Adaptive Reimaginings & Movies Reimagined

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.

The book is a visual memoir and workbook about Vering’s 20+ years creating opportunities for fun, agency and inclusion in long term care settings, the punk rock way. 

The documentary, Movies Reimagined: Embodied Memory, Agency, Fantasy and Joy in long-term care facilities, will highlight Julia Vering’s current work in nursing facilities, improvising classic movies with residents, funded by Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care. The documentary aims to capture Vering’s novel way of engaging a diverse population of long-term care residents and facilities through humor, imagination, and multi-sensory elements. 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.  

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