Season 2 of the River Festival was 3 days of short pop up performances at Champatala Ghat & Ahiritola Launch Ghat. The festival finale was the screening of the film The Dying Ghats of Calcutta by Poulomee & Atreyee at the Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

17 Feb : 7.45 am | Champatala Ghat 
Dance by Parampara, Director Guru Rajdeep Banerjee
A contemporised neo-classical form of Bharatnatyam, an invocation to the River Ganges. 

18 Feb 5 pm | Champatala Ghat
Music by Shayan Sinha & Amit Kumar Dey
Baul songs, Kabir songs and folk music

19 Feb 5 pm | Ahiritola Launch Ghat
Mridang Theatre Group. Director Harsh Sharma

Street Theatre: Chandu ban gya gentleman

20 Feb 11am – 1.30 pm | Birla Academy of Art and Culture

The Dying Ghats of Calcutta, a film by Poulomee & Atreyee
River heritage film screening and panel discussion
Panelists: Jawhar Sircar (Ex-IAS Former Secy of Culture, MP), Alapan Bandyopadhyay (Ex-IAS Former Chief Secy WB, Chief Advisor to the CM), Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee (Artist and Chairman of West Bengal Heritage Commission), Gautam Chakraborti (Former Security Advisor, Kolkata Port Trust), G.M. Kapur (Convenor, Calcutta Regional Chapters, INTACH)