Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been kept under house arrest and had his passport taken away in his homeland of China but he’s a social media genius who tweets like it’s poetry and knows how to engage people to work with him on projects from recording the identities of children who died in shoddily built schools during earthquakes to his latest project – challenging the Lego Corporation’s refusal to sell him their product because his work is ‘political’.

Check out this great film about him ‘Ai Weiwei Never Sorry’: http://www.aiweiweineversorry.com/

So now Pataka Art Gallery and Museum at Porirua is getting involved by providing a BMW in the spine of the building into which you can put your old lego (through the sunroof) to contribute to Ai Weiwei’s next project. Hooray!!!