Holidaze got you down? Looking for something outside your regular routine? Your Local Union of St. Nick wants you to bring holiday cheer to your fair city!

About this time every year legions of Santa Claus visit cities around the globe bringing their own variety of holiday weirdness; Sacramento is no exception. Armed with holiday cheer, candy canes for the children, and demented gifts for the jaded, tens and hundreds of Santas have their last hurrah before returning north to complete the daunting task of preparing to deliver hand crafted toys to girls and boys throughout the world. As populations grow and the polar ice sheet melts, this time of year can be very distressing for the jolly old elf, so it’s understandable that he requires a little R&R to blow off some steam before the big day.

Santacon, or Sanarchy as it’s popularly known, had it’s humble beginnings when Santa Claus, a self admitted alcoholic, and the Kris Kringle Institute Class of ’94, descended on San Francisco for a little pre-holiday romp through the City. Welcomed everywhere like a rich uncle, the cavalcade of cacophonic kringles skipped from one holiday party to the next. Department stores, city parks, public transportation, unsuspecting dinner parties, strip clubs, nightclubs, and mosh pits played host to the merry melee; by the end of the evening an institution had been born.

Fourteen years later Santacon occurs on various days in December in nearly every state of the union, Canada, Germany, Bahrain, France, Sweden, Australia, South Korea, Austria, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, and mainland China. Sacramento is no exception having hosted Santacon since 2003. This year’s event begins (with the hopes of not ending) at the Sacramento County Jail from where the clan heads to the Amtrak station to welcome San Francisco Santas. From there it’s off to the Back Door Lounge for some twisted caroling at the piano bar followed by merry mayhem towards points east unknown.

For more information and how to participate visit http://santarchy.com