About this Event
This is the first showing of the film in Chilliwack, followed by a panel discussion.
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.
The film screening has been funded in part by contributions from the BC Centre for Palliative Care, Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre through the University of British Columbia Okanagan Eminence Program, Community Action Initiative, Chilliwack Social Research and Planning Council through the Community Engagement & Knowledge Mobilization Micro-Grant , with in-kind support from the Chilliwack Community Action Team, Pacific Community Resources Society, Homelessness Services Association of BC, and Chilliwack Hospice Society. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the funders.
Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/1115956034
https://vimeo.com/1115956034
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The'í:tselíya - Health & Community Centre, 7256 Chilliwack River Road, Chilliwack, Canada
CAD 0.00
