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
Do you have a santacon website you would like to add to the archives? Send an email with the link, city and year to:
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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Portland Mercury Santacon Article
Check out Marjorie Skinner’s The Portland Mercury article on Santacon that came out today: “Yes, There is a Santa Mob”
For the most part, Marjorie actually seems to understand what Santarchy/Santacon is all about and she’s even included some fairly accurate historical information. She also mentions the Auckland, New Zealand Santa event, but in proper prospective to the Portland Santacon, which is much closer to what most Santacon events are like. Notice how she wrote the entire article without once calling us a “movement” or “protest” event. Bravo! Now if only the idiots at AP/Retuers/UPI could do the same.
Back in 1996, the Portland Cacophony Society hosted the first Santacon to take place outside of San Francisco, which then led to other US cities hosting the event and a few years later going international.
More write-ups and photos from this year’s Portland Santacon can be found in the 2005 archives.
photo credit: Wm Leler