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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Zombie Claus 2005
Zombie Claus 2005 took place last weekend and was a huge success. Organizer Mark Maynard reports on all of the gory details.
Rumor has it that the zombies were pissed-off that the Christmas season is beginning way to early and starting to encroach on Halloween, so the zombies took their revenge on the santas, turning them into zombies.
UPDATE: Mark also did an radio invterview on Ann Arbor’s WCBN about the whole affair.
pingback by Laughing Squid » Zombie Claus Report
on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 at 10:25 am
[...] UPDATE: Santarchy! has a write-up on Zombie Claus as well. tags: events, santacon, santarchy, zombies, santa, christmas, ypsilanti, annarbor – posted by Scott Beale on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL [...]
comment by Ghostex
on Monday, December 26th, 2005 at 6:59 am
This is the second greatest idea ever!
comment by red
on Saturday, August 12th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
hey, what if one day it all came true?hell, where will I find myself cover, and for the most part, some guns?