Welcome to the worldwide Santacon nexus, the orginal resource for Santarchy events across the globe.
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.
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"You'd Better Watch Out:
Portland Santacon '96"
Weird America's San Francisco Santacon '95
The Early Years
Santacon Photos on Flickr
Santacon on Twitter
Santacon Carol Book
San Francisco Police Report
Portland Police Memo
If your city has a Santacon website, let us know and we will add it to the list.
This site is maintained by Santa Squid (retired), with occasional input from 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)
this website is licensed under a Creative Commons License
Santarchy FAQ
- This Santarchy website is an archive only. We don’t do any active planning on this website, we only list the websites of cities around the world that organize Santacon events.
- If you are looking for Santacon planning info, try contacting your local Santacon organizers.
- 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.
- If you came here looking for Chuck Palahniuk, he’s the one drinking cheap tequila over here.