Michigan Storytellers will unite at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s first annual Storytelling Festival on February 1, 2014. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and includes storytellers, workshops, vendors, and story-related crafts. The festival theme “Tales with Ties” recognizes that we are all tied to our stories; they tell others who we are, what we value, and, when we share them, what it is we want others to know about us.