Movies Reimagined
The documentary, Movies Reimagined, highlights Julia Vering’s novel way of engaging a diverse population of long-term care residents in improvising classic movies. The film documents both the capacity of residents to fully engage through embodied, adaptive, theatrical, and musical ways, and the resulting community building, joy, and expansion of roles and identities the process fosters.
Adapative Reimaginings
Julia is passionate about making Expressive Arts Therapy accessible for hospice patients, people who live in long-term care facilities and people with disabilities. When not seeing clients at her office in Mission, Kansas, Julia contracts with Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care to facilitate an Expressive Arts group process she developed called Movies Reimagined. Vering improvises versions of classical movies and musicals with residents living in nursing facilities, and has facilitated over 400 groups since 2022.
In 2024, Julia Vering received an Andy Warhol Foundation and Spencer Museum of Art-funded Rocket Grant from the Charlotte Street Foundation to create Adaptive Reimaginings, a companion documentary and book about her performance work with older adults, people with dementia, and residents of long-term care facilities.