4o. Encuentro de las Artes Escénicas

The National Council for Culture and the Arts was created in December 1988 as an institution decentralized from the Public Education Ministry.
Among its tasks are:

The promotion of the cultural and artistic creation, guaranteeing full freedom for the artists, where the governmental participation is essentially organizational and promotional.
To foster the cultural expressions of several regions and social groups in Mexico, as well as to enhance the widest diffusion of the cultural and artistic values and goods among the Mexican different population sectors, besides the preservation and enriching of the historic and cultural patrimony of the Nation.

Its operation scope is national, driving a strategy of administrative decentralization in order to reach a wider number of Mexican people with the diversity of its cultural and artistic richness; it also works at the international level with the aim to take the Mexican culture and art to the main world forums.