TANTRUM Youth Arts has embraced the gypsy lifestyle forced on it as Newcastle's CBD slowly evolves.
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With its rent subsidised by Newcastle council, the not-for-profit organisation has endured several forced moves as the council sold off some of its inner-city assets.
In 2012, it was announced Tantrum's Auckland Street headquarters would be demolished to make way for Newcastle university's new campus.
For the past three years Tantrum has called the former St Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Watt Street home.
However, the council's lease with the church owner ends in October, and Tantrum will return to its old stomping grounds of the late 1990s and early 2000s, at the Newcastle Community Arts Centre on Parry Street.
But the move will only be temporary, as the council sold the building last year, along with the adjoining block used by Trees in Newcastle.
Newcastle Community Arts Centre, Tantrum and Trees In Newcastle will all need to find new homes by 2017.
Tantrum's artistic director Amy Hardingham said she was sad they had to move again but saw the positives.
"We have been running it as a community hub, where people can hire it out... so it will be nice to just to concentrate on the theatre side of things for a while."
"There is not a lot of affordable space left in Newcastle ... so we were quite vulnerable with all of the development happening."