Welcome to the worldwide Santacon nexus, the orginal resource for Santarchy events across the globe.
Every December for the last 16 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 2009 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 2009
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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2004
ANTARCTICA (MCMURDO STATION)
AUCKLAND
“Behaving badly in Santa suits (TV ONE)
AUSTIN
BARCELONA
CHICAGO
DENVER
DETROIT
FORT LAUDERDALE
HELSINKI
IOWA CITY
LONDON
LOS ANGELES
SantaCon 2004 (Santa_smut)
SantaCon 2004 LA (Curious Josh)
Los Angeles SantaCon 2004 (Santa Saam)
SantaCon 2004 (Christopher Johnson)
SantaCon 2004 (Smiley Santa)
SantaCon 04 LA (Drastic DIY Fashions)
MADISON
NEW YORK CITY
“No Saints in Sight as These Santas Get Their Jollies” (New York Times)
“Boozy Santas play merry hell” (Herald Sun, Australia)
Santacon 2004 (Ray Olivares)
santacon 2004 (smudge)
Santacon 2004 (KaaX)
Santacon 2004 (Slimehag)
2004 NYC Santacon (Santa Ed)
SantaCon 2004 (Santa GammaBlaBlog)
SantaCon 2004, New York City (Christopher Ditto)
SantaCon 2004 (Santa lenin)
NYC Santacon 2004 (Costume Network)
Santacon NYC 2004
SantaCon (Shaun Peterson)
SantaCon 2004 (SantAbby)
OKLAHOMA CITY
OTTAWA
PORTLAND
The Bipolar Express (CulturePulp)
SantaCon 2004 (Wm Leler)
SantaCon ’04 (Santa Al)
SantaCon ’04 (Sant’ Jayknee)
Portland SantaCon (Santa Sally)
RENO
ST. LOUIS
SACRAMENTO
SAN FRANCISCO
Santarchy 04 (Evil Pete)
attk of the santas (Hep)
Santacon (Chip Chipman)
Santarchy 2004 (Internebbish)
SF Santarchy 2004 (Frog)
SantaCon SF 2004 (Santa Spaz)
Santcon2004 (Know Matter What)
SantaCon 2004 (Santess Red)
Sanarchy04 (San-a-terry)
SEATTLE
Bad Santas (David Stewart)
Santarchy (Nadav)
Santarchy @ Nite (Nadav 2)
Seattle Santarchy 2004 (Santa Helga Smoochavich)
Santarchy 2004 (Shawna)
Santacon (Nipper)
STATE COLLEGE PA
TOKYO
TORONTO
Santa Came to Town (Burn On)
Santanarchy (Joelf)
Santarchy 2004 (Santa D)
Toronto Santarchy 2004 (Santa Raj)
Santarchy 2004 (Chris)
TUSCALOOSA
WASHINGTON DC
WINNIPEG