26 Sept 2025集誌社#7357
封殺莊梅岩｜中大「未能提供場地」 講座「被取消」 中大：設施使用如常，沒補充
Playwright Candace Chong wrote earlier this month alleging that she had been “blacklisted” by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and West Kowloon. The Office of Arts Administration under The Chinese University of Hong Kong had scheduled a talk by Chong at the Shaw College Hall on 20 October, with registration for members of the public and alumni opening in early September. The office suddenly announced on its website today (26 September) that the talk had been “cancelled because the university was unable to provide a venue for the event”, and apologised for the inconvenience caused to registered attendees, asking for their understanding.
《集誌社》 asked CUHK why it was unable to provide a venue and whether this was related to Chong’s earlier allegation that she had been “blacklisted”. CUHK replied in the evening in 40 Chinese characters: “The university was unable to provide a venue for this event. CUHK’s current policy and operation regarding the use of campus facilities remain unchanged. There is no further comment.” Chong wrote on Facebook that evening that the problem with Hong Kong’s current management was ignorance, mediocrity and cowardice: “They don’t know what they are harming, they don’t know what they are destroying, and they don’t know what they are afraid of.”
劇作家莊梅岩月初發文，揭被演藝、康文署、西九等「封殺」。中文大學轄下藝術行政主任辦公室（下稱辦公室），原定於 10 月 20 日在中大邵逸夫堂舉辦莊梅岩講座，早在 9 月初開放予公眾人士和校友登記。辦公室今（26日）突然在網站公布，講座「因校方未能就是次活動提供場地」而取消，又指對已登記觀眾造成不便深感抱歉，敬請體諒。
《集誌社》向中文大學查詢，為何未能提供場地？與早前莊梅岩指「被封殺」是否有關等等？中大晚上以 40 字回覆指，「未能就是次活動提供場地。中大現行的校內設施使用政策及運作如常，沒有其他補充」。莊梅岩晚上在 Facebook 發文指現時香港管理層問題是無知、平庸同懦弱，「佢哋唔知自己傷害緊啲乜、唔知自己破壞緊啲乜、唔知自己怕緊啲乜」。
20 Sept 2025Yahoo#7342
《我們最快樂》西九11月重演 傳「被取消」 莊梅岩稱「再獲綠燈」 將重啟預售
The stage play “We Are the Happiest”, which premiered in 2022, was scheduled to return to the Grand Theatre of the Xiqu Centre in West Kowloon from November 28 to 30. However, playwright Candace Chong recently wrote about what she described as an experience of being suppressed, saying she would not regret speaking out even if “We Are the Happiest” were to be cancelled. West Kowloon merely told the media at the time that the venue had been rented out and did not respond to whether the performances would be cancelled. Chong wrote again today (the 20th), saying that “after going through innumerable difficulties”, she had been notified that the play had once again received the “green light”, and that advance ticket sales would resume as soon as possible.
On the 9th of this month, Chong wrote that a work project she was handling had recently been “suppressed”. She said, “Even if We Are the Happiest is going to be cancelled, even if I can never again set foot on the Hong Kong stage, I will not regret it.” She also told people who had bought advance tickets for We Are the Happiest not to worry, saying, “Once there is formal notification from above, we will immediately handle the ticket refunds.”
曾在 2022 年首演的舞台劇《我們最快樂》，原定11月28日至30日在西九戲曲中心大劇院重演，惟編劇莊梅岩日前發文講述疑被封殺經歷，提到「即使《我們最快樂》將要被取消」也不會後悔發聲，當時西九僅回覆傳媒稱已租出場地，未有回應演出會否取消。莊梅岩今（20日）再發文指「經歷萬難之後」，收到通知《我》又再獲「綠燈」，將盡快重啟預售。
莊梅岩本月 9 日時發文稱，近期手上有工作項目被「封殺」，提到「即使《我們最快樂》將要被取消，即使我再也不能踏上香港舞台，我也不會後悔的。」又指買了《我們最快樂》預售門票的朋友不用擔心，「等上面正式通報，我們就會立刻處理退票的事」。
10 Sept 2025集誌社#7290
封殺莊梅岩｜ 文體旅局稱嚴格把關促文藝發展：個別人士言論，不予置評
Playwright Chong Mui-yam earlier disclosed that the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts had withdrawn an anniversary interview and discouraged her from taking a curtain call after a musical performance. In a third post yesterday, she cited multiple examples alleging that she had been blacklisted by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and West Kowloon. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau responded to enquiries from The Collective on the 10th, reiterating that “soft resistance” had always existed and that funding and venue applications must be handled rigorously. It said the vast majority of arts workers were patriotic and loved Hong Kong, and that strict vetting could promote arts and cultural development. It concluded that it had “no comment” on the remarks of individual people.
