ORONO – The eighth annual Keeping the Dream Alive breakfast will be held 8:30-10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 19, at the Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine.

Each year the breakfast is sponsored by the Greater Bangor Area NAACP, the University of Maine Human Rights Coalition and friends.

Dr. Betty Trout-Kelly, activist and motivational speaker, will deliver the keynote address. She is executive to the president for Institutional Diversity and Equity at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. She is a community activist for social justice and an independent consultant. She is the director of the HYPE Program, Hardworking Youth Pursuing Excellence, which serves Maine students of African descent.

Tickets for the breakfast are $10, $5 for students and children under 12, and are available at the university at the Wells Conference Center, the Wilson Center, the Multicultural Affairs office in the Memorial Union; and in Bangor at the Unitarian Universalist Church and the Peace and Justice Center, both on Park Street.