Don’t let the gloomy weather keep you from the almost 150 Art & Design events and exhibitions happening this weekend. (See our slide show above for a preview of what’s opening.) Here are a few events that didn’t make it into our print edition. Unless otherwise noted, they’re free.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña premieres the performance piece Corpo/Illicito: The Post-Human Society #69 at Columbia College tonight, Friday 30, at 7pm.

In its new West Loop space, ebersmoore opens “Rob Carter: Stone on Stone” tonight from 6–9pm. In River North, Roy Boyd Gallery hosts a reception for “Brigitte Riesebrodt: Metamorphoses” Friday 30, 5–8pm.

Shannon Benine unveils “Means Without End” at the Chicago Photography Center Friday 30, 6:30–8:30pm.

Tomorrow, Saturday 31, the new Wicker Park “alternative gallery” Parking Space, which occupies an abandoned garage, highlights works by Michael Cheatwood, E.T. Chong, Dorian McKaie, Daniel Sullivan and Danny Tucker in “Helter Sculpture” at 4pm.

In the West Loop, Andrew Rafacz Gallery opens two shows Saturday 31, 4–7pm: “Jason Lazarus: Orion Over Baghdad” and “Daniel Rich: 1989–2009: Paintings of the Berlin Airports 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall.”

From 5–8pm, Rafacz’s next-door neighbor Kavi Gupta Gallery debuts Josh Azzarella’s “Untitled #100 (Fantasia),” a riff on the video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” and a collection of Scott Treleaven’s collages and films, “Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you.”

On Sunday 1, 1–2pm, Jason Lazarus visits the Spertus Museum for a talk about his new Ground Level Project, the video The top of the tree gazed upon by Anne Frank while in hiding (Amsterdam, 2008).

Sunday 1, 2–5pm, the South Side Community Art Center hosts both a release party for AREA #9: Peripheral Vision and a closing reception for “DEMISE,” a show featuring Theaster Gates, Dan S. Wang, Faheem Majeed and several other artists.

In Pilsen, Slow, another new alternative space, opens “For The Time Being” Sunday 1, 4–7pm, with photos, paintings, drawings and videos by Benjamin Bellas and C.C. Ann Chen.

East Garfield Park’s Julius Caesar hosts a reception for “Jason Hardwig: Seeds and Hitchhikers” Sunday 1, 4–7pm.