While it's tempting to believe that putting on a mask isolates you from society, curator Patrick A. Polk is here to say face!? when he tells you all about Guatemalan Masks. And on Guatemalan Independence Day, no less ? oh, you shouldn't have! It's a symposium that's part of the larger Fowler exhibition Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jeanne and Jim Pieper Collection, and you'll see how the collected 80 wood masks ? representing everything from animals to folk heroes ? are used in dance-dramas that bring the community together through spirituality and shared memory, transmuting aeons of history into pageants of wonders.

Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E. Young Drive N., Westwood; Sun., Sept 15, 1 p.m.; free. (310) 267-4007, fowler.ucla.edu.