Are you wondering how you’re going to spend Valentine’s Day? Perhaps you will go out to eat with your significant other or a love interest and be showered with chocolate-covered strawberries or a teddy bear. Or maybe you don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day at all. Either way, you are guaranteed to fall head over heels for the Galentine x Valentine and the Love Will Tear Us Apart pop-up events hosted by Mint Cream Market.
The Black- and woman-owned pop-up market hosts monthly events in Memphis and Nashville, and both of the aforementioned events will give guests the opportunity to enjoy live performances, gain new experiences, and support small businesses. “Mint Cream Market is where I bring in vendors like crafters, artists, collectors, vendor stores, so people can set up a booth in the market. So, it’s a collaboration,” says Amy Dobbins, the market’s founder.
The Galentine x Valentine pop-up will feature live performances from women musicians and DJs, as well as women-owned vendors. The event will be held at the Ghost River Brewery Co. from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, and anyone 18 years and older is welcome to attend.
If you are more of a lover, or even a heartbreaker, then the Love Will Tear Us Apart pop-up event is just for you. “We will have a well-known Goth DJ in Memphis, DJ Plastic Citizen,” says Dobbins. “He does industrial cold wave. We will also have a rocker DJ, Amy D — which is me. I’ll be spinning love songs. So, you got me spinning the love songs, the sweet stuff, and we got DJ Plastic Citizen spinning dark wave.”
And if that’s not satisfying enough, there will be lots of merchandise that fits with the lover and heartbreaker theme of the event. The Love Will Tear Us Apart pop-up will be this Sunday at Memphis Made Brewing Co. from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information regarding both events and future events visit mintcreamarket.com/home.