The Art of Cultural Exchange

'The Art of Cultural Exchange' is an extraordinary collection of accounts, analyses and reflections on cultural exchange between Brazil and the UK, collated and edited by Paul Heritage and Ilana Strozenberg. It includes project examples, essays on the theories of exchange and the dynamics of interculturalism, and detailed interrogations of the potential benefits and pitfalls in collaboration between countries. It is unusual in including contributions from project creators, managers, artists, educators and academics, in diverse chapters that jump across a vast range of registers, from the technical and discursive, to the more creative.

'The Art of Cultural Exchange' is an honest account of divergent points of view, and how in bringing them into different processes of encounter and exchange, we might be challenged and changed because of them.

James Thompson

Vice President - Social Responsibility/Professor of Applied and Social Theatre

The University of Manchester

'The Art of Cultural Exchange – Translation and Transformation Between the UK and Brazil (Brazil-UK, 2012-2016)', edited by Paul Heritage and Ilana Strozenberg, brings us a clarifying map of the exchanges produced between Brazilian and British artists and institutions in recent years. Throughout the book, we see the potentialities that artistic and cultural translations carried out in diverse and even unequal contexts offer to oxygenate creative reflections and processes, methodologies, resources of diverse natures and especially to enrich ideas and worldviews, to transgress contexts and cultural beliefs.

Marta Porto,

Former Secretary of Cultural Citizenship, Brazilian Ministry of Culture, Brazil