About

My name is Kerima Mohideen and I am a trained storyteller and educator.

 Find out more about my storytelling on the storytelling page

I trained at the School of Storytelling, where I did a number of wonderful courses which I highly recommend, including their flagship three month storytelling course Storytelling Beyond Words.

It was on this course that I created my first hour long storytelling performance, If the Trees could Speak which I have performed at meetings about the rights of Indigenous people in India at Amnesty International, the School of Oriental Studies and the Brunei Gallery (SOAS) and also as a standalone performance at Oxford Storytelling Festival, Beyond the Border, A Bit Crack in Newcastle and several other storytelling clubs.

I have also told lots of other shorter stories at a number of places including the South London Botanical Institute and Spitalfields Farm. I have started sharing my second story performance Across Thirteen Rivers and Seven Oceans most recently for the Stowtellers in Walthamstow and online for The Last Tuesday Society.

Before training as a storyteller, I worked as an English and Humanities teacher in inner London schools. I have many years experience of working with schools to create materials to develop language and literacy skills, to raise awareness and stimulate discussion and critical thinking about colonialism, women’s rights and the environment.

I continue to combine radical education work with storytelling wherever possible. I currently work part time as the education coordinator at London Mining Network, a small charity that works in solidarity with communities threatened by mining. I have developed a number of workshops to promote discussion in schools and universities about the communities on the frontlines of the resistance to corporate plunder of the Earth’s resources. These can be found among the collection of resources here.