Global warming

The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture will host a presentation at its society meeting house, located at 4450 Fieldston Road, at 11 a.m.

Dan Miner, volunteer chair of the Sierra Club NYC, will lead the presentation, entitled "Preparing NYC For Climate Change, Higher Energy Prices and Economic Uncertainty."

For more information, call 718-548-4445 or visit www.rysec. org.

Performance event

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, located at 1040 Grand Concourse, will host Performa '09 – a major performance event - from 1 to 6 p.m.

Working with radio scanners and synthesizer modules, artist Kabir Carter will create a sound piece specifically for the event that commemorates the centennial of the futurist movement. As a pre-performance talk, literary critics Marjorie Perloff and Richard Sieburth, and poet Charles Bernstein will discuss topics related to the legacy of futurism.

For more information, call 718-681-6000.

'Jenny's Penny'

The Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Ave., presents Jenny's Penny, at 2 and 7 p.m.

The play, written and composed by January Akselrad, is based on the children's book The Wishful Penny by Jennifer Jo Young, and is directed by Ben Becher with choreography by Emily Walton.

While visiting her Grandma, a rare coin collector, Jenny learns the history of one very special 1943 wheat-ear copper penny. As she listens, Penny's journey unfolds and so does a unique wisdom that can easily apply to anyone, according to the Y.

Each performance features a book signing by Ms. Young.

The program will be repeated Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

General admission tickets cost $12 and can be purchased at www.riverdaley.com.

For more information, call 718-548-8200.

Klezmer concert

The Metropolitan Klezmer Quintet headlines a pre-holiday "Klezmer-Fest" at The Whitehall Club Ballroom, 3333 Henry Hudson Parkway, at 2 p.m.

General admission tickets for the concert, which is open to the public, are $18 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. The ticket price includes a kosher dessert buffet.