Exclusive preview of the coming Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival.

t may seem presumptuous to imagine Big Sur in a couple of months, after this fire, and think about art, culture and entertainment. But the time will come. And when it does, the Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival will be there. Here’s what it will look like.

On Thursday, legendary artist and musician Laurie Anderson screens and talks about Heart of a Dog, a documentary about the death of her dog The New York Times called a “dreamy, drifty and altogether lovely movie.”

On Friday, Anderson returns with Glass for an evening concert of their favorite songs, poems and multimedia stuff from their ample repertoires.

“They’ve only done this show a few times over the years,” says festival producer Jim Woodard.

On Saturday afternoon, transcendent harpist Lavinia Meijer and friends do a concert of her and Glass’ music. At 7:30pm, they return to churn out new music by young composers (curated by Glass and composer Nico Muhly).

Later still, performance artist Sari Tsukada and filmmaker Nikki Appino put on their live collaborative film and performance piece Club Diamond, a semi-autobiographical number about a young Japanese woman’s arrival in New York.

On Sunday, as has been tradition at the festival the last three years, a picnic on the Henry Miller lawn. It’s followed by a poetry reading by Jerry Quickley of his Edward Snowden trilogy called Whistleblower, with Glass on keyboard.

All throughout, there will be nature/shamanistic workshops on Fort Ord led by guru Victor Sanchez, and free, county-wide film screenings from Mexico-based film festival Ambulante-California.

Now you know. Tell the others.

PHILIP GLASS’S DAYS AND NIGHTS FESTIVAL runs Sept. 22-25 at Henry Miller Memoriall Library and other locations. www./PhilipGlassCenter.org/about/about_festival