Who says James Joyce isn’t for kids? The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, where an extensive exhibition on the life and work of the famed Irish-born author, will serve as the backdrop for a family-friendly art and poetry workshop on Sunday from 1 to 4 p. m. In a session led by poet and arts educator Sherry Robbins, participants will create “poem-maps” of Buffalo, which will combine elements of visual art, poetry and cartography. “We’ll be working with large-scale sheets of paper that will be a combination of visual imagery, the written word and a maplike formation, almost like a timeline of sorts,” said Anderson Gallery Education Curator Ginny Lohr. “It will be a different interpretation of displaying written work and the visual image as art.” Lohr said that participants, from adults to children, can draw inspiration from the map of Dublin at the start of the exhibition, along with a timeline based on Joyce’s magnum opus “Ulysses,” among varied other aspects of the exhibition. “There are a lot of different ways that you can bring Joyce to the table for families and parts in all of his work that refer to family life,” Lohr said. The workshop costs $5 per person and the exhibition runs through Sept. 13. For more information, call 829-3754 or visit

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. —Colin Dabkowski