Can Bears Ski?

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Stephen Collins has 13 years of experience as an actor, workshop facilitator and recently working as a Deaf Creative consultant/directing. He is the Lead Artist for The DH Ensemble and Associate Artist with 1623 Theatre. Can bears ski? What a random question to ask little bear. This book follows the story of a little bear who we find is hard of hearing. Antrobus and Dunbar have created a lovely book to show children what it is like to be hard of hearing. With the help of family and professionals the young bear who struggled to hear people talk and know what they were saying learns different techniques to help him such as lip reading and heading aids. Bear feels sounds. He can tell the volume and urgency of his father’s voice by the movements in the things around him. This is me. Jennie. I am a 44 year old, home educating mummy, passionate about picture books, children's literature and learning through play.

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The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre is one of the country's leading regional producing theatres - second to none for top quality entertainment. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Tina Williams is the Artistic Director of Pied Piper Theatre Company, which she set up in 1984 having trained as both an actor and a teacher. This story is great for inclusion because it highlights the difficulties that children who are deaf or hard of hearing experience. It provides an opportunity for readers to put themselves in their shoes for a while. Could it mean a trip to the audiologist? Boy Bear will be asked to press the board every time he hears a sound beneath his head phones. Yet he has been feeling the vibrations of the day, from the staircase to the banister to Dad Bear awakening you. Then he been aware of the silence of the day, and later the silence all about him. Polly graduated from Brighton Art School in 1999, where she studied illustration. Her best-selling book PenguinZoë McWhinney (she/they) completed her actor’s training at the pioneering École de Théâtre Universelle in Toulouse (2020). Recent theatre credits include the title role in RED (Polka Theatre, October 2021) Everyday (Deafinitely Theatre, June 2022), Lilies on the Land (Apollo Theatre Co, Sep-Oct 2022) and the title role of Princess Rose in Sleeping Beauty pantomime (CAST, December 2022). Direction Credits include:Jon Udry Punches Gravity in the Face(Jon Udry);Life on Wheels(Bella Kinetica);Rapunzel(Fourth Monkey). won the Nestlé Silver Award in 2007, The Book Trust Early Years Award 2007, The Red House Award 2008 and My 4 year old daughter (who is an advanced frequent reader) did not stay focused to get through the entire story - even after multiple attempts, which is quite rare for her.

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Can Bears Ski?is based on the book by poet Raymond Antrobus, Ted Hughes award-winner, who draws on his own experience as a deaf child in a hearing world.

It is an incredibly emotional journey for the reader and gives a tiny taste of how that journey might feel for the parent and child, a chance for us to look through the window and begin to understand and empathise so that we may better support families that we know. I wish this book had been available to me when I was teaching. It would have helped me to better teach the children in my classes who experienced sound differently and enabled me to better support the families of those children as they dealt with the daily challenges that deafness can bring. To celebrate Deaf Awareness Week, she will sign Can Bears Ski?, written by Raymond Antrobus and illustrated by Polly Dunbar. In the story the boy bear unintentionally ignores his friends’ greeting, and he is unable to join in with the laughter of his friends at school lunches. Deafinitely Theatre and New Diorama Theatre present Sarah Kane’s lyrical and haunting play about mental health. ★★★★ Time Out, ★★★★ The Guadian, ★★★★ Theatre Weekly, ★★★★★ West End Wilma

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As part of an emerging artist placement, Ciaran was involved in Wonder Boy(Bristol Old Vic), and in training on the Made in Bristol Programme - Ciaran performed in The Story of Guts(Bristol Old Vic). was shortlisted for the Greenaway. Her Tilly and Friends books were turned into a successful series on CBeebies People keep asking little bear "Can Bears Ski?" What could this mean? Little bear keeps this question on his mind as father bear investigates with a doc. about little bear's hearing. Raymond Antrobus is a deaf poet and teacher. He has won the Ted Hughes Award and became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbones Folio Prize. About Can Bears Ski, his first picture book, he says, "It's the book I could see myself reaching for as a child, and I can't wait to have it exist in the world.” Originally from London, Raymond Antrobus now lives in Oklahoma City.The story draws on the author’s own experience to show how isolating it can be for a deaf child in a hearing world.