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Tricia Tomlinson and Ben Scott play a game of rock-paper-scissors at their restaurant, Ben’s Burritos in Lewiston, where they will soon be running regular Play Church sessions.Portland Play Church members maintained a running dare to jump in the ocean once a week during a recent winter. Because they often put it off until the last minute, members ended up jumping in the water on the way to Play Church.BSECplaychurch01P021917
Tricia Tomlinson and Ben Scott ham it up in their restaurant, Ben’s Burritos in Lewiston, where they will soon be running regular Play Church sessions.Some of the first members of Play Church in Portland strike poses outside the bus for Travel By Yes, a troupe that traveled the country to promote “conscious play” by setting up public games and impromptu dance parties. Pictured from left to right: Nathan Bawden, Natalie Kinsey, Jessica Turcotte, Becca Demers, Gregory Hofmann, Hannah Hoffman.At a Play Church session in Kennebunk in January, Becca Demers reads one of the collaborative poems created after players wrote their own poems, ripped out stanzas and then joined those stanzas together to form a community poem.At a Lewiston Play Church session outside the home of Tricia Tomlinson and Ben Scott this fall, Erica Harriman and Jaime Tomlinson play perpetual tag, a game in which everyone is “it.”At a Play Church session in Kennebunk in January, players wrote personal poems and then ripped out stanzas and placed them on the floor to form a collaborative poem.
