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Full Idea
Events are to be understood essentially as changes, rather than as property exemplifications. A particular exemplifying a property (as in Kim 1973 and Lewis 1986) would be better understood as a state of affairs.
Gist of Idea
Events are essentially changes; property exemplifications are just states of affairs
Source
S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 2.3)
Book Ref
Anjum,R.J./Mumford,S.: 'Getting Causes from Powers' [OUP 2011], p.23
A Reaction
I agree entirely with this. I've never been able to make sense of events as such static relations. It resembles the dubious Russellian view of motion as just being at one place and then at another.