What day is SantaCon NYC?

December 11
When is SantaCon NYC in 2021? SantaCon NYC is back this year and will take place on Saturday, December 11, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

What year did SantaCon start in NYC?

The yearly “nonsensical Santa Claus convention” hosted by the SantaCon NYC charity, which has raised money for local businesses and charities since 2012, sees participants dressed in Santa Claus costumes get merrily intoxicated over a drink (or more) at various venues across New York City.

What is NYC SantaCon?

Santacon is a charitable, non-political, nonsensical Santa Claus convention that happens once a year to spread absurdist joy.

What time is SantaCon NYC?

10 a.m.
The annual bar crawl tradition returns after last year’s event was canceled due to the pandemic. The festivities kick off at 10 a.m. at the Christmas Spectacular on Broadway and 40th on Saturday.

How can we avoid SantaCon in NYC?

How to steer clear of NYC SantaCon 2021

  1. Avoid Midtown, Murray Hill, and the East Village.
  2. If you have to hang in those ‘hoods, steer clear of bars with “ugly” in the name, bars with Irish guys’ names, bars named after booze, and bars with names like The Keg Room.

What happened at SantaCon?

Last year, SantaCon was thankfully canceled due to the pandemic. This year, there’s still a pandemic — not to mention a highly contagious variant spreading — but like many other holiday gatherings that now seem ill-advised, it happened anyway despite fears it had all the makings of a super-spreader event.

Why is it called SantaCon?

The answer: SantaCon. The global pub crawl during which adults dress up as Santa Claus and wander around the streets first started in San Francisco in 1994 and has since expanded all over the world. There’s been a SantaCon on every continent, even Antarctica.

Who started SantaCon?

Solvognen
In 1974, anarchist members of the Danish art collective Solvognen started the first iteration of SantaCon. During Christmastime, about 30 men and women put on Santa costumes and staged protests throughout Copenhagen, raging against the “greed and capitalism that have corrupted Christmas.”