“You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ‘96”, the 40 minute documentary video by Scott Beale chronicling the infamous Portland Santacon 1996.

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Here are some of the cities that have been targeted for a Santarchy invasion in December 2007. If you are organizing a Santacon in your city or have photos, video or a write-up of a Santacon event, let us know and we will add your link to the list.

Please Note: We will not list your Santacon event unless you have information online for us to link to.

 
BOULDER, CO

 
MONTRÉAL, QC

 
TULSA, OK

 
WINSTON-SALEM, NC

MANAMA, BAHRAIN

 
MADISON, WI

 
TULSA, OK

 
AUSTIN, TX

 
CALGARY, AB

 
CARDIFF, WALES

 
CHICAGO, IL

 
HOUSTON, TX

 
KANSAS CITY, MO

 
LOS ANGELES, CA

 
MIAMI, FL

 
MUNICH, GERMANY

 
NEW YORK, NY

 
PHOENIX, AZ

 
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

 
PITTSBURGH, PA

 
PORTLAND, OR

 
SACRAMENTO, CA

 
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

 
VICTORIA, BC

 
WASHINGTON DC

 
RALEIGH, NC

 
SECOND LIFE

 
CHIANG MAI, THAILAND

 
ARLINGTON, TX

 
BIRMINGHAM, AL

 
TACOMA, WA

 
ATLANTA, GA

 
BALTIMORE, MD

 
BANGKOK, THAILAND

 
CALGARY, AB

 
DETROIT, MI

 
DALLAS, TX

 
HELSINKI, FINLAND

 
INDIANAPOLIS, IN

 
LONDON, ENGLAND

 
NASHVILLE, TN

 
NEW ORLEANS, LA

 
OTTAWA, ON

 
ST. LOUIS, MO

 
SALT LAKE CITY, UT

 
SAN DIEGO, CA

 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

 
SEATTLE, WA

 
TORONTO, ON

 
VANCOUVER, BC

 
WILMINGTON, NC

 
DENTON, TX

 
BOSTON, MA

 
DENVER, CO

 
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

 
NAGOYA, JAPAN

 
PARIS, FRANCE

 
PHILADELPHIA, PA

 
PORTLAND, OR

 
TOKYO, JAPAN

 
VENTURA, CA

 
NAGOYA, JAPAN

photo credit: Pilar Delatierra

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CTV News is reporting that Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer was arrested at the Vancouver Santacon on December 15th.

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The Amazingly True Story of Christopher Cringle by P0YKPAC.

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Santarchy was recently featured on Boing Boing TV: Part 1 & Part 2.

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The 2007 version of the Santacon Carol Book, put together by Bitter Brooklyn Santa, is now available for download as a PDF. Print it out to bring along with you on your Santarchy adventures.

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The Cacophony Society presents Santarchy in Second Life this Sunday, December 9th at 4pm SLT at Pier 109/139/23 in Second Life. See the Santa in Second Life: A Crash Course for more info.

Are you a Sad Santa because you can’t go rampage with those other bad Santas this year?

You don’t have all day to act stupid? Or you got no plane ticket? Or your Cheap Santa Suit caught fire last year? Maybe you’re a crippled shut in?

All is not lost. Santa’s gonna take a little tour through Second Life this year so all you need is a couple hours, a bottle of booze and your internet connection to get your Ho on. If you’ve been in-world before and know what you’re doing, join the Santarchy group and meet us at the location above. We’ll give you a Cheap Santa Suit, a stiff drink and a teleport.

via Laughing Squid

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Santa stencil by Arofish as seen on the streets of London.

via HappyFt Travels via Wooster Collective

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On Christmas day, 60 rogue Santas reclaimed the South Pole for the 4th year in a row at Santarctica 2006 during winterover at McMurdo Station. Here’s full story from Sandwich Girl. Even more coverage over at Boing Boing and DOWN and OUT.

Check out the great photos of Santarctica 2006.

santarctica began down here in 2003, when i received 30 santa suits from some santa enthusiast friends back home. it continued when i received 30 elf costumes in 2004, but just a wee bit after the event due to the package mail delay. we broke them out again in ‘05, and yesterday as well. The funny part about this story is that there are 60 santa/elf suits, donned by 60 antarcticans annually. that is a statistic to be reckoned with.

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Ask A Ninja: Question 2 “Ninja Santa”

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It seems to be missing the Moscow SantaCon though, was it too intimidating?

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Muckmouth and the Auckland Federation of Santas, the guys behind last year’s controversial Santacon in Auckland, New Zealand, decided to mellow out a bit this year. They produced this Santa boy band music video “Last Christmas”, a cover of Wham!’s 1984 Christmas love song. It’s quite touching to see this gang of reformed santas focus their talents on a sappy Christmas ballad.

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Chuck Cirino recently posted his classic San Francisco Santacon ‘95 video that he shot during The Cacophony Society’s second Cheap Suit Santa (Santacon) event where over 100 Naughty Santas invaded San Francisco in 1995. This one features the famous scene where we hung Santa Melmoth from a streetlight on Market Street.

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Putting our silly little Santacons to shame, 70,000 Santas invaded Moscow on Sunday as part of a pro-Kremlin publicity stunt in honor of the Battle of Moscow. English Russia has some photos of the mass santactivist convergence.

Ahead of July’s Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, much was made of the fact that the Kremlin had gone so far as to hire a U.S. PR firm to tidy up its image. That turns out to have been small potatoes. On Sunday, 70,000 activists from the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi descended on the city in Santa suits and snow princess costumes, the best example, to date, of how just farcical the government’s image-making can get.

