Welcome to the worldwide Santacon nexus, the orginal resource for Santarchy events across the globe.
Every December for the last 16 years, Cacophonous Santas have been visiting cities around the world, engaging in a bit of Santarchy as part of the annual Santacon events.
It all started back in 1994 when several dozen Cheap Suit Santas paid a visit to downtown San Francisco for a night of Kringle Kaos. Things have reached Critical Xmas and Santarchy is now a global phenomenon.
You'd better watch out! Santa's coming to town!
Santacon 2009 Information
and Event Coverage
"You'd Better Watch Out:
Portland Santacon '96"
Weird America's San Francisco Santacon '95
- For the most part Santarchy! is an archive only. We don't do any active planning on this website, however we will mention upcoming Santacons that have their information posted online.
- If you are looking for Santacon planning info, try contacting your local lodge of The Cacophony Society or the Santacon and Santarchy tribes.
- We do not condone or encourage any kind of vandalism or violence at a Santacon event. Our santas do not destroy property, steal merchandise or do harm to others.
- Santarchy is not a movement, that's what you do in the bathroom. In addition to that, the annual Santacon events are not a protest against Christmas or commercialization. Really, it's just a bunch of santas getting together to have a good time.
- We do not provide or sell any stock photos or video footage and all images on this website are copyright of their owners. If you want to use any photos or videos on this website, please contact the owner directly.
- We do not do interviews with the media and so on. We're not actively involved with organizing any of the Santacon events (see #1), so if you are looking for people to interview, try contacting the organizers of various regional Santacon events.
- We have absolutly nothing to do with any idiot santas you may have heard about in New Zealand. Contrary to misreporting by the media, they are not associated Santarchy or the Santacon events.
- If you came here looking for Chuck Palahniuk, he's the one drinking cheap tequila over here.
October 2009
October 2008
January 2008
December 2007
August 2007
December 2006
November 2006
March 2006
January 2006
December 2005
Do you have a santacon website you would like to add to the archives?
Contact us at:
hohoho AT santarchy DOT com
Make sure to mention what which city it took place in.
This site is maintained by Santa Squid (retired), with occasional input from Santa Melmoth (retired), both veterans of the great Santa wars 1994-98.
With special guest bloggers Santa de Nada & o'Santa Bin Laden
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Santacon 2007
Here are some of the cities that have been targeted for a Santarchy invasion in December 2007. If you are organizing a Santacon in your city or have photos, video or a write-up of a Santacon event, let us know and we will add your link to the list.
Please Note: We will only list your Santacon event if you have information online for us to link to.
LOS ANGELES, CA
GammaBlog
Santa Ed
Hideout Painters
Jérôme Sudan (video)
Madhattan Nights
Chris Bickford
Lorenz Fish
eatsdirt
jekoontz (video)
Rudolph Arrested At Vancouver Santacon
CTV News is reporting that Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer was arrested at the Vancouver Santacon on December 15th.
The Amazingly True Story of Christopher Cringle
The Amazingly True Story of Christopher Cringle by P0YKPAC.
Santarchy on Boing Boing TV
Santarchy was recently featured on Boing Boing TV: Part 1 & Part 2.
Santacon 2007 Carol Book
The 2007 version of the Santacon Carol Book, put together by Bitter Brooklyn Santa, is now available for download as a PDF. Print it out to bring along with you on your Santarchy adventures.
Santarchy In Second Life
The Cacophony Society presents Santarchy in Second Life this Sunday, December 9th at 4pm SLT at Pier 109/139/23 in Second Life. See the Santa in Second Life: A Crash Course for more info.
Are you a Sad Santa because you can’t go rampage with those other bad Santas this year?
You don’t have all day to act stupid? Or you got no plane ticket? Or your Cheap Santa Suit caught fire last year? Maybe you’re a crippled shut in?
All is not lost. Santa’s gonna take a little tour through Second Life this year so all you need is a couple hours, a bottle of booze and your internet connection to get your Ho on. If you’ve been in-world before and know what you’re doing, join the Santarchy group and meet us at the location above. We’ll give you a Cheap Santa Suit, a stiff drink and a teleport.
via Laughing Squid