#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:00pm, Tuesday 12th May 2026
Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St, New Farm
Collapse, chaos, crisis: these are just some of the words that best capture our precarious current moment. So how can we live meaningfully in a world undergoing such profound change?
In her lucid and vital new book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World (a published version of her wildly popular Substack serialisation), bestselling author and renowned speaker Sarah Wilson argues that we are living through what experts call complex systems collapse – a civilisational turning point that is already reshaping our lives. Drawing on years of research and more than 200 interviews, she explores how we might step into this moment with courage, tenderness and fierce aliveness.
Join her in conversation with Katherine Feeney for a frank and meaningful discussion about finding beauty and purpose, and becoming fully human, in a collapsing world.
#Artists
Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is a multi–New York Times and Amazon best-selling author, journalist, podcaster, social philosopher and thought leader.
Her New York Times bestseller First, We Make the Beast Beautiful was described by Mark Manson as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read” and was named Book of the Year on NBC’s Today Show. Her more recent book about the climate crisis, This One Wild & Precious Life, won the 2021 US Gold Nautilus Award.
Sarah’s widely viewed TED Talk, How to Live Fully in Societal Collapse, was selected as a global Editor’s Pick and has become a touchstone for audiences grappling with uncertainty, climate anxiety, and the search for meaning in turbulent times.
In a previous life, Sarah was editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, host of MasterChef, the highest-rated show in Australian history, and was a News Corp journalist and opinion columnist. She is also known globally for founding the I Quit Sugar movement, which helped millions of people transform their health. In 2022, Sarah sold the business and donated all proceeds to charity.
Sarah now hosts the podcast Wild with Sarah Wilson and writes one of the most-read Substacks in Australia, continuing her curious pursuit of answers to the big questions shaping our lives.
Her forthcoming book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World (2026; Penguin, worldwide), explores the terrifying truth of what is happening around us through a complex systems lens. To do so, she interviews more than 200 experts from across more than a dozen disciplines, while also providing her own compassionate, grounded thesis for how we might live with courage, clarity, and meaning in what is clearly a very changed world. Liam Neeson describes the book as “a loving and uplifting book”.
Sarah is based in Paris, where she lives a minimalist life. She’s also a compulsive hiker.
Kat Feeney
Kat Feeney presents the Afternoons program for ABC Radio Queensland. While at the ABC, Kat’s work has also appeared on ABC News and Landline. Before joining the national broadcaster in 2017, Kat worked for Nine News Australia and Fairfax Australia. Her writing has been published by The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald. She also had a stint as a food reviewer for the Queensland Good Food Guide.