劇作家莊梅岩早前揭演藝抽走校慶訪問、勸阻她在音樂劇公演後謝幕，昨第三度發文，列舉多項例子控訴自己被藝發局、康文署、以至西九封殺。文化、體育及旅遊局 10 日回應《集誌社》查詢，重申「軟對抗」一直存在，須嚴謹處理資助和場地申請，而絕大部份藝術工作者愛國愛港，嚴格把關可促文藝發展，最後指就個別人士言論，「不予置評」。
9 Sept 2025集誌社#7274
封殺莊梅岩之三｜ 11 月公演《我們最快樂》「將被取消」：我不會後悔 西九：已租用戲曲中心演出
Chong Mui-yam, who earlier revealed that the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts had withdrawn an interview for its anniversary celebrations and advised her against taking a curtain call after a musical performance, posted for the third time today (the 9th), listing several examples in which she alleged that she had been blacklisted by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and West Kowloon. She also disclosed that the revival of “We Are the Happiest”, originally scheduled for the end of November at the Grand Theatre of the Xiqu Centre in the West Kowloon Cultural District, “will be cancelled”, saying: “Even if I can never again set foot on a Hong Kong stage, I will not regret it.”
The official “We Are the Happiest” page said in a post tonight that it was still awaiting formal notification from the authorities on the latest situation and would announce any news on the page. It reiterated that if the performances were cancelled, all ticket payments, including handling fees, would be refunded in full. The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority replied at about 10pm that “the stage play ‘We Are the Happiest’ has hired the Grand Theatre of the Xiqu Centre in the West Kowloon Cultural District for performances”. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department replied shortly after 11pm that all venue booking matters under its purview were handled in accordance with established booking procedures and rental terms.
早前揭演藝抽走校慶訪問、勸阻她在音樂劇公演後謝幕的莊梅岩，今（9日）第三度發文，列舉多項例子控訴自己被藝發局、康文署、以至西九封殺。她又透露，原定 11 月底在西九戲曲中心大劇院重演的《我們最快樂》「將被取消」，但稱「即使我再也不能踏上香港舞台，我也不會後悔的」。
《我們最快樂》專頁晚上發文，稱尚在等待當局正式通知最新情況，有消息會在專頁公布；重申如演出取消，所有門票款項包括手續費將會全數退回。西九文化區管理局晚上約十時回覆，稱「《我們最快樂》舞台劇已租用西九文化區戲曲中心大劇院演出」；康文署晚上 11 時多回覆稱轄下所有場地訂租事宜，均根據既有訂租程序及租用條款處理。
5 Sept 2025集誌社#7267
封殺莊梅岩｜演藝校方見學生 「兜路走」避傳媒 與會者引校方指「溝通有問題」、「下指示者已離開」
Veteran playwright Candace Chong earlier criticised the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for pulling an interview with her and discouraging her from taking a curtain call after a musical performance. She accused the school’s governing council of “holding a magnifying glass” to look for “soft resistance”. The academy has not formally responded to whether it was “blacklisting” Chong. The school sent students a text message yesterday saying that, due to “special circumstances”, senior school officials would “meet and communicate” with them. The governing council chair, the president and others held a closed-door meeting with students this afternoon. Staff repeatedly said they would not respond to the media, and after the meeting the senior officials did not leave through the main entrance, instead taking a “detour” to avoid reporters.
