"It is the right of every people to be able to be proud of their own identity and it is the duty of every people to work in the name of collective growth, in harmony with everything around them, with the environment, with respect for that ethics and the moral one that makes a society a civil society. It is the right of a people to take their history and knowledge elsewhere and pass it on to all those who can draw an indelibly cultural mark from it. "
Dale Clevenger
Honorary President of the festival