Welcome to the Dark Side
Black Raven Marketplace is a professionally curated dark lifestyle marketplace hosted in Buena Park, California, at the DoubleTree by Hilton. We create immersive pop-up events where indie artists, makers, and designers sell the eerie, the macabre, and the beautifully strange. From gothic fashion to unusual art, this is where dark taste meets community. Buy a ticket, shop small, and lean fully into your shadow side.
Not Your Average Pop-Up
We don’t throw together random vendors and hope for magic. Black Raven Marketplace is heavily curated, intentionally planned, and unapologetically selective. Visitors enjoy a smooth, engaging shopping experience filled with gothic, alternative, and dark lifestyle goods—without overcrowding, chaos, or shortcuts. Every detail is designed to highlight creativity, support small businesses, and keep the vibe inspiring, weird, and wildly enjoyable from start to finish.
Built by Pros Who Love the Shadows
Black Raven Marketplace is run by a small, experienced team with decades of combined work in retail, space planning, merchandising, and creative production. We believe artists and small businesses deserve professional execution, fair fees, and real support—not just table space. Our values are simple: community over competition, creativity over trends, and building something meaningful for those who thrive outside the mainstream.
Darlene Blanchard
Darlene Blanchard is one half of the force behind Black Raven Marketplace and a seasoned event organizer with a deep love for the dark, unusual, and beautifully unconventional. With decades of combined professional experience on the team spanning retail, merchandising, space planning, and creative production, she helps shape events that are intentional, polished, and unapologetically bold. Darlene believes small businesses deserve real support, fair fees, and a platform that takes their work seriously—without killing the vibe. No shortcuts, no chaos, just professionally executed darkness done right.
Eileen Mejia
Eileen Mejia co-leads Black Raven Marketplace with a sharp creative eye and a passion for building community within the alternative and dark lifestyle space. Drawing from extensive experience across retail environments, creative design, and production-focused work, she helps ensure every event is immersive, curated, and thoughtfully executed. Eileen is driven by the belief that the most imaginative minds often live outside the mainstream and deserve a space to thrive. Her focus is simple: elevate artists, protect the experience, and make the shadows feel like home.