Hyperlocal Durham is a community hub for art and storytelling that celebrates the beauty, history, and culture of the Bull City.
Visit our vending machine in downtown Durham for a collection of curated city-life guides and print media created by local artists. Get Hyperlocal Durham's in-house zine series exploring different aspects of Durham's history and culture delivered to you monthly, a project developed and co-created with over a dozen local community partners and nonprofits.
Durham Food Hall
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VENDING MACHINE CONTRIBUTORS
These artists, writers, and makers have contributed creative works celebrating Durham's beauty, history, and culture that you can find in the Hyperlocal Durham vending machine in the Durham Food Hall. Click on an artist to learn more about their work and connection to Durham. Submit your work here. (Note: Submissions should center Durham’s local history, environment, or cultural landscape.)
OPEN-SOURCE PASSPORTS
Hyperlocal works with local community orgs to create free, fun, interactive "passport" style zines as low-barrier ways for folks to get to know the city. You can print any of these black and white zines at home and take them with you on your adventures to receive stamps from different community partners!
Note: All our artwork for zines and stamps are handmade in-house - no AI slop and no boilerplate templates. Our stamps of Durham storefronts are engraved at the Durham County Library Makerspace. Each passport is commissioned by the community partners listed so that we can make these initiatives as widely accessible as possible. If you would like to get a full color copy or prints of any of the artwork, you can get a copy from the Hyperlocal Durham vending machine downtown.
If printing at home, make sure you set the PDF to scale 100% when you print for best alignment!
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HYPERLOCAL DISPATCH
Whether you're a longtime local or totally new to Durham looking to connect with the city, open your mailbox every month to a bundle of Bull City surprises: maps, zines, letters, stickers and field guides on Durham's lesser-known histories, hidden gems, and local legends built around seasonal themes and developed in partnership with over a dozen local community partners.
Interested in having your organization sponsor a zine, map, or other printed media? Reach out!
You can get copies of any previous Hyperlocal Durham zines from the vending machine for now. Online and mail club will return revamped! Watch this space - the Hyperlocal Dispatch is growing!
EXPLORE THE ZINE ARCHIVE
URBAN FORAGING
ICE CREAM
SPOOKY STORIES
INDIGENOUS DURHAM
NEW IN TOWN
SWEET TOOTH
COFFEE
NATIVE FLORA
THE FREEWAY
PRIDE
TRIANGLE TRANSIT
SIDEWALK BOND
Hyperlocal Durham is a locally-operated branch of the Hyperisms Micropress & Creative Studio. Learn more >>