News & Events

March 9, 2017

“Ending the Small Talk Game” – Big Talk Wins Ozy Genius Award

Kalina wins the competitive Ozy Genius Awards Grant for Big Talk.

Big Talk Events
Big Talk at the UN Summit of the Future UNESCO / Interstellar Foundation Event
Date: September 21, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Event Address: 9h30-12h30, 304 East 45th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10017, USA & Virtual Contact us at nick@interstellarfoundation.com
Big Talk at San Diego Comic-Con
Date: July 25, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk Summer Solstice at Annenberg Beach House
Date: June 20, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk Art of Recovery for May’s Mental Health Awareness Month in Partnership with the City of Santa Monica
Start date: May 1, 2024
End date: May 31, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big talk Workshop for Fulbright Atlanta
Date: March 22, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Women making Waves in Media, Entrepreneurship, and Community
Date: March 14, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for Fulbright Houston
Date: February 16, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Make Big Talk x GoFundMe World Kindness Day Holiday Drive
Date: November 13, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk Fall Fest at Dogtown Coffee! (Community)
Date: October 20, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Dogtown Coffee in Santa Monica
Big Talk for the Fulbright Program
Date: September 15, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for Watson Institute Fellows
Date: September 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk with Chai Ventures in NYC: The Rise of Women in VC
Date: August 8, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: New York City
Big Talk Music, Wine, and Paint Night
Date: July 27, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Dogtown Coffee in Santa Monica
Big Talk Music, Wine, and Paint Nights with LA Bucketlist – Thursdays this Summer!
Start date: June 15, 2023
End date: August 24, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Dogtown Coffee in Santa Monica
Big Talk for the City of Santa Monica’s Art of Recovery and Behavioral Health Initiative
Start date: May 17, 2023
End date: May 18, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for 120 Masters and PhD Students from 76 Countries in Boston
Date: May 11, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk at Chai Ventures in Nashville
Date: April 26, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for international Fulbright scholars in Washington D.C.
Date: April 21, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Sonic Nights!!! Big Talk x Listen-up at Dogtown
Date: February 26, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk at Room Service with One Table
Date: February 3, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for WIC (Women in Cloud) Annual Summit
Start date: January 26, 2023
End date: February 26, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk x Listen-up: Sonic Nights
Date: November 11, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk at the Foundation for Connection Global Action Forum
Start date: October 11, 2022
End date: October 13, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for Fulbright Masters and PhD Students in San Diego
Date: September 9, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk Wine & Paint Night at Alfalfa
Date: August 24, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk & Listen-up Present: Sonic Nights
Date: July 6, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for the City of Santa Monica (FREE and Open to the Public)
Date: June 22, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Ocean View Park
Big Talk for the California Association of Marital and Family Therapists Annual Conference (CAMFT)
Date: May 20, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Fulbright Big Talk for 500 Masters & PhD students
Date: May 7, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Washington D.C.
Big Talk x Venn City – Here comes the Neighborhood (FREE and Open to the Public)
Date: April 30, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: The Alley 819 Santee Street Los Angeles, CA 90014
Listenup x Big Talk Part 4/5
Date: April 6, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Listen-up x Big Talk Part 3
Date: March 2, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Listen-up x Big Talk Part 2
Date: January 27, 2022
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Johnson & Johnson Big Talk
Date: December 14, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for C&R PR
Date: December 7, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Artists, Musicians, and Music-lovers Listenup-LP and Make Big Talk
Date: November 12, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk Community Event at Dogtown Coffee
Date: October 1, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Dogtown Coffee in Santa Monica
Big Talk for AIC Athletes
Date: September 13, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk Installation at Venice Beach
Date: May 16, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk @ NYU Shanghai
Date: March 18, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for WeRepresent Diversity Abroad Conference
Date: March 12, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
You’re invited: LET’S DEEP NETWORK w/ guest Kalina Silverman!
Date: January 12, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Join here https://twine.link/e2b
Big Talk for Bridges USA in Memphis TN
Date: September 28, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk: Creating Conversations for William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Date: August 27, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Weekly Big Talk Video Chats Powered by Twine
Date: August 14, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: bit.ly/twineforbigtalk
Big Talk for Northwestern University
Date: August 13, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk x Twine Week
Start date: June 3, 2020
End date: June 7, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Big Talk for Veteran Rites
Date: May 3, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: ZOOM LINK https://zoom.us/j/2500405211
Big Talk Instagram Live with Singer-Songwriter Justin Jesso
Date: April 29, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Instagram Live
Big Talk Night @ The Riveter (Postponed)
Date: April 29, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Denver, Colorado
Big Talk for Let ’em Have it Salon (Postponed)
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Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Denver, Colorado
Instagram Live Event: @22.33_stories – Let’s connect in Isolation
Date: April 22, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Instagram Live
Big Talk (Virtual) Coffee Shop with The Riveter
Date: April 20, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: online
Big Talk: How to deepen social connections while social distancing
Date: April 15, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: online
Big Talk for Fulbright Ambassadors
Date: January 24, 2020
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Washington D.C.
Big Talk Lunch & Learn in Sydney, Australia
Date: November 14, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Academy Xi, Sydney, Australia
Big Talk for WeWork in Melbourne, Australia
Date: November 6, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: WeWork, Melbourne, Australia
Big Talk for Girls Innovate 2019 – UN International Day of the Girl
Date: October 11, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Big Talk for University of Maryland Business Week
Date: September 10, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: College Park, Maryland
Big Talk at Academy Xi in Melbourne, Australia
Date: August 6, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Big Talk Keynote and Workshops for Acelero Learning
Date: July 18, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Big Talk for U.S. Embassy Tashkent at Ground Zero Kitob Olami: Keynote followed by Big Talk Question Card Game
Date: June 9, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Big Talk Mental Health themed Keynote at USC
Date: April 17, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Los Angeles
Big Talk Session at Microsoft
Date: February 18, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Chicago
Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Orientation Big Talk Icebreaker Session
Date: January 31, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Washington D.C.
Quora Sessions Q&A with Kalina
Start date: January 16, 2019
End date: January 21, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Google Materials Design Team Big Talk Presentation
Date: October 8, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: San Francisco
Make Big Talk: Women-in-Tech Neighborhood Mixer @Adobe
Date: October 3, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Adobe Systems, San Francisco
Big Talk Key Note at 2018 Elite Digital SEM Summit
Date: September 6, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: New York City
Big Talk Activity for Muslim Women in Singapore
Date: March 4, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: National Library, Singapore
U.S. Embassy Exchange Dinner Big Talk Icebreaker
Date: September 27, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: U.S. Ambassador's House in Singapore
Big Talk for Middle School Students in Colorado
Date: February 28, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Aurora, Colorado