Santarchy & Santacon » 2008

Welcome to the worldwide Santacon nexus, the orginal resource for Santarchy events across the globe.

Every December for the last 15 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 2008 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.

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Santacon 2008

posted by Santa Squid on October 15th, 2008

Here are some of the cities that have been targeted for a Santarchy invasion in December 2008. If you are organizing a Santacon, let us know and we will add your link to the list.

Please Note: We only list Santacon events that have information online for us to link to and we only list actual Santacon events, not general Santa themed events, fundraisers, etc.

November 26th

BOULDER, CO

December 5th

NORFOLK, VA

December 6th

ASHEVILLE, NC

HOUSTON, TX

LOS ANGELES, CA
- Los Angeles Times

MADISON, WI
- The Daily Page

MUNICH, GERMANY

PORTLAND, OR
- All Things Considered, NPR

SACRAMENTO, CA