About This Event

It serves as an artistic act of recognition and celebration of the one hundred testimonies recorded through the Caring Scotland project. Step into a guided immersive experience which walks you through an intimate landscape of memory, resilience and imagination, drawn from the lives of one hundred voices from Scotland’s Care Experienced community. Fragments of stories unfold across sound, light, and space, as the audience journeys through a series of spaces. This interactive installation transforms oral history into artistic encounters, and asks us to imagine together a more compassionate Scotland where every child is cherished, every voice amplified, every future honoured. One Hundred Voices is part of Caring Scotland, a three-year listening project led by acclaimed playwright Nicola McCartney documenting and recording the lives of Care Experienced people in Scotland. The One Hundred Voices installation opens at the Scottish Parliament on 12 August 2026 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics 2026, before touring to Glasgow, Dumfries, Stranraer, Forfar and Glenrothes. Ten Portraits, one of the other strands of the Caring Scotland project, will be available to view at all venues for the One Hundred Voices tour.Learn more about Ten Portraits. Lead Artist and Script Nicola McCartney National Theatre of Scotland in partnership with Who Cares? Scotland and the National Library of Scotland, funded with an award from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Supported by The Weir Charitable Trust and The Rayne Foundation.

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