According to students who attended, the school repeatedly said at the meeting that there had been “problems with communication”, effectively acknowledging that Chong’s allegations were true. They also quoted the school as saying that the person who gave the instructions had left the school, describing the whole incident as “a very stupid excuse”, and assuring them that students would be able to perform Chong’s scripts in future. The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts replied to the media by email in the evening, saying that “the relevant departments’ internal communication and handling procedures were indeed not fully完善”, and that it would learn from the experience and review its mechanisms.
資深編劇莊梅岩早前公開批評，演藝學院抽起其訪問、又勸阻她在音樂劇演出後謝幕，批評校董會「拿著放大鏡」找「軟對抗」，校方則一直未有正式回應是否「封殺」莊梅岩；校方昨向學生發短訊，稱因「特殊情況」，學校高層將與學生「會面溝通」。校董會主席、校長等人今午與學生閉門會面，職員多次表示不會回應傳媒，會面結束後，高層未有從正門離開、「兜路走」拒見記者。
綜合與會學生，校方在會上多次重申事件「溝通有問題」，變相承認莊梅岩指控屬實，又引述校方指下指示的人已離開學校，形容「成件事嘅發生係一個好蠢嘅藉口」，又肯定日後學生能演出莊的劇本。演藝學院傍晚以電郵回覆傳媒，指「有關部門在內部溝通及處理流程確有未盡完善之處」，會汲取經驗、檢討機制。
3 Sept 2025集誌社#7248
封殺莊梅岩之二｜《奮青樂與路》音樂劇 一度被阻謝幕 演藝校董會增三「撐警」成員
After the Academy was recently revealed to have withdrawn a video interview with veteran playwright Zhuang Meiyan for its anniversary celebrations, she posted again today to disclose that the musical “The Passionate Youth’s Music and Road”, which she wrote, was staged last month. She was once advised by a person in charge not to go on stage for a curtain call after the opening performance. She quoted the person as saying, “I received instructions that I could not let you go on stage for a curtain call,” which she firmly rejected. Zhuang criticised the turnover of the Academy’s board of governors, saying that people were “looking for soft resistance at the Academy with a magnifying glass” and interfering with the musical. She questioned whether “this absurd society not only causes people to lose their rationality, but also their humanity.”
Records show that the Academy’s board of governors has undergone changes since last year, with the Chief Executive, in his capacity as Chancellor, appointing three new members, including a vice-chairman: producer and director Ko Chi-sum, former magistrate Symon Yu Wing Wong, and former Deputy Commissioner of Police Peter Tat Wing Yam. All three have pro-police backgrounds. The Academy replied to enquiries tonight without directly addressing whether it had suppressed Zhuang, saying it thanked her for her contribution to the production. It also said that “the alumna took a curtain call on stage together with other members of the production team that evening”, that her name appeared in the programme, and that the poster design “was intended to place the focus on the students taking part in the performances.”
日前揭演藝抽走校慶訪問的資深舞台劇編劇莊梅岩，今日再發文公開，由她編劇的音樂劇《奮青樂與路》上月公演，她一度被負責人勸阻在開幕表演後上台謝幕，引述對方稱「收到指令，不可以讓我上台謝幕」，遭她嚴詞拒絕。莊批評演藝校董會換屆下，「拿著放大鏡在演藝學院找軟對抗」、干擾音樂劇，質疑「這個荒誕的社會不單令人失去理性，而是失去人性。」
翻查資料，演藝學院校董會去年起換屆，由行政長官任校監委任三名新成員和副主席，包括監製兼導演高志森、前裁判官黃汝榮、前警務處副處長任達榮，三人皆有「撐警」背景。演藝學院晚上回覆查詢，沒直接回應是否封殺莊梅岩，只稱感謝莊梅岩對製作的付出，又指「莊校友當晚有與其他製作團隊成員一同在台上謝幕」、名字有出現於場刊，而海報設計「是希望把焦點放在參與演出的學生身上」。
1 Sept 2025集誌社#7234
訪問未能上載小紅書被抽 莊梅岩：荒誕粗暴 演藝：會跟莊校友保持聯繫
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts alumna and veteran stage playwright Candace Chong Mui-ngam said in an open letter on social media on the 1st that an interview she had been invited to give for the academy’s 40th anniversary celebrations had been “cancelled” without notice. She cited a staff member as saying that the video could not be uploaded to Xiaohongshu, and said she was disappointed and heartbroken that the academy had excluded her for an unsubstantial reason. Chong said she could not tolerate such a “brutal and absurd” approach and asked the academy to respond within three days, including who had made the decision and why the interview had to be “cancelled” because it could not be uploaded to Xiaohongshu. She said the open letter might make her more sensitive and make it harder for her to rent venues, but that she had no regrets about allowing it to “become my epitaph in Hong Kong’s performing-arts career.”
