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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2005
ANN ARBOR & YPSILANTI
zombie claus redux (Mark Maynard)
I Survived Zombie Claus 2005 (Suds & Soliloquies)
Zombies Attack!! (Sam’s Thoughts)
Zombie Claus Exposé (The Corpus Callosum)
Zombie Claus, Elvis, bagpipers…I think I need help, Doctor (The Ann Arbor News)
AUCKLAND
Santas fight and steal in the streets (The New Zealand Herald)
Drunken Santa Rampage! (Sploid)
Drunk Santas on the rampage (Aljazeera)
Drunken Santas run riot in Auckland (CNN)
Bad Santas run wild in Auckland (BBC)
Stewed ‘Santarchists’ Run Wild In New Zealand (New York Post)
AUSTIN
BERLIN
BOSTON
CANADA
CHICAGO
Santa Kong 2005 (morgandotcom.com)
Santarchy was a bust (Metroblogging Chicago)
Calling All Bad Santas (Chicagoist)
Second Annual Chicago Santarchy (metromix.com, Chicago Tribune)
DETROIT
It’s all about holiday spirit (Detroit Free Press)
When Santarchy goes only a little bit bad… (Orac Knows)
HELSINKI
HOUSTON
LONDON
SantaCon 2005 (Shangrila Santa)
Santarchy in the UK (David J. Bradshaw)
London SantaCon (DonKing Santa)
Santacon 2005 (Santa Offline)
Santacon 2005 (Willis)
Santa Skate 2005 (LondonSkaters)
LOS ANGELES
Ho Ho Huh? Some Truly Independent Clauses (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles: Santacon! (Kathryn Hill)
Santa does Hollywood Blvd
Santas Swarm L.A. to Celebrate Santacon (All Headline News)
SANTARCHY - Los Angeles 2005 (Santa Ria)
SantaCon 2005 Los Angeles (SantaGoat)
LA Santacon 2005 (Santa Opus)
Santacon LA 2005
Santacon (Marvin the Monkey)
MADISON
NASHVILLE
NEW YORK CITY
2005 Santacon - NYC (Ed Barnas)
Santacon Brings Santarchy To New York (NBC6 South Florida)
Hundreds participate in NY SantaCon (Xinhua News Agency, China)
Drinking Santas storm the Seaport (Downtown Express, Lower Manhattan)
Santacon (Edwina Hay)
SantaCon ‘05 (Shaun Peterson)
Santacon 2005 (Laney B)
Santacon 2005 (KaaX)
Santacon 2005 NYC (John Meloy)
USA Santacon (Michael Harlan Turkell)
Santacon New York (Dr. Kat Kringle and Elf Steven)
Santa Stumble - NYC (GammaBlog)
OKLAHOMA CITY
OTTAWA
PITTSBURGH
SantaRchy 2005 (Santa Ted Williams)
Santarchy 2005 (Brian Maloney)
Santarchy! (I heart PGH)
Pittsburgh Santarchy (Santa Larkin)
Pittsburgh Santarchy ‘05 (Old St. Nick)
PORTLAND
Better run and hide, Virginia (PortlandTribune)
Yes, There is a Santa Mob (The Portland Mercury)
santaconspiracy (Santa Trainwreck)
Portland Santacon 2005 (AlBob)
Portland Santacon 2005 (bittersweet being)
Portland SantaCon 2005 (Wm Leler)
Portland Santacon 2005 (Santa Bigboote’)
Portland Santacon 2005 (DarkLady)
Santacon 2005 (Robyn Brown)
Santacon 2005 (Santa PooPoo)
Santacon (Shane)
SACRAMENTO
ST. LOUIS
SAN FRANCISCO
Santarchy (Danger Ranger)
SF Santacon 2005 (Preppypunk)
SF Santacon 2005 Portraits (Preppypunk)
SF Santarchy 2005 (Dav)
Santarchy 2005 (Frog)
Santarchy2005 (Kissinger Santa)
Santarchy 2005 (KnowMatterWhat)
santacon 2005 SF (Serge Beaulieu)
SEATTLE
SantaCon Seattle - 2005 (Zoey Pants)
Seattle Santa Con 2005 (shitboxdodge.com)
Seattle Santarchy 2005 (cheeseandbeer.com)
STATE COLLEGE, PA
STOCKHOLM
TOKYO
Santarchy Tokyo 2005 & After Party Photos (TheJointToHeaven)
Santarchy Tokyo 2005 (Shdwspn)
Santarchy TOKYO (ijinden)
Santarchy TOKYO 2005 (cabcab)
Santarchy Night 2005 (cabcab)
Santarchy2005@Tokyo (nafnafnahoo)
SantarchyTokyo2005 (buriburibontakun)
TORONTO
Santa Rampage Toronto 2005 (Wiggler)
Toronto Santa Rampage (taymar)
Santarchy 2005 (BurnOn)
Santarchy 2005 (Rolando)
Santarchy 2005 (Juice)
Santarchy 2005 (Aubrey)
VANCOUVER
SantaCon 2005 (miss ellaneous)
Santacon Vancouver 2005
santacon
Santacon - 2005 (Santanonymous)
SantaCon 2005 (WeatherAClause)
Santa Con Van 2k5
Santacon 2005 (Raver Santa)
WASHINGTON DC
Santarchy DC 2005 (ATZ OK)
Santarchy DC-05 (primofex)
Santarchy 2005 Part 1 and Santarchy 2005 Part 2 (guitargirll)
WINNIPEG