This paper examines the transition from a predominantly bicultural understanding of identity in Northern Ireland towards a more multicultural cultural-policy environment in Belfast. Developed from a focused section of a wider MA Arts Management dissertation, the study analyses Belfast's cultural-policy context, the Belfast City Council Cultural Strategy 2020-2030, and the challenges of representing minority-ethnic communities within a post-conflict society historically organised around Protestant/Unionist and Catholic/Nationalist identities. Using policy analysis, document analysis and grey-literature analysis, the paper considers how cultural policy addresses belonging, shared space, participation and diversity. It argues that the expansion of multicultural initiatives has created greater public visibility for minority-ethnic communities, but that broad policy categories and shared-culture frameworks can also compress internally diverse communities into simplified representations. South Asian cultural organisations in Belfast illustrate this tension particularly clearly. The paper concludes that inclusive cultural policy requires both common civic spaces and mechanisms that recognise cultural specificity, strengthen minority-ethnic participation in decision-making, and avoid treating visibility as a substitute for representation.