special outing to this exhibit.
Saturday, January 26, from 11:00 am-1:00 pm
The exhibit is being housed at Greenwich Studios: 12100 NE 16th Ave. North Miami Fl. 33161.
Plan to meet the group at the location.
After a two-month run in NYC and LA, the Nova Exhibition is now open in Miami through February 16. This remembrance and immersive experience set out to recreate a music festival that was brutally cut short by Hamas terrorists. 3,882 concertgoers. 364 murdered. 44 kidnapped. Since opening in the US, we have been delighted to welcome all superintendents from the NYC public school system and the major school districts in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Thousands of high school and university students have borne witness and engaged in rich conversation with Nova survivors.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists attacked the Nova Music Festival, a trance festival held in Israel’s Negev Desert, killing more than 360 people and abducting dozens more. It would become the deadliest concert in history. Around 3,000 attendees had flocked to the area — about three miles from the Gaza border — for the event that was set to feature 16 DJs performing through the night.
In April, organizers including HYBE-America CEO Scooter Braun, lead producers Josh Kadden and Joe Teplow and the team behind the Nova Festival opened October 7th 06:29 AM — The Moment Music Stood Still, an exhibit in Lower Manhattan to commemorate those that were murdered. The exhibit features items (camping gear, clothing) and structures (soundsystems, bars) collected from the festival alongside video from before and during the festival taken by both attendees and Hamas insurgents. The exhibit was on display in Tel Aviv for 10 weeks before arriving in New York, where it ran through June 22. (Organizers also plan to bring it to Los Angeles.)
“The whole idea of doing this exhibit is helping the [dance] community go back to the dancefloor,” says Ilan Faktor, a longtime trance music promoter in Israel and one of the exhibit organizers. “Music and dancing are the most universal and healing elements in life.”
Faktor emphasizes that The Moment Music Stood Still is not meant as a political statement, but as a memorial to the people who died in the attack. “The idea was to not have any political aspect and to present the most universal thing of dancing,” says Faktor. “You’re…in front of an exhibit that commemorates the lives of [hundreds of people] that were murdered in a music festival.” (Source: Rolling Stone)