The parade of Grandfather Frosts appears to have been aimed at diverting attention from two other rallies — a Saturday event organized by The Other Russia, a liberal coalition, and a Sunday gathering honoring journalists slain in Russia since 1991. That Nashi billed its march as a 65th-anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Moscow rang hollow, given that the battle ended Dec. 5, almost two weeks before Saturday’s “anniversary.”

Thanks to Niall Kennedy for the tip!

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Santa Squid & Santa Melmoth of Laughing Squid present a very special 10th anniversary screening of Scott Beale’s documentary on the infamous 1996 Portland Santacon:

“You’d Better Watch Out: Portland SantaCon ‘96″

 
Tuesday, December 19th

Cafe du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco

doors: 8pm
video starts: 9pm

Santa Open Mike and general merriment after screening til closing.

Free admission. Santa attire encouraged.

The event will also serve as a post-Santacon 2006 event for Bay Area Santas and we would especially like the 1996 Portland alumni to join us and tell war stories and show off their scars.
 

If you’ve ever seen a mob of hundred’s of surly, inebriated Santa’s swarming around the shopping and drinking districts in your city & wondered what they were all about, this film will explain it all. The SF Cacophony Society kicked off the Santa phenomenon in 1994. By 96 it was out of control. This film by Scott Beale is a document of the biggest, reddest and most outrageous of all the Santarchy events from the world-over since this silly traditions inception twelve years ago. Watch as 50 Santa’s board a jet for Portland, spreading X-rated X-mas cheer through the friendly skies! Marvel at how much Santa can drink and still manage a hundred Santa conga-line! Come and see 200 Santa’s in a cheery standoff with riot police in body armor!!

Here’s a review of the documentary written by Jack Boulware for the SF Weekly.

Oh and here’s the Portland Police Memo that was sent out to warn the citizens of Portland about the impending invasion.

UPDATE: Here are some photos from the Santacon Party.

illustration by Greg Reynard

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Here are some of the cities that have targeted for a Santarchy invasion in December 2006. We will be updating this list with links to photos, videos and blog posts as they come in.
 

 
BOULDER

 
BERLIN

MADISON

ORLANDO

 
SEATTLE

 
CHICAGO

 
STATE COLLEGE, PA

 
AUSTIN

BOSTON

 
CALGARY

 
HOUSTON

 
INDIANAPOLIS

 
LOS ANGELES

PHILADELPHIA

 
PITTSBURGH

PORTLAND

SAN FRANCISCO

STOCKHOLM

 
WASHINGTON DC

 
ARLINGTON

 
BELLINGHAM

 
DENTON

 
WHITBY/DURHAM REGION, ON

 
ATLANTA

 
COLORADO SPRINGS

 
CHICAGO

DALLAS

 
DETROIT

 
EUGENE

 
HELSINKI

 
LONDON

NASHVILLE

NEW ORLEANS

 
NEW YORK CITY

OTTAWA

RENO

 
ST. LOUIS

 
SANTA BARBARA

 
TAMPA

 
TORONTO

 
TULSA

 
VANCOUVER

 
VICTORIA

 
WINNIPEG

 
LUANG PRABANG, LAOS

 
MELBOURNE

 
MINNEAPOLIS

 
ADDISON, TX

 
DENVER

 
MEXICO CITY

PORTLAND

SACRAMENTO

 
TOKYO

 
NAGOYA

 
ANTARCTICA

TULSA

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Photo credits, top to bottom: Lane Hartwell, Volker Neumann, Dav Yaginuma, Rick Phillips, Dave Matthews.

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For your perusal: SouthFlorida.com’s gallery of Santa terror.

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HO,

Gather your Elves.
Fluff your Reindeer.
Be jowly.
Don your gay apparel.

Santa is on the move.

This is the firm date and will not change, rain or shine.

WHAT TO BRING:

* A Santa suit held together with zip ties and sticky remains of last year’s beverages and bodily fluids. (NOT just a santa hat.)
* CASH for drinks, bribes and tips (TIP YOUR BARTENDERS. Santa tips well.)
* $5.50 for ferry (if coming from Oakland)
* $1.50 for MUNI (in quarters) (MUNI has NO CHANGE MACHINES)
* An unmarked drinking vessel for beverages to supplement bar drinks
* Santafication tools (to make others into Santas).
* A ball
* Toys/gifts (Naughty and Nice)
* Mistletoe
* Niblets (optional)
* Lube and condoms (elf size too if you’re into that sort of thing)
* Sex toys
* The Baby Jesus
* Comfortable shoes - because Rudolph will become too drunk to cart your sorry ass around.
* Warm clothes - Santa goes all night long
* NO CROCS

WHERE AND WHEN:

Oakland (pre Santarchy):

* 8:30-9am - East Bay Gathering
Heinhold’s First and Last Chance Saloon 56 Jack London Square, Oakland
* 10:00am- Ferry Trip
Oakland to SF Pier 41
Don’t be late or you’ll be waiting for about 2 hours for the next ferry.
Purchase tickets onboard the ferry - $5.50 One Way
www.eastbayferry.com/when/printable.html

SF (Main event)

* 10:30am - San Francisco Gathering at Carousel @ Pier 39. Santas get on for ½ price: $1.50
* 11:30am - Santarchy begins.

TIP YOUR BARTENDERS

Be jowly.

THE FOUR FUCKS:
Don’t fuck with KIDS
Don’t fuck with THE LAW
Don’t fuck with SECURITY
DON’T FUCK WITH SANTA

Tag yer photos/video/etc: santarchysf06

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