Every December for the last 14 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 2007 Information
and Event Coverage
- 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.
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.
"You'd Better Watch Out:
Portland Santacon '96"
Weird America's San Francisco Santacon '95
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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Santa Ray Ray’s NYC Santacon Photos
Ray Olivares (Santa Ray Ray) shot some amazing photos of this year’s NYC Santacon. More NYC photos can be found in the 2005 archives.
photo credit: Ray Olivares
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on Monday, December 19th, 2005 at 9:19 am
Santarchy was a bust
For me, anyway. I read about Santarchy early in the month (I guess it was in the Red Eye, too) and RSVPed right away. A chance to dress like a fool and drink, and subvert the sanitized image of…
comment by mindy
on Monday, December 19th, 2005 at 10:32 am
omg.. i never laughed so hard in my life when reading about this santa thing.. i think its cool..
pingback by giantmonster » Blog Archive » santa’s coming
on Friday, December 23rd, 2005 at 2:01 am
[...] are you ready for santa? he’ll be here soon - in many forms. there’s the email virus santa. how thoughtful! then there’s the drunken, rampaging santas in aukland, new zealand. special! for the undead and living alike, zombieclaus is coming to town. more brains! and lest we forget the madness and tomfoolery of santarchy! wow - now that’s christmas! and be sure to check out these great photos by ray olivares from santacon 2005 in new york city. too good. but wait - something is missing. what about krampus? have we forgotten about santa’s pal, otherwise known as krampus? no. just check out the krampus postcards. merry christmas n’ stuff! totally wording up. [...]
comment by ken
on Sunday, December 9th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
so why wasn’t the meet-up point published on their site as promised?
comment by Paul
on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Great pics! I’ll be in Long Island next December visiting family. If I can convince my cousin to go, I’ll be at the NYC ‘08 Santacon.
Our con here in West Palm was very small and I sweat like crazy in the South Florida heat. It will be nice to wear the suit in cold weather for a change.