{"id":7982,"date":"2024-12-09T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2024-12-11T18:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:04:21","slug":"eric-goulden-to-take-over-as-astor-theatre-society-chairman-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/12\/09\/eric-goulden-to-take-over-as-astor-theatre-society-chairman-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Goulden to take over as Astor Theatre Society chairman in January"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Goulden is taking over as chairman of the Astor Theatre Society in January. (Photo courtesy of Eric Goulden)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Astor Theatre Society will have a new chairman to begin the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Goulden will take over on Jan. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

The resident of Beach Meadows is a community volunteer and retired entrepreneur. Since buying a house here with his wife Karen in 2013, he has developed and restored many older buildings on Liverpool\u2019s Main Street and in Milton.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s been a full-time Queens County resident since September 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

At an event at the Astor last week, Goulden told QCCR he\u2019s looking forward to heading the theatre\u2019s board of directors for the next few years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m amazed at this building and the history behind it,” Goulden said, “and I really feel that if we can stabilize a lot of the operational side of things, I think it\u2019s got a lot of growth and I think it\u2019s going to be very, very welcoming and a safe place for everybody.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Goulden will be taking over from John Simmonds, who has been chairman since September 2020. He will continue on the board as past chairman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simmonds helmed the board through Covid and helped revitalize the theatre. He also was chairman during some turmoil at the theatre in the past year, with the resignation of popular director and producer Ashley-Rose Goodwin.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Simmonds said the community is once again rallying around the Astor. He said he\u2019s looking forward to working with Goulden and the rest of the board.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a good board, they\u2019re communicating amongst themselves very well so I think we will do some good things. It\u2019s onward and upward, so we’re excited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Astor Theatre Society will have a new chairman to begin the new year. Eric Goulden will take over on Jan. 1. The resident of Beach Meadows is a community volunteer and retired entrepreneur. Since buying a house here with his wife Karen in 2013, he has developed and restored many older buildings on Liverpool\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1160,2156,38,1421,2527,234,2692,2298,2238,41,39,1675],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-astor-theatre","tag-astor-theatre-society","tag-astor-theatre-society-board-of-directors","tag-beach-meadows","tag-chairman","tag-culture","tag-eric-goulden","tag-john-simmonds","tag-liverpool","tag-performing-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8002,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}