The Blue House Media Experience
Blue House Media was established in 2018 when it debuted its experiential model through Blue Rooms. The poetry of Blue Rooms was repurposed into the first spoken word stage play, which premiered at The Andrew Carnegie Library and Music Hall. Its critical reception sparked a larger idea.
What if our love of storytelling could transcend the page?
What if writers weren’t limited to the confines of books? What if artists were provided the resources to create their wildest ideas; to showcase their stories in a kaleidoscope of ways?
And what we continue to find is that we have opened the door to a new plane of imagination, where stories live and breathe in multiple modalities, and where readers become active participants inside the stories they love most.
Blue Rooms
In June of 2018, the stage adaptation of Blue Rooms was performed at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Pittsburgh, PA.
The stage production of Blue Rooms is a spoken word play that explores the intersection of poetry and theater. It is the first production of its kind. All of the costuming for the production was hand-designed and crafted by Amanda, making each piece reflective of the poems they represent. Through interpretive fashion and movement, Blue Rooms tells the story of a young woman as she explores her lineage and heritage, experiences heartbreak and loss, and embarks on a journey to reinvent and empower herself.
“Womb-like, Filippelli returns us to the cadence of poetry we are distanced from in today’s world, a realization that becomes strikingly apparent as you sink into the play’s rhythms. As co-director, she is well-positioned to augment her poetry with layers of visual interpretation on the stage that enrich its already deep cadence.”
The Remembering Room
The Exhibit premiered March 9th - April 16th, 2023. It was open and free to the public at Atithi Studios located in Pittsburgh, PA.
When our brains struggle to process a traumatic event, they tend to reach into the recesses of our psyche and create fantastical thoughts and perceptions. Sometimes these thoughts are difficult or disturbing, and sometimes they are revelatory. The surreal is where interpretation thrives; where we go when words simply can’t capture meaning; where our interior experience expresses itself.
So while grief is a painful process, it is a necessary one - one that people so often try to avoid rather than traverse through. This exhibit aims to show people how traversing through the pain of grief also carries the opportunity for enormous growth, healing, hope, and connection. When we’re suffering, the surreal helps us define our emotions and, thus, our reality.
“The Remembering Room merges Filippelli’s life-changing story with an exploratory and healing experience that fosters learning, growing and connecting in our own experiences of grief.”
