For the past 18 months the University of Liverpool’s Guild building has lain seemingly asleep. Its shell under wraps in much the same way as the Everyman Theatre just a short walk down the road had been before its grand reopening earlier in the year. These two monuments to creativity and ingenuity, to freedom of expression and the desire for change, whether through anger or gentle reasoned discourse, share the same reasons for being, to protect, serve and nurture.