MEXICO

1.- Promote, organize, encourage, preserve, present, represent and disseminate the development of arts and culture in its different manifestations, including but not limited to; music, dance, theater, singing, crafts, literature, plastic arts, popular art, traditional games, rituals, gastronomic traditions.- 11.- Promote research and studies on Mexican folklore, fostering taste and sensitivity for all folkloric values within society and particularly among youth and children, thereby contributing to the conservation, development and dissemination of folklore and traditional arts of Mexico.- Ill.- Promote cultural and artistic activities, mainly related to folklore and traditional Mexican arts, in order to develop fine arts, as well as coordinate, support, promote, present and disseminate any festival and/or cultural and artistic activity in all its genres, whether national or international.- Promote cultural exchange between the association, its associates and the different cultural institutions, as well as in folkloric festivals and/or any type of traditional national and international art.- V.- Promote the Creation and organization of folk festivals, promoting the development of logistical and participation circuits that favor their development.-VI.- Promote and collaborate with folk festival organizations for a better organization and selection of participating folk groups, being in close contact with national and international festivals and organizations with the objective of acting as a promoter and link for cultural exchange of folk groups with other entities and/or folk festivals.- VII.- Promote the assistance of Mexican specialists to meetings related to folklore and traditional arts, both in Mexico and abroad.- VIII.- Develop feelings of friendship and mutual understanding, as well as ties of brotherhood and international cooperation among all participants in folk festivals and folkloric meetings or gatherings.-IX.- Collaborate with cultural and festival organizations. - To promote the development of methods of organization and implementation of programs for folklore festivals, concerts and meetings. X.- To contribute to the improvement of mutual exchanges of information with both national and international folklore groups. - XI. To maintain close relations of friendship and collaboration, to the extent possible, with folklore groups and festivals around the world. - XII.- To participate actively in the activities. of the world association, seeking to obtain commissions and assignment of directive positions, with the sole purpose of promoting the activities of this association.- XIII Carry out all types of artistic and cultural activities, through private, civil or official institutions by means of representations, performances, exhibitions, conferences, round tables, dissemination of all types of cultural activities through publications or participation in existing means of diffusion, as well as training, teaching, orientation, guidance and channeling in all types of artistic and cultural activities of both the associates and people outside the association, which may be official or private institutions or for third parties.- XIV Carry out as many activities as are necessary and conducive to achieving the goals stated above as a social object.