The weekend arts scene rolled up into one easy column. It’s “Artsday” with HELEN MUSA.

THE Royal Military College Band will perform masterworks for wind ensemble penned by composers Alyssa Morris, Jodie Blackshaw, Percy Grainger and Johan de Meij, under the baton of Maj. Matthew O’Keeffe. Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, Saturday (October 1), Entry by gold coin donation to support Legacy, but bookings essential here

Other weekend concerts include:

• CANBERRA-raised pianist Anthony Chen will present a solo recital of classical music including Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Michael Kieran Harvey in preparation for the Australian National Piano Award. Wesley Music Centre, 4pm, Saturday, October 1.
• THE Natural Culture is a high energy funk soul, reggae and world music band from Melbourne, coming to Smith’s Alternative, Civic, Sunday, 9.30pm (October 2).
• SUPER Rats, Canberra’s Romanian folk band, are playing at Commonwealth Park for Floriade, on the Tulip Stage, 11am-1pm, Monday, (October 3) then on Stage 88, 1-3pm, October 6 and 7.

Weekend exhibitions include:

• “CONFLATED” is a new exhibition at ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, until November 4.
• CANBERRA Art Biennial, formerly Contour 556, returns for its fourth edition, more than 70 artists across 21 venues and 60 individual artworks or performances.
• MANNING Clark House, Forrest, is participating in the Art Biennial by hosting Brett Stone, potter from Utopia Art Sydney; Abdul Abdullah, painter from Yavuz Gallery; and Rosalind Lemoh, sculptor. October 1-29, artist talk by Stone, 2pm, Saturday, October 1.
• JOHN R Walker’s exhibition “Hidden River” is part of the Biennial, with his works responding to aspects of the Canberra region landscape. He will give an artist talk at Artbox, Barton, 3.15pm-4pm, Saturday (October 1).
• CANBERRA Contemporary Art Space on the lake is hosting a free public program at 1pm on Saturday (October 1), with a Q&A with “Cageworks” artists Ham Darroch and Nicci Haynes and curator Alexander Boynes, and a reading of John Cage’s “Lecture On Nothing” by poet Paul Magee. All welcome. “Cageworks” continues until October 23.
• ARTIST Lindy Lee draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to develop works that engage with the history of art, personal identity and the cosmos. “Moon in a Dew Drop”, CMAG until December 3.
• “MATTHEW Thorne: Jingo was born in the Slum” features photographs and costumes from Justin Kurzel’s film ”True History of the Kelly Gang”, alongside Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly paintings that influenced the film. Canberra Museum and Gallery, October 1-March 4.
• CANBERRA artist Sylvie Carter presents more than 70 works in a solo exhibition, “Valleys, Views and Vines” alongside Karen Warburton’s 3D objects made of recycled wood. Rusten House Art Centre, Queanbeyan, October 1 – 22. Launch, 2pm-4pm, Saturday, October 1.