Horsham's Lucas Scott enjoys mixing songs together as a DJ, and has had opportunities to express himself in this way in his own backyard. He realises he's lucky in this regard.
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The Horsham College student, 15, wants to see more events for young people in his home town.
"Everything has died off in the past couple of years," he said. "You have your skate park, but other than that, there is not really too much you can go and do other than play football or stay at home."
Lucas was on the turntables on Sunday as part of the Horsham Youth Festival at Sawyer Park.
The event coincided with National Youth Week.
Lucas was a member of the event's organising committee, and said Horsham needed more events such as this.
"Events like this are good because they're an outlet for people to get together and have fun without pressures like drinking or drugs," he said.
Lucas has previously DJ'ed at several events for Horsham's FReeZA committee, which also organises alcohol and drug-free events for youth.
"I like the music side of things but I know that's not for everyone and you can't go do that every weekend," he said.
"At the stuff that guys have been running at YouthCAN over the last few years, it has been really great to see all the different age groups come down, but it's probably been tailored more for the younger kids and teens.
"Hopefully these younger ones will be getting used to entertainment and hopefully they can help set things up for older kids."
YouthCAN, which stands for Youth Changing Alcohol Norms, is a council-program that started about two years ago.
Data from the 2016 census showed there were 3877 people aged between 10 and 24 living in the Horsham municipality - up from 3729 in 2011.
The number of people in this age group decreased in Hindmarsh, Yarriambiack and West Wimmera Shires over the same timeframe.
Another Horsham College student, Lara Bowman, 15, has participated in Kick Up the Artz and Horsham Arts Council productions in recent years. She said more youth-focused events would be helpful for young people who had interests other than sports and performance.
"I really enjoy performing, so I jumped at the opportunity to be part of things like these," she said.
"I feel like I have quite a lot of opportunity to do that, but there are definitely young people around the Wimmera who aren't into performing or sport who aren't sure what they can do.
"I think more events would be helpful, because even with a lot of the productions, they're adult casts or you have to be 16 and over to be in it. So I think things for younger teens where they can just be themselves and have fun is definitely important."
Horsham Rural City Council's youth engagement and planning officer Annie Mintern said Youth Fest represented the end of the YouthCAN project and the beginning of council's youth strategy, which was adopted in August.
"That was developed in consultation with young people, and what we heard was very similar to what Lucas is concerned about," she said.
"There are four main objectives for the strategy. The main one is mapping services, because there are a lot of gaps for youth in things like sexual health clinics ... so one of our first tasks is engaging with all community service providers that provide youth services and addressing the gaps that we identify.
"We're also moving away from delivering youth services at a centre. The strategy told us people want more youth-friendly existing spaces, rather than a centre-based model."
Ms Mintern grew up in Horsham and returned for work.
She said the number of activities on offer to young people had remained about the same.
Ms Mintern said the council would work with headspace, Grampians Community Health, Uniting Wimmera and the Centre for Participation over the next few months.
As part of the strategy, a youth council reporting directly to councillors is to be established. A spokesman said Horsham residents aged 12 to 25 would be invited to apply in the next few months.