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.
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December 2006
November 2006
March 2006
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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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pingback by Laughing Squid » Santacon 2006 Photos
on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 11:59 am
[...] Photos are starting to come in from the various Santacon 2006 events that are taking place around the world. In particular, check out the amazing photos that Lane Hartwell shot at Santarchy San Francisco, 2006. More photos can be found here and here. photo credit: Lane Hartwell tags: San Francisco (T) , photos (T) , Santarchy (T) , Santacon (T) , santacon06 (T) , santacon2006 (T) , santarchy06 (T) , santarchy2006 (T) Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL [...]
comment by SteveHopson
on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Austin’s Santa Rampage took place last Saturday. Hundreds of crazed Santas, Elves, Elvises and other creatures of the winter night rampaged through the night and early morning. Check out the photos on my website at at stevehopson.com.Steve
comment by DOUG MARTIN
on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Thanks to Dave Mathews we love you brotha from D
comment by Suz
on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
We love you David!
comment by KJ
on Monday, December 18th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Santa Rampage Nashville pics can be seen at
ibiblio.org. Official head count was 87 but I think it swelled to 100 at some points. An excellent time was had by all.
comment by Santa
on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Nice!
comment by Dustcat
on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Ottawa Santa Rampage pictures up at http://pictures.burnon.ca/2006OttawaSantaRampage
We had between 50 and 70 Santas, our biggest turnout to date. Go SANTA!