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Council approved the project in 2019, and Kalmar Construction started building the plaza last summer. The total cost of the plaza was approximately $3.2 million, with $1.9 million coming from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Grant. Last year, the city hosted a public art competition, offering local artists the opportunity to display their work on the obelisks. Each contains a large gas-fueled fire cauldron within an enclosed steel structure. Visitors will notice the performance oval is surrounded by eight leaning tamarack poles, representing the skeleton structure of a teepee. The plaza also features artistic paving patterns throughout the site with various coloured concrete surfaces and cement bleachers with traditional beadwork imagery provided by Garry Oker of the Doig River First Nations. ....
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By Laura Briggs Jun 22, 2021 | 12:24 PM An image of one of the panels installed at the Festival Plaza (City of FSJ, Facebook) FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – The City of Fort St. John installed bead panels at the new Festival Plaza on National Indigenous Peoples Day. The new panels were created using a 3-D scanning of actual beadwork that has been done by the Dane-zaa women from Doig River First Nation. Each of the beads was handstitched to create intricate works of art. According to a Facebook post from the City, “Beads from a historical perspective played an important role in communicating tribal affiliations and status. The oldest stone bead found locally is over 10,000 years old at Tse’k’wa, a National Historic Site at Charlie Lake.” ....