Have a look at the Read watch play blog and see what ideas are triggered. You might want to share your ideas here.
Promote local history collection
Display on local indigenous peoples
Australian films, authors
Displays on local food production and sustainable eating – SLOW food movement (Sustainable Local Organic and Whole)
Local celebrities and famous figures from local history
Promote local authors, artists
Photographic display of the local area, or competition based on the local area/people
What’s your “local”? Selfies, instagram etc of your favourite place in the local area
Now and Then displays from local history
Create a collage/mural out of pictures of the local area
Minecraft idea – recreating scenes from the local area in minecraft
Or with lego
Local gardens
Link with schools and have students interview someone significant from the local area or create a poster advertising a building or something prominent from local history
Link with local history tours – tours of prominent sites/sights