Kerima Mohideen and story activism

Kerima is an activist storyteller and educator with roots in both South London and South Asia. She trained at the School of Storytelling at Emerson College in Sussex where she created her first hour long storytelling performance “If the Trees could Speak” about the rights of Indigenous people fighting to protect their forests in India. She has performed this at Amnesty International, the School of Oriental Studies, Oxford Storytelling Festival, Beyond the Border Festival and A Bit Crack Storytelling Club in Newcastle. Her second hour long storytelling performance “Across Thirteen Rivers and Seven Oceans” is also inspired by the people resisting corporate land grabs, told through tales from South Asia.Kerima has also shared folktales from around the world at the South London Botanical Institute, Spitalfields Farm, in a tent at the Bradford Literary Festival as well as on a busy, noisy street during a big climate protest last summer. She believes that stories can help us re-enchant our relationship with nature and understand our place as humans within it and that storytelling is a way to find connection with each other.___People can contact her via her blog https://just-storytelling.com or [email protected]