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.
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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Radio New Zealand Interview
On Sunday evening I did a radio inteview with Jim Mora and a panel of “experts” on Radio New Zealand. They had me on the show to talk about santarchy.com and our reaction to the Auckland Santa controversy. Alex Dyer, a spokesman for the Auckland Santa event, was on the show as well. He gives a much better explanation of what actually happened, compared to what was reported by the world media. As always, don’t believe everything you read.
The interview segment is called “The Panel”. You’ll need to forward about 8 minutes in to get to the actual Santarchy discussion.
Overall, I think it was a good piece and should help give a bit of balance to things. Hint: if you’re doing an story or blogging about the New Zealand Santa event, please listen to this interview first and read the STUFF article, as well as check out the information on our website, especially the Mini-FAQ on the sidebar.
3 comments
pingback by Santarchy! (Santacon) » New Zealand Santarchy Follow-Up
on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
[...] UPDATE: The Radio New Zealand interview is now online [...]
pingback by Santarchy! (Santacon) » New Zealand Santa’s (allegedly) Run Amok!
on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
[...] UPDATE: The Radio New Zealand interview is now online tags: santarchy, santacon, santa, santas, christmas, aukland, newzealand – posted by Santa Melmoth on Sunday, December 18th, 2005 | on this post [...]
comment by anton
on Monday, October 23rd, 2006 at 4:59 am
i luv santarchy getting pissed with my mates and reading the papers the next week making up sensational stories about us