No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial

Join the Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre and the BC Centre for Palliative Care for a screening of the documentary No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial.

Premiering at the Rotary Centre for the Arts’ Mary Irwin Theatre on October 15 at 1:30 pm, with an additional screening on November 7 at 6 pm. Both events will feature a panel discussion, moderated by the directors/producers of the film.

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.

Centred 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.

Watch the trailer: vimeo.com/1115956034

Register for the October 15 screening

Register for the November 7 screening

Details on further screenings in BC are coming soon. This project has been funded in part by a contribution from the BCCPC, Health Canada, Health Care Policy and Strategies Program through the Pan-Canadian Palliative Care Research Collaborative Seed Grants program, and the KHRC through the University of British Columbia Okanagan Eminence program. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the funders.

The film screenings have been funded in part by contributions from the BCCPC, the KHRC through the University of British Columbia Okanagan Eminence program, and the Community Action Initiative. Additional in-kind support has been provided by the Central Okanagan Hospice Association.