Join us for the screening of the film No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial, followed by a panel discussion on grief and homelessness.
Join the UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health, BC Centre for Palliative Care, Victoria Hospice, Island Health, and Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre, for the first showing of the film in Victoria BC, followed by a panel discussion.
Film Screening
No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial is a powerful and intimate documentary that sheds light on a deeply overlooked aspect of the homelessness crisis: people's grief following the death of someone they care about. Through the voices and stories of individuals living with unstable housing in Kelowna, the film explores what it means to grieve without a house, and how loss echoes through a community already struggling to survive.
Centered around the creation and meaning of the White Cart Memorial—a grassroots, mobile tribute to unhoused lives lost—the film weaves together research, personal lived experience testimonies, community organization reflections, and future action plans for the city of Kelowna. This film captures the emotional and logistical challenges of grieving in public spaces.
Dedicated to the memories of all unhoused lives lost—and those who carry their grief forward—No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial urges us to rethink how we hold space for mourning in public, and how we can come together to build more compassionate, inclusive systems of care. Because only through community can we create safer places to grieve, to heal, and to remember.
Panel Discussion
The post-screening panel will include:
Carley McConnachie, PEERS, Outreach Worker;
Heidi Wigmore, Victoria Hospice, Grief Counsellor;
Joshua Black, co-producer and director of No Fixed Address;
Kim Toombs, AVI Health and Community Services, Senior Director;
Marion Selfrige, Cool Aid Community Health Centre, Research Manager; and
Stephanie Laing, co-producer and director of No Fixed Address.
Learn More
Watch the No Fixed Address trailer
