Tag: Liz Solo

  • Storytelling From VR

    Storytelling From VR

    I’m in the thick of the creation process for my latest project, Storytelling From VR–a series of media pieces and online events that feature my fiction writing. I’ve merged two elements of my work life–writing fiction and Virtual Reality–to create this multi-layered project. I’ve been working in multiple VR spaces at once–Second Life, NEOS VR,…

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  • All My Lyrics (almost)

    All My Lyrics (almost)

    As part of an experiment, I have posted a large majority of my lyrics here. I will continue to add to the page, as I uncover and recall more lyrics. THE GODDESS i believe i believe i am the Goddess i believe I believe i am i am standing on my ever-turning planet i am…

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  • Buy Music

    Buy Music

    AVAILABLE NOW Visit the Music Page for press quotes, discography and photos.  All of Liz Solo’s official releases are available for streaming and download on Bandcamp – click the album covers or links below to go directly to each album’s page. The ENTIRE Lizband Discography – 4 Albums – is now available to download on…

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  • ECMA Award

    ECMA Award

    They gave me an ECMA. Not only that – it’s the ECMA named in honour of Stompin’ Tom Connors. Pretty cool. At my very first EMCAs, twenty years ago, I met Stompin’ Tom in person. Me and the band pretty much banged into him in an elevator at the host hotel in Halifax. On the…

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  • hybrid:fusion

    hybrid:fusion

    Coming up in August – I will be experimenting with different dimensions as I travel to the future in my latest performance piece – hybrid:fusion. Join me in my studio on August 25 and 26 at 8 PM as I explore inter-dimensional portals on a quest to reconcile the present with the future. Watch live…

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  • Women From The Future

    This week I am working with Roles 4 Women on the presentation of Women From The Future. I’m premiering a brand new one woman piece called She, Robot – the story of a time traveling Robot Comedienne.It was great to be working with Jody Richardson again – we collaborated on the script development via the…

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  • Rehearsing on Odyssey

    Rehearsing on Odyssey

    Been working this week on my latest piece The Asteroid with much assistance from my collaborator Yael Gilks (aka Fau Ferdinand.). I have multiple presentations of the piece coming up (plus a new machinima) and it’s been a delicate balance negotiating different streams and getting all the sets and props and animations in place and…

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  • The Asteroid

    The Asteroid

    The Asteroid is a new performance piece examining themes and ideas around the relationship between technology, isolation and desire. The Asteroid saw its first presentation in December at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. This was part of a live streamed performance art event curated and presented by 7a*md8, aka the Toronto Performance Art Collective .…

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  • “Phreak” on the Fresh Fish shortlist

    “Phreak” on the Fresh Fish shortlist

    Wow. The manuscript for my first novel, Phreak, has been shortlisted for The Writer’s Alliance of NL’s Fresh Fish Award. I share this honour with Terry Doyle, for his short story collection We All Do and Matthew Hollett for his poetry collection, Optic Nerve. The jurors – Bridget Canning, Trudy Morgan-Cole, and Paul Rowe –…

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  • The Wide Sky – Launch

    The Wide Sky – Launch

    The wide sky – an archive – by Liz Solo Full Website launch Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Following the successful Second Life launch of ‘the wide sky’, Liz Solo’s Archive’s Virtual Installation and Museum Exhibit currently housed on the Odyssey Simulator in Virtual Space, IOTA: DATA is pleased to launch the Archive website, home to…

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  • Virtually Yours

    Virtually Yours

    Last weekend I spent four days in residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. AGP is a gem of a place, offering residencies year round in a super chill setting by the beaches on Toronto Island. Awesome people, very supportive environment – I highly recommend this resource centre to any artist needing a little…

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  • Performance Images

    Performance Images

    Streaming performance at the BBMC Studio with Mike Kean, interacting with Isabel Valverde and dancers at the HiDance festival in Rome: A few shots by Jared Reid from a perfromance at the Festival of New Dance, St. John’s: A screen capture shot from “Take Me” at the Off Label Festival in Victoria at Open Space…

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  • The Sauce EP

    The Sauce EP

    The Sauce released our EP last month to much critical acclaim – especially from Bobs! Here is a link to the place where you can download the recording The Sauce Recording. this recording was a co-production of The Black Bag Media Collective and Baygirl Music. You can order hard copies online via Fred’s Records. “The…

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  • The Sauce

    The Sauce

    I got a new band (or two!). Playing tonight with my besties Mike Kean and Colleen Power and old campadre from back in the Live Girlz days, April Crocker! You can call us The Sauce. We are appearing live tonight at the Ship in St. John’s NL with Sean Panting and Sam Burke. photo by…

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