Nova Festival Exhibition Comes to Berlin, With Support From the Music Business 

On Oct. 7, the two-year day of the Hamas onslaught connected Israel that acceptable disconnected the warfare successful Gaza, the Nova Music Festival Exhibition volition open successful Berlin arsenic a memorial to the victims of the massacre astatine the rave of the aforesaid name. The touring exhibition, which has been acceptable up successful New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto and different cities, has drawn much than fractional a cardinal visitors truthful far, and this volition beryllium its debut successful Europe.  

The exhibition, titled “October 7, 6:29am — The Moment Music Stood Still,” volition beryllium displayed astatine Flughafen Tempelhof, an airdrome that was utilized by the Nazi authorities and is present a nationalist space. Just arsenic successful New York and successful different cities, the accumulation includes an installation that immerses visitors successful the festival set-up, arsenic good arsenic testimonies from some victims and survivors of the Hamas attack. It volition besides big survivors, including erstwhile hostages of Hamas, and a assortment of speakers and panels. Proceeds volition payment the Tribe of Nova Foundation, a nonprofit enactment acceptable up to assistance survivors and their families. 

The accumulation is supported by the metropolis of Berlin, nether the patronage of Mayor Kai Wegner, arsenic good arsenic Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer and Karin Prien, the Federal Minister for Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. It volition besides beryllium funded by donations from a assortment of companies and backstage individuals successful the U.S. and Germany. (Disclosure: I helped with the fundraising efforts.) In Berlin, the Nova accumulation has important enactment from the German euphony business, including the signaling concern relation BVMI, the performance and lawsuit manufacture enactment BDKV, the German PRO GEMA, and the neighboring rights radical GVL.  

“Berlin holds a profound humanities value for the Jewish radical and for maine personally — Berlin is my hometown,” Nova Music Festival laminitis and shaper Ofir Amir said successful a statement. “Presenting the Nova Exhibition present is simply a almighty and symbolic moment, a existent full-circle experience. Born retired of pain, memory, resilience, and hope, this accumulation carries an important message. Sharing it successful Berlin is some meaningful and necessary.” 

The Hamas onslaught connected the Nova Music Festival was the worst onslaught successful past connected a performance oregon euphony gathering. Out of astir 3,000 festival attendees, 411 were murdered, hundreds were wounded and 44 were taken hostage successful Gaza — 14 of whom are inactive there. The accumulation comes to Berlin arsenic the warfare successful Gaza grinds on, with a decease toll estimated astatine much than 60,000. 

A smaller mentation of the accumulation volition unfastened successful Boston connected Sept. 26, conscionable nether 2 weeks earlier it comes to Berlin. “The Nova Music Festival Exhibition is not conscionable astir Nova, it is Nova,” accumulation manager Reut Feingold said successful a statement. “It stands arsenic a surviving grounds to the resilience of our assemblage and the cosmopolitan request to retrieve and heal. ‘We volition creation again’ is simply a committedness of anticipation that we transportation guardant together.”