Welcome to the worldwide Santacon nexus, the orginal resource for Santarchy events across the globe.
Every December for the last 18 years 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 organized by the Cacophony Society. Things have reached Critical Xmas and Santarchy is now a global phenomenon.
Check out our Santarchy FAQ for more info.
You'd better watch out! Santa's coming to town!
"You'd Better Watch Out:
Portland Santacon '96"
Weird America's San Francisco Santacon '95
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hohoho AT santarchy DOT com
This site is maintained by Santa Squid (retired) of Laughing Squid, with occasional input from Santa Melmoth (retired), both veterans of the great Santa wars 1994-98.
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Land of the Rising Santa
Oyabun Santa has informed us that the Tokyo Santarchy is on for December 23rd. You can get the details at the official Tokyo Santarchy announcement page. For those of you who don’t read Kanji, here’s a translation, courtesy of Mrs. o’Santa Bin Laden:
The Next Santarchy is 12/23 Saturday. The Full On Santadelic, Nobody Can Stop Us!
Meet at 12 noon at Shibuya Hachiko
Rain or Bad Weather the event is canceled.
Fees: Of course it is Free!
Costume: Full Santa costume or related costumes. Be sure to stay warm and we recommend comfortable walking shoes.
It is also good if you have gifts for strangers you encounter.
Our goal is to have an event that is wide and deep. We wholeheartedly welcome first timers!
Caution: you do need to have a santa costume or something related. No spectator, YOU ARE GOD!!!!
And please note that we will be walking around a lot on that day so make sure you are comfortable.
The most important thing with Santarchy is that there is no statement: Please no politics, philosophy, culture church or other categories.
To be able to continue Santarchy we prohibit any overly disruptive reckless behavior. You can be completely stupid, but please stay smart.
Please note that this is not a psychedelic trance party. Please do not bring any illegal things or activities.
It’s also prohibited to have fights, litter or kachinkko fakku[1].
The day’s agenda: Meet at Shibuya, swarm nearby department stores, go to Yoyogi Park, go to Omotesando, infilitrate Omotesando high class boutiques, subway somewhere else and at that station have a Santarampage and then over.
Emphasis mine. Now go forth henna gaijin[2], and make us proud.
[1] Now you know how to say ‘public display of fucking’ in Japanese. Have fun with it.
[2] Strange foreigner.
