Things to do at night
Alma at night: build the evening around the 20 h curtain
Spectacles, cinema, ice and the river shore -- in that order, most nights.
Things to do at night in Alma: the 20 h town
Alma's night runs on a single hour: 20 h, when the diffuseur's curtains rise and the cinema's evening screenings turn over. Build the night backwards from that hour -- an early-evening skate or a kiosk-timed supper hour first (the where-to-eat pages own the tables), the show or the film at eight, and the shore at Parc Falaise if the night is clear. Nothing here needs a festival to work; in season, the festivals simply raise the stakes.
The anchor: Ville d'Alma Spectacles, the town's own diffuseur, which programmes the Salle Michel-Côté (605 boul. Saint-Luc, in the Pavillon Wilbrod-Dufour -- a hall of the Centre de services scolaire du Lac-Saint-Jean; a directory variant seats the salle at 850 av. Bégin, flagged here and never merged) and the cabaret room La Boîte à Bleuets, downtown. The October 2026 slate, all at 20 h on the diffuseur's own surface: at the Salle, Liliane Blanco-Binette | Toréador (Fri Oct 9), Dan Bigras | Cette voix (Sun Oct 11), Michel Barrette | Drôle depuis 1957 (Fri Oct 16), Un piano et des mots (Fri Oct 23) and the Quatuor Saguenay | Point de rencontre (Sat Oct 24); at La Boîte à Bleuets, Alphonse Bisaillon (Sat Oct 17), La Boîte à Boldock - Cabaret 2 (Tue Oct 27) and Guillaume Pineault | En rodage (Wed Oct 28). Tickets run through the diffuseur's own billetterie, with points of sale at the Bibliothèque d'Alma and the Salle itself.
The night, assembled
Before the curtain
the town's ice: the Centre Mario-Tremblay, 605 boul. Saint-Luc, paired with the Plaines Vertes grounds (tennis, soccer, beach volleyball, the athletics track and football on the Ville's own recreation layer), and the Centre sportif Mistouk, 401 rue Mistouk in the secteur Saint-Cœur-de-Marie. Drop-in hockey libre runs at 3,50 $ for ages 13 and up on the calendar's own grid. Or keep it quiet: the belvédère at Parc Falaise, on the downtown shore of the Grande Décharge, is the town's evening lookout -- the ground that hosts Festirame's closing-fireworks tradition in July.
The main event
the Cinéma Complexe Alma, 900 boul. des Cascades, the town's operating cinema on its own exhibitor surface: online ticketing, group screenings and room rentals on its own services pages, and a showtimes grid that rotates weekly -- the grid read for this build (Sun Oct 4 - Mon Oct 5, 2026) carried about nine titles across VF, VO and subtitled screenings. No screen count is printed anywhere in this guide: the only count in circulation sits inside an AI-generated directory summary, not an exhibitor statement, and it does not travel. Beside the commercial house, the Ciné-club d'Alma is a real repertory layer in town, carried at existence grade -- no dated 2026 screening was captured on an organizer surface. Between the two, the whole of Alma's verified night: eight dated diffuseur bills in October 2026 alone, and a film grid that renews weekly.
In season, the club night
the Club de curling Riverbend d'Alma, 1030 rue de la Gare Ouest, in the Riverbend sector across the Grande Décharge -- 'depuis 1928' in the club's own wording, four sheets as the club's own description states them. Its 2026-27 season is live on the club's own site: the Tournoi Molson runs Wed Nov 4 to Sun Nov 8, 2026, with a live inscription form, and the club then hosts the Curling Québec provincial circuit final, Thu Nov 12 to Sun Nov 15, 2026, with the U15 regionals to follow on Feb 6-7, 2027. Its leagues run evenings for adults, days for retirees, Friday mornings and a Sunday friendly, plus a junior league for ages 8-21. A league night is spectating and supper-hour sociability in one room -- the town's winter night at its most local.
What the night is not
There is no cinema alternative to mourn here -- the town's house operates, on its own surface, and that is the good news this page gets to print. The honest limits are the late hours themselves: Alma's night ends when its rooms close, no late strip was verified, and Saguenay's bigger-city night is a trip east, labelled Saguenay's on the day-trips pages -- never imported as Alma's nightlife.
Common questions
What can you do in Alma at night?
See a 20 h spectacle at the Salle Michel-Côté or La Boîte à Bleuets, take an evening screening at the Cinéma Complexe Alma, skate or play hockey libre at the evening sessions (3,50 $ adulte on the calendar page, flagged against the grid's 3,05 $), join a Riverbend league night in curling season, or walk the Parc Falaise shore.
What time do things start in Alma?
The diffuseur's bills start at 20 h on its own surface -- the October 2026 slate (Oct 9-28) is all evening shows. Cinema times rotate weekly on the exhibitor's grid; rink sessions ride the Ville's calendar.
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