Bexhill After Dark and UEL After Dark are featured in ‘Reimagining Community Festivals and Events’ with a chapter written by Dr. Mandy Curtis (18 Hours Director) and Dr. Adam Jones (University of Brighton), as part of a larger research project focused on measuring attitudinal change in community light festivals.
The book celebrates and builds on Alan Clarke (1956–2021) and Allan Jepson’s 2015 book Exploring Community Festivals and Events. It showcases how far the study of community festivals and events has come in the intervening years, and in so doing it is a response to recent calls for researchers to take a more critical approach to event studies. It is an interdisciplinary book that draws together empirical research across a wide range of community event types, sizes and within diverse communities.
