Outreach and Events

No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial

Film screening followed by a panel discussion on grief and homelessness.

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 1:00PM to 4:00PM
Doors open at 12:30PM
Cinecenta Theatre, in the Student Union Building at UVic.
Free & open to all; Registration required.

Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/1115956034

About the event:

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 on grief and homelessness.

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.

The Better Choices, Better Health® Online Self-Management Program, is the online version of the internationally recognised Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, developed and tested at the Stanford University Patient Education Centre. 

This is a free, six-session, asynchronous web-based program offered on a dedicated website that meets government privacy requirements. It is open to BC adults of all ages living with one or more ongoing health conditions.   A computer and internet connection are required; no web-cams needed; and participants do not need to be online at the same time.

In this group (max. 25 participants), moderated by two trained peer facilitators, you will learn about:

• Techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, pain and isolation
• Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance
• Appropriate use of medications
• Communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals
• Healthy eating
• Making informed treatment decisions
• Disease-related problem solving
• Advanced directives

The Better Choices, Better Health Program enhances regular treatment and disease-specific education.

Sessions are highly participative through internal messaging and online discussion boards. Log in at your convenience for about 1.5 to 2 hours per week.

Weekly activities include:

• Reading
• Making and posting a weekly action plan
• Participating in problem-solving and guided exercises on bulletin boards
• Participating in self-tests and activities

To register, see https://www.selfmanagementbc.ca/betterchoices 

For more information please visit www.selfmanagementbc.ca or call TOLL FREE: 1-866-902-3767