Join us to explore children's storytelling, representation, and beginning important conversations. About this Eventīusboys and Poets Books Presents FIRST CONVERSATION SERIES Kathleen is a graduate of The American University and Carnegie Mellon University.Join us to explore children's storytelling, representation, and beginning important conversations. She and her rescued puppy mill dog, Brandy, appear briefly in Madonna of the Mills. Kathleen Summers has worked with the Puppy Mills campaign at The Humane Society of the United States since 2006 and is currently the director of outreach and research for the campaign. Due to its popularity, a class has started at Your Dogs Friend. Now, the group meets once a month by conference call with Jeni Grant - a trainer who specializes in shy dogs (mostly mill dogs). ![]() Donna started a Meetup Group at the Washington Animal Rescue League (WARL) where Rudy was taken after a 2008 raid on a West Virginia puppy mill and where he was adopted by Donna & her husband. Presidents, and a CEO in the news, internet, music and advertising industries.ĭonna Zeigfinger is the guardian of Rudy, an adopted puppy mill rescue, who decided to take action after years of trying unsuccessfully to find help rehabilitating Rudy with various online group sites and classes. In previous incarnations, he was a journalist, covering four U.S. He played the role of George in the one-act, Off-Broadway play Chrysalis, which made it to the semi-finals of the 2009 Strawberry Theatre Festival. Andy has also appeared as a stand-up comic at the Gotham Comedy Club, the Broadway Comedy Club, Comix, Joe Franklin's and the New York Comedy Club in New York, the Comedy Store in Los Angeles and at charity events in Atlanta, Honduras and Middletown, NY. That same year, Andy wrote his first novel The Lies We Tell Ourselves. Their first production was a documentary about puppy mills entitled Madonna of The Mills, which was released in the winter of 2010. Two years ago, he and his wife co-founded Umbrella Girl Media LLC. In the process, she has forever changed her life and the lives of those families fortunate enough to adopt one of these remarkable "puppy mill" survivors.Īndy Nibley is an author/director/actor/comic. Laura has now rescued over 2,000 dogs from Amish and Mennonite farmers in Pennsylvania. "Madonna of the Mills" is a documentary about Laura, an office manager from Staten Island, who stumbled on this secret four years ago and vowed to save as many of these breeding dogs as she possibly could. When these dogs can no longer produce litters or money for their owners, they are put to death stoned, shot, drowned or starved. ![]() ![]() All of those cute puppies that are sold in pet stores come from "puppy mills." Their mothers spend their entire lives in tiny, unsanitary cages, never walked, never petted, never doing anything but making puppies. We hope you will attend more of our events, held the 2nd Sunday of each month from 5 - 7pm at Busboys & Poets Hyattsville.Īmerica has a nasty secret. Thank you for coming to Conversations in the Corridor. Madonna of the Mills ~ Free Screening Busboy and Poets the Arts District Hyattsville
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