Welcome to Santarchy, the original resource for global Santacon events.
Each December Santas visit 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.
You'd better watch out! Santa's coming to town!
PLEASE NOTE: We are not associated with any commercial Santacon websites that are attempting to cash in on Santarchy. The Santacon events have always been advertising-free events without sponsorships.
Ask Santa to bring you a copy of the wonderful new book Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, which includes an entire section on Santacon.
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"You'd Better Watch Out:
Portland Santacon '96"
Weird America's San Francisco Santacon '95
1995 San Francisco Police Report
If your city has a Santacon website, let us know and we will add it to the list.
This site is maintained by Scott Beale aka "Santa Squid" (retired), with occasional input from John Law aka "Santa Melmoth" (retired), both veterans of the great Santa wars 1994-98.
This blog runs on WordPress (ask Santa to bring it to you for Christmas)
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