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ARTIST-SCHOLAR & DANCE EDUCATOR

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA FEATURES

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Book cover titled "Arts-Based Pedagogies" featuring a blue artistic background, with subtitle "Integrating Culturally Relevant Creative Processes in K-12 Education." Edited by Tanya Berg.

Integrating Anti-Racist Collaboration with African-Diasporic Teaching Dance Artists. Berg, Tanya, ed. Arts-Based Pedagogies : Integrating Culturally Relevant Creative Processes in K–12 Education.

Toronto ; Canadian Scholars, 2024: 37-59

Book cover titled 'My Best Idea Volume 2 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,' featuring a purple background with a gray circle. The cover includes names of contributors like Kerry-Ann Escayg and Cindy Gangaram, and mentions editors Karen Murray, Alice Te, and Jennifer Watt. Published by Rubicon/Savvas Company.

Upholding Cultural Identities and Student Voice in the Arts. Murray, Karen, Alice Te. And Jennifer Watt.eds.  My Best Idea: Culturally Responsive Teaching

Rubicon Publishing Inc. (2022): 34-42

Cover of Canadian Theatre Review Spring 2024 issue featuring a stylized portrait of a child against a dark background, with text "Black Futures and Freedoms" edited by Naila Keleta-Mae and Lisa Karen Cox.

Equitable Freedom beyond Proscenium Stages.

Canadian Theatre Review 198 (2024): 33–38

Cover of Canadian Journal of History, featuring dancers in traditional attire, highlighting a special issue on Black Canadian creativity, expressive cultures, and narratives of space and place, winter 2021.

Educating from Difference: Perspectives on Black Cultural Art Educators. Experiences with Culturally Responsive Teaching.

Canadian Journal of History 56, no. 3 (2021): 353–80

Magazine cover of PUBLIC issue 67 featuring a person sitting on the floor with arms extended, titled 'Return to the Body', edited by Bridget Cauthery and Jonathan Osborn.

In My Body: An African Contemporary Dance Perspective.

Public (Toronto) 34, no. 67 (2023): 58–61

Cover of 'Revue YOUR Review' Volume 2, 2015, featuring a distorted red grid on a gray background, with the title and subtitle indicating York Online Undergraduate Research.

Altered beauty: African-Caribbean women decolonizing racialized aesthetics in Toronto, Canada

Revue YOUR Review (York Online Undergraduate Research) (2015): 57-67

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About Miss Coco Murray & her journey over the past 25 years in arts education

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Media & Features

  • York University
    Award-winning PhD student reimagines what dance can be

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  • The Toronto Observer
    Educators Urge Canada’s K-12 School Systems to Implement Culturally Relevant Arts Education

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  • Currently in Dance
    Unpacking Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival with Collette

    PART 1 / PART 2

  • York University
    Grad Student Collette Murray Earns Two Awards for Work Advancing Diasporic Dance Styles

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  • York University
    Anti-Black racism pervades cultural arts curricula in Ontario schools, research finds

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  • Turnout Radio
    The Toronto Caribbean Carnival and the intersection of emancipation, history and dance: With Ronald A. Taylor & Collette ‘Coco’ Murray

    PART 1 / PART 2

  • Turnout Radio
    Integrating Anti-Racist Collaboration with African-Diasporic Teaching Dance Artists: with Collette ‘Coco’ Murray

    LISTEN HERE

  • University of Waterloo
    Bringing Blackness and Freedom to Life

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  • Turnout Radio
    The Toronto Caribbean Carnival-Liberation & the Dancing Body with Collette ‘Coco’ Murray & Ronald A. Taylor

    LISTEN HERE

  • The Dance Current
    The Roots and Realities of Colourism. Esie Mensah’s Shades: What is Colour?

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  • The Dance Current
    Who Tells and Cries Our Freedom?

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  • The Dance Current
    New Year, New Awakening: Soulful Messiah’s Fifteenth Year

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  • The Dance Current
    Konversations on Colour: A Report

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  • The Dance Current
    Passion - Toronto Dance Theatre’s Persefony Songs

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  • Dance Collection Danse Magazine - Issue 79, Fall 2019: Casimiro Nhussi - Moving Afro-Diasporic Inspiration

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