page_title: SantaCon
section_title: Portland
hierarchical_section_title: SantaCon / Venues / Portland
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Atlanta en:SantaCon 2006
context_page_description: SantaCon is an annual pub crawl in which people dressed in Santa Claus costumes or as other Christmas characters parade in various cities around the world.
  A December 2014 cover story in the Village Voice recounted how SantaCon had evolved from "joyful performance art" that originated in San Francisco to a "reviled bar crawl" of drunken brawling, vandalism, public urination and disorder in New York City and elsewhere, resulting in fierce community resistance and disavowals from the originators of the event.
  John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, cited the Hoboken SantaCon in a December 2019 broadcast, saying "it's not a magical occasion, it's a terrifying combination of binge drinking, public urination and trauma to small children."
context_section_description: In Portland, Oregon, the 2014 SantaCon was organized by the Cacophony Society, which had originated SantaCon in the city, and sought to recapture event's roots. The Oregonian commented that "while the massively popular New York SantaCon made its own bold statement about First Amendment rights Saturday, the Portland SantaCon's statement went back to the charmingly subversive attitude that started it all."
caption: In Atlanta, 2006
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