Hunker Down Week: Hobbies and Hygge, DOCNYC: Mars and Rust Belt towns, The Get Out

It's never a bad time to pick up a hobby, but with winter approaching along with rising COVID-19 cases, it may be especially important now to find ways to pass time on one's own. Libby Segal, writer and self-described "Hobby Hoarder," joins us to talk about how hobbies became her hobby and to hear from listeners about their pandemic projects, as part of our "Hunker Down Week."

“The Place That Makes Us” focuses in on what it takes to revitalize a struggling Rust Belt town. The documentary's director, Karla Murthy, joins us to discuss the film, part of the line-up of the documentary film festival, DOCNYC, running November 11-19.

“Red Heaven,” is the feature-length documentary directing debut for the film’s directors, Lauren DeFilippo and Katherine Gorringe. DeFilippo and Gorringe join us to discuss this timely release, which follows six people who volunteer to quarantine together in preparation for the first human mission to Mars. "Red Heaven" has its world premiere this week at the documentary film festival, DOCNYC.

As winter approaches and we all start spending more time indoors, maybe we should adopt koselig, the Norwegian equivalent of the Danish hygge. Stanford University health psychologist Kari Leibowitz shares what she learned from Norwegians when she moved to the Arctic Circle to find out how they survive the very short days and extremely long nights, as part of our "Hunker Down Week."

WNYC arts and culture editor Jennifer Vanasco gives suggestions for what to do this weekend, while safely social distancing.