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts replied to enquiries on the evening of the 1st in fewer than 80 Chinese characters. It did not address why the interview had been pulled or whether this was related to the inability to upload it to Xiaohongshu, saying only that it had always been very grateful for the contributions of all academy members, including alumni. It added: “Alumna Candace Chong has made considerable contributions to the theatre sector. The academy will maintain communication with Chong regarding the relevant matters.”
香港演藝學院校友、資深舞台劇編劇莊梅岩，今（1日）在社交媒體發公開信，公開獲邀慶祝校慶 40 周年的訪問，在無通知下「被取消」，引述職員曾指其影片未能上載到「小紅書」，對校方為虛無的線索剔除她感失望和痛心。莊梅岩說絕不能容忍這種粗暴和荒誕，要求校方在三天內回應，是由何人作此決定、為何不能上載「小紅書」就要「被取消」等，最後指公開信或其令她更敏感、更難租場地，但仍無憾讓信件「成為我在香港演藝生涯的墓誌銘」。
演藝學院 1 日晚上以不足 80 字回覆查詢，未有回應為何抽起訪問、是否與未能上載小紅書有關等，僅稱一直十分感謝學院所有成員包括校友貢獻，並指「莊梅岩校友對戲劇界作出不少貢獻。學院會一直就相關事宜跟莊校友保持聯繫」。
21 Feb 2023The Points#6082
杜琪峯「電影為人發聲」言論後 其出品電影《命案》突取消採訪
The film *Mad Fate*, produced jointly by Johnnie To, Soi Cheang and Yau Nai Hoi, had arranged for director Soi Cheang and male lead Lokman to speak to the media at the airport this week after attending the Berlin Film Festival. However, the media were notified suddenly the day before the interview that the *Mad Fate* team had decided to cancel the airport interview, citing unstable flight connections and saying it did not wish to rearrange the original flights.
由杜琪峯、鄭保瑞、游乃海攜手製作的電影《命案》，團隊原訂今個星期在出席柏林影展後，安排導演鄭保瑞及男主角楊樂文（Lokman）於機場接受傳媒採訪。
但傳媒在採訪前一天突收到通知，《命案》團隊稱由於航班接駁不穩定，經商議後不希望將原來的航班重新編排，因此取消接機採訪將。
18 Feb 2023獨媒#6068
稱電影為人民發聲 「杜琪峰bot」微博被封 內媒料9部新作或遭禁
Director Johnnie To recently attended a press conference at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where a reporter asked about the significance of films. He said films were often the first target of dictators, and that “all countries and peoples around the world striving for freedom should support films.” To’s remarks sparked widespread discussion, but netizens discovered yesterday that the “Du Qifeng bot” Weibo account, which reposted his messages and remarks, had suddenly been blocked. According to mainland Chinese media reports, nine films he directed or produced may be unable to secure a theatrical release.
導演杜琪峯日前出席第73屆柏林影展記者會，被記者問到電影的意義，他表示電影往往首當其衝被獨裁者針對，認為「全球爭取自由嘅國家同人民都要支持電影。」杜琪峯的言論引起廣泛討論，但昨日有網民發現，轉發其消息及言論的「杜琪峰bot」微博帳號突然被封。據内媒報導，9部由他擔任導演或監製的電影或不能上映。
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