Page 419 . Volume 18, Issue 2 November 2021 Old places, renewed experiences: Looking at the legacy of Çukurova cinemas in the pandemic era Aydın Çam & İlke Şanlıer Yüksel, Çukurova University, Turkey Abstract: The long history of cinemas in the Turkish city of Adana is rich with reports of open-air venues, which were especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s. In this article, based on archival materials collected from a local newspaper and participatory observation during the summers of 2019- 2021, we aim to discuss how the cinemagoing experience has been revitalised and why it can promote community-building by scrutinizing its historical legacy. We observed open-air screenings during the last three summers and try to understand how the cinema-going experience has regenerated. We discuss whether these experiences might be a mode of regeneration to transfer the memories of earlier cinema-going activities, which can be accepted as intangible cultural heritage. Additionally, as the COVID-19 pandemic brings a new dimension to this process, the issue of using public spaces has come to the fore. Again, in Adana, with the initiative of the municipalities, cinema activities were organised for the first time in the form of drive-in and ‘float-in’ cinemas, ‘screening on the gondolas’. Members of local communities have attended these activities in great numbers, and cinema-going has become a vital social experience, especially during the pandemic. Therefore, in this article, we also argue that cinema as an heterotopia can become a new space for socialisation, just like it was in the past. Keywords: Open-air cinemas, heterotopic space, float-in cinema, drive-in cinema, historical cinemagoing Introduction The Çukurova region, located in the southern foothills of the Taurus mountains, which run parallel along the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, has witnessed cinema activities in various forms such as travelling cinema, open-air cinema, cinema halls in ambulant