The 2012 Wilmington SantaCon
has not yet been planned

To save you some research time below...SANTACON is Saturday Dec 10th. There are two jumpoff points this year. the first, is 1pm at Duck n Dive. https://www.facebook.com/events/214731308550059
the second, leaves in vans from Juggling Gypsy. www.facebook.com/events/288626164509419/. click ATTEND on one of these events to join the fun!
Later in the evening, both groups will converge to form the biggest red and white posse this town has ever seen. HO!

if you're a twitter user, use the #santaconilm hashtag when posting your location, so we can stay together. No Santa left behind!

Hey Guys, the 16th event has moved to the 10th, so all Santas can converge at one singular place at the same time. Santa Solidarity! The only difference is this group of Santas is starting later (6pm), and instead of being solely downtown, we will be renting vans to hit various odd locations, crash private parties, and then converge with the Downtown Santas at various points.

By they way, here's the event page again for the non-gypsy starting point: https://www.facebook.com/events/214731308550059 (I posted the comment below, but was not logged in)

For some reason there seem to be two "versions" of this SantaCon.

This one on December 10th will be based more on the version we encountered in San Francisco. It'll start at 1pm at a location that will be announced on this event page on Friday Dec 9th (in spirit with the traditional SantaCon). It'll then involve a visit to many locations in downtown Wilmington (bars, restaurants...horse tours...boats...pretty much whatever the people want to do). The whole purpose is to be downtown and spread holiday cheer to as many people as you can infect, all while enjoying some holiday cocktails.

I have no idea what the version is that happens at the Juggling Gypsy. To my understanding, they meet at the Gypsy at 6pm, drink a bit, then hop in cars to head to various locations around Wilmington. But I'm really fuzzy on the details.

I talked briefly to the guy that was putting that together and he considered moving their date to the 10th as well, but I have no idea what became of that. All I know is we'll be meeting on Saturday, Dec 10th at (at yet to be disclosed location) downtown Wilmington.

Once again...there will likely be a fair amount of booze consumed on the 10th, so come up with other ways to get home if you don not live downtown.

The Juggling Gypsy's website (link on right) still says the 16th but I've written to the organizing santa for this event for confirmation. Watch this space...

I just called Juggling Gypsy and was told that SantaCon is on the 10th only! I really wanted to go on the 16th so I'm super bummed. Does anyone know what the deal is here?

Hey guys! I'm with the "other" SantaCon group that's hitting downtown Wilmington this year.

We'd love to mix the two groups, but we've had our scheduled since early this year. If you'd like to join us, here's our info:

DATE: Saturday, Dec 10th
Time: 1pm
Where: We'll tell you the day before
How: Join our Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214731308550059

Hope to see you guys this year!

Cheers!
Santa

As the holiday season quickly approaches I would like to extend a warm invitation to all the Elves that make Chistmas possible to join your Brothers and Sisters of the ELF Union, Local 149 in this year's SantaCon celebration. Although out contract is not up for negotiation this year a strong showing on December 16th will remind the Man in Red that Local 1225 is a formidable force in the Christams game. For more information or to declare your intent to attend please email local1225@gmail.com Thank you for your support.

Pullings Tadwhacker
President, ELF Local 1225

SANTACON 2011~ DECEMBER 16th. Starts at 6PM~ 1612 Castle St. Info:

www.jugglinggypsy.com/santacon.html
Stay tuned for a facebook event page sometime after labor day.

Last year, a second Group of Santas started earlier, If the Duck N Dive Group is planning on doing a second Con, We shall team up to organize the rowdiest santacon this town has ever seen. Send an email Bash@firespinner.com with info/questions. HOOOOO!