Puma Shen sticker sparks political storm at Taipei theater
Puma Shen sticker sparks political storm at Taipei theater
2026-10-22
Renowned theater troupe Our Theatre, has gotten embroiled in a political controversy, all over a campaign sticker. The group had put up a message board to get feedback from the audience about their new play at Taipei’s Shuiyuan Theater. The problem came after someone posted a small campaign sticker for Taipei Mayoral Candidate Puma Shen on a sticky note on the board. The City’s Department of Cultural Affairs asked the troupe to remove it. The request was slammed by a DPP lawmaker. Let’s hear more.
Chang Hsin-yi
Our Theatre
Venue staff warned our team about the sticker. From the get-go, we told Mr. Tsai that it was our long-standing custom to create spaces for public expression. He later phoned me. He was very supportive about our play, Louder! but he did say that he hoped we’d take the sticker down to stay out of trouble.
Chen Pei-yu
Lawmaker (DPP)
Nobody working in the arts industry wants to face this kind of suppression. A typhoon is coming, but instead of preparing for landslides, Taipei is busy trying to stop the O’Shen wave.
Puma Shen
Taipei Mayoral Candidate (DPP)
I have a concern. The requirement for political neutrality only applies to the civil servants and the venue operators. The obligation doesn’t apply to individual vendors or theater groups. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding regarding the regulations when they spoke to each other.
Tsai Shih-ping
Taipei Cultural Affairs Department
I feel that Mr. Puma Shen doesn’t have a sufficient understanding of the rules for cultural groups. Since he wants to become mayor, he should know that Taipei has long enforced political neutrality rules at all venues. Both venues and civil servants must remain politically neutral, and the groups renting the venues should help preserve that neutrality.
The theater troupe later posted a notice next to the message board. It says that, after a “friendly reminder” from the Taipei government, participants are asked to refrain from posting explicit political slogans on the board. The notice included the contentious campaign sticker on the sticky note, as well as a graphic for Chiang’s campaign printed of the paper. The notice along with a meme making fun of the situation hints at what the troupe really things of the incident.
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阮劇場留言版見洋流貼紙 遭北市文化局提醒應"行政中立"
2026-10-22
知名劇團"阮劇團"，到台北水源劇場演出，特別設置留言牆，讓觀眾分享看法，有民眾貼了一張洋流小貼紙，沒想到被台北市文化局，告知希望移除，立委陳培瑜痛批，這是施壓藝文團體，文化局長蔡詩萍則強調，並非針對特定候選人，而是根據規範，藝文場館要保持行政中立。
[[阮劇團"噪音風暴"製作人 張歆宜]]
“館方人員提醒我們的現場人員，那我們第一時間是跟蔡局長表達說，他是屬於阮劇團一直以來，在公共空間的創作的一部分，後來蔡局長又打電話給我，蔡局長對噪音風暴(表演)也一直很支持，說他基於一個保護的立場，希望我們移除(洋流貼紙)”
[[立委(民) 陳培瑜]]
“任何一個做文化創作人，都不希望受到這樣的打壓跟壓迫，颱風還沒有來之前，其實颱風應該要防範土石流，但台北市卻急著在防範洋流”
[[台北市長參選人(民) 沈伯洋]]
“有一個疑慮，是因為真正要行政中立的是公務員，以及公共的場所，所以攤商或者劇團，他們自己是沒有行政中立的問題，溝通的過程當中，不知道是不是對法規有所誤會”
[[台北市文化局長 蔡詩萍]]
“我覺得沈伯洋委員，可能對於文化的劇團，文化團體的部分真的了解不夠，想要當選市長的話，他應該要知道，行政中立在所有的場館裡面，台北市早就行之有年了，場館跟公務人員都應該秉持行政中立，包括租借場館的劇團，都應該要維持藝文場館的純淨性”
阮劇團隨後在留言板旁貼出公告寫明，經文化局「善意提醒」，請觀眾避免張貼明確的政治應援標語。值得注意的是，作為”舉例” ，「洋流」貼紙被移到公告右上方，左下方放了「台北安可」圖樣，似乎也暗喻著劇團對這項要求真正的回應。
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