Entertainment briefs: History center panel; Mercury Soul

“Sisterhood in Pittsburgh: Women's Liberation from the 1960s to Today” will be discussed Thursday evening as part of the Senator John Heinz History Center's look at “1968: The Year That Rocked America.”

The talk will be led by scholar Patricia Ulbrich and feature such figures in the Civil Rights movement as Molly Rush, Alma Speed Fox, Cindy Judd Hill, Sister Patricia McCann and Jeanne Clark.

The discussion is presented in honor of Women's History Month and in conjunction with the 1968 display.

It begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $10 and includes access to the 1968 exhibit, which usually is $15 for adults. Details: 412-454-6000 or www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

— Bob Karlovits

Mercury Soul, “a dee-jayed party with electronic dance music visited by a SWAT team of classical musicians” according to Mason Bates, will be presented on April 5 in the Strip District.

Bates created Mercury Soul before becoming the symphony's composer of the year, but the Pittsburgh performance will include new music, called “The Rise of Exotic Computing,” that he's composed for the event.

Bates will be the dee-jay. More than a dozen symphony musicians will perform during the classical sets.

The show's director and designer Anne Patterson and Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students took inspiration for this production of the show from Pittsburgh's geographic, cultural and structural elements.

The event starts at 9 p.m. April 5 at Static, 1650 Smallman St., Strip District. Admission is $20, $15 for students.

Details: 412-392-4900 or www.pittsburghsymphony.org

— Mark Kanny